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What happened to Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a very interesting virtual currency that uses advanced cryptography to create and maintain the value of the currency.Benjamin Wallace at Wired Magazine has an excellent report on "The Rise...
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A Glimpse At Intel 40 Years Ago...
Intel celebrates it's 40th year in business this year. Above is Intel's first advert, (November 1971) for its groundbreaking 4040 microprocessor. Here are some more photos:
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Breathing And Succeeding In The Startup Life
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Maharshi Mahesh YogiSilicon Valley is like a snow cone on a hot day — the flavorless chunks of big ice at the top represent the large corporations, HP, etc; while the sweet...
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Big Brands As Media Companies - Google Makes It Possible, Destroys Jobs
Google has been boosting large brands in its search rankings as part of a deliberate strategy to take business away from thousands of third-party affiliates -- small businesses that make money selling...
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Did Google Kill The Long Tail Of Keywords?
Google has been focusing search results on brand names as a quick and easy way of trying to distinguish between "quality" content and not. The idea behind this is that brands are owned by large...
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Interview: Former ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate-Thrush On New Domain Names
(Peter Dengate-Thrush, far right, outside an ICANN meeting in Paris. Source: ICANN)ICANN, the California non-profit organization responsible for setting the name of all domains, will soon allow a vast...
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Former ICANN Chairman Warns Opposition To New Domain Names Could Fracture The...
Peter Dengate-Thrush, the recent chairman of ICANN, the Internet regulatory body, warned that opposition to ICANN's new top level domain names (TLDs) could encourage some countries to split from the...
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Out&About: The Rackspace Party Was Pretty Good...
I get lots of news releases about office openings that I ignore but if I Robert Scoble and Rocky Barbanica send an invite, I'm there.Here's a few shots from an excellent evening at Rackspace's new San...
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MediaWatch: Lessons Online Publishers Need To Learn From Print Media
By Matthew Buckland, publisher of MemeburnI’ve had a long career in online media. I don’t really know much about the print world, except that you get your hands dirty when you page through newspapers....
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How Steve Jobs Got Away With Being An Asshole
By Michelle AtaganaHe was adopted and resented the rejection by his birth parents, but abandoned a daughter of his own born out of wedlock. Steve Jobs was a complicated man. The minute I picked up...
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More Evidence Of The Power Of Social Distribution Off Mass Media
Social media was once lauded as an antidote to the gatekeepers of mass media, an army of citizen journalists would take on the dominant powers that shape ideas and influence consumers.That didn't...
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Here's How Intel Could Win In Tablets And Cell Phones By Protecting...
Brooke Crothers, at CNET, reports that Intel is stepping in to help manufacturers create ultrabooks, and it has a $300 million fund to help integrate key technologies such as touch interfaces and...
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Send To: Facebook, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park - Its New Campus
Facebook is preparing a new campus, once occupied by Sun Microsystems. And it will have a smart-ass new address.
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AT&T Is First In Worst Cell Phone Service - Yet Again
Don Reisinger over at CNET reports:For the second year in a row, AT&T was ranked last in Consumer Reports' annual customer satisfaction survey. The company was hit especially hard by complaints...
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Perfect Timing For Facebook IPO? Outsourcing Risks To New Investors
Mark Zuckerberg is everywhere: Interviews on prime time US and foreign TV; features in leading newspapers and magazines -- it's one almighty PR push: Facebook is prepping for an IPO. The reason for the...
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Out&About: Media Masses At Googleplex And Why I don't hate Google...
I popped into the annual media party at the Googleplex. There was a decent turnout of familiar faces but with some having switched sides.
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Women In Tech: Meet The Duchess Of Silicon Valley
Marylene Delbourg-Delphis (above at Buck's Diner) is a serial entrepreneur, she shares her secrets for technology startup success and how she wooed Guy Kawasaki away from Apple.By Intel Free PressSand...
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The Demise Of PageRank
Aaron Wall over at SEOBook, has put together an infographic explaining how Google has made the organic link irrelevant.
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The Wicked Hitch Is Dead
The British journalist and author Christopher Hitchens managed to rile people from the Right and the Left, and across the religious spectrum. Erudite and eloquent he honed those skills to call out...
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Finding New Ways To Smash Solid State Drives...
If Alan Frost loves solid-state drives so much, why does he relish throwing them, smashing them and, yes, even cooking them?
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