I’m frankly surprised by the brouhaha that has sprung up around Josh Greenbaum’s reasonable question – does Google own the content that users of Google Apps create? – and my follow-on post. I continue to believe it’s a legitimate question based on Google’s loose language in the agreement.

Let’s be clear: I don’t believe Google has [...]

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Contact management site Plaxo, which has begun dabbling in social networking with its new-ish Pulse service, has announced that it has opened up a piece of its source code to developers and anyone else who might want to play around with it. The company has released the code for its new “Online Identity Consolidator,” which [...]

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Google said Tuesday that it signed a multi-year advertising agreement with CNN.com, in a win over the news site’s former partner, Yahoo.
As part of the agreement, Google will be the exclusive provider of contextually targeted text ads on CNN.com’s pages (via Google’s AdSense program). The deal does not include the placement of image or video [...]

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It’s back to school time, and Internet safety expert Linda Criddle has come up with homework for schools, students and parents: Do a safety checkup of your school’s Web site to ensure that it is not making too much personal information publicly available.
She has created Guidelines for Safer School Web Sites to help schools cope [...]

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Social-networking Web sites have fired up industry deal headlines the past couple of years, from News Corp.’s groundbreaking acquisition of MySpace to the recent purchases by the Walt Disney and Viacom’s Logo network of Club Penguin and DowneLink.com, respectively. Now it looks as if social networking could heat up the market for initial public [...]

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A friend sent me a link to the transcript of a talk by author Peter Wayner at Google last year.
It’s basically about how Google could provide an incentive for newspapers and bloggers to do more original reporting rather than just rehashing previously published reports. (Yes, I know that’s what I’m doing here—but I’ve done a [...]

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DoMyStuff.com is an online community where busy people can quickly find Assistants to complete their chores.

The Assistants you’ll find on DoMyStuff.com are individuals and businesses located near you who compete by bidding to run your errands. This bidding system ensures that you find the best people to do your stuff at the lowest price.

The [...]

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Only 17% of rural Americans can get high-speed Internet access.  Internet Service Providers are unwilling to spend the money to serve low density areas.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasi c&articleId=299844

Air travel ticketing will be entirely electronic by 6/1/08.  84% of travelers on IATA airlines already fly without paper tickets.  China plans to have 100% electronic ticketing by the end [...]

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Throughout Facebook’s recent and meteoric rise, one of the detractors raised by skeptics has continually been the social networking site’s failure to show concrete proof of a strong revenue model.

But that all might change very soon.

According to a report on the Wall Street Journal’s Web site, the social network is “quietly” assembling [...]

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Find out how walking-friendly your neighborhood is at Walk Score, a website that applies your address to its mapping technology and the amenities nearest your home.

WalkScore says:
We help homebuyers, renters, and real estate agents find houses and apartments in great neighborhoods. Walk Score shows you a map of what’s nearby and calculates a Walk Score [...]

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