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USA Today – Social and Thriving
Perhaps more newspapers should follow the USA Today model. While there are no doubt other factors that come into play, one thing…
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Yahoo’s Jerry Yang Gives His Own Speech
Google CEO Eric Schimdt was not the only web company figure to deliver a commencement address yesterday. Yahoo Co-founder Jerry Yang spoke at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Yang's speech had a different tone that Schmidt's. Whereas Schmidt discussed everything from cheesesteak to the meaning of life, Yang jumped in with a tone suggesting that things aren't as bad as they seem.
Google CEO Shares the Meaning of Life
Eric Schmidt gave a commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania yesterday. The full video is below, but I have pulled out some of the good quotes from it (there were quite a few). He begins with congratulations and talks about how great Penn is, and how there are 250 alumni who work at Google. He says it's the most desirable place for Google to…
Google Developing Algorithm To Catch Quitters
Unhappy Googlers may soon be supplied with about as many muffin baskets, pats on the back, and intriguing projects as they can handle. Apparently Google's developing an algorithm to identify which employees are most likely to quit, and it's acting on the info in an attempt to keep top workers around.
Facebook Links User Accounts with Gmail
Yesterday, Facebook went live as an OpenID relying party. This makes Facebook the largest one to date. "This is the first iteration of the implementation," a Facebook spokesperson tells Webproworld. "To start, new users can now register for Facebook with their Gmail accounts, and existing users can link their Facebook accounts with any OpenID provider to connect with friends and eliminate the need for multiple…
Associated Blogosphere Seeds Begin To Sprout
I’ve been trying to coin phrases since I started this gig in 2005—fraugs (fraud blogs), googlings (Google nuts), spitter (Twitter spammer) etc.—and not a one has stuck except “hamsterbating,” which I didn’t actually create but was credited for in an online dictionary.
