1. Google and paid content 15 hours ago   permalink

Google and paid content
Google News Blog / Google News Blog

Posted by Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Manager As newspapers consider charging for access to their online content, some publishers have asked: Should we put up pay walls or keep our articles in Google News and Google Search? In fact, they can do both - the two aren't mutually exclusive. There are a few ways we work with publishers to make ...

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Google Modifies “First Click Free” Policy To Accommodate Publishers Gating Their Content What's powering Web apps: Google waving goodbye to Gears, hello to HTML5   —  To prove Web applications like Gmail and Google Docs could be as sophisticated as desktop apps, Google created its own desktop software a couple years ago -- a small utility called Gears. Once it's installed on a user's computer, features like offline caching of e-mails and drag-and-drop file uploading would be unlocked.

Maile Ohye / Google Webmaster Central Blog
Google Modifies “First Click Free” Policy To Accommodate Publishers Gating Their Content Region Tags in Google Search Results   —  Webmaster Level: All Country-code top-level domains (or ccTLDs) can provide people with a quick and valuable clue about the location of a website—for example, ".fr" for France or ".co.jp" for Japan. However, for certain top level domains like .com, .info and .org, it's not as easy to figure out the location. That's why today we're adding region ...

2. Changes in First Click Free 16 hours ago   permalink

John Mueller / Google Webmaster Central Blog

Webmaster level: intermediate We love helping publishers make their content available to large groups of readers, and working on ways to make the world's information useful and accessible through our search results. At the same time, we're also aware of the fact that creating high-quality content is not easy and, in many cases, expensive. This is ...

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3. Accel Partners 1 hour ago   permalink

Accel Partners
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Accel Partners is a global venture capital firm with offices located in Silicon Valley, London, and India. They typically make multi-stage investments in internet technology companies.

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4. Paragon Drive Backup 2010 Special Edition offers more safety to all your important data including videos, images, ... 1 hour ago   permalink

Paragon Drive Backup 2010 Special Edition offers more safety to all your important data including videos, images, ...
Giveaway of the Day project team / Giveaway of the Day

Special offer for GAOTD users! Paragon Drive Backup 2010 Special Edition offers more safety to all your important data including videos, images, music files, documents and applications. Find other extra features onboard this toolkit along with a Windows 7 and 64-bit Operating Systems support. What we offer: Complete set of features for entire ...

5. Comparison of Online Project Management Apps 5 hours ago   permalink

Comparison of Online Project Management Apps
Www.labnol.org

Whether you are looking to organize your personal life at home or to collaborate on a team project with your coworkers, here are some of the best web-based project management software that can help you stay organized and on top of your work.

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6. Africare – Pass It On 1 hour ago   permalink

Africare – Pass It On
Drew Meyers / My Thoughts on Microfinance

Please pass it on! [via ONE Blog]

7. Craigslist Blocks Yahoo Pipes After Dev Shows Craig His New Mashup 3 hours ago   permalink

Craigslist Blocks Yahoo Pipes After Dev Shows Craig His New Mashup
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

Developers take note: if you've got a mashup built off of Craigslist's data, don't even think about showing it to anyone who works there. At least, that's the lesson learned by developer Romy Maxwell, who says that Craigslist has blocked both his mashup and every single project built on Yahoo Pipes a few days after a friendly Email exchange he ...

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Craigslist Blocks Oodle   —  When I wrote about Oodle a while back, I wondered if the sources of its listings would ever get cranky (Oodle scrapes classified listings all over the web, then creates a vertical search engine). I never thought the first grump would be craigslist - but indeed, the company has asked Oodle to stop scraping its listings. It feels counter to the ...

8. Social Media Marketers Declare Success 5 hours ago   permalink

Social Media Marketers Declare Success
Editor / EMarketer Articles

The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has followed up on its 2007 and 2008 studies of social media usage by the Inc. 500. Adoption and awareness continue to trend upward, with 91% of firms using at least one social media tool in 2009 and three-quarters describing themselves as “very familiar” with ...

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Video Viewers Spread the Word   —  Word-of-mouth is the top influencer for just about everything consumers do, and many social media marketers take that as an encouraging sign. After all, social media are about conversations. But, at least when it comes to video viewing, online dialogue is not as valuable as what Knowledge Networks refers to as “verbal” word-of-mouth.

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Social Media Marketers Declare Success Are You a Certified Social Media Specialist? WTF?   —  Welcome to my Social Media Garden. Rants and raves from Web pioneer Aliza Sherman: the Original Cybergrrl and founder of Webgrrls International, co-founder of social media consultancy Conversify!

9. EBooks: An Interview with Michael Serbinis, President of Shortcovers 3 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Interview: The Toronto-based Shortcovers, owned by Indigo Books & Music, Inc., which launched in February and allows users to download e-books on to a variety of smartphones and mobile devices. Mark Medley sat down with Michael Serbinis, president of Shortcovers, to talk about Kindle, and the future of books. “This experience ...

10. Lists & Rankings: November, 2009: Most Downloaded eBooks and Audiobooks from OverDrive 3 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Announcement: While Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” topped the list again in both the adult fiction audiobook and eBook categories, Nora Roberts’ “Bed of Roses” and Kathryn Stockett’s “The Help” made their first appearances in the top ten on the same lists. New audiobooks by David ...

11. Monorail kitteh 8 hours ago   permalink

Monorail kitteh
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Lolcats, cats and funny pictures - monorail kitteh experiencing sum technukul difukultiez

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Monorail kitteh Your pet rock just   —  Lolcats, cats and funny pictures - Your pet rock just peed on my paw.

12. Zeitgeist 2009: the collective consciousness 20 hours ago   permalink

A Googler / The Official Google Blog

Curiosity — it's why we search the web. Whether searching for the latest news, a popular holiday gift, a website you've heard about, the latest singing sensation, or the trailer to a blockbuster film, you come to Google with something on your mind. And since 2001, we've been releasing our annual Zeitgeist — our view into the spirit of the ...

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13. Learning to love the backchannel 5 hours ago   permalink

Learning to love the backchannel
Jim McGee / The FASTForward Blog

Just before Thanksgiving I was at the KM World 2009 conference in San Jose listening to a keynote presentation by Charlene Li. Like many others, I was tweeting during her presentation and posted the following: At just about the same time, on the right coast, danah boyd of Microsoft was delivering a keynote at the [...]

14. Seaweed Farm on Lembongan Island, Bali 5 hours ago   permalink

Seaweed Farm on Lembongan Island, Bali
DrewiPhone / My Thoughts on Microfinance

bali – seaweed farm, originally uploaded by adlaw. I thought this was a gorgeous picture from the island of Lembongan.

15. Square is in Private BETA 5 hours ago   permalink

Drew Meyers / My Thoughts on Microfinance

Twitter creator Jack Dorsey’s newest start up — Square– is now in private BETA. It allows vendors to accept credit card payments with a tiny device that connects to iPhone/iTouch (other mobile devices are in the works). I think this will change the credit card game for small business owners. For instance, in some shops down [...]

16. Cisco Leads $27 Million Round For Aravo 6 hours ago   permalink

Cisco Leads $27 Million Round For Aravo
Leena Rao / TechCrunch

Aravo, a SAAS supplier chain management tool just raised a whopping $27 million in Series D funding led by Cisco, with other investors participating. In addition, Cisco's web meeting and collaboration platform, WebEx, will be integrated with Aravo's Supplier Information Management (SIM) to facilitate real-time collaboration between buyers and ...

17. What Will Comcast-NBC Mean for Hulu? 7 hours ago   permalink

What Will Comcast-NBC Mean for Hulu?
Ben Parr / Mashable!

It’s taken several months , but it looks like the deal is done: Comcast is buying NBC Universal from GE. Well, at least 51% of it. While the deal still has to pass regulatory hurdles, it seems likely that The Tonight Show and The Office are going to be part of Comcast’s vast cable operation and its own array of TV programming that ...

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What Will Comcast-NBC Mean for Hulu? Comcast launches bandwidth meter pilot   —  Comcast on Tuesday announced the launch of a pilot program for its Internet customers to keep track of how much bandwidth they're using. The company is finally introducing a Web-based metering program, which will let users check these numbers from any browser.

18. Show Your Vote for COP15 6 hours ago   permalink

Show Your Vote for COP15
A Googler / The Official Google Blog

(Cross-posted from the Google Australia Blog ) One of the benefits working at Google is the ability to spend 20% of your time on projects you are passionate about. Recently I was lucky enough to attend the Australian Conservation Foundation's Climate Project Summit , where I met Al Gore, and was trained as a Climate Project Presenter . This led ...

19. AT&T Dead Last in Customer Satisfaction 8 hours ago   permalink

AT&T Dead Last in Customer Satisfaction
Barb Dybwad / Mashable!

From the “this might not come as much of a surprise” department is the latest wireless customer satisfaction survey from Consumer Reports . The annual results from over 50,000 readers surveyed in 26 U.S. cities found AT&T to have the lowest customer satisfaction rating in 19 of them, while Verizon ranked highest (that ...

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AT&T Dead Last in Customer Satisfaction 4iP invests in iPhone fitness app GymFu, and a new service to help parents choose a school   —  [UK] Channel 4’s 4iP fund will tomorrow announce seven new investments totaling £500,000 as part of its mission to kick-start new investment in public service-oriented digital media. However, while the full list hasn't yet been made public, TechCrunch Europe has acquired details of two of the investments. GymFu, an iPhone app designed to ...

20. Amazon Cyber Monday Traffic Jumps By 44 Percent 7 hours ago   permalink

Amazon Cyber Monday Traffic Jumps By 44 Percent
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!

Cyber Monday data traffic data has officially arrived and it should come as no surprise that Amazon was the top visited retail website, according to Experian Hitwise . In fact, Amazon accounted for 15.53 percent of all Cyber Monday traffic to the top 500 retail sites, and saw a whopping 44 percent increase in visits when compared to 2008 traffic.