Is Scoble Over Blogging?

One word, unless you've followed him beyond some magazine articles about him, synonymous with Robert Scoble is "blogger." One of the originals, Scoble literally wrote the book on the topic. And now, well, he seems to be disillusioned with the whole damn thing.

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Google Earth Won’t Get Virtual London

I’ve seen it: an amazing 3D model of London that was meant to wind up in Google Earth.  Only now, due to what I’ll politely call “bureaucratic nonsense,” it won’t.

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Microsoft’s Search: Up, Up, And Kaboom?

When I think of the word “trajectory,” I think of an object arching through the air.  More specifically, I think of some sort of grenade or missile that explodes on impact.  So I had to raise an eyebrow when Microsoft’s Kevin Johnson said the company’s search business is “on a positive trajectory.”

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Where Mainstream Fails, YouTube Delivers Dick

It's not exactly a stretch to say the White House has public relations issues. For the most part, though, footage that could be held against them has been dug up by the Daily Show more than the mainstream media. And then came YouTube. What you might call a fringe group – global conspiracy prophets are fringe, right? – have uploaded an obscure video from 1994,…

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Social Networking And Mobile Content

Social networking services will control a developing market for mobile user-generated content, according to a new report from Juniper Research, "Mobile User-Generated Content: Social Networking, Dating and Personal Content Delivery."

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