The Big G Maps & World Bank Join Forces, So Why Isn't Everyone Smiling? - and my other favourite links of the day

Google Map Maker: http://www.google.com/mapmaker

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So, it's time for a look at most interesting links of the day. I've found some interesting links on Google, World Bank and Google Map Maker.

Google: also known as The Big G

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OK, who's been writing about Google? It was mashable.com with their post entitled Google Maps & World Bank Join Forces, So Why Isn't Everyone Smiling?.

What did they point out about Google? Well...:

Google is now working with the World Bank to make Google Map Maker more accessible to government organizations, but some experts are questioning the terms of the arrangement

and went on to say

According to the announcement on the Google Lat Long Blog, the World Bank will be a "conduit to make Google Map Maker source data more widely and easily available to government organizations in the event of major disasters, and also for improved planning, management, and monitoring of public services provision."

Anonymous: Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is an Internet meme that originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. It is also generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures, a way to refer to the actions of people in an environment where their actual identities are not known.

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Next up we have a site that's been talking about Anonymous - Anonymous Avenges Megaupload Shutdown With Attacks on FBI, Hollywood Websites.

They wrote:

Hacktivist collective Anonymous immediately launched OpMegaupload and coordinated DDoS against a number of Websites

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Supporters were encouraged to download a tool, the Low Orbit Ion Cannon, that would direct a flood of traffic to the targeted site. The combined floods eventually overwhelm the server as it tries to process all the requests

To finish we have Google: 90 Million Google+ Users, 11 BILLION Android Market Downloads from www.webpronews.com, also focussing on Google. The wrote good quality stuff, particularly

In the midst of Google's announcement about their results for the 2011 fiscal year, they nonchalantly dropped a pretty juicy piece of info concerning their social networking site: "Google had a really strong quarter ending a great year

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"Google had a really strong quarter ending a great year. Full year revenue was up 29%, and our quarterly revenue blew past the $10 billion mark for the first time," said Larry Page, CEO of Google. "I am super excited about the growth of Android, Gmail, and Google+, which now has 90 million users globally - well over double what I announced just three months ago. By building a meaningful relationship with our users through Google+ we will create amazing experiences across our services. I'm very excited about what we can do in 2012 - there are tremendous opportunities to help users and grow our business."