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Adobe Makes Flash Crawlable 232

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @08:38AM from the what-about-cut-and-paste dept.

nickull wrote in his journal that "Today Adobe systems made an announcement that it has provided technology and information to Google and Yahoo! to help the two search engine rivals index Shockwave Flash (SWF) file formats. According to the company, this will provide more relevant search rankings of the millions pieces of Flash content. Until now, developers had to implement workarounds for exposing text content used in Flash to search-engine spiders and other bots such as using XHTML data providers. While the Flash content is exposed, it is not yet clear how it will be utilized by the search engines, as they have not revealed their algorithms. The SWF specification is openly published."

Comment Re:Before this gets out of hand again... (Score 1) 1142

by SishGupta on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @11:45PM (#18951225) Attached to: Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt

It is censorship when a person tries to stop another from saying or doing something.
It doesn't necessarily have to do with the gov't or with law.
The leader of a community can censor its members.

I have to disagree with you when you said digg doesn't answer to its users.
When a site is user driven such as it is to the point that we call it a community based site, there is an extent to where digg MUST answer to its users, but of course within reason. Should digg fail to do so, which I don't totally feel that they have (thought they did drop a very large ball), the community is neglected and there would be a lack of genuine participation.

Copyright Law Used to Shut Down Site 206

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 05, 2007 @12:22PM from the bad-usage dept.

driptray writes "The Sydney Morning Herald reports that an Australian mining industry group has used copyright laws to close a website that parodied a coal industry ad campaign. A group known as Rising Tide created the website using the slogan "Rising sea levels: brought to you by mining" in response to the mining industry's slogan of "Life: brought to you by mining". The mining industry claimed that the "content and layout" of the parody site infringed copyright, but when Rising Tide removed the copyrighted photos and changed the layout, the mining industry still lodged a complaint. Is this a misuse of copyright law in order to stifle dissent?"

How IT Increases Productivity 123

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 26, 2007 @10:55PM from the many-balls-in-the-air dept.

Several readers wrote to tell us about a groundbreaking study reported in Computerworld. Researchers at Boston University and MIT analyzed how IT makes people more productive at an individual level. They gathered more than 125,000 email messages, 5 years of project data, and survey responses to see what factors predicted revenue generation and completed projects. Abstracts for the original articles are available. Among the surprises: IT didn't necessarily make projects faster but it did dramatically increase productivity by facilitating multitasking; and IT-supported social networks predicted productivity better than experience did.

Journal Journal: Strange Unregistered Domains

Journal by gbulmash on Monday February 26, 2007 @10:05PM

Every once in a while, I go hunting for odd domains that are still available. For example, if you believe that junk e-mail is caused by the spirits of dead aliens, you might want to register spamintology.com. It's available (or was when I wrote this) and it's one of 25 I found while wasting some time today.

Apple's iTunes DRM Dilemma 282

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 26, 2007 @09:47PM from the how-FairPlay-works dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Understanding how Apple's FairPlay DRM works helps to answer a lot of questions: why it hasn't been replaced with an open, interoperable DRM that anyone can use, why Apple isn't broadly licensing FairPlay, and why the company hasn't jumped to add DRM-free content from indie artists to iTunes."

Submission + - Work unhappy or move on?

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dunnowhat2type

on Monday February 26, 2007 @09:09PM

dunnowhat2type writes: "I grew up around a big city (suburbs of NY) and went to college in a relatively different area (upstate NY.) After graduating last May, I took a job in the area where I went to college. I started in July and was given a relocation package contingent on me staying for a year. Since August I haven't been happy with the area I have been living in and have actively been pursuing employment back in the city. In January, the program I was working on got cancelled and my manager didn't want to commit me to something long-term with the knowledge that I didn't plan on staying more than six months. He made me a time-based offer (probably expiring soon) that he'd take every effort to get the relocation payback waived if I were to resign, find an internal transfer, or another job. I had a couple of interviews a month ago, but nothing else has happened, and this uncertainty, with the pressure of having to make this decision has made the last two weeks really hellish. I wanted to make this decision within the next couple of days and have spoken to friends, but I wanted to pose the question here. What am I better off doing, being miserable around here, but at least having money, work experience, and health insurance, or going home and being happy, but being unemployed?"

T-Mobile Bans Others' Apps On Their Phones 349

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 26, 2007 @08:35PM from the get-less dept.

cshamis writes "T-Mobile has recently changed their policies and now tell their customers with appropriate data plans and with Java-Micro-App-capable T-Mobile phones: no third-party network applications. You can, of course, still use their incredibly clunky and crippled built-in WAP browsers, but GoogleMaps and OperaMini are left high and dry. Would anyone care to speculate if this move is likely to retain or repel customers?"

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