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 Send to email | "Is Google Making Us Stupid?": sources and notes in General |  By Rough Ty
el 07-Aug-2008 | Since the publication of my essay Is Google Making Us Stupid? in The Atlantic, I?ve received several requests for pointers to sources and related readings. I?ve tried to round them up below. The essay builds on my book The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, particularly the final chapter, ?iGod.? The essential theme of both the essay and the book ? that our technologies change us, often in ways we can neither...
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| "Is Google Making Us Stupid?": sources and notes | | Since the publication of my essay Is Google Making Us Stupid? in The Atlantic, I?ve received several requests for pointers to sources and related readings. I?ve tried to round them up below. The essay builds on my book The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, particularly the final chapter, ?iGod.? The essential theme of both the essay and the book ? that our technologies change [..] Read complete article | | Published 07-Aug-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Nokia announces Lotus Notes support for S60 smartphones |  So much for mSuite5. Nokia announced today that it will launch a new software application next month with IBM to bring OEM Lotus Notes support to select S60 phones. The Lotus Notes Traveler solution will become available initially for 44 different handset models and will make S60 accessible to “140 million licensed [Lotus Notes] users”. [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 20-Nov-2008 by Zach Epstein in NokiaServicesSymbianEseriesLotus NotesLotus TravelerNokia SymbianNseriesS60
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| Net brain syndrome | | Discussions of my Atlantic article, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, continue. Edge has been hosting a forum with comments from Danny Hillis, Kevin Kelly, Larry Sanger, George Dyson, Jaron Lanier, and Douglas Rushkoff. This past week the Britannica Blog launched a forum with posts from Clay Shirky, Sven Birkerts, Matthew Battles, and Sanger. I also contributed a reply to Shirky's piece.... [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-Jul-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Google looking to purchase Digg? |  This one seems a bit weird, but generally reputable sources are claiming that Google is in talks to acquire news site Digg for a sum of $200 million. While neither Google nor Digg has released anything resembling a public comment on the matter, word on the street is that talks have progressed to the final [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 23-Jul-2008 by Joshua Karp in NewsDigggoogle
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| Are you really serious? |  Like, for realz? You’re going after the kid right now? The Bold-breaker? Javelin-leaker? Thunder-scoopster? Kickstart-poster? I’m not even going to get into too many details but I will respond to a couple of the more stupid questions and insinuations posed. First off, you’re saying one of my AT&T sources gave me information on the Thunder, [...]
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Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Valve Kills Google Buy-Out Rumor [Rumor Smash] | | Earlier today The Inquirer quotes well placed sources as saying that Google was going to be buying Valve "any second now," setting all of our hearts a flutter. While the idea seems crazy at first blush Valve's Doug Lombardi has said they're willing to be [..] Read complete article | | Published 17-Sep-2008 by Brian Crecente in Rumor smash Google Industry Original Top Valve
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Hand it to Cuil's PR machine: The company did a great job getting the word out about the Internet's latest would-be "Google Killer." As the Huffington Post notes, Cuil dominated Google Trends' [..] 
