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Selling government data is not a bad business to be in however there is a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it.  As this review of Intelius indicates, there is certainly a pretty sketchy way of monetizing public records.

Look in the sky…It’s a Web 2.0 release…It’s a social media release…It’s Marketwire’s Social Media 2.0 release!!! Earlier today I read that Marketwire was unveiling their new product called “Social Media 2.0,” which they are claiming is the “industry’s Most Authentic Social Media Product.” This new release has an embedded YouTube video, social bookmarking tags, […]

This is a little strange – I was doing some research on television content migrating onto the Web and ended up running the same query – for ‘arrested development’ on Mozilla and Internet Explorer, and found that the MSNBC site hosting the video content ranked higher in a Google search run on IE than on […]

I’ve been toying with different ways of analogizing and thinking about widgets and have come up with the following: Widgets are legoizing(made-up word) the World Wide Web. Widgets turn the Web from a plain old toy robot into Voltron. Widgets heterogenize (I think this is a made-up word) the Web. Widgets compartmentalize the Web. Widgets are […]

I’ve been doing a bit of digging on how Google News ranks their results and figured that the World Intellectual Property Web site was as good a place to start as any.  According to the patent description, “In accordance with one implementation consistent with the principles of the invention, a method for ranking results is […]