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Earlier this month, in FIR #254, Shel and I discussed quite an interesting story of what one company did regarding employee access…
You may not have heard of Grub, but the Web crawler company was just acquired by Wikia. And now Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and co-founder of Wikia, thinks he may “change the balance of power from the search companies back to the publishers.”
Around 38 percent of all online teens say they are concerned for the environment, and 15 percent are hardcore Green Teens, according to a new report from JupiterResearch "Green Teens: Reaching a Trendy, Engaged Audience Online."
There are lots of ways to measure the popularity of a social networking site. The general shift seems to be toward measuring engagement – how long users spend at a site and how often they show up. Even then, you'll often see the same names pop up that you would have if page views and/or unique visitors were measured alone.
YouTube wants to implement a content-filtering system this fall. It also (presumably) wants world peace and free energy, and it’s anybody’s guess which of these three outcomes is most likely to occur.
When it comes to organizing all the world's information and making it useful, Google's mission may extend all the way to one's DNA.
