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Google does Second Life
Not a clone, but [...]

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GreenBorder builds software that creates a kind of sandbox for your web browsing, so that any viruses, spyware and trojans you pick up during your session are deleted as soon as the browser is closed. Via Mashable.

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At this week’s Webinnovators event (review) I particularly enjoyed the  DNSstuff.com demonstration. Following up on a question I posed during the demo, I spent some time at OpenDNS.com yesterday. While perusing the blog, I came across a post titled Google turns the page… in a bad way, which proved disturbing on a number of fronts.
David [...]

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I have mixed emotions about Google snapping up Feedburner, the RSS feed management service I’ve been a paying member of since day one. A nice exit for people like Brad Feld but I hope Google doesn’t do something like close down new signups like they did with JotSpot, which has been closed  to new signups [...]

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During the 2000-2001 era I spend a lot of my time tracking the fiber usage and tenants of the worlds datacenters for a consultancy called Stratsoft. We used the data for big maps as part of our projects with telcom providers like AT&T.
Robert Cringely has a great article about Google snapping up dark fiber and [...]

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Google is finally shutting down and killing off some of it’s weaker acquisitions. Supposedly Dodgeball is next. I was a user since day one, but never liked the manual nature of the service. Once everyone has usable GPS in the mobile, then we’ll start to see some useful apps. Until then the Location Based Entertainment [...]

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Google wants to listen to what you’re watching on television. The general idea is to provide personalized content to your computer based on what you are watching. More at O’Reilly Radar.

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