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Think your friends don't know enough about you already? Facebook's got a fix; the social network now allows users to import stories…
Some of the features Google introduces do little more than collect dust, while others become extremely popular. The Books Viewability API appears to be part of this second set, as traffic to the UK version of Google Book Search has increased by a dramatic amount since its introduction.
If you watched the news over the weekend, you probably couldn’t escape news of eight teenagers accused of viciously beating a 16-year-old girl, with the intention of posting a video on YouTube.
Blue Jeans Cable received a communication from big brand name cable maker Monster, asking that Blue Jeans cease and desist its production of Tartan cables. Blue Jeans is run by a former lawyer, who responded at length to the request. Hilarity did indeed ensue.
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is using technology developed by Google to fight online child pornography.The video fingerprinting technology provided by Google will allow analysts at NCMEC to conduct faster searches of video and images in its database to flag files with child pornography. Other tools will allow analysts to quickly review video clips.
Corporate leaders are in tough positions when trying to predict the future. If they're too positive, they're seen as overconfident. Too cautious, and people wonder why they're scared. So Google China's Kai-Fu Lee seems to have aimed at a middle ground when describing his pursuit of Baidu.
