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J’accuse! Wired Attacked Over Digg Story
Annalee Newitz engaged in a test of Digg's ability to withstand a paid effort to boost a story to Digg's front page,…
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Lycos Top Searches
Lycos, a community destination for broadband entertainment has released The Lycos 50, the most popular search results for the week ending February 24, 2007. “American Idol” contestant Antonella Barba had a surge in Web users searching for her. Not because of an outstanding performance on the show but because news surfaced that there were nude pictures of her on the Internet. In a frenzy users…
The Wikipedia Admin Brouhaha
Hardly a month goes by without some new dustup involving Wikipedia — either because someone edited their own entry, or because someone bitched about not being able to edit their own entry, or because someone paid someone else to edit an entry.
The Con in Conversation
The con in conversation is that it often means conversion, at least when marketers say it. Conversion of opinion and perception, conversion of loyalty and trust and in many cases, hopefully, conversion of dollars and cents. There's nothing new here really, conversion through conversation has been around for, well, centuries. It's the stuff of philosophy, religion, politics, education, and yes, business too.
First Great Windows Vista PowerToy
Microsoft’s Brandon Paddock has independantly written the first amazing PowerToy for Windows Vista, one that takes the search function of the Start menu and tricks it out, called Start++. What Start++ does is extend the search to let you run all these search shortcuts from the Start menu search box. For instance: Wikipedia search: Type “w washington”, and you will launch Wikipedia, and search for…
Skirmish in the Digital Media War
A major kerfuffle has broken out in the UK between Virgin Media and satellite broadcaster BSkyB, with customers of both services losing out as the ham in the metaphorical sandwich. At midnight last night, a deadline expired for both companies to come to an agreement on licensing rights and fees for Virgin to include some of Sky’s content in the range of TV channels included…
