When Tim Berners-Lee arrived at CERN, Geneva’s celebrated European Particle Physics Laboratory in 1980, he’d been hired to help replace the control systems for several of the lab’s particle accelerators. Almost immediately, the inventor of the modern Web page noticed a problem: thousands of people were coming and going from the famous research institute, many of them temporary hires.
Youth social networking researcher dana boyd has observed that many people presume the way they use social networks is the way everyone uses them.
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The Man Who Looked Into Facebook’s Soul
YouTube might be streaming more than 13 billion videos a month, or nearly 40 percent of total individual streams, but when you measure by time spent YouTube only accounted for 26 percent of all viewing minutes on the Web last year. It is not surprising that it commands a smaller share of time spent watching videos than number of streams watched, since most YouTube videos are so short. But what is surprising is how fragmented the Web video landscape remains once you go out past the top 25 sites
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The Long Tail Of Video Sites Capture Half Of All Viewing Minutes
Redpoint Ventures , a Menlo Park, Calif. venture firm whose investments cover everything from cloud application deployment (Heroku) to document-sharing (Scribd) to solar (Solyndra), has raised a $400 million fourth fund for early-stage investments. Despite the broader economic climate, Redpoint partner Geoff Yang said he’s still excited about the startup landscape, in part because there are so many industries worth investing in
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Redpoint Ventures raises $400M fund for investments in social, mobile, and more
Wonder Festival 2010 Winter was held over the weekend in Japan, and featured loads of cosplayers . It also featured loads of new video game toys. While we’ve shown you some of the figures on display ahead of time, many more made public debuts at the show, like these guys: Jack Frost from Persona, Muramasa, Virtual On goes cute, some Tales of Vesperia figures and a blurry, yet still tempting, “Super Action Statue” of Yakuza’s Kazuma Kiryu.
![d482e266dfwf3 150x93 Wonder Festival Brings New Toys For Tales, Muramasa, Yakuza & More [Toys]](http://techkive.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/d482e266dfwf3-150x93.jpg "Wonder Festival Brings New Toys For Tales, Muramasa, Yakuza & More [Toys]")
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Wonder Festival Brings New Toys For Tales, Muramasa, Yakuza & More [Toys]
The popular Webmail service will reportedly get features to challenge Twitter and Facebook.
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Google Eyes Social Net Role for Gmail
Motorola DROID users as a whole are a pretty happy bunch, but after finally getting their first taste of official multi-touch , we can’t help but blame them for wanting a whole lot more. The good news on this front is that Android 2.1 for the DROID will be made available next week, according to Motorola’s Facebook page. Motorola has not detailed what the update will encompass, but here’s what Engadget has been told : The current test build is Android 2.1 version 1 The browser will have multi-touch Google Googles is pre-installed No change visual changes to the homescreen or app drawer Active wallpapers aren’t include, but the fancy widgets that made their debut with the Nexus One are Most of us probably agree that things like multi-touch in the browser are big news, but we can’t help but eagerly wait to see what all the Negative Nancy’s out there have to say about some of the nifty features that will allegedly be left behind.
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Android 2.1 update for the Motorola DROID rolling out this week
UPDATE: IBM launched its latest eight-core Power7 processor on Monday.
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IBM Launches Eight-core Power7 Processor, Servers
It actually took longer than I would have expected for someone to come up with a good mocking of Google’s “Parisian Love” commercial that played during the Super Bowl yesterday. But today brings us just that
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Video: “Parisian Oops” Mocks Google’s Super Bowl Commercial
Sure, Google’s Superbowl ad was cute and left us giggling, but how would a French romance powered by Google really go? [ UCB — Thanks, Mackenzie! ]
![a694430691espoof 150x83 Parisian Oops: A More Realistic Google Ad [Google]](http://techkive.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/a694430691espoof-150x83.png "Parisian Oops: A More Realistic Google Ad [Google]")
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Parisian Oops: A More Realistic Google Ad [Google]
When Tim Berners-Lee arrived at CERN, Geneva’s celebrated European Particle Physics Laboratory in 1980, he’d been hired to help replace the control systems for several of the lab’s particle accelerators. Almost immediately, the inventor of the modern Web page noticed a problem: thousands of people were coming and going from the famous research institute, many of them temporary hires.
Youth social networking researcher dana boyd has observed that many people presume the way they use social networks is the way everyone uses them.
YouTube might be streaming more than 13 billion videos a month, or nearly 40 percent of total individual streams, but when you measure by time spent YouTube only accounted for 26 percent of all viewing minutes on the Web last year. It is not surprising that it commands a smaller share of time spent watching videos than number of streams watched, since most YouTube videos are so short. But what is surprising is how fragmented the Web video landscape remains once you go out past the top 25 sites
Redpoint Ventures , a Menlo Park, Calif. venture firm whose investments cover everything from cloud application deployment (Heroku) to document-sharing (Scribd) to solar (Solyndra), has raised a $400 million fourth fund for early-stage investments. Despite the broader economic climate, Redpoint partner Geoff Yang said he’s still excited about the startup landscape, in part because there are so many industries worth investing in
Wonder Festival 2010 Winter was held over the weekend in Japan, and featured loads of cosplayers . It also featured loads of new video game toys. While we’ve shown you some of the figures on display ahead of time, many more made public debuts at the show, like these guys: Jack Frost from Persona, Muramasa, Virtual On goes cute, some Tales of Vesperia figures and a blurry, yet still tempting, “Super Action Statue” of Yakuza’s Kazuma Kiryu.
The popular Webmail service will reportedly get features to challenge Twitter and Facebook.
Motorola DROID users as a whole are a pretty happy bunch, but after finally getting their first taste of official multi-touch , we can’t help but blame them for wanting a whole lot more. The good news on this front is that Android 2.1 for the DROID will be made available next week, according to Motorola’s Facebook page. Motorola has not detailed what the update will encompass, but here’s what Engadget has been told : The current test build is Android 2.1 version 1 The browser will have multi-touch Google Googles is pre-installed No change visual changes to the homescreen or app drawer Active wallpapers aren’t include, but the fancy widgets that made their debut with the Nexus One are Most of us probably agree that things like multi-touch in the browser are big news, but we can’t help but eagerly wait to see what all the Negative Nancy’s out there have to say about some of the nifty features that will allegedly be left behind.
UPDATE: IBM launched its latest eight-core Power7 processor on Monday.
It actually took longer than I would have expected for someone to come up with a good mocking of Google’s “Parisian Love” commercial that played during the Super Bowl yesterday. But today brings us just that
Sure, Google’s Superbowl ad was cute and left us giggling, but how would a French romance powered by Google really go? [ UCB — Thanks, Mackenzie! ]
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