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• Should Google Rank Sites Based on Speed?

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  Google’s Matt Cutts hinted this past week that Google is considering using a site’s speed as part of the algorithm that ranks the order of pages on Google. Fast sites might rank higher, while slower-loading sites might suffer. It’s a proposal that’s proving controversial. To quote from Cutts’ video ...
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• Venezuelans Buy Cars, Blackberries As An Inflation Hedge

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  Inflation is so bad in Venezuela that two of the most rapidly depreciating products you can imagine, cars and tech, are being purchased as inflation hedges. Insane. Bloomberg: Some Venezuelans, boxed in by currency controls, inflation and low interest rates, are spending more on consumer goods rather than put ...
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• IBM Furthers Investment In Business Analytics With Smart Analytics Cloud

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  During IBMs Q3 earnings cal l a few weeks ago, IBM CFO Mark Loughridge highlighted business analytics as a sector where Big Blue is investing significant amounts of cash. The company recently acquired data analytics company SPSS for $1.2 billion and business analytics firm RedPill. Tonight, IBM is unveiling a new ...
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• Brightcove 4 Adds Support For The iPhone, Facebook, Live Video, And More

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  Its been about a year since Brightcove released the last upgrade to its professional online video platform with Brightcove 3. On Monday, its going to release Brightcove 4, and its a massive upgrade. Brightcove 4 now supports a native video player on the iPhone, in Facebook, and live video streaming on the Web. Its ...
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• Microsoftâ??s Loss, Googleâ??s Gain. Don Dodge Gets A New Job

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  It was just 11 days ago that Microsofts "ambassador to startups" Don Dodge was laid off as part of a broader workforce reduction. Last week he showed up in Silicon Valley to "see friends" as he put it. But it was clear that he was also interviewing for jobs. We sat down with him to do a proper exit interview ...
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• Marge Got Naked in Tonights "Simpsons"—Just Like in Real Life! [Simpsons]

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  Anyone hoping that tonights episode of "The Simpsons"—in which Marge strips for a charity calendar—would say something interesting/funny about that fairly creepy Playboy spread was sorely disappointed. Sure, writers came up with the idea for the episode well before Playboy somehow convinced Fox that the ...
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• Mark Cuban Has An iPhone App

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  Irvine-based mobile phone app developer Rock Software is launching an iPhone app called Mark Cubans Puzzle Palace. The app, designed for adults, is $0.99 and lets users turn images into puzzles. Cubans image is on the home screen of the app, and users can choose to turn some of his personal pictures into puzzles, or ...
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• Russian Cop Uses YouTube to Expose Police Corruption

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  In a breathtakingly risky move, a former Russian police officer has taken to the Internet in full uniform to detail the corruption, danger, and brutality of his line of work. In an open video address to Prime Minister Vladmir Putin, Alexei Dymovsky says, "Maybe you dont know about us, about simple cops, who live ...
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• UN Officials Censoring Chinese Firewall Protest?

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  At a UN-sponsored event today in Egypt, UN officials demanded the removal of a poster that alluded to the issue of Internet restrictions in China. The poster was an advertisement for Access Controlled , an MIT publication about the so-called Great Firewall of China, one of the first national Internet filtering ...
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• Las Vegas Stripper-mobile Ends its Reign of Sexy Terror [Viva Las Vegas]

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  In the Unabridged Oxford Big Book of Terrible Ideas, the "stripper-mobile"—a truck carrying a Plexiglass box in which scantily clad women pole-danced—ranked just below eugenics. Obviously, it was a runaway success. So how was it stopped so quickly? Last Wednesday, we wrote about the controversy surrounding the ...
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• China Pushing Solar Like Never Before

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  At the 2010 China Industrial Development Forum on November 7th, Chinese officials reaffirmed their commitment to alternative energy, particularly solar, according to visit note by Goldman Sachs. Goldman: Solar power is the other rapidly developing industry in China as China now accounts for about 1/3 of solar power ...
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• What Advances In Horizontal Drilling Mean For Shale Oil

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  (This guest post was originally published at The Oil Drum and is reprinted under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License ) This post is one of my series of tech talks , describing some of the ways in which fossil fuels are produced. In the current part of the series we are focusing ...
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• The STFU Manners Mafia: Were One Step Short of Beating You with Your Cell Phone [Common Sense]

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  Common situation in an elevator: Mr. Mouthbreather near you has a ringing phone, which he answers, and talks into, loudly. He should be facepunched, right? Right! Ergo, Sunday Styles trend piece: People now vigilantly fighting back against manner-less, oblivious pricks . This is a really, really bad problem, ...
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• Introducing the CrunchGear Gift Guide

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  It is officially on: weâ??re running our super duper, extra sassy Holiday Gift Guide from now until the end of time, giving you the latest in hot gift ideas for you and yours. Why are we doing this so early? Because we have so much to give away this year itâ??s scary. That said, letâ??s hit the slopes and shush our ...
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• US-China Currency Dispute Forces Last-Minute Change To APEC Announcement

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  The brewing talk over the Yuan peg has become a major issue at the APEC conference in Singapore, at which President Obama is in attendance. Reuters : The discord surfaced at a summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Singapore when a reference to "market-oriented exchange rates" was cut from a ...
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• Bookmark Away: Instapaper Comes Up With A New Way To Work With The Kindle

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  One of the reasons I broke down and bought a Kindle earlier this year was a favorite service of mine, Instapaper , the simple bookmarking tool, rolled out Kindle support. Despite my belief that the Kindle is a) way too expensive and b) a fleeting technology that will be replaced by all-in-one devices, my job requires ...
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• Gold Rockets Higher As Trading Starts For The Week

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  Get ready for a fun week. Check out the instant spike in gold to a brand new high. Maybe traders are reacting to this FT article about the permanent decline in oil production, which weve been discussing lately ? Join the conversation about this story » See Also: Martin Armstrong Explains Why The Gold ...
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• Atlantis Space Shuttle Launch will be Twittered Live

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  NASA is getting even more social media savvy: the organization is sending 100 of its Twitter followers to Cape Canaveral for tomorrow’s launch of Atlantis; NASA awarded tickets to the Tweetup to the first 100 people to register on its site. The move is an attempt to drive more interest in space exploration. It’s ...
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• Japan Blasts Out Of Recession With Big GDP Gains

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  Everywhere you look, the recession is over, at least through the lens of official governmnet statistics. Japan is the latest to come surging out of the gate. WSJ : The nations real GDP rose 1.2% in July-September from the prior quarter, working out to a 4.8% increase on an annualized basis, Cabinet Office data ...
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• Android Market Badly Needs A Desktop Presence To Compete With The App Store

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 171
  Ive spent the last week throughly enjoying my new Droid , and while Ive come across some problems, most of my issues have simply been with the fact that Android does things differently than the iPhone â?? the transition just takes some getting used to. But theres one big issue that needs far more than a UI tweak: ...
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