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Alice-Azania Jarvis: Sarah Palin, Facebook and a recipe for meatballs
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
There are plenty of things to be learned from Google’s run-down of the most searched terms this year. For one, Sarah Palin is more popular worldwide than Barak Obama. And Facebook is bigger than the BBC, which in turn is bigger than both Youtube and eBay. Oh, and the UK’s second-favourite recipe is? meatballs. Mm. Meatballs.
The Big Question: What does censoring Wikipedia tell us about the way the internet is policed?
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
It is just the text or texture that counts?
Monday, 8 December 2008
A new threat to print journalism, or is Asda's digital online magazine deal a publishing lifeline? Amol Rajan reports
Andrew Keen: Glimmers of hope for journalists in a grim world of redundancies
Monday, 8 December 2008
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Andrew Keen: Twitter comes to Oxford
Friday, 5 December 2008
Late last month, while I was in England for the Silicon Valley Comes To Oxford event, I had an interesting chat with a tuxedoed Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter.
Andrew Keen: In defense of sleazy lobbyists
Thursday, 4 December 2008
I really like what Tina Brown is doing at The Daily Beast. There's no hint of the crowd at the Beast - it's all Tina's sensibility, her wit and judgment. So I'm thrilled to now be contributing to the new website. My first piece, published today, is a defense of (sleazy) lobbyists - surely the loneliest and most misunderstood people in America today.
MySpace on the look-out for cheap acquisitions
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
MySpace, the online social network owned by News Corp sees opportunities to buy start-ups for a fraction of what they would have cost six months ago as the economic slump slices millions of dollars off their price tags.
Yahoo shares rally on CEO rumour
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Yahoo's stock rallied yesterday on a report that AOL's former chief executive believes he can raise enough money in a worsening recession to buy the struggling internet company for as much as US$30 billion ($56.48 billion).
'Kangaroo' video plan 'would restrict competition'
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Plans by three television companies to launch a joint "video on demand" scheme would restrict competition in the UK, a Government watchdog said today.
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