Canadian freelance photographer Ryan Pyle lost thousands of digital photos when Digital Railroad abruptly shut down last October. The online storage service posted a note to its Web site (text of note) stating that it ran out of money and would have to close.

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But is Google that important to today's Internet? Well, a quick look at this graph from the Web security company Arbor Networks shows a canyon-sized hole in North American Internet traffic during the G-outage.

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2008 Newsvine Presidential Challenge State of the Union Address

My friends, it is a great honor to be here tonight, addressing the Newsvine community as a Republican Party (if you're out of the country, that's the conservative, aka the good, party) nominee, together with backroads.

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The growing confrontation between Google and Microsoft promises to be an epic business battle. It is likely to shape the prosperity and progress of both companies, and also inform how consumers and corporations work, shop, communicate and go about their digital lives.

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Americans under 35 spend 16% more than they earn, on average. College graduates leave school with an average of $20,000 in student loans and almost $3,000 in credit-card debt. This demographic, in sum, is sorely in need of an easy-to-use solution to their ample money woes.

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Using Online Apps and OSes in Schools

So I am trying out Glideas a possible solution for school systems wanting to minimize costs for licenses of MS Office and other office suites.

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Online Apps Demographics

Now that we have Google Analytics installed, I thought it might be interesting to see who reads my blog. I found some very interesting facts (from Aug 20 - present):

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As spy gear goes, a social-networking Web site doesn't quite have the same cachet as some of James Bond's high-tech gadgets.

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Reto Meier of the Radioactive Yak blog recently turned his cell phone into a "Google Phone," and he'll explain how you can do the same through the different mobile-optimized sites and Java clients Google offers.

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Some interesting thoughts shared by two Gartner analysts that track every move of Google and Microsoft.

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Highrise is an online contact manager that helps you keep track of who you talk to, what was said, and what to do next. Plus, you can set reminders for follow-ups, thank you notes, calls, tasks and more.

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I can never seem to pass by these articles. I love to read about new online apps and 'Web 2.0' sites.

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Yet another list of online apps to help replace .Mac...

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Roll Your Own Online Newspaper

Why do you subscribe to a newspaper?  I think many people subscribe to a newspaper in order to have news delivered to them in a timely matter to consumed at their leisure.  Unlike television and radio which you have to catch and consume on their schedule.&nb …

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OA Mirrors

After 4 months, I've decided to put up Online Apps mirrors at Blogger, Windows Live Spaces, Yahoo! 360, and Wordpress. There are two reasons. First, the sites I mentioned have a big following.

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How to Quickly Search onlineapps.newsvine.com

Since you always use my column (RIGHT? ;-)) for reference, and since Newsvine doesn't have a search engine built in, try using this.

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