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Brittany Murphy, Google Results and the Live Web

Waking up this morning I heard the news about Brittany Murphy’s passing so I went and “googled” it and sure enough the search confirmed the story. But as I scanned through the numerous results I saw a new window embedded in the page I had not noticed before which was continuously scrolling with updates. The Brittany Murphy story was breaking before my eyes via a “dynamic stream” of real-time content from such sites as Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Identi.ca and of course Twitter. This was not static content – this was news and opinions as it happened… [...]

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Should the Internet be pay per view?

One of the points that caught my attention was when the discussion turned to the talk of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation looking into how they charge for content on the web…not just to the consumer but also to the news aggregators such as Google & Yahoo. This caught my interest because other than publications like the Wall Street Journal most newspaper publications on the internet are free. Subscription models, unless attached to a specialty publication such as the Wall Street Journal, general don’t tend to work and we have seen numerous attempts at it in the past. [...]

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