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    • Microsoft to set time limit for storing data on Web searches

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

      Microsoft is announcing changes to its privacy policy Monday that set a time limit on how long the company will retain data about customer queries through its search engine. The policy, seen as an attempt to distinguish itself from Google, also allows people to opt out of targeted ads by third-party advertisers using Microsoft's Windows Live service.

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      Google's non-profits strategy

      Posted by SoxFirst

      It's taken some time coming but Google has announced it's extending its Google Apps online software suite for companies and organizations to non-profits. It’s a smart move by Google because it targets the fastest growing sector in the economy.

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    • Official Google Blog: Google and health care

      Posted by Damianmann from Google Blog

      In this case, the blog criticized Michael Moore's new film "Sicko" to suggest how health care companies might use our ad programs when they face controversy. Our internal review of the piece before publication failed to recognize that readers would -- properly, but incorrectly -- impute the criticisms as reflecting Google's official position. We blew it.

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    • Google to Unite Mapping Mashups

      Posted by Jeff from Slashdot

      jihadist writes "Hoping to make it even easier to turn its online maps into collages of local information, Google Inc. is introducing tools that will stitch together applications from a hodgepodge of Web sites."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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      How The Internet And Innocence Kill Culture

      Posted by HeatherOrato

      Andrew Keen, Author of Cult of the Amateur: How The Internet Is Killing Today's Culture says, "The cult of the amateur is the love affair that we all have for amateur-created content on the Internet. By amateur, I mean content created by people without the kind of monetary award that allows one to pay one’s mortgage or put food on the table"...read more on www.orato.com...

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      Idealog: Is anyone getting hurt by Google and the Golden Fox?

      Posted by Jeff from Idealog.US

      "Thanks to the Google agreement, the Mozilla Foundation went from revenue of nearly $6 million in 2004 to more than $52 million the next year...In 2005, the foundation created a subsidiary,...mainly to deal with the tax and other issues related to the Google contract." One result of this move is less transparency. Clearly, Firefox has been good for users, good for developers and has kept Microsoft from having de-facto control over Web standards. So if most of us are benefiting, should we care?

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    • Harvard Prof Says Computers Need to Forget

      Posted by Jeff from Yro.slashdot

      "A Harvard professor argues that too much information is being retained by computers, and the machines need to learn how to forget things as humans always have. "If whatever we do can be held against us years later, if all our impulsive comments are preserved, they can easily be combined into a composite picture of ourselves," he writes in the paper. "Afraid how our words and actions may be perceived years later and taken out of context, the lack of forgetting may prompt us to speak less freely

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    Jon comments on:

    New Google Friend Connect Tool Helps Sites Be More Friendly

    Marshall Kirkpatrick had an insightful, skeptical take on this.

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    7:24 pm 5/13/08
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    Damianmann comments on:

    New Google Friend Connect Tool Helps Sites Be More Friendly

    Ya…but it’s GOOGLE !!!???!!!

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    12:19 am 5/13/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    New Google Friend Connect Tool Helps Sites Be More Friendly

    This seems fairly limited and lame to me. Facebook is still way ahead.

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    10:47 pm 5/12/08
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    Damianmann comments on:

    Google's Shareholders Vote to Continue Censorship in China

    yeah…I agree the we may seem a bit much. But, then, I don’t see too many people up in arms over it either…therefore, "we" isn’t too far off.

    “So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.

    eleanor roosevelt

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    7:29 pm 5/10/08
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    theangryindian comments on:

    Google's Shareholders Vote to Continue Censorship in China

    I’d be careful about using "we", it implies a collective thumbs up, which I doubt Google’s execs would respect unless you own stock with them.  While China’s government is questionable, so is this one.  Especially since "we" owe them billions.  They are paying for Pax Americana in Iraq and te Afghanistanian theatre after all.

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    7:26 pm 5/09/08
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    Damianmann comments on:

    Google's Shareholders Vote to Continue Censorship in China

    They’re , eventually, going to steal the technology and make their own google. We screw ourselves and their people by doing business with their government.

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    5:11 pm 5/09/08
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    socean comments on:

    Google's Shareholders Vote to Continue Censorship in China

    If Google were to tie commercial opportunity to openess, China would go after the money on its own. That is, if they are paid to be more relaxed, they will be. If they can keep things closed and not loose too much money, they will keep things closed.

    Its actually the advertisers and marketers that use Google that have the most power to influence policies.  Follow the money. Its the only thing that votes in China.

     

     

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    2:46 pm 5/09/08
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    Jeff

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    Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.

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    Damianmann

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    Damian is a former campaign worker for Ralph Nader and current delegate/precinct captain for Barack Obama . He is also a registered Independent voter. He's written columns for "Tabula Rasa" magazine as well as many music magazines around the globe. Whatever you do, don't offer him alcohol.

    Houston


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