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Those of you who have some history with the blog know that I am not a huge fan of advertising. I skip commercials on my TiVo. I don't click on banner ads online. I switch stations when listening to the radio, assuming I am not listening to my ad-free iTunes library or ad-free Sirius XM radio ...
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Yesterday, as most tech outlets noted, Google previewed their much-awaited Chrome Operating System - and in parallel released the code for the operating system to the open source community . By the end of the day, sites like Gdgt had compiled virtual machine capable installs of the early alpha ...
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Why do some social sites thrive while others fail? Why do you find some networks have you dedicating hours every day to participate, while others couldn't get you to raise an eyebrow? And why don't your friends see with you eye to eye on what the best services are, even after you've told ...
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On Tuesday, the Open Web Foundation released an agreement aimed to speed new specifications' ability to be adopted by downstream users, with the intent of spreading open tools throughout the Web. Though occupying the always-complicated intersection of both the legal world and the tech world, ...
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OpenID
Yahoo
As more and more people are turning to social networks to share their information, practically all of us are connecting to an ever-increasing number of people, and for the most part, we are updating more frequently, and sharing content from different sources in multiple places. The resulting ...
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"It is a complete joke how we interact with people on the computer right now," believes Brad Feld of the Foundry Group . With multiple devices and scads of Web services needed to consume information and engage with others on the Web effectively, Feld and other venture capitalists are looking for ...
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As trendy as it can be at times to say that the new social "activity streams" are set to be the future of our communications, including most social networks and the nascent Google Wave , it is clear that e-mail has some serious life ahead of it. While many can complain about the growth of ...
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Following on to the post last month on leveraging social networks to build Web traffic , courtesy of YourBusinessChannel , filmed while in the UK with Ecademy , three more short videos have surfaced from our extended interview on the impact that social media tracking and activity can have for ...
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Over the last four years on this blog, you have seen me talk a lot about hundreds of different startups and dozens of large enterprise companies. I have tried to share with you how I consume information and disseminate it outward to the many social networks. I let you know my thoughts on ...
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Over the last four years on this blog, you have seen me talk a lot about hundreds of different startups and dozens of large enterprise companies. I have tried to share with you how I consume information and disseminate it outward to the many social networks. I let you know my thoughts on ...
Online
blog.louisgray.com - 9 days ago
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Facebook Up Slightly, MySpace and Twitter Flat to
Down Despite November being nearly half over, the monthly
traffic statistics from October have just been released by Compete.com , and it looks like there are no major surprises in the social ...
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Social Networks' Traffic Stabilizes, Facebook Nears Yahoo!
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Not too long ago, every new site you joined on the Web forced you to provide a daunting array of details about you in order to join. Full pages of pull-down menus asking about your date of birth, your marital status, your home address and other information was standard. But over the last few ...
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Not too long ago, every new site you joined on the Web forced you to provide a daunting array of details about you in order to join. Full pages of pull-down menus asking about your date of birth, your marital status, your home address and other information was standard. But over the last few ...
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OpenID
blog.louisgray.com - 9 days ago
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In a forward-looking presentation at the Defrag Conference
this morning, Stowe Boyd pushed attendees to think about
how the Web would look by the year 2019, with the aid of seeing the massive amounts of change that has taken place over the previous ...
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Search: Less Useful Due to Massive Info Growth, the Flow?
At the Defrag conference in Denver this morning, there was an acknowledgement that social elements are infiltrating practically every aspect of businesses and interpersonal engagement online, but unlike other events, which have seen a practical hugfest over the latest apps or services, the ...
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That Twitter is dealing with massive amounts of data flowing through its servers these days would be an understatement, as the service sees strong growth and significant mindshare. With the company having passed what looks to have been its rockiest struggles over the last twelve months, Twitter ...
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blog.louisgray.com - 10 days ago
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That Twitter is dealing with massive amounts of
data flowing through its servers these days would be
an understatement, as the service sees strong growth and significant mindshare. With the company having passed what look to have been its rockiest ...
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Did Twitter Pluck a Data Management Guru from Yahoo!?
On Thursday, Google caught the eyes of Web developers around the world with the company's move to open source its Closure JavaScript compiler, library and template system to the Web community - the very same tools that power popular applications, including GMail , Google Docs , Google Maps , ...
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blog.louisgray.com - 12 days ago
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The more people and blogs you follow on
social networks and through RSS, the more likely it
is that you are going to see duplicate data, be it via retweets, forwards, or through many of your friends sending the latest viral videos or images. A new ...
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Cadmus Filters Real Time Streams to Reduce Clutter
TweetMeme , the popular site that highlights the hottest links distributed on Twitter , is working on a new feature that will soon be opened up to all users - a dedicated channel that shows the links you have posted to your Twitter account, how often they have been retweeted, who the original ...
