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Yahoo! Search blog:
Yahoo!'s New Home Page and the Future of Information — A few weeks ago, on a sunny spring evening, I attended a panel discussion at the UC Berkeley campus titled "The Future of Information," an event that celebrated the renaming of the University's School of Information and the redesign of its website.
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Read/WriteWeb:
Exclusive: New Yahoo! homepage — The world's most visited webpage, Yahoo.com, has just had a major re-design (available for now at yahoo.com/preview) and Read/WriteWeb has the inside story. As well as the first in-depth look at the new yahoo.com, I have for you an exclusive podcast interview with Yahoo! …
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Bill Scott / Yahoo! User Interface Blog:
Patterns Behind the Yahoo! Home Page Beta — The yahoo.com home page team has been very busy over the last few months testing the new home page to create a richer experience for our users. There are many challenges to changing any home page. Just imagine the challenges with changing the most trafficked home page on the entire web!
Nate Koechley / Yahoo! User Interface Blog:
Peeling Back the Interface of the Yahoo! Home Page Beta — To celebrate the launch of the public beta of the new Yahoo! home page, I want to peel back the interface and point out a few things of interest to developers. — First of all, I'm very proud that the new Yahoo! …
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Marc Perton / Engadget:
Apple launches MacBook: 13-in, Core Duo, black and white cases — As expected, Apple has launched its new consumer laptops, under the MacBook brand. The new models all share one case design, a 5.2-pound box available in black or white, with a 13.3-inch, 1280x800 display and full-size keyboard.
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AppleInsider:
Up close and personal with Apple's MacBook (photos) — Apple Computer on Tuesday unveiled its newly designed MacBook consumer notebook, which features Intel Core Duo processors and a new 13-inch glossy widescreen display, elegantly wrapped in a sleek industrial design reminiscent …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Notebook Launches: Ho-Hum — You no longer need to see the pre-release screenshots: Google Notebook is now live at google.com/notebook. — As I mentioned in my previous post, Google Notebook is a direct Del.icio.us competitor. You can bookmark content (a web page or a piece …
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:Google Notebook First Look
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www2.sprint.com:
Sprint Announces Plans to Be First to Offer Mobile Broadband-Capable Palm Treo Running Palm OS — Sprint Power Vision(SM) Smart Device Treo™ 700P by Palm features industry-unique multimedia capabilities powered by the nation's largest mobile broadband network that allows users to do more in more places
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL to Release YouTube Clone — Prepare for the launch of AOL UnCut (currently in open beta), a near perfect clone of YouTube. The service is powered by Video Egg (see Josh Kopelman for more). — Videos of up to 5 minutes can be uploaded to the service, and they are then converted to the Flash 8 format (same as YouTube).
Mike Grehan / ClickZ:
Google's Matt Cutts: The Big Interview — › › › Search Results — He started off as a computer graphics guy and went on to become a Google guy. Not just any Google guy, though. He could well have been quoted in all the industry press and forums and blogs …
Chris / Pearsonified:
Why Hire an Expert? (Or What the Hell is Mike Thinking?) — What happened to the mutual respect that web professionals are supposed to pay one another? I mean, I know there's not a formal guild or anything, but seriously - why on earth would anyone want to go out and throw a colleague under a bus without provocation?
PC Magazine:
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Kyle Monson / PC Magazine:MTV Unveils Music-Download Service
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Sewell Chan / New York Times:
Deadline Set for Wireless Internet in Parks — New York City officials set a July deadline yesterday for a city contractor to have a wireless network up and running in Central Park, in what would be a major expansion of free Internet access that the city plans to replicate across its vast ribbons …
news.sel.sony.com:
SONY UNVEILS WORLD'S FIRST BLU-RAY NOTEBOOK COMPUTER — New VAIO PC Offers the Ultimate in High-Definition — SAN DIEGO, May 16, 2006 - Sony today took the wraps off the world's first Blu-ray Disc enabled notebook computer— the VAIO® AR which will be available this summer.
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George Oates / FlickrBlog:
Alpha... Beta... Gamma! — We've just released the big round of changes I mentioned last week: New Navigation, New Search, New and Improved Organizr, and the Person Menu. All of these improvements have been designed to help you navigate the site with less effort and organize your photos more efficiently.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Will SkypeFree KO Vonage IPO? — This is a classic high stakes Wall Street sucker punch. — The buzz on the Street is that the Vonage IPO is on the rocks. They HAVE to raise money or they are in a world of hurt. Their investors don't want to put another penny in and the company seems …
PR Newswire:
Intel Capital Leads Investment in Pando Networks' Second Funding Round of $7 Million — Initial Investors BRM Capital and Wheatley Partners Close Out Round — NEW YORK, May 16 /PRNewswire/ — Pando Networks Inc., creators of a peer-to-peer distribution solution for the private transport …
Alan Schwarz / New York Times:
Baseball Is a Game of Numbers, but Whose Numbers Are They? — Like no other corner of American popular culture, baseball communicates in numbers. From .406 (Ted Williams's 1941 batting average) to 755 (Hank Aaron's record home run total) to countless digits bandied about water coolers every morning …
