Google Adjusts Political Posture With Sponsorship Of Conservative Conference
Sunday 5th of February 2012 11:13:10 PM
Posted by admin / Under Google
| Google says that its there because its a great place to promote their election-tracking site, push Google+ as a platform for sharing and collaborating, and because the conference is fairly young and tech-savvy. |
Yahoo and Google Down? (Vanity)
Sunday 5th of February 2012 11:13:10 PM
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| For about an hour now, I have not been able to access yahoo or google. Get a "navigation has been canceled" or "page not found" message, and diagnostics indicate that the DNS server is not recognizing the web sites. However, I can get to Bing and Free Republic just fine, among other sites. Just wondering if this is a local problem or a more general one... |
Ask President Obama about being baby daddy (SOTU)
Sunday 5th of February 2012 11:13:10 PM
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| There is a phone at the top of youtube to "ask president Obama" I don't know if this is just for the state of the union, but google/youtube should have to bill Obama's campaign for the value of the advertising. Anyway, this mistake I found is really funny. Go to the link and mouse over the phone. Leave your cursor there until the tool tip to comes up. |
Google announces privacy changes across products; users cant opt out
Sunday 5th of February 2012 11:13:10 PM
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| Google said Tuesday it will follow the activities of users across e-mail, search, YouTube and other services, a shift in strategy that is expected to invite greater scrutiny of its privacy and competitive practices. The information will enable Google to develop a fuller picture of how people use its growing empire of Web sites. Consumers will have no choice but to accept the changes. The policy will take effect March 1 and will also impact Android mobile phone users, who are required to log in to Google accounts when they activate their phones. The changes comes as Google is facing... |
Google announces privacy changes across products; users cant opt out
Sunday 5th of February 2012 11:13:10 PM
Posted by admin / Under Google
| Google said Tuesday it will require users to allow the company to follow their activities across e-mail, search, YouTube and other services, a radical shift in strategy that is expected to invite greater scrutiny of its privacy and competitive practices. The information will enable Google to develop a fuller picture of how people use its growing empire of Web sites. Consumers will have no choice but to accept the changes. 247 The policy will take effect March 1 and will also impact Android mobile phone users, who are required to log in to Google accounts when they activate their phones.... |
Google pimping Obama SOTU speech
Sunday 5th of February 2012 11:13:10 PM
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| The Obama campaign got Google to add a link to tomorrow night's campaign speech on their home page. This is not a standard Google ad. This is on prime real estate. It's in your face standing out from the white background and will be seen by gazillions of people. |
Glenn Beck Explains PIPA and SOPA
Sunday 5th of February 2012 11:13:10 PM
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| Glenn Beck discusses the Big Brother aspects of PIPA and SOPA. |
Five key senators abandon online piracy bills amid Web protests
Sunday 5th of February 2012 11:13:10 PM
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| Congressional support for controversial online piracy legislation eroded dramatically on Wednesday in the face of an unprecedented online protest supported by tech titans such as Google, Wikipedia and Facebook. Several key senators withdrew their support from the Senate's Protect IP Act (PIPA), including Tea Party favorite Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), an elected member of his party's leadership. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who leads the Senate GOP's campaign team, said the legislation should be put on hold, while Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a sponsor and the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, retreated from the... |
{VANITY} I am sick of google! Looking for a relevant search engine, opinions wanted!
Sunday 5th of February 2012 11:13:10 PM
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| The time was that yahoo answered most basic searches sort of well. And then along came google, and for a while they looked like the gold standard. But lately the SEO games and massive quantity of stuff online has made simple queries painful. Anyone have a better set of search engines for the DIY or how to crowd? |
How Google & Co. Will Rule Your Rep
Sunday 5th of February 2012 11:13:10 PM
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| Reputation is a tricky business. And not just for politicians anymore. This year we're all worried about approval ratingsor should be. Reputation was once a qualitative measure of our behavior, vital but vague. Now it's getting quantitative. Soon there is likely to be an actual numerical reputation score for each of us, like a FICO credit score but for our whole lives.Ready? We've got the precursors now, whether or not we're aware of them. Companies such as PeerIndex, Twitalyzer, Talentag and PostRank (bought by Google) already apply online analytics to establish the heft of an individual's or business's "social capital."... |



