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8:30 AM ET, May 11, 2006

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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 …
Discussion: Paul Kapustka's Blog
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 …
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 …
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
Google Trends
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?"
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google wireless network goes down during press day  —  One day a year the notoriously reticent top Google executives invite journalists to their Mountain View, Calif., campus to discuss the company's products and strategy and to answer what ideally would be probing questions.
Discussion: Barnako.com and TheStreet.com
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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.
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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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 …
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Marc Perton / Engadget:
Sony to support AAC — heck not to freeze over
Discussion: Gadgetell
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").
Discussion: Skype Journal and MocoNews.net
Red Herring:
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 …
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 …
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 …
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).
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!
 
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Seth Finkelstein / Infothought:
Yahoo Italy Keyword Search Problem - Censorship Or Bug?
Ubergizmo:
iPod-Directions launched  —  Yahoo! Maps and iPod have teamed …
Kevin Poulsen / Wired News:
Feds Want Hacker's Genetic Code
George Oates / FlickrBlog:
Changes Afoot  —  It was a little funny for us to win a Webby Award …
Colin Barker / CNET News.com:
Alleged NASA hacker loses extradition ruling
Fred / WeBreakStuff:
Web 2.0: Are we losing focus again?
Discussion: Message and Supr.c.ilio.us
 Earlier Items: 
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Cambridge startup mulls plastic electronics fab
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Hands on with Nintendo's Wii controller
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PR Newswire:
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