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Photo by PoPville flickr user caroline.angelo This sounds awesome: “Who: CHARTS (Columbia Heights Arts Foundation) is a budding organization serves to unite the different communities that live in Columbia Heights through the medium of art — by extending outreach to all corners of the neighborhood for constructing dialogue on the arts, cultivating talent through community-based art projects, and allowing outlets of expression that are universal in their audience. What: Join hundreds of your friends and neighbors for an evening of fine arts presented by local artists, musicians, poets, and actors — it’s the inaugural event for the Columbia Heights Salon Series, powered by the new Columbia Heights Arts Foundation (CHARTS)

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Second Installment of the Columbia Heights Salon Series Sat.

Park Place Griffin & Murphy, LLP Zazuba ‘Book your appointments online’ Metropole Michael Bonsby Heating and Air Conditioning What’s the deal DC? Past Tense Yoga Studio Duffy’s Irish Restaurant & Pub Quiet Mind Yoga The Looking Glass Lounge Kevin Wood, Realtor Fresh Off The Roast, Coffee Som Records Upper Crust Maids

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“Dear PoP, Join us for a day filled with fun, food and friends! This annual event is in support of our nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that is dedicated to the development and maintenance of Crispus Attucks Park. This private community park is located in the heart of Bloomingdale in the alley space behind North Capital & 1st Streets and U and V Streets NW.

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Dear PoP – Crispus Attucks Park Annual Yard Sale 05/22

This rental is located at 1430 Newton Street, NW: View Larger Map The Craigslist ad says: “2 bedroom 2 full bath, 1,000 sq ft apartment, available June 15th with all of the best amenities located in the heart of Columbia Heights. This apartment is on a quiet side street. 2 blocks from the TARGET and the METRO (8 minute walk from door to METRO), 1 block to GIANT, and all your favorite bars and restaurants (Alero, Thaitanic II, Wonderland Ballroom, the Heights, Red Rocks, Meridian Pint).

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Fri. Afternoon Rental Option – “Columbia Heights, Mt. Pleasant” Reader Request

Photo by PoPville flickr user Madame Meow Ugh, this is frustrating. I know it’s not bike related but perhaps DDOT could take a second to look into this… “Dear PoP, Have you fielded any complaints from DC drivers regarding “self-correcting” parking meters? These are meters that may initially accept coins but then display an “out of order” message, and thereafter stop registering the deposit of additional coins.

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Dear PoP – Parking Meter FAIL, literally

This home is located at 3546 Rock Creek Church Road, NW: View Larger Map The flier says: “Gorgeous renovation just steps to the METRO in HOT Columbia Heights/Park View area! 4/3/1 including a complete finished lower-level in-law suite/English bsmt for potential rental income! 2-Car Pkg! Beautiful finishes throughout, open floor plan-Great for entertaining! Exposed brick, custom built-ins, gas fireplace, covered front porch, skylights & spacious luxury master bath!” You can find more info here and a virtual tour here . So what do you think of the renovation? Personally I’m a huge fan of this location – sorta halfway between the Petworth metro and all the new development restaurants on 11th St in Columbia Heights

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Good Deal or Not? “skylights & spacious luxury master bath” edition

Posted by Susan Wojcicki, Vice President of Product Management (cross-posted from The Official Google Blog ) Today, the Federal Trade Commission cleared our acquisition of AdMob , a mobile advertising start up.

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Working with AdMob to move mobile advertising forward

Readers of my blog are invited to join me at in New York City on June 8th at the #140conf NYC Internet Week party taking place at Hudson Terrace from 5:00 PM until 7:30 PM. For details and to RSVP, please visit: http://www.140conf.com/ – - – Tags: 140conf , social media , NYC , Jeff Keni Pulver

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#140conf NYC Internet Week Party – June 8th

It struck me to write about the issue on sensitivity of the internet telephony, once while I was chatting with my NRI friend, who narrated to me as to how they had to pay heavy landline or mobile bills for international calls made to their near and dear ones situated in India. The transcript goes like this, “ I am one among millions of NRIs in gulf with medium pay, of course, and I get good salary compared to others.

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Internet Telephony ban – Security Related Issue or Hidden Agenda?

Posted by Pablo Chavez, Director of Public Policy We began the Google Policy Fellowship 3 years ago to match students with advocacy organizations working on policy issues fundamental to the future of the Internet and its users. We’ve been impressed by incredible pool of talent the program has attracted.

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The 2010 class of Google Policy Fellows

After spending the past year working on the #140conf events and exploring the on-going effects of the emerging real-time Internet on both business and on people, I decided the next thing to do was to write a book about the social revolution we are experiencing and provide a platform for some of the amazing people who are involved in this social revolution to get discovered outside their areas of direct influence. I want to do this right. However, I don’t have any editor or publisher (yet) but I woke up the other morning with the feeling that I had to write the book and the time to start writing was NOW.

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My new book project: The Connected Me

On the evening of May 10, 2010, the second #140conf LA Meetup took place at the Comedy Store in Hollywood, CA. To get a sense of the evening, please look at the following blog posts: From our speakers : Simon Mainwaring: 140conf LA meet-up: Social media inspiring social change Krupali Tejura: Incredible Twitter, Incredible People And our guests : Greg Pincus: Taking Social Media Offline Chris Foley: 140Conf LA Meetup | A Night to Remember Ashley Smith: #140conf LA Meetup at The Comedy Store – VIDEO – - – Tags: 140conf , social media , LA , Jeff Keni Pulver

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Recap: #140conf LA Meetup #2 (May 10, 2010)

The Metro NYC #140conf Community will be getting together on Monday, May 17th from 6PM to 8PM. Special thanks to MetLife for sponsoring this Meetup. Agenda: 6:00 PM- Registration / Networking 6:30 PM- Speakers start Speakers include: Jeff Pulver (@jeffpulver) – The Connected “Me” Liz Pullen (@nwjerseyliz) – Mo Krochmal (@krochmal) – The Class of 2015 Owen Stone (@Ohdoctah) – 8:00 PM- Wrap up / Networking If you would like to join this meetup, please RSVP here

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The post-#140conf NYC Meetup: Monday, May 17th

Posted by Alan Eustace, Senior VP, Engineering & Research (cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) Nine days ago the data protection authority (DPA) in Hamburg, Germany asked to audit the WiFi data that our Street View cars collect for use in location-based products like Google Maps for mobile, which enables people to find local restaurants or get directions. His request prompted us to re-examine everything we have been collecting, and during our review we discovered that a statement made in a blog post on April 27 was incorrect. In that blog post, and in a technical note sent to data protection authorities the same day, we said that while Google did collect publicly broadcast SSID information (the WiFi network name) and MAC addresses (the unique number given to a device like a WiFi router) using Street View cars, we did not collect payload data (information sent over the network).

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WiFi data collection: an update

In regard to the responses his ad has generated so far, he resists breaking down percentages by serious inquiries versus goofs. “That’s a judgment call, right?” he asks, laughing. But he’s been impressed with the quality of quite a few contacts — although, thus far, the best of the batch are folks who weren’t listed as independents prior to the aforementioned deadline.

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CO Lt Governorship up for grabs

Posted by Jen Chen, Software Engineer (cross-posted from the YouTube Blog ) Melinda teaches high school in the Bay Area and recently reached out to us with a problem. Her students just finished a video history project that she wanted to share with their parents and classmates. But she was concerned about posting the videos publicly because she didn’t want the whole world to find them (frankly, neither did her students)

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More Choice for Users: Unlisted Videos

I vividly recall meeting with Rachel Lloyd. Thanks to her story (and others I’ve been privileged to hear) we’ve vastly improved our approach to the point where an adult service ad submitted to craigslist today relating to an underage person like “Bethany” would be rejected by our reviewers, with an immediate report submitted to law enforcement, allowing the victim to be rescued, and the perpetrator to be removed from society

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An Open Invitation to Rachel Lloyd

Posted by Paul Feng, Group Product Manager More mobile app developers — the folks who use mobile ad networks like Google, AdMob, Apple/Quattro, Millennial, Jumptap, Greystripe and others to make money from ads within their iPhone and Android apps — are joining Wertago in sharing their views about our planned acquisition of AdMob. Wayne Skipper of Concentric Sky, a developer of iPhone and Android apps, blogged that he was asked by the FTC for his views on Google/AdMob, and told the agency: Like many in the industry, we believe [that blocking the deal] would be a serious mistake.

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Mobile app developers talk Google-AdMob

Tomorrow morning (May 10th) I will be flying to Los Angeles to co-host the 2nd Los Angeles #140conf Meetup taking place at the Comedy Story. On Thursday (May 13th) I will be heading to Chicago to host the first #140conf Meetup. For more information about upcoming #140conf Meetups across North America, please visit: http://meetup.com/140conf .

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This week – #140conf Meetups in Los Angeles and Chicago

Posted by Jane Horvath and Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel Today, we responded to a letter that a group of data protection commissioners recently sent us about privacy at Google, relating to the launch of Buzz in particular.

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Our letter to data protection commissioners on privacy

Posted by Bob Boorstin, Director, Public Policy (cross posted from the Official Google Blog ) It’s said that change comes through the concerted efforts of small groups of people who dream of better times ahead. And then do something about it

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Honoring those who give voice to the silenced

Posted by Yariv Adan, Product Manager (cross posted from the Official Google Blog ) Six months ago, we launched the Google Dashboard to help you view and control information stored in your Google Account.

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Happy half-birthday Dashboard! Six months in and 100,000 users a day

Posted by Richard Salgado, Senior Counsel, Law Enforcement and Information Security Just over a month ago , we helped launch Digital Due Process , a coalition of technology companies, privacy advocates and academics working to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986 to ensure traditional privacy protections are applied to new and emerging technologies. Today, we move one step closer as the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties holds its first hearing on the issue

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An important step toward updating ECPA

Posted by John Hanke, Vice President of Product Management Ben and Jerry turned a $5 correspondence class in ice cream making into a multi-million dollar business.

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Google & Small Business Administration partner to share tips with businesses

Posted by Paul Feng, Group Product Manager We’ve been talking with the Federal Trade Commission for the past six months about our planned acquisition of mobile advertising start-up AdMob, which we believe will bring new innovation and competition to mobile advertising. We’ve told the FTC about how new and highly competitive the mobile advertising space is, and the FTC has been talking to others in the industry about their views as well

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What people are telling the FTC about Google-AdMob

True to form, CT AG Blumenthal is once again indulging in self-serving publicity at the expense of the truth and his constituents — touting a subpoena on television and telling whoppers about craigslist “reneging” on promises — even before craigslist had been served with a subpoena. As AG Blumenthal knows full well, craigslist has gone beyond fulfilling its legal obligations, far beyond classifieds industry norms, has more than lived up to any promises it made, and working together with its partners is in fact a leader in the fight against human trafficking and exploitation. With his senatorial race in full swing however, AG Blumenthal won’t let the facts get in the way of a good photo op.

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Deja Blumenthal

Posted by Dorothy Chou, Policy Analyst Today we’re joining Internews , the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and others in recognizing the critical, and often dangerous work that print journalists and bloggers do to bring us information from the most inaccessible corners of the world. Groups like these help make it possible for journalists like John Musa , who is covering the first Sudanese election in 24 years, to give a first-hand account of what is happening at the polls. CPJ just released its 2010 Impunity Index , which shows where legal systems have failed to protect journalists against violence and murder.

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Celebrating World Press Freedom Day

There is a “campaign” on twitter currently demanding that all of craigslist personals be shut down . If you follow links supplied by the twitterers echoing this demand, you’ll find a couple of themes: They recognize that “declassifying” adult services ads would simply push them back into the personals categories, therefore you need to eliminate all personals. They believe casual sex, and sex outside of marriage, is happening in CL personals.

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Shutting down CL personals

When Brad Stone at the NY Times asked about craigslist’s charitable organizations, I let him know by email that “The craigslist Charitable Fund is a grant making foundation established and funded by craigslist.” He thanked me for this information several days before his deadline, saying he would be continuing to work on the story. Here’s what he printed however: There is also a newer organization, the Craigslist Charitable Trust, which was capitalized in 2008 with $2.7 million by Mr. Buckmaster and Craig Newmark, the company’s founder, according to public documents.

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craigslist Charitable Fund

We’re receiving inquiries about the gross inaccuracies and absence of fact checking I cited in Monday’s New York Time article by Brad Stone. There are quite a few, but I’ll start walking through them. Let’s start with this one: The ads, many of which blatantly advertise prostitution, are expected to bring $36 million this year, according to a new projection of Craigslist’s income

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Sad State of Affairs at the New York Times