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Google will pay News Corp. at least $900 million to be the search provider on MySpace and other sites | John Battelle's Searchblog: News: Google To Pay $900 Million to Float Fox Interactive (MySpace et al) Search
'The move - a blow to rival Yahoo - gives Google exclusive access to one of the most popular sites on the Internet, and follows Google's $1 billion deal to provide searches on AOL. The deal is all cash.. the deal feathers back if traffic goals are not met
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Live from WWDC 2006: Steve Jobs keynote - Engadget : extensive coverage of WWDC / keynote etc (esp useful for dashboard news)
'Alright everybody, we're kicking off over here at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Be sure to bookmark this URL, as even though we're doing a little pre-game coverage now, this is where it's all gonna go down when Steve takes the stage at 10:00AM
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Top UK Web 2.0 Apps | Read-Write Web: 'Continuing my series on international Web apps, today I'll be covering the top products in the United Kingdom market
overview of UK state of commercial web2.0 - awareness/ uptake by big sites (beeb, newsies etc) + emerging social startups scene
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Yahoo Launches Personalized Search | Techcrunch: 'Yahoo made a strong competitive move against personal search startups like Eurekster and Rollyo today with the announcement of Yahoo Search Builder, a customizable search engine tool
'A custom search engine can be created that searches just a few defined sites, and/or entire web.. can include a specific default search term, exclude certain keywords, etc. Once completed, can be integrated directly into a website via a code snippet.
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Rollyo Adds A Ton of Features | Techcrunch: incl Rollbar Bookmarklet - 'search on whatever site is open in browser. Many sites do not have a search function. This is a very cool and permanent addition to my browser
'features include a slight redesign, allowing users to clone and modify any other search engine (there are about 150,000 user-generated search engines available), and other changes. Also, you no longer need to register to use most features of the site
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Steve Jobs KeyNote Talk at WWDC 2006 | Apple - QuickTime : ondemand video of Aug 7 2006 address by Steve Jobs (intro Leopard OS etc )
'Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote preview of Mac OS X “Leopard” from San Francisco's Moscone West. See the video-on-demand event right here exclusively in QuickTime and MP
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Mac OS X - Leopard Sneak Peek: 'Mac OS X Tiger was ahead of its time in 2005. But that didn’t stop Apple engineers from moving forward. Get a glimpse of the not-so-distant future. Introducing Mac OS X Leopard
New in Leopard, Time Machine takes you beyond the backup.. with Spaces, you can organize your windows into different groups.. Dashboard adds new widgets that make the Web a one-click affair.. Spotlight for Leopard: search across network-mounted folders
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Web 2.0 & ePortfolios | Helen Barret new page on 'Authentic Assessment with Electronic Portfolios using Common Software and Web 2.0 Tools
This web page provides information on common software tools available on personal computers and/or the Internet to facilitate assessment FOR learning (classroom-based assessment) in electronic portfolios
/basic-intro-materials elearning/tools elearning2.0 elearning2.0/intro eportfolios eportfolios/tools for:alharris for:ngrf -
A MySpace Cheat Sheet for Parents | Wired News addresses some of the most pressing questions parents might have if they explore their teenager's relationship with MySpace
'Remember, teens took over MySpace and made it their own. Try to respect that you're on their territory. "You don't want to create controlling situations, because what these kids are trying to do is create a space outside of parental control," Boyd says.
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Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace | Danah Boyd (UC Berkeley) ** two-year ethnographic study of the MySpace ** phenomenon [rough transcript of talk at AAAS, February 19, 2006
'I have been following MySpace since its launch in 2003. Initially, it was the home to 20-somethings interested in indie music in Los Angeles. Today, you will be hard pressed to find an American teenager who does not know about the site, regardless of whe
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WorldWideWeb: Summary | From:Tim Berners-Lee | Date:Tues, Aug 6 1991 5:00 pm | Google Groups: alt.hypertext - the original newsgroup post announcing the web :o)
'The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system. The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone.
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Namespaced Extensions in Feeds | Official Google Reader Blog: the top 50 namespaces based on the number of feeds that use them
eg 29.36% Dublin Core 15.71% XHTML 11.92% Blogger Atom API Extensions 11.88% Blogger Draft Extension 11.16% RSS 1.0 Content Module 8.39% Well-Formed Web Comment API 5.35% RSS 1.0 Administrative Module 3.85% FeedBurner Extensions 3.74% MSN Spaces...
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Announcing Yahoo! Search Builder | Yahoo! Search blog: With Yahoo! Search Builder you can create a custom Web search engine by selecting a set of trusted sites to search across or you can tune the search algorithm to the topic of your choice
'Beyond Web search, Search Builder includes Site search and News search.. generate the code you’ll need to add your search engine to your site. You also have control over the look and feel of the search box and search results
/APIs/yahoo for:opendock news portal-admin search-engines search2.0 to-evaluate web2.0/biz webtech/MUST-WATCH yahoo
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