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China Behind Yesterday's YouTube, Facebook, Twitter Outage

While the World is pondering the complex final moves in the cultural conflict between Google and China's censors, the story has has taken a completely bizarre twist: For some reason, China's censorship firewall went briefly ...READ»

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Google Bends to China's Whims, Further Restricts Search Results

In the midst of an ongoing standoff between China and the international community over Internet censorship, Google has blinked. The search giant is agreeing to "take all necessary steps" to ensure no pornographic ...READ»

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China Disables Google Features as Anti-Pornography Campaign Intensifies

China is not relenting in its latest campaign against "vulgar" material on the Web. In its latest salvo against the free flow of information, the People's Republic has ordered Google to shut down its foreign Web site search and ...READ»

Too Many Social Network Updates? Two Tools for Filtering the Nobodies

There are plenty of tools out there for adding "friends" to your social network: Glue lets you connect with others who like the same media and entertainment sites as you, Twinkle lets you discover people tweeting near you, ...READ»

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How Social Web Can Save YouTube

Google is set to lose $470 million on YouTube in 2009, according to estimates by Credit Suisse. Even for Google, whose market cap hovers around $115 billion at its current share price, that's a hell of a write-off for one ...READ»