Finding your photos more easily with Google Search - Inside Search

A new way Google helps you leverage your own metadata; start a Google search with “my photos”, if you have photos stored on a Google+ enabled account

“Starting today, you’ll be able to find your photos more easily and connect with the friends, places and events in your Google+ photos. For example, now you can search for your friend’s wedding photos or pictures from a concert you attended recently. To make computers do the hard work for you, we’ve also begun using computer vision and machine learning to help recognize more general concepts in your photos such as sunsets, food and flowers.”

Finding your photos more easily with Google Search - Inside Search

With Ubiquity, Sears is Turning Shuttered Stores into Data Centers » Data Center Knowledge

Solid state Sears

"Will blinking blue lights of servers soon fill the aisles that previously offered the Blue Light Special? Sears Holdings has formed a new unit to market space from former Sears and Kmart retail stores as a home for data centers, disaster recovery space and wireless towers.
With the creation of Ubiquity Critical Environments, Sears hopes to convert the retail icons of the 20th century into the Internet infrastructure to power the 21st century digital economy. Sears Holdings has one of the largest real estate portfolios in the country, with 3,200 properties spanning 25 million square feet of space. That includes dozens of Sears and Kmart stores that have been closed over the years."

With Ubiquity, Sears is Turning Shuttered Stores into Data Centers » Data Center Knowledge

Two-factor authentication: What you need to know (FAQ) | Security & Privacy - CNET News

Summary version: if your service provider supports 2FA, use it...

"Twitter announced on Wednesday that they've started supporting two-factor authentication, joining a growing list of major Web services that offer the more secure login method.
Two-factor authentication, or 2FA as it's commonly abbreviated, adds an extra step to your basic login procedure. Without 2FA, you enter in your username and password, and then you're done. The password is your single factor of authentication. The second factor makes your account more secure, in theory."

Two-factor authentication: What you need to know (FAQ) | Security & Privacy - CNET News

How the U.S. Government Hacks the World - Businessweek

From a cyber-espionage reality check

"The U.S. government doesn’t deny that it engages in cyber espionage. “You’re not waiting for someone to decide to turn information into electrons and photons and send it,” says Hayden. “You’re commuting to where the information is stored and extracting the information from the adversaries’ network. We are the best at doing it. Period.” The U.S. position is that some kinds of hacking are more acceptable than others—and the kind the NSA does is in keeping with unofficial, unspoken rules going back to the Cold War about what secrets are OK for one country to steal from another. “China is doing stuff you’re not supposed to do,” says Jacob Olcott, a principal at Good Harbor Security Risk Management, a Washington firm that advises hacked companies."

How the U.S. Government Hacks the World - Businessweek

The Box Blog » Consumer-Grade Innovation: Welcoming Folders to Box

Thinking inside the Box

"With Crocodoc, their ability to quickly and smoothly extract and preview documents in web and mobile-friendly HTML5 is a breakthrough. We’ll leverage the Crocodoc team and technology to make every document experience on Box and across the web fast, striking, and “consumer-grade” in all respects.
Likewise, Martin’s work on Folders will be integral to the next-generation of Box on iOS. When we saw Folders we saw a beautiful experience and set of design patterns that we had to bring to Box’s users. Adding the Folders technology and Martin’s expertise to Box will help us to continue to improve how people collaborate and engage with their content on Post-PC devices. In the near term, Box for iOS will become cleaner, faster and more beautiful throughout 2013."

The Box Blog » Consumer-Grade Innovation: Welcoming Folders to Box

Google Follows Amazon's Lead on New Shopping Site, Delivery, Other Services - WSJ.com

Excerpt from an overview of the expanding Amazon/Google competitive landscape

"Google's moves to copy Amazon underscore how the tech companies are expanding into each other's areas—each trying to be the primary Web destination shoppers. As the two battle it out, each increasingly has assumed some characteristics of the other, with Amazon stretching into Google's realms of online advertising, video streaming, applications and devices such as smartphones and tablets. Rather than develop its own mobile operating system, though, Amazon relies on a version of Google's Android software for the Kindle Fire line of tablets."

Google Follows Amazon's Lead on New Shopping Site, Delivery, Other Services - WSJ.com

Apple-1 Computers Jump in Value at Auctions - NYTimes.com

An investment to consider, if you have a spare ~$400,000

"After the Apple II went on sale, the company began an aggressive trade-in program, offering Apple II’s and sometimes cash incentives in exchange for Apple-1’s, said Bob Luther, who is writing a book on the vintage machines, “The First Apple,” which he plans to self-publish, with help from a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.
In his book research, Mr. Luther called Michael Scott, Apple’s president from 1977 to 1981, and interviewed him about the trade-in program. As Mr. Luther recalled, Mr. Scott told him, “If we had done a better job, you and I wouldn’t be having this phone call.”
“They just wanted the Apple-1 to go away,” said Mr. Luther, who bought an Apple-1 for $7,600 in 2004. (“Mine’s not for sale.”)"

Apple-1 Computers Jump in Value at Auctions - NYTimes.com

#35. A Summary of ‘The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business’ by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen | New Books in Brief

Another timely and detailed book summary by New Books in Brief

#35. A Summary of ‘The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business’ by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen | New Books in Brief

Microsoft’s Cheap Shot At The iPad Actually Points Out Exactly Why The Surface Sucks | TechCrunch

Check the full post for the Microsoft ad video and more analysis

"The problem is that not only is the Siri construct weak and her actual lines poorly written, but the abilities Microsoft chooses to highlight show exactly why it doesn’t “get” the tablet market. People aren’t looking for multitasking PowerPoint slide deck-creating machines; they have computers for that.
The closing bit here is maybe the worst part; showing that Apple’s iPad can easily provide a remarkably realistic experience for playing Chopsticks on the screen is not the way to trash your competition, especially if you noticeably can’t offer up an equivalent experience on your own hardware."

Microsoft’s Cheap Shot At The iPad Actually Points Out Exactly Why The Surface Sucks | TechCrunch

Microsoft's Xbox One: What's Windows got to do with it? | ZDNet

Time to update Dave Cutler's already amazing Wikipedia article

"In an under-the-hood architecture panel following the Xbox One reveal, Boyd Multerer, Director of Development for Xbox, confirmed that the team started with Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor in building the Xbox One operating system. Multerer said the team stripped out all the general-purpose "goop" to create an OS that allowd two virtual machines to run in side-by-side partitions. One of the partitions runs apps; the other runs games.
"David Cutler built the hypervisor that does the switching back and forth," Multerer confirmed."

Microsoft's Xbox One: What's Windows got to do with it? | ZDNet

Tesla Pays Off Its $465 Million 'Loser' Loan - Businessweek

On a roll

"Of all his recent moves, this one must be especially sweet for Musk. Critics have long taken swipes at Tesla and its all-electric hippieness for relying on a federal handout. The most public of such barbs arrived from Mitt Romney during the presidential debates, when he described Tesla as a “loser” alongside Solyndra and Fisker Automotive. Even back then, it seemed a bit silly to lump Tesla—a company employing thousands of people at an American car factory—in with that group of green lollygaggers. And now that Tesla has paid its way off the government dole, Romney may have sealed his fate as that rare capitalist-cum-politician rooting against a successful American car company. (Although Sarah Palin has recently threatened to keep him company.)"

Tesla Pays Off Its $465 Million 'Loser' Loan - Businessweek

Microsoft Creates 'Yammer North' in Redmond to Learn New Software Tricks - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ

A Yammer assimilation update

"Yammer North is composed of Microsoft people, not Yammer people–Yammer has retained its offices in San Francisco and is aggressively hiring, Teper said, while the Yammer North team, which is about 70 people, is responsible for integrating Yammer technology across Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365 and for “bringing Microsoft processes and approaches, where appropriate, back to the Yammer team.”"

Microsoft Creates 'Yammer North' in Redmond to Learn New Software Tricks - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ

Inside Google's Secret Lab - Businessweek

From an extensive Google X profile; also see Google X acquires kite-power start-up Makani (CNet)

"Teller has turned his sky’s-the-limit thinking into Google X’s most visible export. Last March he spoke at the South By Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Tex., telling a packed auditorium, “The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.” Last year, with longtime Google executive Megan Smith, he co-founded the company’s annual, invitation-only conference, Solve for X, a two-and-a-half-day gathering of a hundred or so big thinkers. At the recent session in February at CordeValle, a golf resort south of San Jose, speakers covered topics such as inflatable robots, eye examinations that can detect the early onset of Alzheimer’s disease, and nuclear fusion reactors. “There is really only one guarantee and that is if we don’t try, nothing is going to happen,” said Charles Chase, a senior program manager for Lockheed Martin’s (LMT) advanced development program, Skunk Works, who gave the fusion talk."

Inside Google's Secret Lab - Businessweek

In China, Hacking Has Widespread Acceptance - NYTimes.com

Interesting times

"The culture of hacking in China is not confined to top-secret military compounds where hackers carry out orders to pilfer data from foreign governments and corporations. Hacking thrives across official, corporate and criminal worlds. Whether it is used to break into private networks, track online dissent back to its source or steal trade secrets, hacking is openly discussed and even promoted at trade shows, inside university classrooms and on Internet forums.
The Ministry of Education and Chinese universities, for instance, join companies in sponsoring hacking competitions that army talent scouts attend, though “the standards can be mediocre,” said a cybersecurity expert who works for a government institute and handed out awards at a 2010 competition."

In China, Hacking Has Widespread Acceptance - NYTimes.com

Why The Apple TV Has Nothing To Fear From The Xbox One | Cult of Mac

For a different perspective, see Did Microsoft Just Kick Apple Out of the Living Room? (Mashable)

"The Xbox One demonstrates how to play to an audience. And that audience isn’t the same as Apple’s.
“Microsoft has included everything but the kitchen sink.”
While the Xbox One certainly looks like a fantastic entertainment hub, it would totally overwhelm my mother. Microsoft has included everything but the kitchen sink. To go from a traditional remote + controller combo to pinch and pull gestures with voice commands is quite the leap, even for a tech nerd."

Why The Apple TV Has Nothing To Fear From The Xbox One | Cult of Mac

Computer History Museum | Exhibits | This Day in History: May 22: Xerox Researcher Proposes "Ethernet"

Happy 40th birthday, Ethernet

"Robert Metcalfe, a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in California, wrote his original memo proposing an "Ethernet." Metcalfe described the document, typed out on a Selectric typewriter, as follows: "Ether Acquisition" ... heavy with handwritten annotations -- one of which was "ETHER!" -- and with hand-drawn diagrams -- one of which showed `boosters' interconnecting branched cable, telephone, and ratio ethers in what we now call an internet.... I If Ethernet was invented in any one memo, by any one person, or on any one day, this was it.""

Computer History Museum | Exhibits | This Day in History: May 22

Pew: 94% Of Teenagers Use Facebook, Have 425 Facebook Friends, But Twitter & Instagram Adoption Way Up [MarketingLand]

For another take on the Pew/Harvard research, see Teenagers flock from Facebook to Twitter and share more info, poll finds (MercuryNews/AP)

“According to the report, 95 percent of teens (12 – 17) use the internet and 81 percent of them use social media sites. Facebook is by far the most heavily adopted social site, with 94 percent of social media teens reporting they have a profile there.

Twitter and Instagram are far behind Facebook, but both have made impressive gains. Twitter was used by only 12% of teens in 2011 but more than doubled that to 26% in 2012. with usage of 26% and 11%. Instagram doesn’t appear to have been measured in 2011, so surveyed growth can’t be determined. But it comes in with an impressive third place at 11%.”

Pew: 94% Of Teenagers Use Facebook, Have 425 Facebook Friends, But Twitter & Instagram Adoption Way Up

Xbox One runs three operating systems, including cut-down Windows for apps [Engadget]

Virtualization reality

"The latest update out of the currently unfolding announcement in Redmond: the next-generation Xbox will run three operating systems simultaneously. Complementing Windows 8 and RT on PCs and tablets, there'll be a third distinct version of Microsoft's operating system that has been pared down specifically for the new console. This will be the main system OS used to run apps such as Skype and other non-game titles downloaded from the Xbox storefront. At the same time, virtualization technology similar to Microsoft's Hyper-V will be used to allocate the bulk of system resources to a second, dedicated "Xbox OS" when the user loads up a game. This game OS will remain a fixed entity throughout the life of the console, so that game developers can be confident their games will run regardless of how much the Windows side of the machine gets updated. Finally, the third OS sounds like a small layer to assist with the virtualization, allowing the two main personalities of the console to talk to each other."

Xbox One runs three operating systems, including cut-down Windows for apps

Eight years later, one new Xbox | Tech Culture - CNET News

More Xbox One details

"The new console, black and sleek with a horizontal slit across its center and a modern Xbox logo, features 5 billion transistors, 8GB of RAM, USB 3.0, Wi-Fi direct, a Blu-Ray drive, and a native 64-bit architecture. In addition, it has a 1080P HD RGB camera and an all-new game controller.
The Xbox One will not be backward compatible, but Microsoft said it will continue to support the Xbox 360. The new console will be released later this year, but a pricing structure was not disclosed.
[...]
Naturally, Microsoft has boosted the Xbox Live infrastructure. The company said that when Xbox Live was first unveiled in 2002, it had 500 dedicated servers. When the Xbox 360 was launched in 2005, there were 3,000. Today, the number is 15,000 servers. For Xbox One, there will be more than 300,000 servers dedicated to Xbox Live, a number larger than the world's entire computing power in 1999, according to Microsoft."

Eight years later, one new Xbox | Tech Culture - CNET News

Xbox One Enters Changed Gaming Landscape - NYTimes.com

Final paragraphs from an Xbox One launch recap

"The games business could use a jolt. Total United States retail sales of game hardware and software fell 25 percent to $495.2 million in April from $657.5 million a year earlier, according to estimates by NPD Group, a research firm. That figure does not include the sale of downloadable content over the Internet.
Alex St. John, an entrepreneur who worked on Microsoft’s pre-Xbox game efforts, says he is pessimistic about prospects for gaming consoles.
“They’re coming out with the latest and greatest stone tool,” Mr. St. John said. “The new console that trumps the old console is called the Apple iPad. This generation of kids loves mobile games.”"

Xbox One Enters Changed Gaming Landscape - NYTimes.com

In Disarming Testimony, Apple Chief Eases Tax Tensions - NYTimes.com

Reality distortion field, Capitol Hill edition

"Timothy Cook came to the lion’s den on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, prepared to face down lawmakers furious over evidence that Apple, the famous company he runs, had avoided paying billions in taxes. By the time Mr. Cook walked out, the big cats on a Senate committee were practically eating out of his hand."

In Disarming Testimony, Apple Chief Eases Tax Tensions - NYTimes.com

Intel’s Data Economy Initiative Aims to Help People Capture the Value of Personal Data | MIT Technology Review

Related recommended reading: Who Owns the Future?

"Intel Labs, the company’s R&D arm, is launching an initiative around what it calls the “data economy”—how consumers might capture more of the value of their personal information, like digital records of their their location or work history. To make this possible, Intel is funding hackathons to urge developers to explore novel uses of personal data. It has also paid for a rebellious-sounding website called We the Data, featuring raised fists and stories comparing Facebook to Exxon Mobil.
Intel’s effort to stir a debate around “your data” is just one example of how some companies—and society more broadly—are grappling with a basic economic asymmetry of the big data age: they’ve got the data, and we don’t."

Intel’s Data Economy Initiative Aims to Help People Capture the Value of Personal Data | MIT Technology Review

Cisco: Big Data Is the Network, Too - NYTimes.com

Concluding paragraphs of a snapshot from the front line of the battle for "Internet of things" and big data market leadership

"As we rush to crunch data from more parts of both the Internet and the physical world, the argument runs, we will make analytics and computing part of everything. That could make it hard for independent analytics providers, or force them to also adopt networking or computing businesses. But that would require a lot of money.
The question could ultimately be whether the center of the system is in the data, as EMC thinks, or in H.P.’s servers, IBM’s software, or Cisco’s network. As the saying goes, where you stand has a lot to do with where you sit."

Cisco: Big Data Is the Network, Too - NYTimes.com

The 25 Most Popular Tumblrs Reveal the Challenge for Yahoo! - Businessweek

Sign of the times

"Tumblr has been quietly chopping down on the smut, and only one of its top 25 sites today is pornographic, according to Quantcast.
The rest of Tumblr’s most popular blogs are SFW, but they’re not exactly mainstream. The single most-visited Tumblr is dedicated to Minecraft, followed by a Portuguese-language site specializing in animated GIFS and one that translates people’s names into various languages spoken on science fiction shows. Professional media outlets and brands make up three of the top 25 (Comedy Central; Clarin, the Argentine newspaper; and Angry Birds). Other particularly popular sites are a blog juxtaposing handsome men and adorable kittens; a blog shaming people who act like douchebags on other social-media platforms; and various collections of cartoons."

The 25 Most Popular Tumblrs Reveal the Challenge for Yahoo! - Businessweek

The Jolla ‘Other Half’ is the Nokia version of an Android smartphone. Sort of | VentureBeat

MeeGo morphs and finds a path to market

"Jolla, a new and independent smartphone vendor which almost no-one but mobile wonks has ever heard of, took the core of Meego and built Sailfish, a new mobile operating system that is built on an open-source project named Mer that is the new incarnation of Meego, and is just now teasing the coming-soon release of its very first device, the oddly named and oddly designed but also oddly attractive “The Other Half.”
Surprise, surprise, Jolla is based in Helsinki, Finland, where there just happens to be a surplus of top-notch mobile talent available lately (shocking, isn’t it). And surprise, surprise, all of the top Jolla leaders are ex-Nokia employees. Almost two years ago, Jolla announced its intentions of bringing a new smartphone to market. The biggest surprise is that they seem to be succeeding."

The Jolla ‘Other Half’ is the Nokia version of an Android smartphone. Sort of | VentureBeat

In Media, Big Data Is Booming but Big Results Are Lacking - Ben Elowitz - Voices - AllThingsD

Excerpt from an insightful big data perspective

"The trouble with data is that it asks as many questions as it answers. Your engagement is down, bounce rate is up, search traffic is up — why is that, and what can we do to make it higher, lower and higher? Data almost never hands you the answers or insights directly; it just illuminates the issue. And it illuminates a whole bunch of them at once, so it’s up to you to figure out what the priorities are.
If this problem is an “opportunity in disguise,” most executives seem quickly scared off by the masquerade. In truth, Big Data raises the bar for how smart you have to be as an executive."

In Media, Big Data Is Booming but Big Results Are Lacking - Ben Elowitz - Voices - AllThingsD

Apple’s Web of Tax Shelters Saved It Billions, Panel Finds - NYTimes.com

Seems pretty obvious the only real solution is to eliminate the loopholes; otherwise, companies are likely to continue doing what they are financially incented to do; on a related note, see Schmidt: Don't like our tiny tax bills? Google this... 'Change the law' (The Register)

"Investigators have not accused Apple of breaking any laws and the company is hardly the only American multinational to face scrutiny for using complex corporate structures and tax havens to sidestep taxes. In recent months, revelations from European authorities about the tax avoidance strategies used by Google, Starbucks and Amazon have all stirred public anger and spurred several European governments, as well as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based research organization for the world’s richest countries, to discuss measures to close the loopholes.
Still, the findings about Apple were remarkable both for the enormous amount of money involved and the audaciousness of the company’s assertion that its subsidiaries are beyond the reach of any taxing authority."

Apple’s Web of Tax Shelters Saved It Billions, Panel Finds - NYTimes.com

But Wait. Didn't Yahoo Try a Deal Like This Before? - NYTimes.com

Excerpt from a Yahoo/Tumblr reality check

"The lesson of GeoCities raises this question about Tumblr: How can a company with zero profits (actually, multimillion-dollar losses) and just $13 million in revenue be worth $1.1 billion?
Inside Yahoo, officials dismiss the comparison to GeoCities. Instead, they compare the Tumblr deal to Google’s purchase of YouTube — that is, Yahoo’s management believes that Tumblr is one of a rare few transformative sites on the Internet. Google paid $1.6 billion for YouTube when it too made no money. At the time of that deal, it seemed heretical. Now, it seems genius.
To Yahoo, Tumblr is the equivalent of beachfront property. With more than 100 million user-generated blogs on Tumblr, there is no question that it brings Yahoo a younger audience. It adds a sense of hipness to a company that had lost its sense of cool."

But Wait. Didn't Yahoo Try a Deal Like This Before? - NYTimes.com

I know identity of Bitcoin's SECRET mastermind, says Ted Nelson • The Register

Deeply intertwingled

"Sociologist, philosopher, computer industry pioneer and inventor of the term “hypertext” Ted Nelson is claiming that he knows the identity of Bitcoin inventor “Satoshi Nakamoto”.
In a rambling – and, let's face it, odd – 12-minute post on YouTube, Nelson spins out the suspense, throws in a dialogue with himself as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, and finally ends with the statement that the mystery developer of the cryptocurrency is Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki, research professor of mathematics at Kyoto University."
[...]
Australian writer Stilgherrian told The Register that while it'd be easy to dismiss the claims, in spite of his eccentricities, Nelson "has the annoying habit of being right."

I know identity of Bitcoin's SECRET mastermind, says Ted Nelson • The Register

Editorial: Apple's billions are building an empire for the future [Apple Insider]

From an extensive and insightful Apple reality check

“Given that Apple now sits on well over $144.7 billion in liquid resources, there's lots of discussion about how the company could or should be spending it. What Apple is already doing with its cash is actually more interesting.”

Apple's growing cash, cash equivalents, and securities, via Asymco.

Editorial: Apple's billions are building an empire for the future

I/O Announcement: Google Analytics Premium data in BigQuery is coming soon - Analytics Blog

Check the full post for some example usage scenarios

"The upcoming BigQuery integration, happening later this year, is a planned feature for Google Analytics Premium that allows clients to access their session and hit level data from Google Analytics within Google BigQuery for more granular and complex querying of unsampled data. For those unfamiliar with Google BigQuery, it’s a web service that lets you perform interactive analysis of massive data sets—up to trillions of rows. Scalable and easy to use, BigQuery lets developers and businesses tap into powerful data analytics on demand. Plus, your data is easily exportable; you own it."

I/O Announcement: Google Analytics Premium data in BigQuery is coming soon - Analytics Blog

Wordpress' Mullenweg Says 72,000 Blogs Imported From Tumblr in 1 Hour - Kara Swisher - Media - AllThingsD

Evidently some Tumblr users are not Yahoo fans

"Despite largely anecdotal media speculation, it’s not clear how the acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo for $1.1 billion will be greeted by users of the New York blogging service.
But rival blogging service WordPress’ co-founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg posted a blog last night that said that imports from Tumblr to his service on Sunday had risen from a typical 400 to 600 blog posts an hour to over 72,000."

Wordpress' Mullenweg Says 72,000 Blogs Imported From Tumblr in 1 Hour - Kara Swisher - Media - AllThingsD

Google TV: silent but not forgotten at I/O 2013 | The Verge

Final paragraphs of a Google TV reality check

"Despite its slightly awkward presence, like the nerdy kid that snuck into the school dance and hid in the corner hoping no one would notice, Google TV isn't gone. And Google believes it may be heading toward a comeback: we’re told to expect a steady drumbeat of Google TV products, from partners like LG, TCL, and others. But a steady drumbeat is what got Google TV where it is today.
What Google TV needs is a makeover, and a splashy re-launch. It needs to shows us why it’s different now, why it’s better. Google needs to convince users, developers, and manufacturers that the Android they love on cell phones can work on the big screen in their living room as well. Then Google needs to prove it, fast."

Google TV: silent but not forgotten at I/O 2013 | The Verge

Yahoo Deal Shows Power Shift - WSJ.com

The search for a Tumblr business model continues, under a new owner

"There are several risks for Yahoo. A popular venue for teens, Tumblr includes many Web pages of racially insensitive, pornographic and other sexually oriented content. Such pages wouldn't be attractive to advertisers. There is also the risk of diminishing Tumblr's appeal among some users with too-aggressive a push to bring in advertising revenue. Writing on his Tumblr blog Saturday, John Saroff, a former Google executive, estimated Tumblr could generate $108 million or more a year based on the rates advertisers generally are willing to pay for graphical ads online.
But he said Tumblr was "correct" to resist filling its site with advertising since doing so could upset its core audience. He added that Tumblr, as a blogging platform, would likely have to get permission from Tumblr blog writers like him before it could place ads on the blogs and share revenue. He compared the business model to that of Google's YouTube video site, where the company shares revenue with video creators."

Yahoo Deal Shows Power Shift - WSJ.com

Chinese Hackers Resume Attacks on U.S. Targets - NYTimes.com

Digital diplomacy

"In a report to be issued Wednesday, a private task force led by Mr. Obama’s former director of national intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, and his former ambassador to China, Jon M. Huntsman Jr., lays out a series of proposed executive actions and Congressional legislation intended to raise the stakes for China.
“Jawboning alone won’t work,” Mr. Blair said Saturday. “Something has to change China’s calculus.”"

Chinese Hackers Resume Attacks on U.S. Targets - NYTimes.com