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Google has acquired jaiku, a popular Twitter competitor. Interesting to see Google’s move into the microblogging business.
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Joe Pezillo’s project: “Makes it easy for people to set up personal fundraising projects and collect contributions from friends and acquaintances to reach some larger goal. If the financial target is not met, then everybody gets their money back.”
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“CBS president Leslie Moonves said during a press conference in Cannes this morning: “We enjoy our relationship with them—we find that it is found money for us. We are getting paid a decent amount of money for everything.”
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“‘We wanted a sort of universal credibility meter,’ said Newsvine’s Mike Davidson. ‘Until that exists, things like Open ID and other technologies create portable reputations.”‘Newsvine’s system puts new users into a holding pen, called the “Greenhouse”
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“LinkedIn now offers LinkedIn Groups, a new way for groups to bring value to their members.”
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“I hosted a panel after lunch and then did a web radio show, so I didn’t liveblog this afternoon. Fortunately, the place is crawling with students who are doing my dirty work. Since a theme of today is crowdsourcing, I’ve crowdsourced the afternoon.”
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From MeMedia: “Unified interface & contextual/behavioral targeting platform. Lets publishers easily install an ad widget in any digital media type that describes the asset and exposes info on that inventory advertisers need to best engage that consumer.”
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“Surprising: The blog actually allows comments. And they don’t appear to be censored. After a quick scan of the comments on several posts, I realized that both positive comments and comments critical of the State Dept. or US govt are freely flowing.”
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“Video search engine blinkx is launching on Wednesday a service that allows people to make money when they embed video clips on their Web sites– regardless of where the video comes from.”
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Pew research: Only 1/2 of people living with a disability or chronic disease go online (compared to 74% of healthy people), those disabled/ill net users are far more likely to research health issues online and put that info to use in their treatment.”
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Jeremy Wagstaff on Google’s purchase of Jaiku (which is like Twitter, but more features): “I checked out the Jaiku Privacy Policy. What data would/might Google be interested in? Here’s what, assuming you’re using Jaiku on a phone and a computer:”
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“Free reading service for the blind, via volunteers and Internet collaboration. Allows blind and low-vision people to have printed documents read to them over the phone. All the blind person needs is a phone line and a fax machine. No computer required.”
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