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Not a day goes by without hundreds of mentions of Twitter on blogs and TV (we're as guilty as anyone), which naturally leads those still puzzled by the service or simply curious to learn more to search for it in Google. Those searches have been growing at a faster rate than even the service itself. In fact, the term "Twitter" seems to be one of the fastest growing search terms of all these days.
How popular is it? More popular than "britney." Twitter surpassed "Britney" a few months ago,...
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A porny pic of actor Marlon Brando with his lips locked on a male member has circulated in Hollywood for decades. So why is a Hollywood gossip blog so excited about seeing the dirty photo?
L.A. Rag...
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newVideoPlayer("/Martha_Google.flv", 506, 423,""); Three New York City Googlers went on Martha Stewart to show off a scallops recipe today. How fun! But Martha was far more interested in their...
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Given the number of re-orgs that have taken place at the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Internet company Yahoo in recent months, one could be forgiven for dubbing it “Re-org Nation.” But while many of these shakeups — all part of a larger game of musical chairs, really — were on Jerry Yang’s watch, even though he’s since [...]
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Is Twitter amoral? Scientists have probed the issue, but the answer is obvious: Of course it is. It's a blank slate, by design — empty of values except for the cultish worship of the now.
This...
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In an effort to try to build some viral buzz for its Google Latitude product, Google is encouraging people to create a custom video and e-mail it to all their friends. (That's right, e-mail. There are is no embedding option). The video shows a bunch of Googlers spreading out across San Francisco with their Latitude-enabled mobile phones.
At the end of the video, their avatars spell a message, which can be customized to say whatever you want. I made a video that says "Crunch...
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So far this year TechCrunch has run roundtable meetup events for startups in Barcelona, Paris, Prague and coming up we'll be in Stockholm on May 27, Berlin on June 10 and throwing a huge summer party in London on July 9 (come meet The Travelling Geeks). But next week will be TechCrunch Europe's first day-long conference in London and it's shaping up to be pretty cool. Over 200 people are already coming and there are only a handful of tickets left. Check out our speakers after the jump.
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How to deal with slow Internet connections on the road (WebWorkerDaily)
Rumor roundup: Palm Pre release date (jkOneTheRun)
HD Cloud: Video trandscoding gets hip (NewTeeVee)
When does disk fragmentation on OS X become a problem? (TheAppleBlog)
The road to mass market electric vehicles in China (Earth2Tech)
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The European Commission has taken legal action against Phorm, a company using deep packet inspection to sell advertisements based on where people surf the web according to the BBC today. The EC alleges that Phorm has intercepted private data without clear consent from a user, a violation of EU privacy laws. The EC is getting [...]
