Here’s one Google Monopoly that won’t have regulators buzzing.
Starting today, Hasbro is launching a massively multiplayer worldwide game of Monopoly online using the Google Maps service.
Players start out with $3 million of Monopoly money and can then digitally purchase real city blocks across the globe. Users will then be able to create buildings and start [...]

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The iron-fisted Chinese government is understandably not a big fan of Web 3.0.  Still, in an unbelievable move today, Chinese officials have shut down Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Hotmail.com, Blogger, YouTube and a host of other sites.
Free speech is merely a figment of the imagination in China and the blocking of these services is another instance [...]

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There is a lot going on over at the Googleplex today.  Let’s take a look at today’s updates from Google.
Gmail Attachments
First, Gmail has changed the way attachments work in a way that will save you a few clicks.  Now,if you would like to send a few files from the same folder, you can just [...]

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This is exactly why I started using Wordpress instead of Google’s Blogger platform.
Several music industry bloggers are reporting that many of their blog posts are simply disappearing.
L.A. Weekly says that the bloggers affected are all using Google’s Blogger platform which, needless to say, has a lot of music bloggers up in arms.
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Google has just announced a really cool way to test and optimize your site, thereby maximizing your profits.  Online marketing is all about testing, testing, testing.  Friends, it just got a whole lot easier.
Google Website Optimizer allows you to create multiple versions of your webpage (maybe one version with a red button and [...]

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Liskula Cohen, a Canadian model, has sued Google over some critical posts that were made by a blogger using their Blogger service. The NY Daily News reports that the former Vogue cover girl was referred to as ’skanky’ and ‘an old hag’ by an anonymous blogger on a website called Skanks in NYC…careful…NSFW.
The [...]

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