Did Peter Thiel Make The Single Best Investment In History?

Grayson Attack Helps His Rival
By Louise Radnofsky Florida Republican Daniel Webster turned an attack advertisement from Incumbent Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson comparing him to a member of the Taliban into a fund-raising tool — raking in $130,000 in the last two days, the Webster camp said. Rep. Alan Grayson (D., Fla.) (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images) Grayson launched the ad over the weekend portraying Webster, a long-time state legislator, as a Religious Extremist for his positions on Abortion and...

Report of private detention of Chinese citizens stirs outrage
Reporting from Beijing — The Scandal has all the makings of a classic takedown in a corrupt city: Crusading Journalists publish allegations of a security firm abusing people on behalf of crooked officials. Police launch an investigation and arrest the firm's top officers. Politicians hold their breath, hoping they don't get named. Except, this being China , the officials suspected of availing themselves of the paid thugs haven't had much cause to squirm. When Beijing-based financial...

Google's Street View spies on all 7 continents, even penguins
Even penguins in Antarctica can't escape the all-seeing eye of Google Street View . The search engine announced Thursday its fast-growing, real-life mapping service is available on all seven continents. Google began the service three years ago in five U.S. cities and has quickly spread to cover most of America, Europe , Australia , Japan and scattered cities in between. Posting panoramic images of chinstrap penguins on the snow-covered shores of Antarctica's Half Moon Island brings...

Corporations Have Unlimited Lobbying Power, Lobbyist Says (VIDEO)
Corporations and interest Groups have an unlimited ability to spend money on Political causes, fostering an unethical and potentially illegal system of influence, a powerful Washington DC Lobbyist acknowledged to MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan on Wednesday. Appearing on the First installment of a series called "Follow the Money," the Lobbyist, Jimmy Williams, a principal at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, said corporations and interest Groups often do not report to the IRS the large amounts of...

Daily Blogwatch: Favorite Articles from Google CEO
Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, occasionally posts links to his favorite stories in his Twitter stream. I pulled these links out and created, for our reading pleasure, Eric Schmidt's Blogwatch: ____________ How Google's ( GOOG ) CEO pulled off his quirky IPO. ___________ Sergey Brin's experience providing aid to Haiti . ___________ Sponsored Links If your kids are awake, they are probably online . ___________ Does America have further to fall in the 2010s? ___________ Can...

US Lawmakers Lament Inability to Censor 'Jihadi Websites'
In a hearing at the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, Congressmen lamented their inability to arrange for the mass Censorship of Internet websites that might “inspire” Extremists. Rep. Brad Sherman (D - CA), t he subcommittee’s chairman, targeted YouTube in particular, expressing outrage that the website does not automatically remove any videos which might promote “a Jihadist ideology” and claiming that “they are endangering...

Public Parts
That’s the title of my next book about the end of Privacy and the benefits of publicness. I’m delighted to tell you that I’ve just agreed to write it for HarperCollins, my publisher for What Would Google Do? , working again with my brilliant editor there, Ben Loehnen. It will come out, muses willing, next year. In Public Parts , I’ll argue, as I have here , that in our current Privacy mania we are not talking enough about the value of publicness. If we default to...

Pardon Me, Your Tells Are Showing...
mega pimp, super clean, the coolest in the universe. niggas hatin on what he doin, just mad cause they aint do it first. his name pop up when you hit “playa” on ya Google search. bitches bow they heads and bend they knees, just like they do in church. drop dough into a purse, before you get into a skirt. 

When Lawyers Can Peek at Facebook
Could the legal world be moving toward a new set of Miranda warnings: Anything you say, do — or post on Facebook — can be used against you in a Court of Law? I give those warnings to my kids all the time, joked Stephen P. Younger , the president of the New York State Bar Association. Within the past two weeks, both the state Bar Association and the citys Bar group (pdf) have issued opinions saying that lawyers are allowed, under certain conditions, to get...

Website Toolbar, Website Apps, Chat Room, Web based IM, and more
Make your site sticky. "If you use Google Analytics, like I do, the Bounce Rates could really use some improvement! But I just recently found a easy and free way to keep visitors on my site and it's called Skysa!" Tasting The Internet One Byte at a Time

State Secrets
Don't pre-tweet your verdict (kw) You can do very well as the owner of a very bad Baseball team . Monopolies work! [DAH] WSJ animated graphic on Google's quest to know everything (DJS)

Beware the 'illusion of cause'
Outlaw Ice Cream; save lives! Statistical data clearly shows that when there is an increase in Ice Cream consumption, the rate of drowning increases significantly. I'm serious! Get the straw hats! Remove the tea bags and replace them with empty Ice Cream cones. Organize, mobilize and harass Town hall Meetings before it's too late! If you think this is a ridiculous idea, you would be right. The reason? The "illusion of cause." There is no causal link, no direct relation between these...

Where Google Street View Is Going, It Doesn't Need Streets
Streets? Hello, McFly. Photo: Universal Pictures Google announced today that its Street View feature is now operating on all seven continents, including Antarctica, our practically streetless neighbor to the far, far south. Maybe now someone can find that suicidal penguin that walked off into the unknown in the middle of that Werner Herzog Documentary. If aquatic, flightless birds aren't your thing, how about aquatic, flightless Bikini babes? You can now also use Street View in Brazil. [...

Are Android apps exposing user information?
Android, the mobile operating system developed by Google, is an open-source platform. But some researchers are questioning how safe Android really is.

How You Gonna Vote?
And I'll do the Ballot Track as well... Kinda cool to see the progress of your vote. If you haven't signed up, go here for Denver County: https://www.denvergov.org/elect... I think Jefferson and Arapahoe have it as well, but a quick Google search doesn't turn it up. "I wanted to let you know that I'm going to get you. You won't know where, and you won't know when. But it will hurt. And you will cry. And I will laugh. And...did I mention it will hurt? Very good." Red Forman, That 70's...

Short on Roof Space? Adobe Plants Fuel Cells
It will be the nations largest installation of Bloom Energy Servers , a cutting-edge solid oxide fuel cell that has been bought by Google, eBay and other big corporations. Bloom Energy, a long-secretive Sunnyvale, Calif., start-up that has raised $400 million from some of Silicon Valleys leading Venture Capitalists, introduced the Energy servers to great fanfare at a February event attended by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California; Gen. Colin L. Powell, the former secretary of...

Google Street View now covers every continent including Antarctica
Internet search giant Google has taken its Controversial StreetView mapping service to the world's southernmost continent - Antarctica.

50 Cent: Kill Yourself If You're A Man Who Doesn't Eat Pu**y
50 Cent has a suggestion for men who don't enjoy giving women oral sex. "If you a man and your over 25 and you don't eat pu**y just kill your self damn it. The world will be a better place. Lol," he tweeted on Thursday. It was unclear whether he was bashing gays or orally-stingy straight men. Just before making his remarks, 50 tweeted an oral sex request for himself. "Ok ok I really want a blow job damn what's wrong with that. just give me a little licky licky. Lol," he wrote . "Look I'm...

What Google learned from Buzz
San Francisco (CNNMoney.com) -- Google Buzz "stumbled out of the gate" -- a misstep that went on to shape Google's approach to Social Networking, Google executive Bradley Horowitz said Tuesday. "There was a lot we learned in the first 48 hours putting the product to market, and there's a lot we've learned since," Horowitz said during a panel discussion at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. "There's opportunities that have emerged from what we've learned that have...

Autocomplete the Candidates
Begin typing into a Google search box and you will quickly see a list of suggested searches. Google describes this feature, known as autocomplete, as “a reflection of the search activity of all Web users.” For example, typing the name of a Senate Candidate usually reveals “for Senate” or “wiki” as the top item in the list. But not always. Below, the first suggestions that appeared this week for some Candidates.

Google Autocomplete Gives You A Sense Of The Candidates. Or Does It?
Now that when you enter a name in Google, it begins to autocomplete the person or phrase as soon as you begin typing, there are some interesting results .

Human landscapes in SW Florida
4 Once proposed as the 57,000 acre "Golden Gate Estates", this area was to be the largest subdivision in America in the 1960s. Many canals and roads were built, but the development eventually went bankrupt. Over the past 20 years or so, the land has been acquired by the state, and converted into the Picayune Strand State Forest . Map , Street View . (© Google/USGS) # 5

This used to be the same on MSN,
This used to be the same on MSN, but they are now repeating ads 1-3 AT THE TOP and AT THE BOTTOM. This means if you have a very specific keyword that you are paying just 10c for… If you wait till the end to say what you are selling, it might get cut off. You get a little more room and flexibility in writing your Overture ads. Unlike Google, your ads are [...] Warning: Try this out, but don’t oversell everything… This is another reason you need to write an ad for every...

Net Neutrality Proposal Falls Apart
Washington — House Democrats have shelved a last-ditch effort to broker a Compromise between phone, cable and Internet companies on rules that would prohibit Broadband providers from blocking or degrading online traffic flowing over their networks. House Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., abandoned the effort late Wednesday in the face of Republican opposition to his proposed "network Neutrality" rules. Those rules were intended to prevent Broadband providers from...

IM DAT NIGGA LYRICS
mega pimp, super clean, the coolest in the universe. niggas hatin on what he doin, just mad cause they aint do it first. his name pop up when you hit "playa" on ya Google search. bitches bow they heads and bend they knees, just like they do in church. drop dough into a purse, before you get into a skirt.