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Christine A. Varney is an American lawyer lobbyist, and internet policy expert. She has now joined Barack Obama's team to take over the top antitrust job at the Department of Justice. Varney is reported to have said "For me, Microsoft is so last century. They are not the problem". Google, she suggested, "has acquired a monopoly in internet online advertising".So will Google face a deeper antitrust investigation? It seems almost certain. Varney's background as a lawyer for Netscape in its case against Microsoft have led to speculation that the Department of Justice could be ready for an antitrust case thatContinue Reading
Gekko is a new and unique way to find places - spots - that you love based on your profile and your match with like-minded people.The startup is using the most blatant use of sex to launch. Unfortunately it’s not even funny. Check out the Viral Video here
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Jessica Livingston a partner at Y Combinator had released a book called Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days. This book speaks in detail with thirty startups of Silicon Valleys most notable successes. In this was an interview with Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia, who speaks about the experiences he had raising money for the webmail startup and its acquisition to Microsoft for $400 million. Since leaving Hotmail, Bhatia has begun a number of other ventures, including Live Documents, an online Microsoft Office clone that doesn’t seem to be picking up, social networking portal apnacircle in India. LivingstonContinue Reading
Seth Godin talks about the power of permission-based email, being Google Friendly, social media and how the internet has changed everything. Filmed at Seth's London Session on 17th Feb 2009. Check out the Video
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Danny Sullivan posted on his blog an interesting comparison of how Microsoft Live and Ask.com showed better results when one searched for Oscar Winners as compared to Google. Many would say that they would never have thought that Google could be outdone.Providing instant answers isn’t something new for search engines and searches with answers can break habits, specially if search engines give you instant results.
Check for yourself by going to Ask.com of Microsoft Live and searching for Oscar Winners and then search on Google and compare this.
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A young woman has been given police protection after a video clip of her undressing in a bedroom was circulated on the internet, the short film been taken by an MBA student who decided to release it to his friends when his girlfriend refused to marry him. The Guardian Newspaper reports that it has become India's most searched item on Google. How does the law deal with morals and technology in India. This case comes just as India is about to make "online viral video voyeurism" a crime, this law was with both the uploading and transmitting of such clipsContinue Reading
Facebook says that it has removed ads for a get rich quick scam that appeared on the site for weeks before being noticed by staff. Users still report that some of the ads remain on the site and are being re-published at a rate faster than the site can review. The ads appear as signed up to post links under a "Google advertising" programme. The scam invites users to a page, run by a company dubbed "EMillionaire". Users are invited to submit their details to see if they are eligible to take part in the programme.The scheme requestsContinue Reading
Microsoft research has released a paper about a Web browser it calls Gazelle. This web browser is constructed in such a way so as to to act like an operating system with the browser protecting resources and sharing across Web sites.
According to Microsoft no existing browsers is like Gazelle, this includes browsers based on new architectures, Gazelle has a multi-principal operating system constructed in such a way that provides the browser-based OS exclusive control to manage the protection of all system resources.
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YouTube has introduced a new feature for publishers to invite others to annotate their videos. People can now send a special link to their friends so that friends can easily add their own comments to videos. YouTube's editor now has a link that you can share with your friends - or the to the world. You need to be logged in to YouTube to add annotations.
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Sharlyn Lauby authors a blog at hrbartender.com - http://www.hrbartender.com
recently on Mashable she posted an interesting article that speaks about how to deal with social media conflict. When you encounter conflict in a work environment, you can go into that person’s office, have a private chat, talk out the matter then go out for a beer. when someone disagrees with something you write on Facebook or a stranger on Twitter or your blog, how do you handle this specially since it could damage your personal credibility.
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