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Randall Monroe, the creator of xkcd, suggested that if YouTube commenters had to listen to their comments read back to them aloud, it might lead to better discussion on YouTube. Some Googlers thought that was a pretty fun suggestion, so they did it. YouTube now has an audio [...]

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Google Celebrates Talk Like A Pirate Day too!
Check out Google Pirate search !

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Reposted from Read Write Web.
The Federal Communications Commission ruled this morning by a 3 to 2 vote that Comcast’s arbitrary throttling of customers’ use of BitTorrent was illegal. Hours before the ruling, the Electronic Frontier Foundation released software that anyone can use to see if their Internet Service Provider (ISP) is engaging in the same [...]

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This article originally appeared on Publishing 2.0.
Why is Google making more money everyday while newspapers are making less? I’m going to pick on The Washington Post again only because it’s my local paper and this is a local example.
There were severe storms in the Washington area today, and the power went out in our Reston [...]

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Standing between a marriage of Microsoft and Yahoo may be the technology behemoth that has continually outsmarted them: Google.
In an unusually aggressive effort to prevent Microsoft from moving forward with its $44.6 billion hostile bid for Yahoo, Google emerged over the weekend with plans to play the role of spoiler.
Publicly, Google came out against the [...]

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I couldn’t resist posting on this subject this morning. When at home I have a Mac & use NetNewsWire for all my RSS feed needs. When at work, however, I prefer Google Reader. I’ve been out on vacation though, since December 14th, which is the day that Google updated Reader with new social networking-like [...]

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I ran across this posting on Slashdot last night & thought that is was worth mentioning here:

Indus Khaitan writes “Thanks to twitter, SMS, and mobile web, a lot of people are using the url minimizers like tinyurl.com, urltea.com. However, now I see a lot of people using it on their regular webpages. This could [...]

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Fake Steve Jobs nails it on Google’s Android:

The only companies that join consortia are the ones who are too stupid or shitty to make a great product on their own. It’s like, Hey, we’ve got forty spazzo companies that can’t fuck their way out of a paper bag; let’s put them all together and maybe [...]

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Google broke through $700 a share in trading today, closing at a record high of $707, just over 3 weeks since breaking through the $600 mark.
Google did have the benefit of a surging NASDAQ; the exchange favored by tech stocks closing up 42.41 pts or 1.51% after the Fed cut US interest rates by 25 [...]

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That’s right: Google (GOOG).  And trading at a not-preposterous 55-times trailing 12-month earnings, too.
Rank   Company            Market Cap (Bil)   Ticker1      Exxon Mobil        $505               XOM2      General Electric   $415               GE3      Microsoft          $333          [...]

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