NewsTrove - LibrarianInBlack: Stumpers List = Project Wombat
Remember the Stumpers List an email discussion list for super hard reference questions Well its back under the name of Project Wombat Whats even cooler is that its hosted by Project Gutenbergtalk about a marriage made in heaven Use it contribute to it and help your fellow librarians answer some really tough questions
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NewsTrove - One Man's Cool Is Another's Creepy
by David Berkowitz Tuesday Feb 14 300
out a new innovation that makes consumers marketers and analysts wonder where cool ends and creepy begins This time its with Google Talk the instant messaging client that blends seamlessly into Gmail allowing users to instant message friends directly from Gmail while saving the conversations
Almost any type of targeting and personalization has a degree of creepiness to it from the consumer perspective...
NewsTrove - Official: MSN Bribing Users Away From Google
By Ross Fadner
Tuesday Feb 14
Official Bribing Users Away From Google
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Both and Yahoo have been discussing possible ways to bribe people to use their search engines in order to close the massive gap between Google and their respective second and third place services Well by the end of the month is officially kicking off a bribeforsearch campaign called Search and Win The promotion will reward random users who type in certain keywords over the course of the next several months...
NewsTrove - Just An Online Minute... Questions About Censorship
media companies Google Yahoo and Microsoft have found themselves on the defensive for their business practices in China All three companies are accused of enabling the Chinese government to censor speech and Yahoos also being blamed for providing crucial information that resulted in the jailing of two journalists
Tomorrow representatives from those companies are slated to testify before a Congressional subcommittee about their business practices in China
Rep Christopher H...
NewsTrove - But what did Ballmer fail to announce at 3GSM? Answer: IM cooperation
It was billed by all the mainstream media as Microsofts Ballmer calls for greater cooperation between tech cos telcos and it turned out to be a pretty naked hypepitch for Microsoft Windows Media and Microsoft standards generally But what about the s call yesterday for cooperation amongst Instant Messaging suppliers
It was conspicuously missing from the Microsoft s keynote speech to the 3 Congress today certainly why
The short answer said a spokesman is that yesterdays announcement was an initiative by the mobile operators...