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Richard Waters / MSNBC:
Yahoo unveils overhaul of online advertising — Yahoo will on Monday unveil a long-promised overhaul of its online advertising system, setting the stage for a showdown with Google and Microsoft in the race to dominate the fast-growing search engine advertising industry.
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Yahoo Is Unleashing a New Way to Turn Ad Clicks Into Ka-Ching — When Yahoo finally switches on the new search-advertising software code-named Project Panama this summer, users of its search engine will hardly notice a difference. But if Yahoo's project was worth the two years and tens …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo Unveils Public Details Of "Panama" Ad System Upgrade — Yahoo's finally gone public with details about its new "Panama" ad system upgrade, which when launched later this year will bring the system up to matching what Google's long offered, though both Yahoo and Google …
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Yahoo reinvigorates Web advertising search battle — SAN FRANCISCO, May 7 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is set to introduce on Monday a long-delayed upgrade to its Web search advertising system, setting the stage for a face off with Web search leader Google Inc. …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Share Your OPML — Share Your OPML, a new project founded by Dave Winer, is launching officially on Monday. It is a self-described "commons for sharing outlines, feeds, and taxonomy." It will gather a community of subscription lists and aggregate them in interesting and useful ways.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Share Your OPML is a Killer Attention App — Like RSS and tagging, over the next several years OPML is going to become a core underlying technology for marketers in the conversation economy. Let's de-geek it. — OPML, short for outline processor markup language, is basically an XML file organized in an outline format.
BBC:
Beatles lose Apple court battle — The Beatles have lost their court challenge against Apple Computer over its iPod and iTunes download service. — Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of George Harrison and John Lennon control the Apple Corps label.
Andrew Chung / Toronto Star:
Revenge of the nerds — Three computer geeks at the U of T are renowned developers of anti-censorship software, including a program out this month that could allow people to outwit the world's most repressive regimes — Looking at them you might not guess it.
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Kristopher Kubicki / dailytech.com:
Announcing Intel Core 2 Duo — "Conroe" and "Merom" get a name and a birthday — Intel has just passed us word about a new branding decision for the upcoming second generation Core processors. Intel's first generation desktop Core processor, Conroe, will carry the moniker Core 2 Duo …
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Times of London:
Falling for super-geek — He has made a fortune from his website offering casual sex among the classified ads. But Craig Newmark is more interested in bird-watching than profits — and he is scaring the pants off his rivals. Report: Dominic Rushe — There's a bird in Craig Newmark's house.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Report: Vista to hit antispyware, firewall markets — New security features in Windows Vista will largely eliminate the need to run separate antispyware or firewall software, according to a new analyst report. — Due out early next year, the next major release of Microsoft's flagship …
Tanya Palta / MobileWhack.com:
Samsung Q1 Review - Under the Spotlight — Washington Post was lucky enough to get their hands on the Samsung Q1 UMPC and posted an in-depth review of it. According to the website, the Q1 may get a lot of takers because of its cool gadget factor, however one can't but help noticing the lack …
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
For MTV Fans, a Parallel Universe of Programs: At Once Online and on TV — Even for overachievers who are used to multitasking, the idea of watching two versions of the same television show at the same time — one on television and one on a computer — is something that is probably foreign to most people over the age of 30.
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Give Google Health a test drive — We've been talking about it for over a month, and now you can now give Google Health a try before it is launched. Visit http://64.233.167.99 (one of Google's datacenters) and search for anything health related. — The results page gives users the option …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zookoda 2.0 Launches — Version 2.0 of Australia-based Zookoda, an email tool for bloggers, launches today. Zookoda allows bloggers to, among other things, email posts to readers on a periodic basis. It competes with Feedburner's new email product, and while it doesn't have the benefit …
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