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The revelation of a Beijing State Security document issued to Yahoo for information on journalist Shi Tao contradicted testimony by a Yahoo…
Once a site gets so popular you can almost guarantee the negative press to begin – that seems to be the nature of the beast, disallowing the sunset ride off to be completely free of potholes. But every now and then (not often enough, in other words) something very nicely warm and fuzzy, like an early Christmas story, gets through.
Before today, I don’t think I’d ever heard of the British National Party - guess I need to brush up on my racist, far-right organizations. But it would seem that Vodafone and five other major corporations know the name, and they pulled out of deals with Facebook after their ads were placed on the BNP’s profile page.
Credit for these developments may not go to Google itself as much as to the company’s Maps users, but in either case, Google appears to be doing what it can; a new post on the Google LatLong Blog highlights various happenings related to the Minnesota bridge collapse.
This latest addition to an infrastructure lineup of S3 and EC2 (data storage/transfer and distributed computing, respectively) enhances Amazon's strength as a powerful destination for developers.
Reddit and I go way, way back. I was there when Alexis and Steve presented the early idea (and a working application) at one of the early Web Innovator's meetups in a small, cramped bar in Kendall Square, Cambridge. Several months later, there was a startup meetup at MIT. I was one of three groups presenting at a startup gathering at MIT. The guys from…
