Google Under Pressure by China

by YODspica Authors on March 25, 2010

Following Google’s decision to stop self-censoring its search engine and other sites in China by redirecting them to its site in Hong Kong, China has now replied by censoring some search queries itself.

In an article, the New York Times is reporting:

mainland Chinese users on Tuesday could not see uncensored Hong Kong content because government computers had either disabled searches for objectionable content completely or blocked links to certain results.

In addition to censoring “sensitive queries,” China is also beginning to possibly shut Google out of other Chinese markets. The New York Times reports that the Chinese government is pressuring China Mobile to kill a mobile search deal with Google, and that China Unicom may cancel its plans to launch an Android phone.

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Easily Embed Documents from DocStoc

by YODspica Authors on March 17, 2010


The Web publishing DocStoc now provides customized document viewer , users can now e easily embed, branded document viewers. The new feature is open to all DocStoc users and offers the ability to customize the logo, buttons, links, and color of the viewer.

The viewer itself is fairly sleek and resembles DocStoc’s normal document viewers. Users can directly download documents from the viewer and DocStoc will automatically convert any convert historical embeds with Docstoc.

Also included in the viewer is the ability to monetize on the publisher side. So publishers can choose to put streams of ads in the viewers, which is operated by DocStoc. DocStoc and the publisher will then share in any advertising revenue.

Competitor Scribd launched branded viewers in October, but the feature appears to be only available to select publishers. The startup just a new marketplace for professional documents and with 3 million registered users, DocStoc is now profitable.

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Import your Facebook Contacts into Yahoo!

March 6, 2010

Yahoo! now provides  a new service which enables you to import all of your Facebook contacts details.  Subsquently, this is a new development regardless of the applications that were granted access to users emails, as Facebook recently allowed.
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Realtime Search Startups helped by Twitter

March 2, 2010

Twitter’s Streaming API is used by around 50,000 appplications, within set limits.  However, now it is understood that a few new startups search applications have been allowed to have full unlimited access to its data, which includes data of 50 million Tweets a day.
Previously only search engines such as Google or Bing, were allowed [...]

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MySpace Stream, Similar to Facebook

February 22, 2010

MySpace now has a new feature for user’s activity and content similar to facebook’s stream, which is labelled as “Stream.” This new feature allows the capacity to allow much more content to become visible to users, it is now possible with detail to note what friends are listening on music, video etc.
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Why Facebook Acquired Octazen

February 20, 2010

Following Facebook’s decision to acquire Ocatzen, the company from which Facebook’s contact importer technology is used, this technology helps seduce new users to see which of their friends are also on the site.
Why the Acquisition
Facebook needed a team which could monitor changes to third-party email providers thus enabling viral growth. Octazen, allows this capabability [...]

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Google Loves Shopping for Startups

February 18, 2010

reMail. is a powerful iPhone application which provides instant full text-search for Email.  Subsequently, It follows that Google despite having only recently acquired startup Aardvark, including  acquisitions.  Google has now decided to acquire reMail, despite this startup was only launched in August, however it is a better alternative to the native iPhone mail client, it [...]

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Twiangulate, User Twitter Analysis

February 15, 2010

Twiangulate allows users to find out which friends or followers they have in common.  It also allows to show an overlap between a user social graph and any other twitter user.
Following this analysis a user is then able to make a decision whether he or she is following the people which interests them or whether [...]

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Speaker at TED is criticized by Organizer

February 15, 2010

If someone criticizes a TED event, it is now obvious that they will not be invited again to attend or present (this follows a series of nonsense articles).  However the organizer feels he is entitled to criticise his guests as he pleases, however this implies a contradiction of the TED principles.  An example follows [...]

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Facebook Email Project Suggestions

February 6, 2010

It seems now that Facebook will have an email client, code named “Titan”.  This follows as Paul Bucheit,  (developer of Gmail), is currently an employee of Facebook which seems to suggest that facebook has its own plans to implement and offer its users a new feature to its users.  Some specific suggestions follow below for [...]

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