Mar
31
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Search Biz: Diller Keeps IAC Control; Googlers To Facebook; Google Earnings Downgraded & More IAC stays in Barry Diller’s control. US government agencies look to Google’s search hardware to find information. Google’s hotel-industrial complex that’s [...]
Mar
31
Search Biz: Diller Keeps IAC Control; Googlers To Facebook; Google Earnings Downgraded & More
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IAC
stays in Barry Diller’s control. US government agencies look to Google’s search
hardware to find information. Google’s hotel-industrial complex that’s coming to
Mountain View. Those darn declining paid clicks — will they hurt Google’s
bottom line? Yahoo breaks out golden handcuffs to retain employees, while Google
loses another one to Facebook. And more in today’s Search Biz!
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Mar
31
Kyocera Inkjet Printhead Spits Out 1000 Pages a Minute [Gatling Printer]
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I can’t say that I have ever been impressed by a printer, but the device they are cooking up at Kyocera could be a first. Their new KJ4 series printhead can churn out up to 200 meters per minute at…
Mar
31
Google Docs Inches Offline
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Google’s Web-based word processor, Google Docs, can now be used offline to view and edit documents in your browser. That means you no longer need to be connected to the Internet to write a letter or draft an agreement. When you connect again, all your changes are updated. Google Docs now joins [...]
Mar
31
TheFunded, a site where entrepreneurs can leave anonymous feedback about their experiences with venture capitalists, has created quite a stir on Sand Hill Road. Rarely do I meet with a VC without the subject of it coming up, and how unfair it is. The fact that the site is now publishing confidential term sheet clauses [...]
Mar
31
Mugwumps Bug Powder t-shirt
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Strephon Taylor liked the Bed Bug Murder label I posted about a while back. He also digs William S. Burroughs, whose bug fascination and experiences as an exterminator appear throughout his novels. So inspired by both, Taylor created a fantastic Mugwumps Bug Powder t-shirt!
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Previously on BB:
? Bed Bug Murder vintage label Link
Mar
31
Radioactive Tritium Makes Keychain Light Glow For 10 Years [Keychain]
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Besides being somewhat dim, most keychain lights have batteries that only last a couple months before needing to be replaced—which often never happens since nobody has watch batteries lying…
Mar
31
Ringtone Sales Falling As People Realize They Don’t Need To Pay Twice
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I have to admit that about the only surprising thing in the news last week from BMI that ringtone sales are likely to drop this year is the fact that it took this long. Since 2004 we’ve been wondering when people would get around to realizing that just because a ringtone is on a [...]
Mar
31
Facebook Gets Aggressive On Translations, Adding 22 More Languages
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Facebook isn’t just messing around with a few European language translations any more. They’re using their new user-powered translation engine to get Facebook into 22 more languages, on top of English, French, German and Spanish.
It will take some time for users to translate the sites, and Facebook likes to stagger launches to maximize PR. If [...]
Mar
31
It being the tenth anniversary of Mozilla, Jamie “Founder of Mozilla Project” Zawinski has declared today “Run Some Old Web Browsers Day!” He’s mirroring a bunch of lovely old pages from “home.mcom.com, the Internet Web Site of the Mosaic Communications Corporation” for your [...]
Mar
31
Apple Sued for iMac Display Deception, Steve Jobs Suspected Closet Megatron [Apple]
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The hyenas are grouping again to grab some chops off Apple with yet-another-class-action suit. This one claims that the iMac’s 20-inch display has been marketed as having the same features as the…
Mar
31
HP’s 3-Megapixel Elite Auto Focus Webcam Looks Like a Fancy Stapler [Gadgets]
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HP’s Elite Auto Focus Webcam not only boasts one of the highest megapixel video counts we’ve seen (3-megapixels), but it’s also got a 12-megapixel still image sensor for regular pics. It comes with…
Mar
31
Doran sez, “Flickr user el_rebelde has created a small but wonderful set of images from the Big Dipper roller coaster at Chippewa Lake Park, Ohio. His notes say it was built in the 1920’s and ended service in 1978.” Haunting pix indeed.
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(Thanks, Doran!)
Mar
31
Seattle based wiki-startup Wetpaint has been talking to a number of big content sites about a new product they’ll be releasing soon, we’ve heard. The screen shot above is a mock-up that Wetpaint is using to pitch potential partners.
The product is an embeddable wysiwyg wiki. That alone is interesting, just because there aren’t any easy [...]
Mar
31
Jean Nouvel’s Faucets Have Touchsensing PlayStationish Buttons [Bath Time]
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