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Skepticism about the Singularity  permlink

Category: Culture

From Matt Springer of Built on Facts. For what it's worth, many people at the Summit were skeptical of Kurzweil's specific vision. I mean in the audience, not just among the speakers....

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Singularity Summit 2009  permlink

Category: Culture

My thoughts on the talks at The Singularity Summit 2009 below the fold.......

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Farhad Manjoo defends Gmail  permlink

Category: Technology

So Gmail Was Down. Get Over It: So if Gmail is as good as the power grid, the phone network, and home broadband, why does its failure spark such surprise and outrage--and always make national headlines...An online service's outage, though,...

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Google dark cloud  permlink

Category: Technology

Why Gmail Failed Today: Gmail, which recently passed AOL to become the third largest Web mail service in the U.S., is obviously having some growing pains. A few hours of downtime is not the end of the world, although it...

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Back to Firefox  permlink

Category: Technology

Switched back to Firefox from Chrome. I've been using it for the past 2 days and there isn't a discernible difference in speed. I got tired of some of Chrome's minor bugs which emerge in AJAX driven websites which haven't...

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Facebook's inflection point?  permlink

Category: Culture

Check this out from Google Trends: Did Facebook hit an inflection point in early 2009? Google must have much better data sets, probably one reason Hal Varian left Berkeley for Google....

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Rise of Google, 1999-2001  permlink

Category: Technology

A quick follow up to the post below, I was curious as to the increased profile of Google in The New York Times (Google trends doesn't seem to be available to the public before 2004) around the turn of the...

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The next Google?  permlink

Category: Technology

The collaboration between Yahoo! and Microsoft is spawning a lot of articles about the coming duopoly in search (since the Yahoo! Microsoft deal is for 10 years, we're talking 10 year horizon times). But this got me to thinking: when...

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Is Mozilla obsolete?  permlink

Category: Culture

For Mozilla and Google, Group Hugs Get Tricky. To some extent it seems that the story is going to be relevant in a few years when Chrome will presumably be more of a full-featured browser. Right now it seems a...

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Bing vs. Google  permlink

Category: Technology

Two positive assessments of Bing. Google is my main search engine, but I use Bing's image search preferentially now since the UI seems less kludgey....

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