Czech Republic Gives The Big G Green Light To Resume Street View - plus my selection of links for the day

Welcome back! You're probably here for a look at most interesting links of the day. I've found some interesting links on Google, Reuters and Netflix.

Google: also known as The Big G

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OK, let's see who's been talking about Google? It was searchengineland.com who wrote an article called Czech Republic Gives Google Green Light To Resume Street View.

What did they say about Google? They said:

After more than two years, and a few important concessions from Google, the Czech Republic is letting the company resume its Street View service

and went on to say

Google began Street View operations in the Czech Republic back in the spring of 2009, and put images online in the fall. But by December of that year, government officials shut down the service over privacy concerns.

Reuters: http://www.reuters.com

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Next it's a site that's been talking about Reuters - Reuters Social Pulse Lets Social Media 'Make the Front Page'.

They said:

Yesterday, news agency Reuters launched its new social media hub, which curates the most talked-about news, companies and influencers across the Web

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Called Social Pulse, it uses trends from the Twitter accounts Reuters and its journalists follow to arrange headlines and to showcase the tweets of these influencers

Netflix: Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:  NFLX) is an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media in the United States, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, United Kingdom and Ireland and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California. It started its subscription-based digital distribution service in 1999 and by 2009 it was offering a collection of 100,000 titles on DVD and had surpassed 10 million subscribers. On February 25, 2007, Netflix announced the billionth DVD delivery. In April 2011, Netflix announced 23.6 million subscribers. By 2011, the total digital revenue for Netflix reached .5 billion. Netflix launched in the UK and Ireland on January 9, 2012.

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To finish we have New Netflix Partner Halves Internet Bandwidth Without Cutting Quality from techland.time.com, focussing on Netflix. The wrote some good stuff, particularly

But if you're concerned that decreasing bandwidth means decreasing quality, ask yourself if you've seen any drop in Netflix's streaming quality recently - testing began months ago

and

The issue of reducing bandwidth is a serious one for Netflix as it continues to launch its service internationally. PaidContent points out that current caps in some of the lower-priced internet service plans in Canada would make streaming one high-definition movie from Netflix come perilously close to using up an entire month's worth of bandwidth. Lower bandwidth in markets such as Latin America making the problem even more pressing.