Month: July 2006

Another Database of Intentions Story

Thanks to Xeni at BB, this story of a Federal search warrant to search, well, Google, to find the clickstream of a fellow who threatened the NAACP….

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Thanks to Xeni at BB, this story of a Federal search warrant to search, well, Google, to find the clickstream of a fellow who threatened the NAACP.

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Google Radio Finally Coming

Cnet covers it (this is old news from last week's earnings call) Google-powered ads, which have become a mainstay on Web sites, are now being played on at least one radio station in Detroit. And like so many other Motor City radio products, it won't be long before they…

Cnet covers it (this is old news from last week’s earnings call)

Google-powered ads, which have become a mainstay on Web sites, are now being played on at least one radio station in Detroit. And like so many other Motor City radio products, it won’t be long before they go global. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a conference call with analysts last week that the search giant plans to make its radio-ad business generally available within three months.

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Re-Aggregating: What I Missed Last Week

You probably hate these posts? Why doesn't Battelle just use Delicious, for goodness sakes? I dunno, call me old school, but here are stories I find noteworthy that happened while I was away last week on vacation: Microsoft says folks can use Google in Vista. Google moves the ball…

You probably hate these posts? Why doesn’t Battelle just use Delicious, for goodness sakes? I dunno, call me old school, but here are stories I find noteworthy that happened while I was away last week on vacation:

Microsoft says folks can use Google in Vista.

Google moves the ball on “invalid click” tracking – a report out of the Lanes click fraud case says Google is taking reasonable steps to control it.

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Warms Your Heart, Don’t It

Read this lede from Cnet: The heads of the nation's two major spy agencies on Wednesday told Congress that it's impractical to seek warrants before tracking the global phone and Internet activities of groups like al-Qaida and terrorist sympathizers. Yep, that pesky Constitution: Impractical. Oh, by the way: are…

Read this lede from Cnet:

The heads of the nation’s two major spy agencies on Wednesday told Congress that it’s impractical to seek warrants before tracking the global phone and Internet activities of groups like al-Qaida and terrorist sympathizers.

Yep, that pesky Constitution: Impractical. Oh, by the way: are you a “sympathizer”? You sure?

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Google News: What Responsibility?

Sean Bonner of Metroblogging (an FM affiliated site) vents his frustration about how Google choses which sites to include in Google News. He even mentions Searchblog, which is not in the index. Another great example of their weird acceptance policy, if they even have one that is, is the…

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Sean Bonner of Metroblogging (an FM affiliated site) vents his frustration about how Google choses which sites to include in Google News. He even mentions Searchblog, which is not in the index.

Another great example of their weird acceptance policy, if they even have one that is, is the fact that the Search Engine Watch Blog is included, while John Battelle’s Searchblog isn’t – even though they cover a good deal of the same news.

We’ve seen this discrimination (don’t really know what else to call it) first hand with Metroblogging. Google News includes our Los Angeles art specific blog art.blogging.la, but declined to include the main site www.blogging.la. They claimed it wasn’t original news, but rather covered news reported elsewhere. They specifically asked if we could create a section of the site which highlighted the original news which they could then include in their index. We created the section and then they turned it down again without reason.

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round up

G-Maps mobile traffic tracker Google Maps adds a mobile traffic tracker, as well as allowing users to save routes. Currently only for mobile users (in 30 metro areas, on 100 types of devices), plans are in the works to expand services to online users. Digg Labs Digg Labs goes…

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Google Maps adds a mobile traffic tracker, as well as allowing users to save routes. Currently only for mobile users (in 30 metro areas, on 100 types of devices), plans are in the works to expand services to online users.

Digg Labs

Digg Labs goes live, unveiling new infosthetic (data visualization) tools: Swarm and Stack—previewed earlier, in the version 3 launch.

Giants don’t do ‘niche’

A great post on BuzzMachine talks about the need for specialized search, and why that means the burgeoning “Google is not invincible.”

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Famous Corporate Logos, Web 2.0 Style

David P of BB pointed me to this hilarious site where folks are busy "Web 2'ing" well known corporate logos. Very funny. There are literally hundreds of them, most are really well done. A total send up of the design grammar that has come to say "hip, cutting edge…

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David P of BB pointed me to this hilarious site where folks are busy “Web 2’ing” well known corporate logos. Very funny. There are literally hundreds of them, most are really well done. A total send up of the design grammar that has come to say “hip, cutting edge web company.”

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Google In The Culture, Yet Another Example

Though I'm not sure Google will use this one for external PR, it's pretty funny, and includes a tour of many Google features (Calendar, Base, Maps, Alerts etc) in the pursuit of one goal: This article is about using the many Google sites and applications to get yourself a…

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Though I’m not sure Google will use this one for external PR, it’s pretty funny, and includes a tour of many Google features (Calendar, Base, Maps, Alerts etc) in the pursuit of one goal:

This article is about using the many Google sites and applications to get yourself a girl and get yourself laid. In it we’re going to use a guy called Johnny McCool. Johnny is a 22 year old Internet nerd. He works as a programmer with some megacorp, went straight from the computer labs in college to the cubicle farm. He needs to get out more and he needs a girlfriend.

(Thanks to Cory J.)

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NewAssignment.Net (the concept) Launches

Jay Rosen, a leading thinker w/r/t new media and journalism, has launched the idea of NewAssignment.net. Launched an idea? Yup, he's postulated a new approach to covering the news, and wants to see if his audience can take it to fruition. Craig Newmark likes what he's hearing, and has…

Jay Rosen, a leading thinker w/r/t new media and journalism, has launched the idea of NewAssignment.net. Launched an idea? Yup, he’s postulated a new approach to covering the news, and wants to see if his audience can take it to fruition. Craig Newmark likes what he’s hearing, and has offered to fund the first few stories. From Jay’s post:

In simplest terms, a way to fund high-quality, original reporting, in any medium, through donations to a non-profit called NewAssignment.Net.

The site uses open source methods to develop good assignments and help bring them to completion; it employs professional journalists to carry the project home and set high standards so the work holds up. There are accountability and reputation systems built in that should make the system reliable. The betting is that (some) people will donate to works they can see are going to be great because the open source methods allow for that glimpse ahead.

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Technorati’s New Groove

A major release for the venerable blog search engine. Why describe all the new features, when they've make a really watchable screencast? Congrats, guys….

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A major release for the venerable blog search engine. Why describe all the new features, when they’ve make a really watchable screencast? Congrats, guys.

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