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Jess Lee / Google LatLong:
My Our Maps — The My Maps feature of Google Maps lets people create maps to share their hobbies and expertise with the world. For example, a surfing enthusiast could map out their favorite surf spots or a surfing club could plot all the best beaches in Southern California.
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Google LatLong:
Explore new terrain — We've noticed that many people build customized maps using My Maps and KML to help others see the planet in a new light. We've seen everything from maps of hiking trails with pictures taken along the way to a guide to the world's mountain peaks.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:New Terrain Layer in Google Maps
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Rich Riley / Yodel Anecdotal:
Cyber Monday into Resolution Tuesday — By now you have probably heard about the problems that many of our small business merchant customers experienced yesterday. Unfortunately, the system outage occurred at one of the worst possible times, and despite our concerted efforts to fix the problem …
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Update: Subverted search sites lead to massive malware attack in progress — Trojans, rootkits, password stealers hit users who click on a bad link after a search — A large-scale, coordinated campaign to steer users toward malware- spewing Web sites from Google and other Internet search engines …
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Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:Malware Poisoning Results for Innocent Searches
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globes.co.il:
In global precedent, Google to hand over blogger's IP address — An anonymous blogger using Google Blogger slandered Shaarei Tikva councilmen. — Noam Sharvit 27 Nov 07 13:22 — In an unprecedented move, Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG) has agreed to supply the IP address of an Israeli blogger who used …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:Google Voluntarily Provides Details Of Anonymous Blogger In Israel
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Verizon Went Open & What It Means — The about-face taken by Verizon Wireless today when it said it will open up its network and platform is, at first blush, a good thing for consumers and developers. But I just got off the company's conference call, and there are certain details that have left me with eyebrows raised.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Source: Yes, LinkedIn and News Corp. are working on a deal — A rumor surfaced last week, in Techcrunch UK, that News Corp. is looking at buying business networking site LinkedIn. — A well-placed source has confirmed with us that these talks are serious. LinkedIn has declined to comment.
Heather Havenstein / Computerworld:
New effort to link 50M online media site users to Facebook, MySpace — Pluck, using Google OpenSocial APIs, to send user contributions to social networking pages — More than 50 million users of online communities operated by media companies like Gannett Co., Reuters Group PLC …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:Major Media Companies Using Pluck Will Be Able To Mesh Social Nets …
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Alex Patriquin / Compete Blog:
Online Video Ranking: MSN/Live Surge, Competitors Sink — This month's online video stack-up saw a major reshuffling with 3 of the Top 5 players trading places amid heavy shifts in traffic. YouTube continued to outperform the market, growing 1% in October to 213M visits on nearly 52M unique visitors.
Yukari Iwatani Kane / Wall Street Journal:
Sony Attracts Dubai Cash — TOKYO — An investment company owned by Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, bought a stake in Sony Corp., in the latest sign of the growing appetite for overseas investments by Middle Eastern investors. — Dubai International Capital said yesterday …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google Highly Open Participation Contest: Horrible Name, Good Idea — Google has announced the "Google Highly Open Participation Contest," a new contest that aims to introduce secondary school and high school students to open source software development. — The contest, announced …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
How to Structure Microsoft - Yahoo Deal (MSFT/YHOO) — After we noted that Microsoft (MSFT) might eventually have to buy Yahoo (YHOO)—and why such a transaction would make sense—some readers asked why we thought this would be a "disaster" for Yahoo. Here's why:
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Brightcove Gives Up on Consumer Video — Brightcove has never really been more than a half-hearted consumer video play, opting instead to function as a content distribution network for a large number of high profile media partners. Today Brightcove informed members of its Brightcove.TV site …
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Future of the Web coming fast and furious — PALO ALTO, Calif.—Though the favorite metaphor to describe the Web has long been a highway, or for some, a "series of tubes," the man credited with inventing it all thinks of the Web more like the human mind. — "Lots of people are doing research around …
