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Mike Rosen-Molina

by Mike Rosen-Molina, November 4, 2008

  1. NYT Election Wordtrain
    Shows how Dems, Repubs feel on Election Day
  2. Search the hidden web
    Google OCR can search through PDFs
  3. Halloween Twitters
    'War of the Worlds' played out in tweets
  4. MySpace copyright deal
    Some material can stay; copyright holders can profit
  5. Anti-trust concessions
    Google, Yahoo submit revised ad deal to DOJ
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