Google on Google and Mashable on Mashable. Wikipedia: "Mashable is an Internet news blog. With a reported 5+ million monthly pageviews[ and an Alexa ranking around 1200, it ranks among the largest blogs on the Internet. Mashable regularly writes about MyS
"Most of the world's knowledge is contained in physical books. Google has joined with library partners to scan and index 10 million books, enabling a vast corpus of knowledge to be searchable. With court approval, the settlement will unlock that knowledge
Nicolas Sarkozy veut contrer les projets de Google Books. Le Président de la République a affirmé que la France ne veut pas se faire "déposséder" de son patrimoine culturel au profit du service de numérisation américain. Publié sur ITespresso.fr par Anne
Governments and companies pushing for greater monitoring of Internet activity pose a major threat to freedom and democracy, according to Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Questions: 1) Net neutrality. 2) Government data. ("t's better if dat
- New York Times July 5, 2007. Naver has so far accumulated a user-generated database of 70 million entries. Typical queries include why North Korea is building a nuclear bomb, which digital music player is best, why people have cowlicks and what a high s
Si le filtrage du moteur Google.cn était un arrangement d’ordre pratique avec un pouvoir qui entend lutter contre le free flow of information, Google a fini par reconnaître que les exigences du gouvernement chinois entraient de manière fondamentale en con
Bakgrund: Le ministère de la Culture a annoncé jeudi 15 octobre la nomination de Marc Tessier [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Tessier] en tant que président de la commission sur la numérisation des fonds patrimoniaux des bibliothèques, suite au désist
Books | guardian.co.uk. "As the deadline of 28 January for writers to opt out of the Google book settlement approaches, Le Guin has launched a petition, signed by almost 300 authors, asking that the US "be exempted from the settlement", and that "the prin
Open Content Alliance (OCA). Democracy Now! broadcast an interview between Amy Goodman and Brewster Kahle about digitization, the Google Book Search Settlement, and the future of books and libraries taped on April 17 [2009] in San Francisco. - The class a
May 24, 2008. Microsoft said Friday that it was ending a project to scan millions of books and scholarly articles and make them available on the Web, a sign that it is retrenching in some areas of Internet search in the face of competition from Google [..
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has granted Google Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of the search giant, the right to behave like a utility. The order grants Google Energy the power to sell energy, capacity and services at market rates. Why does
Posted October 7, 2005. Open Content Alliance. Yahoo, European Union Announce Digital Library Projects "In the wake of Google’s plan to digitize books from libraries and provide access to their contents through its search engine, Yahoo has announced that
"As a matter of fact, right on page one of the Plaintiff's statement for the judge, among the bullet points describing the main achievements of the settlement, is this one: Limits library uses of digital copies of Rightsholders’ works. Perhaps it has been
Wikipedia: "According to the Settlement Agreement, the Registry will own and maintain a rights information database for all books (and parts of books) covered by the Agreement and their authors and publishers. It will also resolve disputes between rightsh
September 5th , 2009. "IFLA hopes that the proposed settlement under discussion in New York will serve as the beginning of a fruitful cooperation that will benefit the millions of users whom libraries serve throughout the world, bringing us closer to the
Huffington Post, October 13, 2009. Responding to Sergey Brin's OpEd in NYT, : " Unlike the Alexandria library or modern public libraries, the Google Book Search (GBS) initiative is a commercial venture that aims to monetize millions of out-of-print books,
Book-grab.com May 4, 2009 criticized the ALA: "Why did it take so long for the ALA to recognize that Google threatens the privacy protections that the ALA has always supported? After all, Google-Watch tried to raise this issue with the ALA in December 200
Disruptive Library Technology Jester We're Disrupted, We're Librarians, and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore. Page with link to the Amicus Brief from the ALA
Clancyto Library Journal: "We've talked with Brewster, and sometimes people believe we are more different than we are similar. The reality is we are very close. We think the public domain should be free. We do have what are effectively two “netiquette” re
n a very real sense, Google is obsolescing the library, or rather, one of the features of the library, the feature we most identify with the library: book storage.[...] Because the idea of the library has become so successful, so universal, it no longer m
"Like other technology and communications companies, we regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from our services, or provide information about users of our services and products. The map shows the number of
2009. Google has made "woefully little effort to articulate how it intends to adequately protect reader privacy as part of this giant project," the groups said. "Under its current design, Google Book Search keeps track of what books readers search for an
It seems no one will be updating the Galaxy to Android 2, annoying customers whose purchase decision was based on what it would do rather than what it could do.
17 March, 2010. "For the first full week, more Americans typed "Facebook.com" into their browser than "Google.com." But these figures account for only a portion of Google's web properties. They don't, for example, measure Gmail or YouTube at all. " [...]
« Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing "Motives: Facebook Must Go Open To Increase Monetization Inventory" "Resulting in More Content Inventory for Advertising Opportunities. Facebook knows LINK that in order to compete with ma
"Je verrai bien la bibliothèque européenne du futur sous forme d’un réseau dynamique permettant le raccordement de bibliothèques petites et grandes – certifiées, c’est essentiel (autant pour la « validité » des fonds que l’adéquation technique) –, avec le
This Firefox extension was inspired by the launch of Google's encrypted search option. We wanted a way to ensure that every search our browsers sent was encrypted. At the same time, we were also able to encrypt most or all of the browser's communications
Jeremy Wagstaff's Loose Wire column. "As I write this two significant events are taking place: Google has said it will tie up with the American Booksellers Association—the U.S. trade group for independent bookstores—to sell ebooks. And there’s a conferenc
Readers will use their Google accounts to purchase the books directly from Google, whose Google Checkout system will serve as the payment platform. Google will pay publishers 63 percent of revenues and keep 37 percent for itself where it sold ebooks direc
1 July 2010 Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, talks to Shane Richmond about mobile, privacy and how his strategy is different from Apple's: "The stakes are high. This is about more than just selling people a new product, it’s about shaping a social change. With
20.3.2009. von Rudolf Walther "Open Enteignung" durch GoogleBooks "Wissen zum Nulltarif, Demokratisierung durch Google? Das Schlagwort "Open access" klingt gut, doch auf dem Spiel steht die Bewahrung des Wissens unserer Gesellschaft.
By Emma Barnett, Digital Media Editor Published: 20 Jul 2010 One hundred and forty-three e-books have been sold by Amazon for every 100 hardcover books in the second quarter of 2010. "Why are you comparing e-book sales to hard-backs? Most people buy pape
Noah Schachtmann: "Right, so, you know, Google—we sort of make an implicit bargain with Google, right? Google reads our email to deliver advertisements. They look at how we’re traveling from point A to point B as they—as we use Google Maps. They look at o
Openness is a Fundamental Principle of the Internet Strangely, the words 'citizen' or 'democracy' are hardly mentioned in this context. Only 'users', 'consumers' and 'economic growth'. It says, however: "Millions of consumers -- along with Web companies,
Thursday, July 15, 2010 Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Coun"sel "Today we [Google] submitted comments supporting the FCC’s proposed Third Way. In a letter to the agency two months ago, Google along with other technology companies ex
Verizon Business Network Services Inc., Ashburn, Va., was awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract consisting of one five-year base period, two 24-month option periods and one 12-month option period and a maximum ceilin
Like the rest of the technology world, we're wondering why Google has chosen to ally itself with Verizon, issuing a set of joint net neutrality recommendations that critics charge would significantly weaken the Federal Communications Commission's ability
EU-parlamentet är nära att anta ett förslag som innebär att sökmotorer som Google och Yahoo ska omfattas av datalagringsdirektivet. Det skulle innebära att sökningar som görs med till exempel Google måste sparas mellan sex månader och två år.
at BookExpo America, Mark Nelson, a Google strategic partner manager, gave an overview of the plan to an audience of booksellers, publishers, and a few librarians. How can readers read a book when they’re out of Internet access? Can a book be downloaded?
Nicholas Carr, The Atlantic "What Taylor did for the work of the hand, Google is doing for the work of the mind. " "Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking. If we lose those quiet spaces, or fill them up with “conten
"Like the other search engines, Ecosia also has to access a network of servers to deliver search results. Our own servers run on green electricity, but since Bing and Yahoo servers do not, an Ecosia search still causes almost the same amount of emissions
October 6, 2010, By Jennifer Howard. Intervview with Robert Darnton, the historian who directs the Harvard University Library. "Mr. Darnton pointed to studies that Harvard has done of digital-library projects in other countries, including the Netherlan
18.10.2010 12:58 STT Teleoperaattori DNA alkaa myydä hakukoneyhtiö Googlen yrityspalvelusovelluksia Suomessa. Palveluja markkinoidaan kustannussäästöillä ja helppokäyttöisyydellä. Googlen palvelut toimivat netin välityksellä eli pilvipalveluna. Kaik
Inside Google's $1 Billion-a-Year Tax Cutting Strategy By Jesse Drucker Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to B
Huffington Post, based on the Bloomberg article. Concludes: "The Google story also points to the need for much better global cooperation to shut down tax havens. Here, too, big plans have been announced -- including by the OECD. But nothing much ever seem
While Android may have the legal licensing to qualify as open source, it utterly fails on the equally important issues of transparency and community. Android basically gives you two options: Accept what Google gives you, or fork the entire codebase. Other
"The danger of allowing an advertising company to control the index of human knowledge is too obvious to ignore". Länk till Jonathan Swifts "Tale of a Tub"
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12/06/2010 07:00:00 AM Today is the first page in a new chapter of our mission to improve access to the cultural and educational treasures we know as books. Google eBooks will be available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore. You can browse and searc
Michael Cairns 7.12. "And so it begins: The end of Amazon's dominance as a book retailer ... From a trends perspective, the Google eBookstore will help accellerate the developing comfort level that consumers have with not owning the products they 'purchas
Despite financial pressure, we therefore are advancing on two fronts, the digital and the analog. People often talk about printed books as if they were extinct. I have been invited to so many conferences on “The Death of the Book” that I suspect it is ver
"A unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail.Explore museums with Street View technology: virtually move around the museum’s
A rather superficial comment: Google should worry more abt its perception. Larry Page should develop the perception as a product. Google goes on as if it were still a small business.
by Dermot Egan, founding director of the Hub, Twitter @dermotegan "Even Google, whose motto is "Don't be evil", does not seem to count avoidance of tax as bad. Google has managed to avoid paying $3.1bn (£1.9bn) in the last three years by moving most of i