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According to CNET Demand Media, the web community aggregator which bought Airliners.net last year has bought Pluck.  The report goes into some details about Demand's plans, but it would be a pity if the functionality was removed from the broader market as a consequence of…

I missed this one. Apparently last September IBM's Italian workers protested in Second Life about a recent pay deal. The protest focussed on the IBM business centre in Second Life and more than 1,850 people are said to have taken part. Perhaps the weirdest twist,…

Off to San Francisco tomorrow for a whistlestop tour of some innovative companies courtesy of the Reed Elsevier Innovation team. We're going to be based in the J W Marriott in Post Street and will be hearing from Affinity Labs, Allbusiness and Healthline before heading…

I've recently subscribed to a podcast called HBR Ideacast where luminaries from Harvard Business School talk to luminaries from elsewhere. Episode 76 which I was listening to on the drive home last night featured John Boudreau, the co-author of a book called Beyond HR, the…

Fire Eagle is a new location service from Yahoo! which has just entered private beta, according to Techcrunch. The service has been build with powerful APIs which allow data to get in and out very easily. It could, for instance, geo-code Flickr photos by figuring…