INTERNET NEWS & NOTES
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Web Site Created To Connect Communities
(NAPSI)-There’s good news for Internet users who find searching for information about their interests can be time consuming and frustrating.
A free search engine and interactive Web site has been created. Its purpose is to connect people with their local and interest-based communities and provide only the most relevant search results based on a user’s search parameters.
Called iPoste.org, the site collects timely news feeds and provides a forum for posting classified ads, jobs, calendars, real estate listings and user comments about specific areas of interest-at no charge and on a single Web page. The site is said to organize and display timely information by city or zip code, free of pop-ups and other commercial distractions.
According to the site’s manager, Dave Collins, it’s a place where people can easily and efficiently find and post all sorts of useful information about a specific topic, either locally or nationally.
To learn more, visit the Web site at http://www.iPoste.org.
A new Web site is said to offer a snapshot of timely information about your community-with the click of a mouse.

Wanna get rich?

Google already has a service, why not build up the existing one?

_Technology-Google video has been around much longer than YT yet there is still significant latency in consuming their video. Eventually they could probably figure it out but we’re on Internet time folks..

_User Base-YT has a user base that has rocketed as fast as the Google share price. For Google to get where YT is at, not only would they need to drastically improve the user experience of there existing svc but, more importantly, they first need to figure out how to deliver immediate, instant gratification as YT does. As many have seen, Google has not had much success developng a good user experience outside of the core Search functiionality

Why would Google take on all the legal/copyright issues that plague Youtube?

_the popularity of YT, imo, is the access to all the homemade videos put up by milliions of people from war coverage in Iraq(fyi,which is pretty graphic) to some kid in hell’s kitchen singing his heart out on a rickety keyboard. The copyright stuff that so often mentioned is just icing on the cake…

What do the deals with Sony et al foretell?
_it’s a vote of confidence, imo, by those who believe in this new distribution method

Btw, i don’t work nor own shares of Google. I do, however, like what they’ve done to change the business landscape in terms of mindset and what it means to create value for people–not just to dominate and beat down others like the boys in Redmond have done.

Take time to read the zdnet post titled “Gillmor’s gesture to Mr. Mike ”
http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-m......php?p=519

FWIW, this jus maybe a Smoke Screen and Mike fell for it :(- in todays world its called a “sanctioned counter capital market intelligence initative” - somebody was told to leak info which is project a “postive” , but in reality it could “negative negative” -everything being deflective away from the main strategy !!

Oh well, lets see.. goog’s has the Q3/ earning declaration on the 19th !!