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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Google Trends First Look — Google is announcing a bunch of new products today as part of their media day. Philipp Lenssen has all the details. The first is outstanding. It's called Google Trends. Google Notebook is coming next week. My hope is that the latter product is built on Writely …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google unveils new applications — update MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google announced on Wednesday an update to its Google Desktop product, as well as several new products designed to enhance information gathering on the Web. — At its annual press day here in the Googleplex …
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Business Wire:
New Google Search Technologies Make Information Easier to Discover, Organize and Share — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 10, 2006—Today, Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced new technologies to enhance and improve the search experience. Three new products — Google Co-op …
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B2Day, Matt Cutts, ResourceShelf, GoogleRumors, Between the Lines and Guardian Unlimited
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Co-op: Add Your Own Vertical Search To Google — Google said it would have a health-related announcement at today's Google Press Day — but no, it's not Google Health. Instead, it's Google Co-op, a way for people to create specialized search engines by tapping into the main Google index …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Will search keep Google on the throne? — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Unlike rivals Yahoo and Microsoft, Google is focused on core search and thus will be the main infrastructure provider for Web services and information going forward, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Wednesday.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Google Trends Launches
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Digital Inspiration, Open (finds, minds …, Google Watch, Somewhat Frank and blackrimglasses.com
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:Google Press Day 2006 — I'm sitting in the back of Google's cafeteria …
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InsideGoogle, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Valleywag, Search Engine Watch Blog and Guardian Unlimited
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Congress targets social network sites — update MySpace.com has recently found itself pummeled by critical media reports describing how teens are divulging personal information without much thought to the consequences. — A Newsweek piece article in January was titled "Predator's Playground?"
Read/WriteWeb:
AIM Pages - AOL breaking down the Walled Garden — Stowe Boyd and Mike Arrington reported today that AOL's new social networking product AIM Pages is now live. I'm told by my sources that it's still in the testing phase, nevertheless it *is* live on the Web. There is a lot more functionality to come though.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AIM Pages Launches - First Impression — AIM Pages, the new AOL Myspace competitor that we've been buzzing about for the last couple of weeks, launched this morning at aimpages.com. — First impression: The site is clean and organized (something I'm not sure the Myspace crowd wants), and module based (about me, photos, etc.).
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Next Week's Special Edition Daily SearchCast With Matt Cutts, Live From The Googleplex — I'm traveling next week, making visits to Google and Yahoo before heading to our Search Engine Watch Live networking event in Seattle. SearchReturn editor Detlev Johnson will be sitting in for me doing …
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
New Palm OS Treo ready for takeoff — The Palm OS is about to get into the fast lane. — A little more than four months after Palm released the Windows Mobile-based Treo 700w on Verizon Wireless' EV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized) network, it is set to announce a Palm OS version that can connect …
Rico Ngai / ir.tom.com:
Non-GAAP Net Income Up 41% YoY as Company consolidates wireless Internet leadership — (Beijing, 10 May, 2006) TOM Online Inc. (Nasdaq: TOMO; Hong Kong GEM: 8282) ("TOM Online" or "the Company"), a leading wireless Internet company in China, announced today its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2006 ("1Q06").
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Sony bites music bullet, opts for Apple compatibility — Sony is moving to make its music management software compatible with Apple Computer's audio file format in the latest evidence of Apple's dominance in digital music. — The behemoth Japanese conglomerate, which once controlled …
USA Today:
Domain names become premium Web real estate — SAN FRANCISCO — Everyone should have Amy Schrier's problem. — For six months, she resisted selling the domain name Blue.com for $200,000. Using a formula she devised to fetch the highest market value for domain names …
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Technology Goes to Europe — More entrepreneurs and VCs are betting on Europe as a place to innovate and invest. — Europe may not have as many venture capitalists, innovative companies, and fluid markets as the United States, but the region is surely emerging as a place to seek venture capital …
Agence France Presse:
Mobile phone boom spurs economic growth in Bangladesh — DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh's booming mobile phone industry has emerged as a key driver of the cash-strapped nation's economy, creating nearly 240,000 jobs and adding 650 million dollars to gross domestic product ( GDP).
Business Wire:
EVE Online(R) Screams with Vivox Real-Time Voice Technology — LOS ANGELES—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 10, 2006—CCP Games and Vivox today announced that subscribers of the massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) EVE Online will soon have real-time, in-game voice communication as the result …
Will O'Brien / Engadget:
How-To: Design your own iPod super dock (Part 4) — In part 1 we designed a PC board interface for our iPod dock connector. In part 2 we designed the schematic to provide all of our inputs and outputs. For part 3 we created the circuit board for the actual dock. Today we are building it!
