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Home fiber, city fiber, where’s my fiber?

David Utter — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:15:47 +0000

Who should own the last mile of fiber to your place? It’s been the telcos for years, but what if it were the cities or even you who owned that important bit of connectivity?

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The kids are fleeing Facebook

David Utter — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:42:04 +0000

Facebook still has strength among the post-college aged crowd, but those in school may think Facebook isn’t cool any longer.

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Google walks in with Maps walking directions

David Utter — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:58:03 +0000

Once the province of Ask Maps before IAC gutted the project, Google Maps picked up the walking directions banner and made that feature available on its service.

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Icahn gets a Yahoo board seat

David Utter — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:56:16 +0000

Vicious and public proxy fight for control of Yahoo ended with the company and Carl Icahn agreeing on nominal changes to Yahoo’s board.

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SES San Jose: How’s your landing page doing?

David Utter — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:44:08 +0000

You’ve got a visitor to click through to your site. What happens next? Tim Ash will let you know what should happen at SES San Jose, but he gave us some early comments on the topic.

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Price check: Google/Yahoo deal means 22 percent increase

David Utter — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:30:17 +0000

Keyword bids will become more expensive with Google’s search advertising deal with Yahoo, one search management firm contended.

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Blogger finds baseball stats proves Obama will win

David Utter — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:43:49 +0000

Daily Kos favorite Poblano, the moniker for blogger Nate Silver, spent a lot of time getting right what powerful polling organizations missed with the Democratic nomination process. You could say he hit a home run.
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Microsoft, Google spar over Yahoo in Senate

David Utter — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:09:24 +0000

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary heard testimony for and against Google’s search advertising deal with Yahoo.

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Blogs fired up over New Yorker’s Obama cover

David Utter — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:02:38 +0000

Depicting the Democratic frontrunner as a flag-burning, Osama bin Laden devotee won The New Yorker few fans.

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Oh, those crazy Iranians…

Jason Miller — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:28:16 +0000

Remember how Ach-moo-dent-in-jab told us there were no homosexuals in Iran? He could be right about that, considering anybody who reveals himself is hanged. Here’s another offense that carries the death penalty in Iran: blogging.

Well, blogging about the wrong things, anyway. This article in the Jerusulem Post is a little contradictory about which offenses carry the death penalty–in the first line you get it for insulting Islam or drug trafficking; later Kurds are killed for spying and separatist propadanda.

Nonetheless, a new law has been passed there to make sure the death penalty is extended to crimes committed online, presumably like insulting Islam via a blog or opening up an online head shop. Or just being gay online, one might suppose. Though the Internet is global, one assumes punishment is a local affair–if not, maybe Perez Hilton should be our next ambassador.