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The Democracy of Data
Thursday, den 21. January 2010Tim Berners Lee has unveiled a new website at www.data.gov.uk. It is a new government site that houses reams of government data made available under the freedom of information act. It’s a brilliant idea – basically opening up the data to anyone who wants to use it. In the same way that Apple gives programmers [...]
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Google to be Replaced by Bing as Iphone’s Search Engine
Wednesday, den 20. January 2010Business Week are today reporting that Apple are currently in talks with Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine for Iphone users, replacing the current search engine giant Google. These talks come amid the hot competition between Apple and Google.
“The discussions reflect the accelerating rivalry between Apple and Google, now the main provider of [...]
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Oxford University Bans Spotify
Monday, den 18. January 2010Cherwell.org (Oxford Student News website) report that Oxford University has banned Spotify. The reason for the ban is that it takes up too much bandwidth, so they’ve banned it altogether. See below for a quote from Cherwell:
“Students have expressed their shock this week at OUCS’s decision to ban the popular music sharing website Spotify.
The University’s [...]
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Google Pledge $1 Million to Haiti Relief Funds
Friday, den 15. January 2010Google have launched the Google Crisis Response page for the Disaster Relief Haiti. On the site they have added a new Google Earth 3D Image of the current state of Haiti along with links to donation websites (including Unicef and CARE.) Google have also pledged to give $1 Million in funds to help Haiti. See [...]
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Had it with personalised search results? Then opt-out!!
Friday, den 15. January 2010As of the 4th December, Google now personalises the search results of anyone who uses its search engine. Weirdly, considering this is one of the most important updates to come out of the search engine, ever, it hasn’t been that widely talked about. Was that just good timing by Google? Have they managed to slip [...]
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Bing and Google up the Stakes on Health Results
Thursday, den 14. January 2010Clever or Crazy? This post is dedicated to all my hypochondriac friends; We’ve all been there, it starts as a curious interest about an unusual symptom and just like that, you’ve self diagnosed yourself on the NHS website and only have a week to live. Well, in the name of quick information at our fingertips, [...]
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Google China Employees Given Holiday Leave
Thursday, den 14. January 2010TechCrunch report that Google employees in China have been given holiday leave following the news that Google are considering pulling out of China. See below for a quote from TechCrunch:
“A tipster informs us that an IM conversation with a friend who works for Google China in their Shanghai offices has revealed that all Google China [...]
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How many baby twitter feeds are there?
Wednesday, den 13. January 2010As a new father I started Amelia’s Twitter account the day after her birth – check it out – http://twitter.com/ameliabeck not many followers eh? not many updates eh? well that’s because she can’t write yet! It just seemed the right thing to do – the right way to welcome her into the highly connected world [...]
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The French love a war with Google
Wednesday, den 13. January 2010Now they are planning their own French competitor to Google books – Tug says oui! Vive la France libre!
See below for a quote from the Globe and Mail:
“France’s culture minister on Tuesday unveiled a plan for adapting the country’s literary patrimony to the digital age by developing what he hopes will prove a uniquely Gallic [...]
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Some Big Brands missing a trick or two in search
Wednesday, den 13. January 2010- McDonalds obviously has a reputation management programme to cover off negative results for brand searches on the major engines. Type in McDonalds into Google and a whole series of McDonalds related micro-sites come up ensuring that negative stories/blogs/sites are pushed off the 1st page – pretty smart. However, [...]
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