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		<title>A picture is worth a thousand searches</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has introduced a beta visual search application for their Android phones that allows you to take a photo of something and find relevant search results based on that. The new application is cutely named Google Goggles. To determine where something you have taken a photo of actually is, GPS information is used by Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times&#8217; Represents</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2008/new-york-times-represents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has launched a new site tool named Represent that allows New Yorkers to find out who their representative is on all levels and then access news stories relating to those politicians. There’s nothing new in Represent technologically as it&#8217;s simple tagging news stories and categorizing by congressional district but The New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>.tel to challenge telco directory services</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another top level domain (TLD) is being rolled out: .tel. The purpose of the .tel domain is an &#8220;unified contact directory services as text-based alternative to fragmented communications solutions&#8221; or in other words an one-shop-stop of all your web sites, phone numbers and other contact information. No private hosting is required for the .tel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special thanks to the Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Propelled by Internet, Barack Obama Wins Presidency. &#8217;nuff said. Blog this on Blogger Digg this! Post this on Diigo Share this on Facebook Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Bookmarks Post on Google Buzz Share this on LinkedIn Email this to a friend? Post this to MySpace Share this on Reddit Stumble upon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tag clouds are fun, but Wordle has a nice Java applet that slightly animates the tagging with options of colour and font schemes. I did one of several sites, including mine. Apparently I need to ease up on some subjects. Blog this on Blogger Digg this! Post this on Diigo Share this on Facebook Email [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One issue per day: poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog Action Day, which is the brainchild idea of a vague web company, is a challenge to bloggers world-wide to talk about poverty on one day; October 15th, 2008. I think this is a great idea as it will jump start Google News (and the kin) to snowball information relating to a serious social problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court orders YouTube to hand over user data, but not IP</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton for the Southern District of New York ruled on Thursday that Google, parent company of YouTube, must turn over 12 Terabytes of user data logs. It&#8217;s part of the discovery process that Viacom is doing in its $1 Billion lawsuit to prove that YouTube is hosting pirated videos from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Street View gets pulled over</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past year, Google has been cataloging 360 views of several major cities in North America by literally driving around in a car with a mounted 360 camera. Canadian company Immersive Media has already recorded several major Canadian cities such as Winnipeg. While most of the camera vehicles (here and there) use more subtle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google changes its favicon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google changed its Favicon from the big &#8220;G&#8221; to a small &#8216;g&#8217; and I do not like it. Blog this on Blogger Digg this! Post this on Diigo Share this on Facebook Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Bookmarks Post on Google Buzz Share this on LinkedIn Email this to a friend? Post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook blocks Google&#8217;s Friend Connect</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2008/facebook-blocks-googles-friend-connect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 05:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Reid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is citing privacy concerns in a blog post about blocking Google&#8217;s Friend Connect. Friend Connect is essentially a way to auto-generate code to insert &#8220;gagdets&#8221; (think &#8220;widgets&#8221;) as well as third party includes. An include might have been, until now, your Facebook friend list or iLike music list in a box on the side [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source Analytics</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2008/open-source-analytics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Piwik project aims to provide an open source alternative to Google Analytics. Using PHP and MySQL, it provides the usual statistics about your website with a handsome user interface that&#8217;s customizable using drag-and-drop. Its plugin-based architecture makes it flexible for all sorts of uses and it makes the stats easily available in a variety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diploma School rents .edu domain name</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what could be dubbed &#8216;creative&#8217; at the Pickering Institute is considered &#8216;Black Hat SEO&#8217; by most. The &#8220;diploma mill&#8221; is renting out sub-domains of it&#8217;s pi.edu domain for.. wait for it.. $50/month. None of the blogs set up so far appear to be populated with content, and Google&#8217;s Matt Cutts has already indicated that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Yahoo vs Microsoft battle heats up</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2008/yahoo-microsoft-battle-heats-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a two-month hostile takeover bid from Microsoft, Yahoo signed a two-week deal with Google to display the latter&#8217;s search engine advertising platform yesterday and is still in talks to merge with Time Warner&#8217;s AOL. Google will be able to place ads alongside 3% of search results on Yahoo&#8217;s website. Now News Corp, the owners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube limits favourites at 500</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2008/youtube-fav-picks-stop-at-500/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was a bit surprised when I learned that I reached a limit on my YouTube account&#8217;s &#8216;favourites&#8217; (a collection of both witty, funny and/or tasteless videos). I was surprised that you could have a million subscribers in, but you couldn&#8217;t give props out to over 500 by way of linkage. One more reason to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Anthropology</title>
		<link>http://www.alexreid.ca/2007/digital-anthropology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[â€œDigital text is no longer just linking information. The Web is no longer just linking information. The Web is linking people.â€ Brilliant video, explaining &#8220;Web 2.0&#8243; Blog this on Blogger Digg this! Post this on Diigo Share this on Facebook Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Bookmarks Post on Google Buzz Share this [...]]]></description>
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