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New Google Friend Connect Tool Helps Sites Be More Friendly

Posted by Damianmann from PC World

Google is introducing a Web site tool called Friend Connect today that promises to extend the reach of social networks such as Facebook to any site that wants to use the tool.

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Seattle company aims to 'fix the ticketing industry'

Posted by carley

Brown Paper Tickets is tearing the walls down, one event at a time.

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Microsoft earnings post-mortem: The cash cows quiver

Posted by Jeff from ZDNet

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: I can't help but wonder if the lackluster Windows/Office results also can be attributed to Microsoft brass's complete and crazy obsession with Google (and taking over Yahoo) has resulted in no one minding the Windows store. Kevin Johnson, the head of Microsoft's Platforms & Services division seems to be so laser-focused on the online-ad business these days that he almost seems to have forgotten Microsoft is still in the software business, too.

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Do the Blind Deserve More Effort on the Web?

Posted by Jeff

While the article generated many positive comments, one reader said the disabled should 'get a grip' and maintained they 'have no more right to demand that others provide for their needs than I, as a diabetic, have a right to demand that sugar no longer be used.' Should Web sites and software makers do more, or does the reality of today's economics dictate that the blind/disabled will continue to struggle and learn to live with it?

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Monsanto's Harvest of Fear

Posted by Jeff from Slashdot

Intellectual property thuggery is not restricted to the IT and entertainment industries. The May 2008 edition of Vanity Fair carries a major feature article on the mafiaa-like tactics of Monsanto in its pursuit of total domination of various facets of agribusiness. First in GM seeds with its 'Roundup Ready' crops designed to sell more of its Roundup herbicide, and more recently in milk production with rBGH designed to squeeze more milk out of individual cows, Monsanto has been resorting to increasingly over-the-top tactics to prevent what it sees as infringement or misrepresentation of its biotechnology.

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Flickr Flicks at Video

Posted by Jeff from newsweek.com

What's the big deal? Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo, is hardly about to slay the Goliath that is Google's YouTube. But while this may not sound like an online revolution, it does significantly enhance the Flickr experience for its 42 million monthly visitors. Kakul Srivastava, the company's director of product management, calls these short videos 'long photos' moving snapshots that people can take with their point-and-shoot digital cameras.

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Microsoft Told to Pay Tax on Licence Fee (in India, not Washington)

Posted by Jeff from Yro.slashdot

The company, which sells its software in India through a circuitous route involving several group companies, had maintained that its deal with the customers is a sale and no royalty payment is involved. It is this position that has now been rejected. What nailed the issue, however, was an expression in the end-user agreement that says "the product is licensed, not sold". Tax authorities cited this and said if the software is licensed, there has to be a royalty involved.

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