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Google's Sergey Brin Talks About China Gamble - WSJ.com
Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin pushed the Internet giant to take the risky step of abandoning its China-based search engine as that country's efforts to censor the Web and suppress dissidents smacked of the "totalitarianism" of his youth in the Soviet Union. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Brin, who came to the U.S. from Russia at the age of 6 in 1979, said the compromises to do business in the world's largest Internet market had become too great.
An amazing story... When a company that powerfull begin to act on its own values and rules, it becomes a transformation force on its own by Mar 24
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Applause For Finland: First Country To Make Broadband Access A L
This is reportedly a first worldwide. Starting July 2010, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection as an intermediate step, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications. By the end of 2015, the legal right will be extended to an impressive 100 Mb broadband connection for everyone. Kudos to the Finnish government, which has just introduced laws guaranteeing broadband access to every person living in Finland (5.5 million people, give or take). According to Wikipedia , approximately 79 percent of the Finnish population use the Internet.
The State of the Internet Operating System - O'Reilly Radar
I've been talking for years about " the internet operating system ", but I realized I've never written an extended post to define what I think it is, where it is going, and the choices we face. This is that missing post. Here you will see the underlying beliefs about the future that are guiding my publishing program as well as the rationale behind conferences I organize like the Web 2.0 Summit and Web 2.0 Expo , the Where 2.0 Conference , and even the Gov 2.0 Summit and Gov 2.0 Expo . Ask yourself for a moment, what is the operating system of a Google or Bing search? What is the operating system of a mobile phone call? What is the operating system of maps and directions on your phone?
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Additional high-points for the company included included the fact total sales on Xstreet , the Second Life marketplace, reaching $2.3 million, an 82% increase year-to-year and a 24% increase over the previous quarter. Total Linden Dollars exchanged on LindeX, the in-game currency exchange, totaled $31 million, a 9% increase over the previous year, and monthly unique users with repeat logins peaked in March at 826,214, a 13% increase year-to-year and an all-time high. Hall said the money the company invested in customer acquisition was the hinge his economy turned on. Infrastructure improvements included a new viewer and data center. He also noted that Valentine's Day was the single largest day on their virtual currency exchange, Xstreet and theorized that the success of the movie Avatar, which was heavy on immersion, might have inspired a new wave of people to try it.
Second Life Economy At Record High
New Top-Level Domains Approved by ICANN
– Steve Crocker , ICANN Board Member ICANN has indicated that it anticipates between 300 and 1,000 new TLDs could be created under the new program, providing an alternative to existing TLDs such as .com or .net. Steve Crocker , ICANN Board Member, in his remarks during the board session said: "Many people will write positive and negative things, I'm sure. I hope that this is studied in business schools going forward and analyzed in many ways. And we'll look back and try to understand what the results were compared to what we expected.
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