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Over the past year I have received my fair share of invitations to write for this and that blog. As a science blogger I have resisted any such invitations. As a tech and business blogger, I write for this blog, a duopoly that was definitely influenced by GigaOM. A few days ago, [...]

Recently, facebook launched a new ad program called Facebook Beacon, with much fanfare. First, it failed to elicit the expected positive response from the media. Then immediately after the launch, the tech blogosphere was full of news about how Facebook Beacon is intruding into user’s privacy and a way to block it in Firefox. Since [...]

As an avid Google watcher, it’s always interesting to note what the search giant might do next and what the implications might be. Om Malik notes that Google is now making its own high speed network switches. Why would they want to do that?

Our main product is a technology that can directly answer questions put to it on any topic and dramatically improves the quality and accuracy of results compared to any existing search technology.

Microsoft just adding data center capacity in Ireland. Amazon is serving up cloud capacity in Europe. Google’s thirst for data centers is somewhat legendary. And now Red Hat is offering Red Hat Linux via Amazon’s EC2 platform.

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I wonder what would happen to the blogosphere if we all thought like Sir Conan Doyle

First read about The Mythical WebOS
Then read about Google’s plans to be leverage the “web as platform”
Then read this NYT story about a $200 computer available in WalMart and running a “GOS”, a version of Linux specifically designed to run Google apps (via TechCrunch)
Now tell me that Google’s plans are limited to “social networking”
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I was hoping that by the time I wrote this, Open Social would no longer be the top story on Techmeme. So much for that thought. Spending time telling you all about it is somewhat pointless, since it’s been covered all over the web (TechCrunch has a pretty decent writeup). But what does [...]