Localisation + Real-time = -Global Responsibility?
Dumenco: Time zones are, obviously, the enemy of real-time. Localisation vs. global responsibility; http://j.mp/cXfxiV
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The Net is not Making Us Dumber. We are.
Kellen: The Net is not making us dumber. We are. Used properly, it makes us smarter; http://j.mp/bDTFXR (via @JoelFoner)
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Cloud Computing
Pew: Technology experts and stakeholders say they expect they will live mostly in the cloud in 2020; http://j.mp/aP4FaB
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AdWords: Analyze Competition
Google adds more transparency to AdWords: Analyze Competition offers insights; http://j.mp/cBngIi (via @sengineland)
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HTML5
WTF is HTML5: and why we should all care; http://j.mp/WTFisHtml5 (via @fleep)
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Twitter Acquires Smallthought Systems
Twitter acquires Smallthought Systems, maker of analytics service Trendly for real-time tracking; http://j.mp/c07Esa
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Typosquatting vs. Brands
Typo domains, the typosquatting business, cost brands and marketers millions a year, annoy consumers; http://j.mp/bFnL3r
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Flickr Integrates Facebook
Flickr has finally integrated Facebook: connect and share (public) photos and videos; http://j.mp/cVzzbY
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Linden Lab: Restructuring
Linden Lab is undertaking significant restructuring, says: remains in a solid financial position; http://j.mp/8Z84XQ
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pC: “Linden Lab executives have lamented for several months now that Second Life isn’t interconnected enough with other sites on the web, saying it is too difficult to share actions on Second Life on third-party sites. In February, the company bought up online avatar community Avatars United, as part of an effort to change that. – The company’s financial state isn’t known. Linden Lab has raised about $19 million in funding but hasn’t raised outside cash since 2006. At least two of its backers have sold their stakes; one unnamed investor sold its holdings to late-stage investment firm Stratim Capital a year ago, while Catamount Ventures sold its shares in November 2007.”
RWW: “In previous coverage, Tom Hale, Chief Product Officer for Linden Lab, said user-to-user transactions in the immersive world spiked 30% over last year to $160 million, breaking all previous company records. Clearly this was not enough for Linden to feel comfortable with the future. Its assertion that it is restructuring to ‘generate efficiencies’ (?) doesn’t really answer the question of why.”
Massively: “It’s going to be an interesting month at Linden Lab, certainly, and this week especially. Likely, we’ll know more in a few days. It could wind up as a windfall for competitor businesses as well, as a number of exceptionally talented employees appear to be among the cull.”
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Google Rolls Out Caffeine
Google announced the completion and global roll out of its new web indexing system Caffeine; http://j.mp/doUJjN
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Google: “Today, we’re announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before.”
SEL: “Previously, Google’s crawling and indexing systems worked as batch processes. Googlebot would crawl a set of pages, then process those pages (extracting content from them, associating data about them, such as anchor text and external links, determining what those pages were about), and finally add them to the index. While this system was continuous, all the documents in the batch had to wait until the whole batch was processed to be pushed live. Now, when Google crawls a page, it processes that page through the entire indexing pipeline and pushes it live nearly instantly. This change has already resulted in a 50 percent fresher index than before. … Content owners will reap the benefits of Caffeine without doing anything at all. In fact, there’s really not much, if anything content owners can do. Some may wonder if this change means that existing best practices around crawl efficiency matter more than before. Is page speed, which Google has focused on more lately, more important? Nope. Google told me that this change doesn’t make any of the crawling, indexing, or ranking factors more or less important than before. It simply makes crawled content available in search results more quickly before and paves the way for added flexibility in taking advantage of the whatever may come as the web evolves.”
VB: “The new indexing system – the biggest change to the search engine’s methodology in four years – has also gotten a power boost. It’s now capable of adding hundreds of thousands of pages into the Google index per second, and hundreds of thousands of gigabytes of information per day. All told, Caffeine is operating off of 100 million gigabytes of data storage. – Google has been talking about an indexing revamp for a while and says that Caffeine has been in testing since August of last year. Initially, it was supposed to go live soon after New Year’s, but this never came to fruition. It’s uncertain what held it back until now.”
Pew: “Technology experts and stakeholders say they expect they will ‘live mostly in the cloud’ in 2020 and not on the desktop, working mostly through cyberspace-based applications accessed through networked devices. This will substantially advance mobile connectivity through smartphones and other internet appliances. Many say there will be a cloud-desktop hybrid. Still, cloud computing has many difficult hurdles to overcome, including concerns tied to the availability of broadband spectrum, the ability of diverse systems to work together, security, privacy, and quality of service.”
Weinberger: “As for me, I don’t have predictions because the future is too furious. For example, the speed and availability of broadband access in this country is unpredictable and is by itself determinative, not to mention the Internet-seeking asteroid this is currently streaking toward the Earth. It’s safe to say, however, (= here comes something that in 5 years I’ll feel foolish for having said) that we’re going to move more and more into the cloud. The only thing I’d add to The Experts is that this will have network effects like crazy – effects due to the scale of data and social connections being managed under one roofless roof (with, we hope, lots of openness as well as security).“