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One of the more important points in understanding some of the fights over the ridiculousness of today's copyright and patent laws is to recognize how knowledge (information) is a natural resource. It is the input that makes other great things. Economist Paul Romer's famous research really showed how knowledge and information as a resource is what creates economic growth. Once you recognize that fact, you begin to run into problems when you think about locking up that natural resource.

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Google announced today that it is closing a number of services that it wasn't able to attract millions of users to without making any effort. The worst of the lot to lose are two: the Social Graph API and DIY data extraction service Needlebase. Following on the heels of the kitten-stomping-bad sunsetting of Postrank, these latest closures are really meaningful, even if the adoption of the services never was.

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The new Yahoo Content Analysis API capitalizes on the success of its term extraction API while adding new functionality. The reborn implementation not only extracts terms and entities but ranks them based on perceived importance within the article.

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WordPress has released version 2.0 of its Android app for mobile blogging, and as a WordPress for iOS user, I am jealous. The new app launches with a screen that covers just about every first action a mobile blogger needs.

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Using APIs: Not Quite as Hard as it Looks

A simple way to increase engagement, generate new revenue and drive traffic to your mobile-optimized site.

Video publishing platform Ooyala recently launched Ooyala Social, a new HD-quality Social TV experience that brings video sharing and and viewing to Facebook.

The service specializes in hosting videos for corporate and media entities such as Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Dell, General Mills and ESPN. Content owners can now use Ooyala Social to make premium on-demand and live video available on Facebook via rentals, subscriptions, purchases, and and more. [Read more →]

Every phone geek loves to debate how long it’ll be before we’ve trashed our wallets in favor of paying for stuff with our phones in the real world — but what about online?

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