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Rupert Murdoch Plans To Hide His Sites From Google, The World Yawns

The media today is widely reporting an excerpt from Rupert Murdoch’s interview with Sky News Australia, in which he says he plans to make News Corp sites invisible to Google’s search engine. While Murdoch has been on the verge of saying that for quite a while now, this is the first t...

I’ve Got Nothing: Crowdsourced Song Created by YouTubers [VIDEO]

Wanna make a hit song? The ’standard’ way of doing it is learning to play an instrument, finding a couple more musicians, practice, create some songs, find a publisher… …or you can scrap all that and let the YouTube community do the entire work for you. I’ve Got No...

Happy Birthday, Firefox

Originally an experimental branch of the Mozilla project, a new web browser was launched on November 9, 2004: Firefox 1.0. Its aim was to reduce Mozilla’s bloat (if you remember those early days, the Mozilla Suite consisted of a web browser, mail client, news reader, irc client; it even had...

Twitter and Penguins: How The San Francisco Zoo Uses Twitter [VIDEO]

We know there are a lot of interesting and unique uses for Twitter. We’ve seen Twitter used for customer service, tweets to monitor power usage, and even 140 character marriage proposals, but we never thought about it being used to quickly respond to incidents such as a kid being bit by an ...

Google Wave: Better than Twitter for Conference Chatter?

Google Wave debuted in a whirlwind of buzz and expectation, and yet few of us have managed to make it part of our workflow. What is Google Wave good for anyway? Those use cases are still emerging, it seems. Here’s an interesting one: Charlie Osmond at the FreshWorks blog points out that T...

Verizon Holiday Ads Mock AT&T and the iPhone [VIDEOS]