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Journal: Microsoft Bing Plus Facebook

11 Society, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Methods & Process, Mobile, Tools
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SEATTLE — Microsoft is starting to incorporate what your friends do on Facebook right into its Bing search engine.

A new feature rolling out Wednesday will start showing what Facebook friends “like” on the search results page.

On Facebook and sites around the Web, people can click a “like” button to show support or share information with friends. On Bing, if you search for a topic in the news, articles friends have shared on Facebook might appear. Restaurants and movies that friends have “liked” could help you decide what to do on your next date.

Microsoft has been working with Facebook since 2006.

The feature could help distinguish Bing from Google, which only has access to information users make public.

Phi Beta Iota: The various Microsoft initiatives are both inspiring and troubling–inspiring because Microsoft is clearly struggling with its inner demons and reaching out to “not invented here” options; and troubling because there does not appear to be any over-arching strategy.  Amazon is the mother lode for intelligent content–when will Microsoft bite the bullet and make Jeff Bezos an offer he cannot refuse?  THAT will be a game changer.

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Journal: Banks’ Foreclosure ‘Robo-Signers’ Were Hair Stylists, Teens, Walmart Workers–Lawsuit

03 Economy, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corporations, Corruption, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth
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Banks' Foreclosure ‘Robo-Signers' Were Hair Stylists, Teens, Walmart Workers: Lawsuit

NEW YORK (AP, Michelle Conlin) — In an effort to rush through thousands of home foreclosures since 2007, financial institutions and their mortgage servicing departments hired hair stylists, Walmart floor workers and people who had worked on assembly lines and installed them in “foreclosure expert” jobs with no formal training, a Florida lawyer says.

In depositions released Tuesday, many of those workers testified that they barely knew what a mortgage was. Some couldn't define the word “affidavit.” Others didn't know what a complaint was, or even what was meant by personal property. Most troubling, several said they knew they were lying when they signed the foreclosure affidavits and that they agreed with the defense lawyers' accusations about document fraud.

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Phi Beta Iota: This just makes us sick–millions of lives–tens of millions of lives–destroyed by criminal misbehavior on  the part of banks, and the government was nowhere to be seen–certainly not looking out for the public interest.

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Journal: Microsoft Pinned Between Google and Oracle-IBM

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Methods & Process, Mobile
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Oracle-IBM pact cuts Android off at the knees

Larry Ellison's latest move could seriously undermine Android, no matter how Oracle's courtroom battles with Google turn out

Here's the story in a nutshell: Android apps are written in a restricted dialect of the Java language, which meant the platform had a vast and skilled developer community from the moment it was released. The components of Android that allow it to run Java code are based on the Harmony project, an open source implementation of Java created under the aegis of the Apache Software Foundation. The vast majority of the code in Harmony was actually written by IBM employees, because Big Blue decided Harmony would be where it would direct its Java development efforts.

But that's no longer the case; the core of the IBM-Oracle deal is that those employees will now switch their attention to OpenJDK, Oracle's in-house open source Java implementation. The move completely sucks the wind out of Harmony's sails, with Tim Ellison, one of Harmony's senior developers, essentially conceding the project will probably fold in short order.

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Phi Beta Iota: Fascinating at multiple levels.  From where we sit, Google is diving, Oracle-IBM are spreading out, and Microsoft is standing pat without a handheld to desktop to cloud concept of operations for what one IBM genius called Service Science.  Apple has trademarked “There's an app for that.”  Stupid but a perfect set-up for Microsoft, or somebody to figure out the only proper answer is “We don't sell apps, we provide answers on demand.”   Microsoft has can only be called “unrealized potential.”  Amazon who?

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Journal: Desecration of American Flag in Phoenix

07 Other Atrocities, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, InfoOps (IO), IO Secrets
Marcus Aurelius Recommends

Protesters desecrate American flag in Phoenix

Posted: Aug 04, 2010 10:57 PM EDT <em>Wednesday, August 4, 2010 10:57 PM EST</em> Updated: Aug 12, 2010 4:36 PM EDT <em>Thursday, August 12, 2010 4:36 PM EST</em>

KOLD News 13 Videos (from August)

PHOENIX, AZ (KOLD) – New video has surfaced from last week's SB-1070 protest that brought people to Phoenix from across the country, including immigrant-rights activists bused in from California.

The video shows those activists desecrating the American flag. They used spray paint to write, “deport Arpaio” and “impeach Brewer.”

There's also a toilet seat on the stars. They displayed the desecrated U.S. Flag and Arizona flag while a man sang the national anthem.

Below the line: Suspected “Urban Myth” email chain mail with photo that is now circulating among US troops.  Note that is has taken two months for this to get up to speed.  We would not be surprised to find the Koch Brothers behind this as part of their Tea Party mobilization and “anonymous” Information Operations campaign toward the public.

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Reference: THE WORLD ORDER A Study in the Hegemony of Parasitism with an Emphasis on the Rothschilds and the Central Banks of Europe

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Budgets & Funding, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Historic Contributions, History, IO Sense-Making, Misinformation & Propaganda, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Officers Call, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Waste (materials, food, etc)
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This one book will explain more history than any other I have ever read.  South Pole Sends.

Phi Beta Iota: The public is starting to do to the Rothschilds, Central Banks, and the Federal Reserve what plane spotters did to CIA rendition flights.  We support truth & reconciliation; we do NOT support revenge or expropriation of illicit assets.   The ill-gotten gains of the Rothschilds and the banks that front for them, notably the Federal Reserve, are a drop in the bucket compared to the infinite wealth that the five billion poor can create if these parasitic “elites” will just get out of the way.  So that is the deal: stay out of the way and keep what you have.  Interfere with the emergence of the global community of informed participatory democracy, and the deal is off.

USA Specific:

Journal: Five Myths Debunked–Treasury Run by Crooks

Journal: Mother of All Frauds AFTER 9-11 Mother of All Atrocities–The Information Canivores Begin Circling Wall Street and the Two-Party Tyranny

See Also:

2004 Seagrave (US/FR) Interview with Sterling and Peggy Seagrave on Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold

Journal: $750 Billion Wall Street Scam, Russian Anger, Chinese Intent, We are NOT Making This Up!

Reference: Alternative Views of 9/11–Massive US Financial & Gold Fraud & 240 Billion Covert Fund Against Russia

Reference: US Intelligence & Global Banking

Review: 9-11 Descent into Tyranny–The New World Order’s Dark Plans to Turn Earth into a Prison Planet

Review: Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids

Review: Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect

Review: The Naked Capitalist

Review: The New Rulers of the World

Review: Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

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Journal: Palantir, Flush with Cash, Sued for Industrial Espionage and Racketeering

Commerce, Corporations, Corruption, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), Methods & Process

Snapshot of the Case with Links

Palantir according to Palantir: How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade

Palantir: The Next Billion-Dollar Company Raises $90 Million

Hysterical.   Silicon Valley fell for a front job.  Too much money, not enough due diligence.

The Fit or Fat Startup

Nails it.  Limited technology, rotten user interface, dumb current audience will not scale.

Palantir Describes Lucene Searching with a Twist

Locked in to the venerable Java search engine Lucene.  Aw shucks.

I2 Sues Palantir Over Alleged Trade Secrets Theft

In what i2 called a “multiyear scheme of fraud and industrial espionage,” Palantir knowingly used fraudulently obtained software to design new intelligence products that would help Palantir compete directly and…

Court Filing 10 August 2010

One of the most interesting open source information documents in some time….the day will come when the beltway bandits are brought to justice as well, one can only hope that happens before they go bankrupt.

Lawsuit Tracker This Case

Lastest news: court has rejected Palantir's preliminary defense, the RICO charges are sustained.

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