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11 Sep 2010 12:14

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Tech: Protip: Create “Google Instant” variations to secure employment

Hey @FreeTheFeross! Loving YouTube Instant… http://feross.net/instant/ Want a job? 😉Fri Sep 10 18:55:10 via webChad Hurley
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  • youtube A guy created an awesome Google Instant-inspired variation on YouTube. Within hours, Chad Hurley was Tweeting him.
  • maps Someone else has created a different variation on Google Instant, this time using Maps. He’s available, by the way. source
  • » Update: Oh, it gets better. The creator of Google Maps Instant also did something similar with Google Images. And that’s simply a rad idea.
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10 Sep 2010 10:52

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Tech: “Here you have”: Evil non-cat-related virus taking over the world

  • whatA bunch of big companies have had their e-mail systems brought to their knees thanks to a new worm called “Here you have.”
  • howThe virus pretends to be a PDF encouraging people to click on it. In reality, it’s a big bad piece of malware. Boo. source
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08 Sep 2010 21:04

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Tech: Google Instant Search looks awesome but has downsides

  • Google’s Instant Search is pretty darn cool, yes, but it has some possible downsides. A lot of businesses have built their models around Google’s SEO and paid search benefits, which could be harder to grab using this model. (If people aren’t misspelling words, for example …) Search Engine Land is particularly concerned about the effects on “long tail” searches: “With our example, starting the query with “Las”, shows ads for Las Vegas. Some of those ads are for hotels. Why would a user continue typing if they see hotel ads already?” Gawker, on the other hand, is more concerned with finding unfortunate word combinations that come up, such as the one above. source
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08 Sep 2010 11:12

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Tech: Associated Press: We’re finally going to respect bloggers, a little

  • good The Associated Press finally has a policy that credits bloggers as news sources.
  • bad Um … how long have blogs been around? Way to be behind the curve, guys. source
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08 Sep 2010 10:56

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Tech: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison to HP: What’s up with this lawsuit?

  • The HP Board is making it virtually impossible for Oracle and HP to continue to cooperate and work together in the IT marketplace.
  • Oracle CEO Larry Ellison • Responding to the lawsuit the company filed against Mark Hurd, the dude he’s trying to hire as his new president. Ellison notes that before now, the relationship between the two companies has been positive. In other news, the lawsuit and new job could affect Hurd’s $35 million severance plan. source
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07 Sep 2010 21:08

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Tech: HP to Mark Hurd: You can’t join Oracle! You have our trade secrets!

  • In his new positions, Hurd will be in a situation in which he cannot perform his duties for Oracle without necessarily using and disclosing HP’s trade secrets and confidential information to others.
  • A statement from HP’s corporate blog • Explaining why they filed a civil complaint against former CEO Mark Hurd, who is headed in the general direction of Oracle. To put it simply, HP is afraid that Hurd will leverage the information he knows about the company at his new job – a reasonable concern. A now-former Apple exec, Mark Papermaster, went through something similar when he left IBM. source
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07 Sep 2010 11:08

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Tech: The Pirate Bay currently getting nailed by a coordinated effort

  • 14 countries are reportedly carrying out server raids source
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06 Sep 2010 20:52

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Tech: Mark Hurd rises from the tech-exec ashes like a phoenix

  • downfall Mark Hurd had a relationship with an underling and that led to his firing from HP. The circumstances raised eyebrows.
  • rise Hurd showed up at Oracle this week as their new co-president, just in time to screw Google over with that Java lawsuit. source
  • » He’s got a powerful backer, too: Last month, Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO, referred to Hurd’s ouster as “the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago.” So, to prove it, he hired Hurd.
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06 Sep 2010 10:27

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Tech: Apple’s iPod Touch press photos are a Photoshop fail

  • Just when you thought Apple survived a product launch mostly unscathed, some jerk had to notice some crappy Photoshop work. Apple wasn’t particularly good at hiding their iPhone tracks on the new iPod Touch this time out, leading to a couple gaffes like the one over to the right. See the arrow? Yeah, we know, right? source
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06 Sep 2010 10:04

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Tech: Jeff Jarvis: Craiglist’s disruptor status makes it an easy target

  • So why are government and media going after Craigslist? The same reason, I think, that media and government in, for example, Germany are demonizing Google (even as the German people give Google its biggest market share anywhere in the world). They’re going after the disruptors, the biggest disruptors in sight.
  • Jeff Jarvis • Explaining his reasoning about the whole Craigslist “Adult Services” thing, which sounds like a fairly original angle on the whole thing. Craigslist has cost the newspaper industry billions in revenue by simply being able to provide a once-expensive service (classified ads) for free. With a decline in classified revenue of $13 billion across the industry, which might make the media more apt to give this controversy a little extra coverage. “I’m not suggesting conspiracy; I rarely do,” Jarvis writes. “But I do see old power structures huddling together against the cold breath of technologists bringing change.” Remember creative destruction? This is how oid dinosaurs can react to it, if it’s necessary. source
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