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YouTube’s Bandwidth Bill Is Zero. Welcome to the New Net | Epicenter | Wired.com
"In 2007, the majority of the internet’s traffic came distributed by 30,000 blocks of servers around the net (technically Autonomous System Numbers). In 2009, 150 blocks served up half of the net’s traffic."
YouTube Bans Videos ‘Intended to Incite Violence or Encourage Dangerous, Illegal Activities’ | Threat Level | Wired.com
stronger community guidelines to decrease the number of videos on YouTube produced by Al Qaeda and affiliated Islamist terrorist organizations
Planning Reference Extract
A great idea. If enough people sit thru their videos, they might even get the support they're begging for.
Picasa Upgrade Gives Photo Sharing a Facelift - Webmonkey
Could be used for your own little surveillance projects
…My heart’s in Accra » Hal Roberts: Should we worry that Google is watching?
This form of surveillance helps explain how slavery persisted in the US - neighbors watched each other to make sure that no one was assisting escaped slaves and receiving rewards for returning stolen “property”.
Google & the Future of Books - The New York Review of Books
We could have created a National Digital Library—the twenty-first-century equivalent of the Library of Alexandria. It is too late now. Not only have we failed to realize that possibility, but, even worse, we are allowing a question of public policy—the control of access to information—to be determined by private lawsuit.
Chinese Eye Tracking Study: Baidu Vs Google
Because Chinese is presented as symbols, where concepts take their final meaning from a group of combined symbols, it’s much more difficult to scan this information quickly. To try to put in a Western conceptual framework, imagine how difficult it would be to scan meaning from this paragraph if our alphabet was extended to 2000 characters, presented in block letters and all the spaces between words were removed.
The End of Snippet View: Google Settles Lawsuit with Book Publishers - ReadWriteWeb
Libraries, universities, and other organizations will also be able to purchase an institutional subscription, which will give users the ability to access the full text of all the titles in the Google Books index.
| Interchange: The Promise of Digital History | The Journal of American History, 95.2 | The History Cooperative
We have barely begun to apply to the historical record those more sophisticated methods, which include regular-expression searching, text mining, document and topic clustering, automatic audio and video transcription, and other techniques based on the machine-readable nature of digital materials. Scholarly projects that once took years or decades are now possible in an instant—concordances, for instance.
Slashdot | The Google Navy
Is Google preparing to launch its own Navy? In its just-published application for a patent on the Water-Based Data Center, Google envisions a world where 'computing centers are located on a ship or ships, which are then anchored in a water body from which energy from natural motion of the water may be captured
Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags
Clay Shirky's 2005 talks on ontology condensed. First 2 chapters of Everything is Misc. basically come from here.
Edge 250
For 400 years, we have been waiting for machines to begin to think. "We've been asking the wrong question," he whispered under his breath. They would start to dream first.
Google Hunts for Undersea Fiber Capacity as Traffic Surges
trans-Pacific cable is particularly prized at the moment for two reasons: The dearth of existing undersea cable in the region and the huge swell in bandwidth demand coming out of Asia.
Google: Dark Fiber Story Not So Dark
Google began investing in dark fiber for two main reasons: to connect the server farms and to "peer" with telecommunications service providers.
Google Patent Moves It Closer To GoogleNet | WebProNews
What if Google rolls out 300 datacenters, plugs them into strategically located peering points, and erects big towers to provide wireless. Maybe those towers will use WiMAXor up-for-auction 700MHz wireless spectrum.
Artificial Intelligence - Computers and the Internet - Technology - Science - New York Times
You’re gathering data from the network while the network is gathering data about you.
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