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Links for Apr-21-08

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• For non-gamers Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is most likely known for all the political turmoil it created. But it didn’t sell millions and millions of copies because of this, it sold cause of the amazing game play. 1UP devotes some bytes to the legacy of GTA.
  [Gaming, Culture]
• Newsweek takes an exhaustive look at the media empire Rupert Murdoch has built.
  [Media, Advertising, Politics]
• I am not really sure I follow the logic of this Popular Mechanics article that believes the growing popularity of social networks are going to mean the end of search as we know it. As the first commentator notes, most people that work for a living (not in a related tech field) just don’t have time for them. I sure don’t.

[Google, Facebook, Social Networking, Web 2.0]

Links for Apr-17-08

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• A detailed and wide-ranging Popular Mechanics interview with Google search guru Udi Manber, who most likely knows more about search technology than anybody else in the world.
  [Tags: Google, Technology, Interview]

Links for Apr-04-08

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• Pizza.com sells for $2.6 million. Seller says, “It will make a significant difference in my life, for sure.”
  [Tags: Business, Technology]
• Microsoft announced that its Surface tabletop touchscreen computers will finally launch this month at five AT&T stores in New York City, San Francisco, Atlanta and San Antonio. About time.
  [Tags: Microsoft, Technology]
• Apple takes brand management a little too far by suing New York City’s GreeNYC campaign.
  [Tags: Apple, News, Technology]

Links for Apr-03-08

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• Edward Gabriel was the U.S. ambassador to Morocco from 1997 to 2001. Monday, an in memoriam ad ran in The Washington Post titled Ed Gabriel: A Partner for Life . The problem, Gabriel didn’t pass away. The ad was an April Fools’ Day prank by an old friend, J. Peter Segall. Gabriel fielded calls all day from people who thought he had passed away. Segall later admitted that his joke was "very stupid." Yeah think!
• If I can use PayPal to buy just about anything online, why not airline tickets? Well I guess JetBlue asked themselves the same question cause how if you book a flight through their site you can use PayPal.
  [Tags: Business , Technology]

Links for Apr-02-08

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• Newsweek has a feature this week on typography and how hip it is to have your own personal font. Nice to see design related topics are starting to get exposure to a wider audience.
  [Tags: Design, Culture]
• Former Vice President Al Gore and his organization, the Alliance for Climate Protection, have launched a $300 million, three-year campaign with the goal of “educating people in the US and around the world that the climate crisis is both urgent and solvable.” The campaign will include a combination of network and cable commercials, print ads, and online social networks.
  [Tags: Branding, Advertising, Politics]
• Lisa DePaulo of GQ has an interesting interview with Karl Rove.
  [Tags: Politics]

CNN Beats FOX News In Key Demographic

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The New York Times reports today:

The political season continues to be very good to CNN, which will officially announce on Tuesday that for the first time since 2001, it managed to beat the Fox News Channel in prime time for one quarter of the year in the category of news viewers most desirable to advertisers, according to Nielsen. Thanks to its debate coverage and heavy focus on the presidential primaries, CNN’s ratings in prime time for viewers 25 to 54 were up 90 percent, to an average of 453,000 for the first quarter of 2008. That was enough to edge past the perennial leader, Fox, which had 438,000 viewers, up 12 percent from last year.

Links for Apr-01-08

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• In an online survey conducted by brandchannel Apple was named the brand that has the biggest impact on the world’s consumers, while Microsoft and the United States (as a brand) are those considered most in need of a remake.
  [Tags: Branding, Marketing, Apple, Microsoft]
• Ars Technica was at Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View recently to talk to user experience design expert Alex Faaborg about the Firefox 3 visual refresh. From the screen caps in the article it appears they are going with the more is less approach. Good for them.
  [Tags: Firefox, Design, Usability]
• Top 5 reasons why the customer is always right is wrong. “Let me get this straight: The company will side with petulant, unreasonable, angry, demanding customers instead of with me, its loyal employee? And this is meant to lead to better customer service?”
  [Tags: Business, Management, Productivity]

Links for Mar-30-08

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• What is the probability of someone breaking Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak? Well the New York Times has crunched the numbers and you may be surprised by the results.
  [Tags: Sports, Statistics]
• It appears that Google’s lost in the FCC’s spectrum auction may in fact have actually been a victory. Verizon won so-called C block with a bid of $4.6 billion. By reaching that price point ensured that Verizon’s new wireless network has to accommodate all mobile devices, including those running Google’s Android OS.
  [Tags: Google, Wireless, Technology]

Links for Mar-26-08

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• A new analysis by Goldman Sachs Group finds that “Wall Street banks, brokerages and hedge funds may report $460 billion in credit losses from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, or almost four times the amount already disclosed.
  [Tags: Business]
• It is commentary like this from John Dvorak of PC Magazine that makes me wonder how the heck he has a job writing about technology.
  [Tags: Business, Technology]

Yahoo! Joins OpenSocial

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A couple weeks ago there were a number of reports that Yahoo! was planning to join Google’s OpenSocial application platform. Well not only has Yahoo! thrown their support behind the platform, they are also, along with Google and MySpace, forming a new non-profit organization called the OpenSocial Foundation. It is modeled after the OpenID Foundation.

This is really good news across the board. Very good news. The press release of this announcement with more details is here.