http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3219548376600109729 20 years since the Tiananmen Massacre, and China is a different world. Far more permissive financially, and – if possible – even more repressive technologically. This is a documentary worth watching, both to commemorate those struck down by the army, and to understand how insidious the success of New China is. (The complicity of […]
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About.com: Need. Know. Accomplish.
http://about.com/ I’ve been trolling About.com’s wealth of small business articles and tips. They’re actually quite helpful, but the helpfulness is undone by About’s reprehensible coding; Clicking on a link takes you to the page you want, but About’s digital meathooks anchor a banner to the top, and the page URL is sheathed in an About […]
Today @ PC World Google Takes a Crack at Wikipedia with Knol
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006068.html One significant difference between Knol and competing services is that authors will be given the option to place Google ads on the pages they manage and receive revenue from those ads. The author of a page can also limit what other users can and can’t modify on their page. A comments section will always […]
Google’s Buses Help Its Workers Beat the Rush – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/technology/10google.html?hp The chances of my being employed by Google are, sadly, slim to none. Shame, really – despite the obvious expectation that you are to subvert your personal life to work (not a big loss for those of us who have no personal life), they seem like very conscientious employers. This shuttle bus service makes […]
http://www.google.ca/ The nutjobs at Google pull a classy rabbit out of their logo-hat.
Google Product Search
http://www.google.com/base I’ve been hearing rumbles for weeks about the “PayPal killer” being prepped by Google. Today I finally find the link, and it’s… this. Huh. I haven’t read too far into it yet, but upon first impressions it seems PayPal has less to fear than Craigslist. As one who isn’t too enamoured of PayPal, I’m […]
irate isaac – Google Search
http://www.google.com/search?q=irate%20isaac&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official Just did a Google search, and noticed they’re at it again with alternative logos. In what I hope is an appropriately haptic way, this one tickled my fancy.