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Yahoo Unlocks Search, Mail Platforms with Yahoo Open Strategy

With its Yahoo Open Strategy, Yahoo drops its bid toward an open platform for custom application built on core elements of the web services site. As with other platform plays from Facebook and Google, Yahoo is trying to entice the third party development world with a host of assets and tools for extending the value -- and reach -- of the Yahoo product/service line.

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Borders Unveils New Digital-Friendly Concept Store

Earlier this year Ann Arbor, Michigan-based book retailer Borders unveiled a new concept store in its hometown. With an eye to creating an environment more enticing to the digitally-enabled, the new store allows customers to not only purchase books but download music, lookup family ancestry and self publish as well.

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Google Launches AdSense for Mobile Content

With the launch of AdSense for Mobile Content last Thursday, Google -- along with its AdSense partner brethren -- has now stepped into what some experts say will be a mobile advertising market worth $10 billion by 2010 (EJL Wireless Research).

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Importance of Metadata Reconsidered (ClickZ)

A recent article from online marketing e-zine ClickZ argues that we all need to get on better terms with our metadata.

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German Wikipedia Goes to Print

Monster & Critics reports that the German edition of Wikipedia (Wikipedia Deutschland) will soon be available in print form.

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What's That: TinyURL

So, if you're anything like me, you read a dozen emails, blog or Facebook posts everyday with a link which begins with "http://tinyurl.com" What is that all about?

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My Data is My Data Offers Privacy Controls for Facebook Users

Growing out of ever-mounting concerns about privacy and user tracking on social media sites in the wake of Facebook Beacon, an initiative called 'My Data Is My Data' (MDIMD) has released an IE plug-in (read "cookie crusher") to help users control the information shared with third parties and Beacon retailers.

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LAMP My Ride: The Pursuit of the Open Source Car

Open source software -- with its emphasis on a network of programmers and developers to create and enhance the final product -- has led much of the Web 2.0 revolution. In recent years, groups of engineers are trying to apply the principles of Open Design to the development of a new kind of automobile.

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Johnny Lee Demonstrates Wii Remote Hacks at TED

Johnny Lee is a graduate student at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. Thanks to YouTube, his hacks on the Nintendo Wii remote -- which include an interactive whiteboard and a head-mounted 3-D viewer among others -- have been seen by millions literally, according to Lee.

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AT&T Pursues Google Android Mobile Platform

Judging from a variety of reports from the blogosphere and news outlets, wireless giant AT&T is rethinking its adoption of Google's Android. AT&T Wireless' Ralph de la Vega is 'very interested' in integrating Android into the carrier's phones after looking further at the flexibility offered by the platform.

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