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Wednesday, 27th June 2012

Cartoon: Consulting Secrets REVEALED!

Cartoon: Consulting Secrets REVEALED!

See more of Rob's cartoons at Noise to Signal.

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Microsoft: The Method to Its New Meanness

Much of Microsoft's 30-year history is a tale of bulldozing the rest of the world into doing what's best for Redmond. Although the company has taken a gentler tack in recent years, its Surface tablet augurs a return to ruthlessness. This time, though, the erstwhile PC leader has good reason: It must betray old loyalties if it is to remain…

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Tuesday, 26th June 2012

Oh Dear, Maker Studios Isn't Solving YouTube's Quality Problem...

Oh Dear, Maker Studios Isn't Solving YouTube's Quality Problem...

Maker Studios is the fifth most popular YouTube partner in the U.S., according to statistics reported today by Nielsen. Maker Studios models itself on Hollywood movie studios, except it produces content for YouTube instead of the Big Screen. It's a great concept, but unfortunately low-brow fare like William The Psychic isn't going to help YouTube…

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Seth MacFarlane's Extremely Unfunny Joke Leads to Cyberbullying

Seth MacFarlane's Extremely Unfunny Joke Leads to Cyberbullying

For the past two days, one young Pennsylvanian man has found himself facing hours of celebrity-endorsed cyberbullying on Twitter after telling Family Guy creator and Twitter favorite Seth MacFarlane his rape joke wasn't funny. MacFarlane had tweeted "The lyrics to "Call Me Maybe" sound like the prelude to a horrific date rape," a joke that saw…

Fruzsina Eördögh comments

Info Architecture

Land Grab! Google & Amazon Stake Claims to .blog, .search, .book

Amazon, Google, L'Oréal and Gucci have applied for basic Internet domain names like .blog, .book, .music and .beauty. In some cases, they don't intend to share. Unless you use Google's Blogger service, for instance, you won't be able to get your-name.blog. Google aims to own that domain and every address in it.

Jon Mitchell comments

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