Archive for June, 2008

ONE TONNE ‘BABY’ MARKS ITS BIRTH

Friday, June 20, 2008 12:09

By Jonathan FildesScience and technology reporter, BBC NewsSixty years ago the "modern computer" was born in a lab in Manchester.The Small Scale Experimental Machine, or "Baby", was the first to contain memory which could store a program.The ...

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CONNECTING THE DOTS OF THE WEB REVOLUTION

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:52

For several days my brain has been connecting the blogstorm over AP trying to dictate how much of their content can be quoted on the web with the “quote” that Nick Carr lifted from one of my blog posts in his Atlantic article — I finally figured out why. The ...

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ASSOCIATED PRESS HANDS LOCAL AND NATIONAL NEWS SITES AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET LINKS AND TRAFFIC

Monday, June 16, 2008 15:46

The Associated Press is facing a blog firestorm after issuing take down notices to Drudge Retort for linking to and reproducing snippets of AP stories. AP is now attempting to define how their stories can be linked to and excerpted — and the response from the blogosphere appears to be ...

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YOUR THOUGHTS ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Monday, June 16, 2008 15:05

New Hampshire is now the sixth state in the nation -- alongside Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Iowa and Vermont -- currently providing or soon to provide marriage benefits to gays and lesbians. Meanwhile, the issue continues to be hotly debated in other parts of ...

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GOOGLE FRIEND CONNECT DISABLED BY FACEBOOK

Friday, June 13, 2008 1:48

Google is taking a big shot at Facebook in the PR war over data portability and social network interoperability. I signed in to Google Friend Connect, implemented on the Go2Web2.0 blog, and saw this: Normally, you wouldn’t list a service that isn’t a partner, but in this case Google chose to ...

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ASBIS AND SEAGATE MARK 16 YEARS OF SUCCESSFUL DISTRIBUTION PARTNERSHIP

Friday, June 13, 2008 0:00

Press-release: ASBISc Enterprises Plc and Seagate Technology celebrate 16 years of successful cooperation in distribution of storage products.

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WHAT MAGAZINES STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE WEB

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:09

Since I already drilled a nerve with What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web, which is on its way to becoming one of my most linked posts ever — and since everyone loves a sequel — I thought I would do a follow up for magazines. The lessons, ...

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