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Google Tightens Bond With Indian VCs
Aside from the U.S., I’d say that India is probably Google’s favorite country. Now Google’s showing it an extra bit of love by investing in two venture capital funds. To show a fragmented and partial timeline, this comes after the announcement that an Indian version of YouTube would launch, the designation of Orkut as an [...]
Yahoo Quietly Making Algorithms Changes
Yahoo announced they have been making changes to their crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the past few days. Guess we were all too busy discussing the impact of recent Google changes and buying and selling links etc. If I am reading their blog numbering system – it was their 500th post. Way to go [...]
OpenSocial’s First Task: Easy Facebook Import
Unless Google can make it smoother than a bucket of AstroGlide to get all of a person’s Facebook contacts over to its OpenSocial platform, they could find audience-building an uphill battle.Ever since Facebook opened itself to anyone who wanted to join, plenty of people have done so. Upon arrival, they have added their friends, who [...]
Happy Halloween
Can you guess who I’m supposed to be?Here’s a hint…Ok. That’s Pete Sampras. I have had so many people tell me I look like Pete Sampras that it was the obvious choice for this Halloween. My wife went as the Cheerleader from Heroes (a great show), and we had a ball.Time [...] More: continued here [...]
Mandriva CEO Blasts Ballmer Over Nigeria Deal
Francois Bancilhon has posted an open letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to complain about Microsoft’s business tactics. Mssr. Bancilhon, welcome to the real world. Microsoft has a long history of playing tough with the competition. Mandriva’s CEO is not happy with Ballmer and Microsoft. Mandriva has been working a deal with the Nigerian government [...]
Yes, Virginia, Bloggers Can Be Journalists
A recent lawsuit judgment provided evidence for two things: a blogger may qualify as a journalist; and just because you’re a lawyer doesn’t mean you have to act like one. Advice: being mean is no way to get through court. Blogger (and now, journalist) Philip Smith decided he didn’t like the way eBay listing company [...]
Beijing Halts Sale Of Olympic Tickets
Ticket sales for next year’s Olympic Games in Beijing were temporarily suspended Tuesday for a week after the ticketing system crashed due to heavy demand by Chinese sports fans. The Web site received 8 million hits in the first hour it was open and the ticketing telephone line had 3. 8 million calls, according to [...]
Google to Launch OpenSocial APIs
Shortly after losing out to Microsoft in its efforts to woo social network du jour Facebook, Google has unveiled OpenSocial, a set of common APIs to be backed by Google and an alliance of social sites including LinkedIn, Friendster, Plaxo and Ning. The strategy is meant to attract developers to an open platform, as Facebook [...]
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