Since Digg stories generally peak in popularity after a few days, whereas YouTube videos can be much watched for months, the team trained its software on detailed data from each website to determine the exact relationship between initial activity and long-term popularity.
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Too many twitters drown out Rudd website
Mr Rudd effectively used internet profiles on MySpace and Facebook and his slick Kevin07 website during last year’s federal election but, since becoming Prime Minister, he hasn’t had much time for the web.
But last night Mr Rudd sent an email to all his supporters informing them of his new website, KevinPM.com.au, which includes links to MySpace, Facebook, a new YouTube account, a Flickr photo sharing page and his newly created Twitter page for broadcasting short snappy text messages.
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Internet could save Earth says Gore
Former US vice president Al Gore said an internet revolution carrying Barack Obama to the White House should now focus its power on stopping Earth’s climate crisis. 
The internet’s critical role in Democrat Obama’s victory in the presidential race against Republican John McCain was a “great blow for victory” in addressing a “democracy crisis” stifling action against climate change, Gore said. [click to continue...]
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Australia’s compulsory internet filtering ‘costly, ineffective’
The Federal Government is planning to make internet censorship compulsory for all Australians and could ban controversial websites on euthanasia or anorexia.
Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy Minister Stephen Conroy admitted the Federal Government’s $44.2 million internet censorship plan would now include two tiers - one level of mandatory filtering for all Australians and an optional level that will provide a “clean feed”, censoring adult material.
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Free uni wi-fi swamped with illegal downloads
The university’s director of IT, Michael Kirby-Lewis, said complaints about illegal downloading by students had risen from one or two a month to “a number a day”, putting UNSW and students at risk of litigation for copyright infringement.
Heindl welcomed the decision by UNSW to educate students about the risks of illegal downloading but denied the music industry had threatened the university with legal action.
On Friday afternoon, Kirby-Lewis sent a note to all students warning that the viability of the university’s free wireless network had been “placed under threat” due to incidents of illegal downloading.
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Sun Cofounder Switches Into Startup Mode
Andy Bechtolsheim, a revered technologist who cofounded Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) and has been instrumental in designing the company’s servers, is stepping down from his day-to-day role to help build a new networking startup.
Bechtolsheim left Sun in 1995 to found a networking company that was acquired by Cisco the next year.
In a separate announcement Thursday, Arista said it has recruited as its chief executive officer Jayshree Ullal, who in May left Cisco after working at the company 15 years.
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