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Vint Cerf Talks Up Future of the Internet
The Internet has come a long way in 30 years, but it is still very much in its infancy. Vint Cerf, Google…
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Compete Confirms Tiny Chink In Google’s Armor
Due to the recession, the idea of a 0.3 percent drop sounds like nothing at all; plunges of 5, 10, and 20 percent are the norm now. Still, Compete has released its description of the search market in January, and the report's sure to turn a few heads with that exact figure.
Google Makes Map Maker More Accessible
Google announced today that Google Map Maker is now available in 27 languages with more to come. They can't translate the interface itself into every language, so they have opened up Map Maker in "Google in Your Language" so users can translate it into their preferred language. The current available languages include: * Bengali * Gujarati * Brazilian * Portugese
A Wild Week For Facebook, And Its Users
Facebook has had quite a week. If it is true that there is no such thing as bad publicity then this week has been a windfall for the social networking giant. I have even read some conspiracy theorists who believe that the whole terms of service ‘incident’ was intended. I’m not sure I can go there but to be honest it does make some sense.
Revenue Decline at TheStreet.com
Between the decline in newspaper performance and the dominance of financial reporting in the news, you would think that online financial publications would be one area that is flourishing in this economic downturn.
Megalomaniac Creates Digg Spam Business
A little chutzpah goes a long way, but this is chutzpah bordering on comical grandiosity. The existence of uSocial.net (sorry, kid, no linking) is audacious enough: The site offers a Digg.com gaming service (StumbleUpon and Propeller, too), where clients can pay to have submissions linking to their website voted up on Digg. But wait until we get to the press release about it—then things get…
