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Cuil Is A Pretty Cool Search Engine

Take a test drive of Cuil this morning; you will be surprised at what you find. It has been a while since a new product has come out on the market in the search engine space that actually works well, and is actually fairly interesting in how they present data. Cuil was released to the public this morning, and it is truly something very cool.

Microsoft Plans Datacenter For Siberia

The regularly chilly but increasingly industrialized city of Irkutsk will have Microsoft as a datacenter resident.

ROI and Social Computing

Over the last couple of days, I have been reading with great interest a number of the different blog posts that the last two articles I wrote on ROI and Social Computing have sparkled and, as I am going through them digesting some of the great points they bring together (Something I will blog about as well at a later time), I thought I would create an interim pos

Does Facebook Really 'Cost Businesses Dear'?

I don't have a Facebook account. At least, not yet, as I have mentioned in another blog post I shared over here not so long ago. But from that to say "[...] sites such as Facebook could be costing firms over £130m a day" is a bit of an over-reaction.

Google China Pulls Out Checkbook

Google China has made a move.  Or it will, anyway - early reports are a little unclear as to the timetable.  In any event, there is word concerning the acquisition of at least one company and investments in as many as another five.

Global Terrorism Database Made Public

It isn't an accident; the world's largest database of terrorism attacks has been made available for researchers of all types.

Web 2.0 Expo & Knowledge As Power

With 10,000 people at Web 2.0 Expo, a curtain was pulled back to reveal the room adjoining the echo chamber.  With more people than Techcrunch subscribers, you had to ask, "who are these people?"  Oh, right, our markets and communities.  People of the web, perhaps with more zeal or entrepreneurial interest than people who "get their news from the web."  The diversity was really refreshing although after helping out on both the Socialtext and SuiteTwo booths, it was exhausting.

Aggregate Knowledge and Bazaarvoice Partner

Aggregate Knowledge and Bazaarvoice have teamed to integrate their user-generated product reviews services and will offer it to their mutual ecommerce customers. The integration will allow online shoppers access to the personal experience of others as they shop for items online. Integrating user-generated reviews into the Aggregate Knowledge Discovery Services platform will add value to customers shopping for products online.

Online Video Advertising To Grow

TV producers are seeing value in shows after they air. Just as DVDs boost movie revenues, DVD sets of TV shows are selling well, along with iTunes downloads of individual shows for $1.99. Rebroadcasts are proving beneficial for TV show sponsors who support hosting on the TV shows sites. This will likely grow the online video advertising beyond its current status.

StuntDubl's Friday Favorites

I missed last week (My laptop started with the “laptop death rattle” - so it was a scramble to do data backups, find and migrate to a new machine). One of the worst parts of being a solo shop is being your own IT guy. Excuses aside - here’s twice the friday favorite goodness for this week.