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From the monthly archives:
May 2009
Another Googler Joins The Obama Administration
The New York Times reports that Google is losing Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs, to the Obama administration. He’ll be the administration’s deputy chief technology officer, serving below the recently appointed CTO, Aneesh Chopra.
McLaughlin has been with Google since January 2004. His earlier work included time as VP and Chief Policy [...]
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Finally, Yahoo 360 To Be Shuttered In July
More than 18 months after first saying that Yahoo 360 would close, the company has finally announced a date: July 13, 2009.
Why the delay? Yahoo’s announcement says they’ve been looking for a way to preserve its users’ content:
“Before we could retire 360, we had to find a sustainable and adequate solution for your personal information. [...]
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Open Letter To Google & The AP: Reveal The Licensing Terms
Discussions between Google and the Associated Press about renewing their content licensing deal continue, I assume, but all’s quiet recently on the negotiation front. I want to disrupt that. It would be wrong in this particular case for both parties to reach a deal where “terms are not disclosed.” The future of [...]
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Google I/O: New Advances In The Searchability of JavaScript and Flash, But Is It Enough?
This week at Google I/O, Google talked a lot about the evolution of the technological capabilities of the web. HTML 5 is ushering in new era of browser-based development and applications. Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, kicked things off with, “My message to you is that this is the beginning of the real win of cloud [...]
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Keyword Research: Listen To Your Customers!
While SEO is a part of our daily lives, the process of digging into keyword research hasn’t gotten any easier. Yet, as we know, keyword research is critical to any SEO effort. While you may find the process of uncovering and selecting the most appropriate keywords for optimizing your site to be fairly painstaking, it [...]
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