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Category Archives: Internet
Can Cuil Cut it?
Former Google Engineers Launch Search Engine – WSJ.com. This is an interesting article about a new search engine called Cuil, which I had seen on Twitter a couple of days ago. It will be interesting to watch and see whether it can make a dent in Google’s dominance. Update: I originally posted this using the [...]
Over the Rainbow and A Wonderful (Digital) World
This morning before we started a big department-wide meeting at work, this song was being played, and it drove me nuts. I love this version of “Over the Rainbow” and I knew I had heard it in a film or on a TV show, but I couldn’t remember where. http://youtube.com/watch?v=2A2Jt4WOxN8 Thankfully, searches in iTunes and [...]
Blogging 304: Does Google Treat Hyphenated Domain Names as Spam?
A reader named Andy raises a point I hadn’t considered, and which I tend to doubt, but I’d like any feedback from someone who may know. And because Social Media University, Global is a research institution for social media higher education, in addition to offering practical, hands-on learning, I’ve devised a project in which we [...]
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Free File Sharing Site: Senduit
Today I ran across a simple, elegant free site that’s a great alternative to a complicated ftp site. If you need to share files that are too big to e-mail but less than 100 mb, Senduit is an excellent choice. Almost all social software utilities like Facebook and YouTube are free, because as Chris Anderson [...]
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Jeff Jarvis on “The myth of the creative class”