Heather Hopkins from Hitwise UK reports an interesting phenomena on Google’s book search. The company may have started to offer PDF versions of out-of-print books, a very encouraging move to be sure. But a significant proportion of users go from directly from book search to book shops. Heather reports: “Last week, 15.93% of
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News has emerged about a new music download service, SpiralFrog, due to launch in December. This story has been extensively covered on boingboing and Techcrunch. However, if you’ve missed it, the gist is that the service will offer the Vivendi Universal Music Group catalogue for free download. Talks are underway with EMI and Children’s safety may not always be at peril when they go online. In fact, the latest developments are hopefully a move in the opposite direction. I received news yesterday about a new attempt to tackle bullying through roleplay in a virtual world. The scheme is being developed by a consortium of nine European universities. Professor Ruth Aylett, Professor of Computing More blog entries on this subject than any other yesterday, with 1811 posts and counting, according to Technorati. Back in reality, here’s what alexaholic has to say about four of the best-known hosted office products versus one RSS aggregator service. Bear in mind that only 9% of US employees even know what RSS is. Well, it isn’t. But we’ve stretched this handy little tool a bit further than it was ever supposed to go. Think about some of the most successful Web 2.0 businesses in the context of broken email and a connection starts to form. Ed Yourdon visited eight Bay area Web 2.0 companies last week and drew together some of Personally, I can’t abide text chat. Not enough time for me to think (email) and no real-life presence (phone). However, my new series, This-Guy-Emailed-Me-About-His-New-Product (as in this and this), continues apace. Charles Landemaine contacted me about Interaction, a text chat application that can be inserted into any web page. This AJAX product comes in three |             | |||
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