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The Web’s Best Travel, Shopping, and Dining Sites
Whether you need to arrange a flight, find bargains, or make a restaurant reservation, these 13 sites make it easy.
With these 13 terrific Websites and online services, you can make travel arrangements, dig up discounts and unusual gifts, decide on a great restaurant, or whip up amazing meals of your own.
For more on the year’s top sites, see The Web’s Best Productivity Sites and The Web’s Best Entertainment Sites….Find out more
Word-Wide Web Launches
Language analysts, sifting through two centuries of words in the millions of books in Google Inc.’s growing digital library, found a new way to track the arc of fame, the effect of censorship, the spread of inventions and the explosive growth of new terms in the English-speaking world.
In research reported Thursday in the journal Science, the scientists at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Google and the Encyclopedia Britannica unveiled a database of two billion words and phrases drawn from 5.2 million books in Google’s digital library published during the past 200 years. With this tool, researchers can measure trends through the language authors used and the names of people they mentioned…Read full article
A bountiful year for open source
It is now just over 12 years since seven people sat down in a conference room in Silicon Valley to fix what they saw as the marketing problem with the words “free software.” Most people thought that the word “free” meant only that no one had to pay. It seemed they didn’t have an attention span long enough to try to grok what Richard Stallman was saying when he kept repeating, “‘free,’ as in speech.”
After considering dozens of combinations, Christine Peterson hit upon “open source,” and the phrase has grown to represent a section of the software marketplace big enough to merit its own end-of-the-year roundup. Full Story here
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Channeling the Web: How to plug your TV into the Internet
TV isn’t supposed to be complicated.
But just as we’ve finally sorted out the digital TV transition, another wave of technology is about to remake the lowly set once again.
This time it’s a flood of new gadgets for connecting TVs to the Internet and tapping the river of online content.
Geeks have been talking about this “convergence” of TVs and the computer world for decades. About one in 10 U.S. households with home networks are doing this already, mostly by connecting PCs to the TV, according to research firm IDC… Read more
Ogilvy Chief Makes Technology His Focus
Brian Fetherstonhaugh, Chairman and CEO of OgilvyOne Worldwide, spent the last 18 months touring his company’s 100 offices hunting for trends and found the monster that is affecting all businesses.
“The monster is that consumers everywhere are seizing back control through the use of technology,” he said in an interview with The New York Sun. “The iPod is not about a technology. It’s people seizing back music agendas from the DJs of the world. TiVo isn’t a storage device but it is people choosing their own television agenda. Google isn’t a search technology but a new shopping agenda for consumers. These are all the same thing: power to consumers.” Read more
The Highest Paying Work-from-home Jobs
Technology is continuously opening up new opportunities for people who want to work from the comfort of their own home. Remote workers or Telecommuters as some others call them are finding and landing profitable jobs though it may not come as easy as it was, there are however some great options listed for each aspiring workers benefit. Read more on this link.
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- Celebrating 10 years of shared success June 18, 2013Ten years ago we launched AdSense to help publishers earn money by placing relevant ads on their websites. I can still remember the excitement and anticipation as AdSense went live that first day. Our small team huddled together in a cramped conference room, and right away we saw that publishers were as excited about AdSense as we were. Fast-forward 10 years […]
- Chromebooks: coming to more stores near you June 17, 2013In Northern California where I live, summer is here, which means family vacations, kids’ camps, BBQs and hopefully some relaxation. But it also means back-to-school shopping is just around the corner. So in case you’re on the hunt for a laptop in addition to pens, paper, and stylish new outfits, your search just got a whole lot easier. Chromebooks—a fast, si […]
- Happy Small Business Week. June 17, 2013Our first AdWords customer was a small business selling live mail-order lobsters. It’s been a long time since then, but a majority of our customers are still small businesses, who play a vital role not only for Google, but for the American economy. More than 60 percent of new jobs each year come from small businesses. This Small Business Week, we want to cel […]
- Our continued commitment to combating child exploitation online June 16, 2013The Internet has been a tremendous force for good—increasing access to information, improving people’s ability to communicate and driving economic growth. But like the physical world, there are dark corners on the web where criminal behavior exists. In 2011, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC’s) Cybertipline Child Victim Identi […]