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Study Looks at Internet Use in America

The newest PEW/Internet and American Life study indicates just how important the Internet is becoming in . . . well, American Life. Of the nearly 2800 Americans surveyed, 58% turn to the Internet first for answers.

Libraries Reject Google In Favor Of Open Source

The Google Library Project gains new members fairly frequently, and a comparable service from Microsoft also does all right.  A number of libraries have steered clear of the corporate rivalry, though, and have instead opted to side with the Open Content Alliance (OCA).

Cornell University Joins Google Library Project

Attending Cornell University as an undergrad will cost you around $17,000 per semester.  But if you just want to look through the school’s libraries, it’s free - some of their content will become available to everyone, thanks to an arrangement with Google’s Library Project.

Googler on Flash vs SVG and VML

In Seeking Alpha’s ongoing Q&A with the Google Finance product manager, my question was: Google Finance is one of the rather rare Google apps which makes use of Flash. I’m curious, at Google what considerations go into deciding whether to go for Flash or DHTML/ Ajax/ browser vector languages like SVG?

Less Sensationalism in Social Media

I submitted an article written in 2005 to Netscape (for those of your outside of the social media world, Netscape a runs "submit and vote on news site" like Digg).

Google Reads Up On Book Downloads

Visitors to Google Book Search will have the opportunity to download and print classic titles from the service. Sometime today, Google Book Search should open its virtual doors to literary fans and allow them to download PDF copies of certain titles, and to print them.

UC Libraries May Join Google Project

The University of California (UC) system could take part in Google's book-scanning project, and would make 34 million volumes available to the search engine.

Aptana Apt For Web Development

The integrated developer environment distributed by Aptana takes a JavaScript-focused approach to building dynamic applications.

The Firefox Upgrade and Plugins Dance

Mozilla released an update to the Firefox browser earlier this month which, the release notes say, provides improved stability, improved support for Mac OS X, fixes for several memory leaks and several security enhancements among other things.

Publishing Group Asks Google To Stop Digitizing Books

Another group is not satisfied with Google's effort to digitize books for their Google Print for Libraries and has joined in the voices asking them to cease these activities.