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Daily Links April 9th, 2008

April 10th, 2008 Comments

Lots of news from Yahoo in it’s efforts to fight off the takeover offer from Microsoft.

Yahoo announced they will go through a two week trial period outsourcing their search ads to Google
News Corp is in talks to join with Microsoft in it’s takeover offer for Yahoo
AOL and Yahoo are looking at joining their internet operations

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Daily Links April 8th, 2008

April 9th, 2008 Comments

I keep finding that there is a ton of stuff day in and day out that I want to talk about but I don’t have the time or it isn’t really needing a full blog post to devote to. However I still wish to inform people about some of the most interesting stuff I find [...]

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Facebook’s Newest Privacy Features

March 19th, 2008 Comments

Facebook this morning released a system of new privacy controls for user profiles. These controls allow you to create groups or lists of friends. You can then apply very specific privacy rules to each of these lists or even one particular friend.
This is a huge step forward in my opinion and one that I have [...]

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TED Is Far From Useless

February 28th, 2008 Comments

Short intro: It’s good to be back and blogging, sorry about the delay, but hey it took a long time to get stuff working again. So no more excuses onto the business of the day.
Umair Haque, today wrote a blog post about TED. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) for those of you who haven’t heard of [...]

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Google and the New York Times: Walking Down the Aisle?

January 22nd, 2008 Comments

This afternoon a post from Real Clear Markets came up on Techmeme, asking “Might Google Buy the New York Times?” The question is so ridiculous I almost didn’t want to respond but at the same time I can see how some people would think this is a good idea. New York Times would gain [...]

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