Google’s Purchase of Jaiku Raises New Privacy Issues  —  Google’s acquisition of Jaiku, a small Finnish start-up active in the obscure field of microblogging — a word most often associated with the better-known company Twitter — might not appear to be an earth-shaking event.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Ivar Ekman
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology…

MySpace slips to middle-of-road as Facebook surges ahead  —  MYSPACE, the website that redefined the meaning of friends in cyberspace, is showing signs of fatigue, with latest figures indicating that Australians - or at least hip ones - are deserting it for rival Facebook.

Source:   Sydney Morning Herald
Author:   Julian Lee Marketing
Link:   http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/myspace-slips…

How Many Site Hits?  Depends Who’s Counting  —  How many people visited Style.com, the online home of Vogue and W magazines, last month?  Was it 421,000, or, more optimistically, 497,000?  Or was the real number more than three times higher, perhaps 1.8 million?

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Louise Story
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology/22click…

How Many Web Site Hits?  Depends Who’s Counting  —  How many people visited Style.com, the online home of Vogue and W magazines, last month?  Was it 421,000, or, more optimistically, 497,000?  Or was the real number more than three times higher, perhaps 1.8 million?

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Louise Story
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology/22click…

What if Microsoft wasn’t a screwup?  —  I had coffee with a friend last week who is ex-MSFT.  He follows my blog and asked why I hadn’t posted recently.  I told him that I’d actually penned three different posts but decided not to publish any of them.  —  The first touched on Vista’s challenges …

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How To Bypass Comcast’s BitTorrent Throttling  —  Comcast is using an application from the broadband management company Sandvine to throttle BitTorrent traffic.  It breaks every (seed) connection with new peers after a few seconds if it’s not a Comcast user inside your community boundary.

Source:   TorrentFreak
Author:   Ernesto
Link:   http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-bypass-comcast…

Facebook stats for Ireland - 131,660 Ireland based people on it now? … Using the live details from the advanced flyer option in Facebook, you can see some stats and facts on people on Facebook.  —  From location Ireland we get the below stats.  Remember too that these are stats on what people …

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Online Video: NBC pulls YouTube channel  —  NBC pulls YouTube channel  —  NBC Universal has quietly pulled theofficial channel on YouTube the two companies established last June.  Of course, that was a long time ago, in Internet years, and the relationship had run its course.

Source:   Valleywag
Author:   Owen Thomas
Link:   http://valleywag.com/tech/online-video/nbc-pulls…

Reverse Engineering TechMeme  —  OK, OK, since everyone has figured out that you can get on TechMeme by talking ABOUT TechMeme (even better if you attack A-list bloggers) I figured I’d just take my late night and reverse engineer TechMeme.  —  Two videos.  Long, boring, videos that no one will watch.

Source:   Scobleizer
Author:   Robert […]

Inside the Mind of a 9 Year Old File-Sharer  —  Like most publications, here at TorrentFreak we regularly interview adults.  However, when a recent conversation with a child turned to file-sharing, we took the opportunity to give the P2P kids a voice.  We had a little chat with a 9 year old girl …

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