Category: internet
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Politicians Beware, Warns Google
Google makes me nervous. Billionaires making government 'accountable' makes me nervous. Who is making Google accountable? Imagine being able to check instantly whether or not statements made by politicians were correct. That is the sort of service Google boss Eric Schmidt believes the Internet will offer within five years. Politicians have yet to appreciate the…
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Steve Irwin on Heggle
Heggle is a ‘video aggregation’ site similar to a ‘news aggregation site’. You can search this system for a topic like ‘Steve Irwin’ and it will come back with all the videos on all the video sites about this bloke. http://heggle.com/search?t=steve+irwin&c=0 And yes, Irwin was a totally embarrassment and I do agree with Germain Greer…
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Crap Movie Downloads
A couple of companies have began offering movie download services in Australia. There are also a few international services, however I don’t trust them because you have to sign up and pay for their service, before you can actually see what movies that they have (which I’m not sure is legal). And the reason that…
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What is the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force?
In its fourth year, the Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, through its core activities, working groups and regional nodes, made a substantive contribution to the preparations for the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society by sponsoring several regional meetings, organizing a series of global forums, producing several publications and participating…