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From the Department of the Obvious: Poll Finds Parents Are Worried About...
A national poll released today by Common Sense Media asking how well social networks protect kids online produced an answer that should come as a shock to exactly no one: Not very well, at least...
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Vurve Launches "Advertising on Autopilot"
You know how the Internet is supposed to make things measurable and accountable, and, thus, democratized? There’s still a lot to be done. Vurve today is coming out of stealth to try to make that...
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Ask Adds to Consensus: Social Is the Way to Compete With Google
IAC’s Ask.com is giving up the ghost on algorithmic search and Web crawling. Rather than continuing to wilt while competing directly with Google, Ask said today it will devote its resources to Q&A...
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The Steam-Punk Dream Computer: Watch the Babbage Difference Engine in Action
After All Things Digital finished up a recent tour of the not-yet-reopened Computer History Museum, conducted by Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak, one of the curators offered a special treat for a...
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Topsy Hands Out Real-Time Search Widgets
Real-time search engine Topsy today is launching customizable widgets for publishers to display topical tweets. The company’s “social modules” dynamically populate with fresh content on any topic. So,...
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"Beyond the Search Box": The White Pleather Honeypot Smackdown
Perusing AOL’s leaked damn-the-journalism-full-speed-ahead business plan, BoomTown was a little late to the Microsoft Bing event this morning called “Farsight: Beyond the Search Box.” But things had...
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AOL Sells Content Recommender Surphace to Content Recommender Outbrain
Tim Armstrong has disposed of another asset that AOL bought before he showed up: The company has sold Surphace, its content recommendation engine, to Outbrain, which does the same thing. I don’t have...
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Google's Content Farming: Good for Consumers or Good for PR?
In another significant search announcement yesterday, Google said it was revising its algorithm to target makers of low-quality content. The search giant has been criticized by many of late for the...
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Yahoo's (and Associated Content Founder) Luke Beatty Talks About Google's...
Yahoo’s Luke Beatty said he is not worried. “We welcome the change,” he insisted about Google taking aim last Friday at so-called “content farms,” producers of low-quality content that spam up the Web...
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Irony Alert: Microsoft Files Formal Complaint Against Google With EC
Microsoft’s legal eagle Brad Smith didn’t even bother to pretend the software giant’s filing of a formal antitrust complaint against Google with the European Commission wasn’t a wee bit ironic. Wrote...
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Demand Media About Latest Google Algo Impact: Move on, Nothing to See Here
Tonight, Demand Media–in reaction to a new study showing that its flagship eHow site had now gotten much more negatively impacted by Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm than...
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Exclusive: Efficient Frontier Buys Context Optional for $50 Million
Online performance marketing firm Efficient Frontier is acquiring San Francisco-based social marketing software and services start-up Context Optional, the company said. While terms of the deal were...
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Demand Media Beats the Street in Q1 Earnings and Promises to Clean Up Its...
Demand Media handily beat Wall Street expectations in its first quarter results today, released after the market closed. The company reported revenue of $79.5 million and six cents a share in adjusted...
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FindTheBest's Kevin O'Connor Talks About Comparison Engine, Now Running Hot...
Last week, after FindTheBest nabbed $6 million in funding from Silicon Valley’s Kleiner Perkins, veteran entrepreneur Kevin O’Connor talked to me about the content platform, which structures data into...
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End of an Era: Google's Very First Employee, Craig Silverstein --...
Google’s very first employee, Craig Silverstein, is leaving the company to join the high-profile online learning phenom, Khan Academy. News of the departure first appeared yesterday in a line in a...
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WolframAlpha's Stephen Wolfram Talks About New Paid Knowledge Engine (Video)
Last week, when he was making the rounds of reporters and showing off the new paid version of his “computational knowledge engine” called WolframAlpha Pro, Stephen Wolfram, its eponymous creator, had...
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Viral Video: Finally, "Kara" Becomes a Cyborg (Bucket List, Check!)
Here is a very cool — if slightly creepy — video that debuted at the Game Developers Conference this week in San Francisco. Made by the Paris-based Quantic Dream, developers of the groundbreaking...
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In a Bid for Accessibility, Twitter Updates Its Discovery Engine
Twitter’s is a tough challenge; as a platform with its own language, idiosyncrasies and methods of browsing, it’s difficult for the average newcomer to get used to the ecosystem and find new sources of...
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Yahoo Gets Googley Q&A Tool at Friday FYI and Uses It to Ask About Exec...
Well, it wasn’t as tasty as free food this week at Yahoo, but in her second official all-hands meeting with employees — now reportedly called “Friday FYI” — new CEO Marissa Mayer rolled out another...
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New York Techie Chris Dixon in Talks to Be Next Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
According to sources, well-known New York techie Chris Dixon is in the final stages of discussions to become a partner at the high-profile Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. While the...
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Yahoo and Facebook Not in Search Alliance Discussions
Yahoo and Facebook are not currently in talks about forming a search alliance or building a search engine together, according to my sources, who scoffed about such a deal reported in a...
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Confirmed: Chris Dixon Becomes Seventh Investing GP at Andreessen Horowitz
Chris Dixon will indeed be the latest VC to join Andreessen Horowitz, as I had reported earlier was likely, starting in January. Dixon is a lively and interesting choice for the high-profile Silicon...
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Will the "Marissa Mayer Premium" -- or Is It Those Hedge Fund Dudes Piling in...
They like her, they really like her. Wall Street, that is, in regards to new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, assigning the former Google exec a clear premium. And whether it is deserved or not yet from a...
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Go West, Young Geek: Chris Dixon on Why He Became a Silicon Valley VC at...
In mid-November, longtime entrepreneur, active angel investor, iconoclastic blogger and hardcore New Yorker Chris Dixon told the tech world something it least expected — that he had taken a job as a...
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Former Groupon President and COO Solomon Joins Accel Partners
Accel Partners has added longtime tech exec Rob Solomon — who was most recently president and CEO of Groupon — as a venture partner. The high-profile Silicon Valley venture firm said Solomon will...
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