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Written by Sramana Mitra / November 18, 2008 5:00 AM / 10 Comments

"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - Dylan Thomas Who will turn this crisis around? We will. Who else? And Continue reading »

Amazon CloudFront: Outlook for CDN Is Cloudy (and That's Good)

Written by Rick Turoczy / November 18, 2008 2:00 AM / 9 Comments

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Two months ago, Amazon - which has taken to sharing some of its massive computing power with mere mortals as a means of developing additional revenue streams - announced that Continue reading »

Yahoo!: Koogle, Semel, Yang... Next?

Written by Rick Turoczy / November 18, 2008 12:04 AM / 3 Comments

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It seems like only yesterday - or almost a year and a half ago - that Yahoo!'s Jerry Yang was named interim CEO of the embattled and fragmented company he Continue reading »

Google Mobile App Update With Voice Recognition Finally Available - And it Works

Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 17, 2008 9:15 PM / 3 Comments

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Google's highly anticipated update of its Google Mobile App for the iPhone (iTunes link) finally arrived in the App Store this afternoon. The app now uses voice recognition to translate Continue reading »

10 Semantic Apps to Watch - One Year Later

Written by Richard MacManus / November 17, 2008 7:15 PM / 31 Comments

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In November 2007, we listed and reviewed 10 promising Semantic Web apps. A lot can happen in one year on the Internet, so we thought we'd check back in with Continue reading »

Facebook to Verify Trustworthy Apps - Stupid Ones Still Welcome

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 17, 2008 4:04 PM / 12 Comments

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Facebook announced this afternoon that the company will now offer more high-profile placement for applications that are verified as trustworthy and pay an application fee for the honor. The biggest Continue reading »

Motrin Bows to Social Media Pressure From Moms - Removes Controversial Ad

Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 17, 2008 11:56 AM / 14 Comments

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One would think that few ads could be less controversial than ads for painkillers, but over the weekend, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the maker of Motrin, found itself in the middle Continue reading »

Decho To Offer API Access to All Your Life's Data

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 17, 2008 11:03 AM / 1 Comments

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When it comes to storing personal digital data in the cloud and serving it up in interesting ways - we're in the very early days of a brand new paradigm. Continue reading »

German Wikipedia Back Online After Controversial Shutdown

Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 17, 2008 10:35 AM / 6 Comments

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After it had been unavailable in Germany for more than two days, the Wikipedia's German portal is finally back online. The local German version of the Wikipedia had become unavailable Continue reading »

Scared Of Technology? You're Old!

Written by Sarah Perez / November 17, 2008 10:30 AM / 8 Comments

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Apparently, growing up digital doesn't just mean being used to technology - it means not being scared of it when things go wrong, either. Do crashing computers and busted Blackberries Continue reading »

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