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How Google Killed Online Advertsing For Everyone (Else)
Image by Chris Dichtel.The more I think about Google's recent introduction of paid channels on Youtube the more significant this event becomes in my mind.[YouTube launches paid channels starting at...
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Researchers Work On Ambient Free Energy For 'Internet Of Things'
Will "Internet of Things" Demand Perpetual Power?By Intel Free PressIn the future, computers will sense what we are doing, where we are going and the very context of lives. However, the promise of the...
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Celebrating San Francisco's Internet (And TV) Archive
San Francisco has a fabulous global resource: The Internet Archives - founded by Brewster Kahle in 2001. It's housed in a former Christian Science church (above) just a few blocks from Golden Gate...
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How Secure Is The NSA?
Many are concerned about the National Security Agency (NSA) collection of data on US companies and individuals and the very real possibility that it has a way of directly accessing the servers of the...
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Blowhard Techie Cheapskates – Real Estate Developer Hands Largest Ever Gift...
Our Silicon Valley techie visionaries are so busy changing the world that they draw the line at drawing-down their wealth. Not everyone is that short-sighted or greedy:
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The Shocking Truth About Doug Engelbart: Silicon Valley's Sidelined Genius
Tributes to the genius of computer pioneer Doug Engelbart are flooding the web following the announcement of his death at the age of 88. Yet in the final four decades of his life no one would fund him...
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San Francisco 'Restore The Fourth' Protest Draws More than 400
It was a spirited turnout for the Restore the Fourth march and protest attracting more than 400 people in San Francisco. The march and rally ended up at the AT&T building (ahove), which has housed...
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Silicon Valley Ageism? Survey Shows Tech Workers Are Very Young
Quentin Hardy on the New York Times Bits column, reports that a survey of tech companies by Payscale, shows a very young median age compared with the overall US average age of 42.3 years. There's a 16...
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Hardware Is King, Software Is A Spoilt Brat Grown Fat Suckling On The Teats...
Daniela Hernandez at Wired, interviewed the founders of DropCam, which uses cheap webcams for remote monitoring systems. For some reason, and a very wrong reason, Wired's editors decided on this...
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VCs Hire Lots Of Women - But Not As VCs
Humor Tumblr blog Jesus Christ, Silicon Valley uses Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" manifesto as an excuse to paint incredibly realistic renditions of Sand Hill Road's venture capitalist innovation...
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Google's 'Shameful Hypocrisy' In Support Of Anti-Global Warming Senator Inhofe
Google's PR machine will let you know about all its wonderful "Green" projects and the $1 billion it's invested in energy from wind and sun: Google makes $1 billion investment in renewable energy -...
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US Spy And Law Enforcement Agencies Should Buy 'Big Data' Like Everyone Else
("Restore the Fourth" rally in San Francisco protesting NSA surveillance of US citizens.)Declan McCullagh, the Washington correspondent for CNET, reports that the NSA and other agencies can force tech...
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JFK's Most Amazing And Incredibly Important Speech On Secrecy And Newspapers
"The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society;and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies,to secret oaths and secret proceedings..."- - -"…there is...
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Good Luck With That: YC Founder's Advice To Startups: Go Out And Sell
Y Combinator founder Paul Graham is a deity in Silicon Valley's startup communities and whenever and whatever he writes on his blog is closely scrutinized.His latest post: Do Things that Don't...
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Media Disruption Continues: Massive Drop In Ads For News Magazines Says Pew...
Media industry disruption continues. Pew Research reports a huge drop in ad pages in news magazines in the first half of this year.
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Event: Preparing For Workforce Of The Future
Tuesday July 16 The Commonwealth Club presents: How to Attract Tomorrow's Talent and Prepare for the Future Workforce Representatives from Twitter, Google, and Cisco Systems will be moderated by...
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Pew Survey Sizes Up Condé Naste's Unspammable Reddit: A Newspaper Model From...
Pew Research reports that six per cent of all online adults use Reddit: 15% of males aged 18-29; 8% of males aged 30 to 49; and 5% of women aged 18 to 49.This extraordinary audience is mostly urban and...
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'Live Longer If You Work At Google' - How Google, Twitter, And Cisco Compete...
The Commonwealth Club's Inforum hosted an interesting event Tuesday evening in San Francisco, focused on the strategies local tech companies use to attract top talent. Representatives from Google,...
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'Snow Crash' Comes To Google Glass: Vulnerable To Hijack By QR Code!
Life imitating art – a building in San Francisco's SoMa district.Liz Ganes at All Things D reports:Google Glass security vulnerability that allowed an outsider to take control of the wearable computing...
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Incredible Revelation By Google Exec: Ultimate Lure For Top Software...
Competition for software engineers is incredibly intense and Silicon Valley firms are pulling out all the stops to recruit and retain top talent. A great software engineer is a very scalable...
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