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Wednesday, 20th February 2008

Comment of the Day: Castro News... Ho Hum

Late last night Marshall Kirkpatrick published an epic post entitled Fail: Social News on World Events, Like Cuba. It is a great analysis of how web 2.0 news services covered a big mainstream news story. And the comments to the post are just as interesting. We actually got some kickback, with many commenters saying that the Castro news wasn't…

Richard MacManus comments

Google Launching AdSense for Video - Minus the Video

After nearly a year in closed beta, Google is expected to announce tonight that its AdSense for Video program is now open to publishers. When the program's pilot was announced last May, AdSense for Video was intended to serve up video-in-video ads. Today the video part is gone, replaced by CPM banners and CPC text overlays. Launch…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

How Has Web Hosting Changed in 10 Years? Not Very Much

On their blog today, web site monitoring service Pingdom took a look at web hosting services ten years ago and compared them to today's hosting services to see what has changed. The answer -- prices have gone down while included storage space and bandwidth have increased. Or, in other words, hosting hasn't changed much, but it has become a…

Josh Catone comments

Are National ID Cards Going to Snuggle Up With OpenID?

The REAL ID Act of 2005 is said by some to pave the way for a United States National ID Card and has come under heavy criticism from a wide range of people in the US. Some recent developments indicate that a National ID card could be tied to the federated authentication standard called OpenID. At the most basic level, this would mean that you…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Olympic Committe Rules Revealed: No Posting of Media Allowed

Recently, the International Olympic Committee announced that they would allow athletes and other accredited persons to blog at the Olympics in August. The committee decided that this would be allowed, since blogs are a form of personal expression, and not a form of journalism. That's great, except for one small problem...with the recent release…

Sarah Perez comments

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