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Don’t Call It A Killer
It took me maybe a year of writing on the Internet to understand that any new online business created in a space…
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Facebook: The Awkward Teenager
Kara Swisher, who writes for All Things D, had a couple of posts on Facebook recently that got me thinking again about the social-networking site. In the first one, Kara said that using Facebook often seems like “children’s hour,” because of all the goofy applications and widgets that your friends and acquaintances are constantly adding (and trying to get you to add as well).
Craigslist: Your data belongs to you
One of the themes of Web 2.0 (if there is such a thing) is that all of the data that gets aggregated by Web applications and social networks can be a very powerful thing, and can in some cases justify giving services away for free — provided people who use those services agree to let their data be sliced and diced and parsed in various…
Google Bakes A Gigantic Cake
Sure, there are privacy issues. And yes, the company sometimes looks like a monopoly. But it has now made a cake weighing at least 125 pounds, which leads me to ask: how can you not love Google?
Yahoo Moves Onto Microsoft’s Turf
Yahoo’s going to Bellevue, but it’s Bellevue, Washington, and not New York’s Bellevue Hospital Center, in which the search company will open an office. You may still have to question Yahoo’s sanity, though, as this move puts it in Microsoft’s territory.
You Didn’t Read This In The Newspaper
Newspaper publishers have retreated to a local focus that gives them the best chance of retaining subscribers and favorable advertising rates. It's meant something different for readers when it comes to news topics beyond the city limits.
