Vizu Polls Get Google Maps

Vizu’s polls carry the tagline, “See What the World Thinks,” and some traditional bar graphs have been enough to back up that claim.  But thanks to a new development that involves Google Maps, users can now view votes according to their geographic location.

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Earn Comments for Your Blogs the Organic Way

When I worked in the pharmaceutical industry, I learned that the U.S. Food and Drug Admnistration would send the equivalent of undercover agents to industry trade shows. These spies would hang around company booths listening for any sales or marketing rep to make a claim or statement that violated FDA guidelines. The FDA would promptly turn around and fine the offending company.

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AT&T Wants To Be Copyright Police

How would you feel about your ISP digging into the stuff you send out to check for pirated content? Sounds kind of Big-Brotherish, doesn't? A sort of TSA for your data packets. Enter Ma Bell and the Copyright Police.

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Ning Gains Funds, Users

Earlier this week, Ning collected $44 million in funding - that’s easily the main story here.  But to add an important update to this event, Ning has also now reached the point where it has over 75,000 social networks.

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Gord Interviews Jakob Nielsen

I recently had the opportunity to talk to Jakob Nielsen for a series I'm doing for Search Engine Land about what the search results page will look like in 2010.  Jakob is called a "controversial guru of Web design" in Wikipedia (Jakob gets his own shots in at Wikipedia in this interview) because of his strongly held views on the use of graphics and flash in web…

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