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Facebook IPO vs Ford (real world) Valuation Comparison
About 10 minutes ago (as I start writing this blog post at least) investors were able to buy into Facebook. At opening the price was estimated at $38/share which gives Facebook an overall value of $107 billion. Wait … let me say that again. That’s one hundred and seven BILLION dollars (insert into your brains [...]
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Salespeople are evil, even at Google
If you use a Google product or service to call someone instead of sending them some GMail, that conversation isn’t relevant to Google, at least not yet. I can just picture the sales team at Google are sitting around thinking about how knowing their users, via analysis of email/search/etc.., drives their product, and how people [...]
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Why Canada Will be “sorry” for The Canadian Copyright Modernization Act (Bill C-11)
The Canadian government has imposed a limit on Parliamentary debate for Bill C-11: The Copyright Modernization Act which will completely change the way that Canadians interact with web content. While the bill’s proponents state that there are many benefits to the act, opponents state that the bill’s "digital lock" provisions are excessively restrictive and feel [...]
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Finnish them! (Google Glasses and WiFi Liabillity)
In a piracy case that’s been sitting around since 2010, a Finnish Court(*Ylivieskan käräjäoikeus) has officially sided with the defendant, stating that she is not liable for her open WiFi connection. The details of this particular case were very unique in that the timing of the infringement, a 12-minute period of piracy, occurred shortly after [...]
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Everyday Imma Shufflin’ – Penguin 1.1 Update?
You have undoubtedly heard about the Penguin algorithm update from Google and the effects it has already to have on rankings. There is increasing speculation around the Google webmaster forums that another update has just been rolled out. Scattered communications from Google seem to indicate that this is not a new update being rolled out, [...]
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No Browser Bans on Windows 8 ARM Edition
We could have ‘spun’ the information that it’s very unlikely we’ll see competing browsers in ARM edition of Windows 8, explaining that the difficulties make it the same as a ‘ban’… …But we respect the fact that all (3?) of our readers come here for the truth on these topics, and only dirty laundry needs [...]
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SEOmoz SPAM Outing
In the recent wake of the Penguin update from Google and the impact it has had on many sites, Rand Fishkin, CEO of SEOmoz, announced on his Google+ page that SEOmoz is currently developing tools to facilitate the "classifying, indentifying and removing/limiting link juice passed from sites/pages." SEOmoz wants to develop software to add to [...]
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First Self Driving Car is Licensed
It’s official, if you see a car drive by with nobody inside, the license plate has a red infinity logo, and you’re in Vegas, that really happened, you’re not just in bat country. Google can now legally send it’s self driving cars out solo, with nobody inside. I had to say that to myself [...]
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Internet Censorship, Privacy and Net Neutrality Updates
It seems like Internet censorship, privacy and net neutrality are continually in the news these days and today is no different… Britain to Block Porn Sites The Prime Minister of Britain, David Cameron is reported to be announcing "network-filtering plan" that would target pornographic websites. Initially the campaign received little support from the Prime Minister [...]
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May the Fourth Be With You / Star Wars Appreciation Day and the SEO Connection
The Star Wars saga continues to grow in popularity with the increasing May the Fourth be with You/Star Wars Appreciation Day. This unofficial day of recognition for anything Star Wars has grown from a meager recognition but has been given a ‘faster than the Millennium Falcon making the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs’ [...]
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