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Analyst: VC Confidence At New Low
Though Phil Gramm's pretty sure the recession is all in our heads, it seems that just about every road to a healthy…
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Adult Themed Rooms Pop Up In Google’s Lively
The graphics in Google’s 3D chat world Lively shine, but behind the scenes the Lively team also seems busy squashing minor and major early-release bugs. And since some days, Lively got its first social phenomenon, too: the almost meme-like creation of cyber sex rooms. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, or is there?
Google Talks Ranking Factors
Google search engine ranking team Google Fellow Amit Singhal published a blog post “Introduction to Google Ranking” at the official Google blog. While not going into the specific nuts-and-bolts factors influencing SERPs (or search engine results pages), Amit outlined a number of broad principles to keep in mind when optimizing your web pages.
FCC Penalty For Comcast? Fuggedaboutit
That possible sanction for Comcast's admitted use of traffic shaping software to interfere with customer broadband accounts when using peer to peer software apparently evaporated after further review.
Fake Steve Jobs Retires
Fake Steve Jobs, outed some time ago as Forbes' Daniel Lyons, is retiring his satirical blog "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs" thus ending one of the more enduring runs as pop Web iCon.
Automated Content Will Unmake Existence
Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts—those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence—then why bother existing? Fortunately, computers have yet to match us in music or writing or dancing or even drawing—the lines are straighter, but that's not even the point, and good luck uploading an actual right-brained imagination.*
