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		<title>CircleID: Web</title>
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		<description>Latest Web related postings on CircleID</description>
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		<dc:rights>Copyright 2008, unless where otherwise noted.</dc:rights>
		<dc:date>2008-12-04T12:22:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>The Web&apos;s Benevolent Dictators</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Rosen has a great article in the <em>New York Times Magazine</em> this weekend titled Google's Gatekeepers. In it he deals with the question of whether we are becoming too overly dependent on a few big web companies like Google &ndash; and whether it's wise over the long run for us to trust their team of (currently) very nice, well-meaning people who are trying hard to do the right thing when faced with government censorship demands and surveillance pressures. He writes... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081201_the_webs_benevolent_dictators/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-12-01T11:45:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Ties That Bind</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[One of the throwaway remarks I sometimes make at conferences is that "Google knows you're pregnant before you do". I can say this because the things you search for will change as your life changes, and search engine providers may well be able to spot the significance of these changes because they aggregate data from millions of people. Now Google's philanthropic arm, google.org, has shown just what it can do with the data it gathers from us all by offering to predict where 'flu outbreaks will take place in the USA. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/ties_that_bind/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-22T10:09:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Hostway&apos;s CDN Chosen by CTAM to Deliver Fast&#45;Loading Video Clips</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hostway Corporation, the global Web solutions leader, was chosen by the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) to host video clips of the association's <em>Summit 08</em>, held November 9-11 in Boston. Hostway will deliver these clips using its patent-pending content delivery network (CDN), "Edge Caching." <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081107_hostways_cdn_deliver_fast_loading_video_clips/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-11-07T18:23:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Google&apos;s Eric Schmidt: Internet Becoming a Cesspool Where Brands Are Increasing Important</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Internet is a "cesspool," a festering sea of bad information, said Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, yesterday while speaking to a group of visiting magazine executives at the company's Mountain View, California Campus during the American Magazine Conference. Schmidt suggested that "brands" are more important than ever and key solution for this problem is brands. "Brands are the solution, not the problem," said Schmidt. "Brands are how you sort out the cesspool." Branding, on the other hand, may be an essential element that helps people navigate the world, he continued. "Brand affinity is clearly hard wired," he said. "It is so fundamental to human existence that it's not going away. It must have a genetic component." <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/google_schmidt_internet_cesspool_brands/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-10-08T12:44:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Google Explains Why Their Data Centers are Most Efficient in the World</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[According to Google's findings released today, the company claims that its energy-optimized data centers are the most efficient in the world. More specifically, the company says that its data centers "use nearly five times less energy than conventional facilities to feed and cool the computers inside." This includes efforts to optimize every element in the data center, from the chip to the cooling tower. "As a result, the energy used per Google search is minimal. In the time it takes to do a Google search, your own personal computer will use more energy than we will use to answer your query." <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/google_data_centers_efficient/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-10-01T15:23:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Supposedly Private Meeting of China&apos;s Censorship Division and Wikipedia Founder</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has met with the Chinese government body in charge of censoring online content in the country. Cai Mingzhao, Vice Director of China's State Council Information Office in charge of China's "Internet Management Division" (censorship division), discussed Wales' concerns regarding censorship. Although no deals or agreements where made, it has been reported that the meeting has "opened a channel of communication and dialogue between the Wikipedia community and the Chinese government." <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081001_china_censorship_wikipedia_wales/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-10-01T09:56:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>GNU Founder Richard Stallman Warns Against Cloud Computing</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the computer operating system GNU, says cloud computing is essentially a trap that will eventually pressure more people into buying locked, proprietary systems that will continue to cost them more over time. "It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign," says Stallman. Bobbie Johnson, Guardian's technology correspondent says 'his <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/89261_oracle_larry_ellison_cloud_computing/">comments echo those made last week by Larry Ellison</a>, the founder of Oracle, who criticized the rash of cloud computing announcements as "fashion-driven" and "complete gibberish".' <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/gnu_richard_stallman_cloud_computing/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-09-30T17:00:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>privacy</category><category>web</category><category>web_hosting</category>
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			<title>Coming to Grips with an Internet that Never Forgets</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[My weekly technology law column discusses the implications of an Internet that never forgets. I note that the most significant Internet effect during the current election campaign in Canada has not been any particular online video, website or Facebook group. Instead, it has been the resignation of eight Canadian candidates based on embarrassing or controversial information unearthed online. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_that_never_forgets/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-09-30T15:26:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Internet Pioneer Paul Baran Awarded National Medals of Technology and Innovation</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Paul A. Baran, a founding father of the Internet has been named a 2007 National Medal of Technology and Innovation laureate. Baren was presented the award by President Bush at the White House today. Baran is one of the three inventors of packet-switched networks, along with Donald Davies and Leonard Kleinrock. His packet switching idea has served as a foundation where others later built the ARPANET, which, over time, evolved into the Internet. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/paul_baran_national_medals_technology/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-09-29T16:31:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Network of Supercomputers Could Revolutionize Internet Speed</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A network of supercomputers, known as the Grid, consisting of 100,000 computers is called the latest evolution of the Internet and computer scientists will announce on Friday that it is ready to be connected to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Murad Ahmed, Times Online technology correspondent reports: "It is designed for schemes where huge quantities of data need crunching, such as large research and engineering projects. The Grid has the kind of power required to download movies in seconds, and the ability to make high-definition video phone calls for the same price as a local call." <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/supercomputers_internet_speed_grid_lhc/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-09-29T09:40:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>A Link to Eternity</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While Google is as secretive about its internal processes and systems as Apple is about product development, every now and then senior people post articles on the official Google blog and offer their thoughts on the development of the web. In the latest posting, two Google engineers, Alfred Spector and Franz Och, look at how search strategies will benefit from the faster computers, greater volumes of data and better algorithms we are likely to see in the next decade, speculating that "we could train our systems to discern not only the characters or place names in a YouTube video or a book, for example, but also to recognise the plot or the symbolism." <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/link_to_eternity/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-09-27T09:19:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Happy OneWebDay: Celebrations are Underway Around the World</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Today marks the third annual OneWebDay (Earth Day for the Internet) and communities around the world are holding events to learn about and advocate the Internet. Gatherings are being held in major U.S. cities as well as Melbourne, London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Singapore, Tunisia and elsewhere. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/89229_onewebday_underway_around_the_world/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-09-22T09:37:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Mapping Google</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Byte Level Research has released a new version of its world map illustrating country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) in use by Google for its local search engines. Using information available on Google's Language Tools page, the new map shows over 160 ccTLDs that Google has currently in use including Andorra, Kenya, Ukraine, and Ghana. Why pick Google? John Yunker president of Byte Level Research says that he knows of no other company that hosts localized websites across so many different ccTLDs. Countries the Google currently serves even include <a href="http://www.google.com.cu/">Cuba</a> &mdash; "I doubt many Americans are aware of that."... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/89192_mapping_google_world/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-09-19T15:38:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>domain_names</category><category>multilinguism</category><category>top_level_domains</category><category>web</category>
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			<title>Google Predicting Next Ten Years of the Internet</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While celebrating its 10th year anniversary this month, Google reflects on the "enormous impact" that the Internet has had on people's lives around the world. "It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of," says Google in its recent blog postings related to "Google at 10". In today's blog post, Chad Hurley, CEO and Co-Founder, YouTube (acquired by Google) says: "Today, 13 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, and we believe the volume will continue to grow exponentially. Our goal is to allow every person on the planet to participate by making the upload process as simple as placing a phone call..." <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/google_next_ten_years_internet/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-09-16T13:44:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Berners&#45;Lee Announces Creation of World Wide Web Foundation</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, on Sunday announced the launch of World Wide Web Foundation to fulfill a vision of the Web as humanity connected by technology. "The Web is a tremendous platform for innovation, but we face a number of challenges to making it more useful, in particular to people in underserved communities," said Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and co-Director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI). "Through this new initiative, we hope to develop an international ecosystem that will help shape the future Web. A more inclusive Web will benefit us all." <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/89158_berners_lee_world_wide_web_foundation/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-09-15T08:58:00-08:00</dc:date>
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