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Google News – then and now

Proactive Report

Google News launched in September 2002. What started as an aggregator of news content has gone through some interesting changes in the last 10 years.

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The arbitration agreement was held to apply to Dr.

Writtent Blog

A Shareholders Agreement is a contract between the members of a company (also known as shareholders) and the company itself. In contrast, the Company Constitution outlines: 2. How long should a company expect a private enforcement action to take? Can the parties to agreements themselves bring damages claims?

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Friendster (2002) Launched in 2002, Friendster was originally going to be a dating site that would help set up people with friends in common. Unfortunately, the site’s spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise. After being sold off a few times, it’s currently rebranded as the dating app, Chat & Date.

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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

Buzz Marketing for Technology

First, scientific knowledge is difficult to aggregate. The culture of independence benefits science in many ways, but it also makes it more difficult to aggregate scientists labors. Bafoutsou and Mentzas (2002) reviewed this literature and mapped it onto the specific technology functionalities of modern groupware systems.

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Towards a Definition The following definition is intended to introduce the general nature of PLEs: a Personal Learning Environment is a facility for an individual to access, aggregate, configure and manipulate digital artefacts of their ongoing learning experiences. services like social bookmarking or photo sharing. References Batson, T.

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Paywall for News.com and Online Community Social Media

Laurel Papworth

But I accept at face -value the argument that News.com is being impartial, and aggregating opinions. The collecting of different original source material from community members and shaping it into an aggregated story (quotes from Experts Du Jour, statistics, photographs) becomes the bards’ oops journalists’ content.

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How to Get the Word out about Your New Blog

ProBlogger

Why do companies spent a fortune getting their commercials aired during half time at the Super Bowl? I wrote my first guest post back in 2002, before guest posting was even a thing. Back in 2002 I wrote a post for ProBlogger called Can You Really Make Money Blogging? [7 Write guest posts for other blogs.

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