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The US government has awarded Benetech $100,000 to create the first versions of open content school books that can be more easily accessed by disabled people. The math and science textbooks are freely distributable under a Creative Commons license. The textbooks, which have been approved for ...
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By Hugh Burnham, Co-CEO, Gutenberg Communications
The Internet has become overrun with trends, tips, and how-tos for social media marketing. If one were to spend a lifetime absorbed in social media marketing content, one would emerge a mindless zombie repeating buzzwords like engagement, ...
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Social Democrats
Yesterday I argued that a single search index administered by a non-profit could address issues around de-listing and indexing out-of-print books. Google's founders supported the idea when they were at Stanford university. A single index would allow Google and others to apply their analysis ...
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I love the Pandora's Box that Mike Arrington from Techcrunch opened a few weeks back drawing attention to the mobile scams related to online social gaming. It's difficult to assess how large that particular scam is but it must be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Over on ZDNet, Andrew ...
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Adify , the ad network management firm, released its latest quarterly report and found that food CPMs are up 91% in Q3 compared with Q2 and that brand advertising is showing continued recovery from lows early this year. The report states : - Food CPMs are up 91% from the previous quarter, ...
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All the recent debate about the Google index and newspapers, and Google's interest (and problems) in indexing out-of-print books, would all be a much different discussion if the Google index were run as a non-profit. And it is rather ironic to note that Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders ...
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I had a fascinating conversation on Saturday with Joe Ward, CEO of Groovy , which has a unique real-time transactional data technology. He was complaining that the term "real-time" is being applied too broadly by many companies to describe their services and technologies. "There are a lot of ...
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Michael Bloomberg
The Financial Times reports that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has had discussions with Microsoft about payments to be able to index its content. The impetus for the discussions came from News Corp, owner of newspapers ranging from the Wall Street Journal of the US to The Sun of the UK, said a ...
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Rupert Murdoch
Two great events coming up: I ran into the stylish Shaun Sanders, from Graffiti PR, at the recent TEDxSF event and he told me about Geek Chic , Thursday December 3. It's an event he's organized to collect Christmas toys and also to have some fun. At: K&D; showrooms, 700 2nd Street, with gourmet ...
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I've been remarking lately that we haven't yet had the second market correction. People forget that after the stock market crash of 1929 the market seemed well on its way to a recovery before crashing a second time. It then took decades to recover. Investors would have to wait until November ...
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I'm looking forward to Le Web in Paris Dec 9 - 10. It seems like it will be "Silicon Valley Goes To Paris" because of the large number of people I know that will be there. Loic Le Meur's Le Web conference has an excellent reputation for quality, and I'm told the food is marvelous too. I'll be ...
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Guest post by DD Ganguly, CEO, Dimdim
A few years back, I used to work for a global company with more than 13,200 people. My office alone had more than 1,000 people, so when winter rolled around, it'd be hard not to encounter someone who had a cold or the flu. Back then, it was unpleasant ...
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A reader writes: I feel like a tattle-tell by wrinting this, but I think this a story that should be told. Back in 2004 a person, using the pseudonym "Joe Isuzu" logged into Wikipedia and vandalized 13 records. An alert editor noticed that random editing was being done from the same IP ...
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Last night I attended the Tech Awards Gala, which celebrates technology benefiting humanity, with the award of five $50,000 "cash" prizes. Technology in the service of humanity seems a better description because all of the 15 laureates chosen, communicated a quiet humility, patience and a ...
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Indian entrepreneurs are everywhere in Silicon Valley. And a new report on the Bay Area Indian community measures the ties between Silicon Valley and India. Here are some facts from the report, "Global Reach," by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute : - Indian entrepreneurs helped found ...
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I'm looking forward to the black-tie event of the year for Silicon Valley: The Tech Awards - celebrating technology that helps humanity. You can watch it live at 6.45pm this evening: The Tech Awards 2009 | NBC Bay Area There are five categories: environment, economic development, education, ...
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Death might be too strong a word but this is definitely a watershed moment. Techmeme, which used to rely completely on Gabe Rivera's secret algorithm to pick tech news and blog posts, now has six editors. This is significant because Techmeme shows that human aided algorithms are more effective ...
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I popped into the TEDxSF conference yesterday at the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park and really enjoyed the presentations. I've never been to the Big TED conference but I've seen many videos and this was just like it. Conference is probably not the right word to describe TEDxSF it is ...
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A new research study from the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) has found that senior executives are affected by social media and that the influence on online communities on business decisions has grown over the past three years. The research was conducted by Don Bulmer from SAP ...
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"Real-time" has become a huge buzzword in web developer communities this year and it's reflected in a spate of new conferences and product announcements. Yesterday, I caught up with Tibco Software (a former long-time sponsor and currently an advertiser on SVW) because it has been in the ...
