Top Items:
New York Times:
Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks an Expansion of Power — Google is building two computing centers, top and left, each the size of a football field, in The Dalles, Ore — THE DALLES, Ore., June 8 — On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon …
Random Good Stuff:
Soon - Send money via Skype — Soon you will be able to send money via skype with integrated paypal in the new Skype Version 2.5. — Screenshot is from the eBay developers conference 2006 in Las Vegas. — [via]
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flock Raises New Venture Round, Launches Public Beta — It's been nearly eight months since Silicon Valley based Flock released a developer version of its Firefox based browser. This evening they are releasing their first public beta version, available for Windows, Mac and Linux machines, at Flock.com.
Discussion:
Mark Evans, TechBeat, CyberNet Technology News, duncanriley.com, PaulStamatiou.com, FactoryCity, TalkCrunch, Weblogs Work and rev2.org
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Google Is Killing the Economics of Content — When Seth Jayson at Motely Fool suggested the other day that Google's AdSense is killing the internet by driving the creation of sites that exist solely to squeeze money from AdSense, many people scoffed. But here's more evidence that he's right:
Read/WriteWeb:
eBay Wiki - world's largest commercial wiki launched — eBay, in collaboration with JotSpot, has just released a new community wiki - making it almost certainly the world's largest wiki platform for a commercial website (Wikipedia is bigger, but it's non-commercial). eBay Wiki is described as …
Luca Filigheddu / Thoughts on VoIP, technology:
Thunderbird VoIP — Well, I can really say that Abbeynet Labs is releasing one "toy" after the other! — Following the great success of Firefox VoIP, Abbeynet Labs released today Thunderbird VoIP. — The user experience is almost similar to Firefox VoIP, but in this extension …
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Sony's Spelling Blunders — A reader of our blogging cohorts, Kotaku, hit up Sony's Ginza showroom and found a comical spelling error on the displayed Playstation 3 controller. Sony just can't seem to get anything right as of late. We highly doubt the SERECT spelling error will make the shelves …
Wade Roush / Technology Review:
Google Fatigue Sets In — Users are reacting to Google's new online spreadsheet with a big yawn. Is the company searching for a strategy? — Can there be too much of a good thing? Some Google watchers are beginning to think so. Leading technology bloggers' reactions to Google Spreadsheets …
Discussion:
Don Dodge on The Next …, EirePreneur, UMBC eBiquity Blog, Venture Chronicles and Weblogsky
Business Week:
Dell: Facing Up To Past Mistakes — Dell's laser focus on cost efficiency has long been a core strategy. But like Home Depot, Dell's cost-cutting efforts have alienated its customers. The "direct" sales model of selling computers to consumers via phone and the Internet eliminates the costs …
Matt Casamassina / IGN:
Wii Before PS3 — Sources say Nintendo to launch its new generation console before rival Sony does PS3. — June 12, 2006 - At the Electronics Entertainment Expo 2006 last May in Los Angeles, Sony announced that its forthcoming PlayStation 3 console would debut worldwide on November 17 of this year.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
EBay integrates Skype into auctions — After months of anticipation, eBay announced tonight its pilot integration of Skype, the internet telephony giant it acquired last September for approximately $4.1 billion. The announcement was made tonight at eBay Live!, eBay's annual community conference.
Discussion:
Mathew Ingram
Scott M. Fulton, III / tgdaily.com:
TechEd 2006: Hybrid hard drives to become Vista Premium requirement — Boston (MA) - At a discussion of flash memory technologies to be included in Windows Vista and "Longhorn" here at TechEd 2006 this morning, Microsoft's program manager for Windows Client Performance Matt Ayres confirmed …
Sharon Noguchi / Mercury News:
Teens turn away from e-mail — SITES LIKE MYSPACE OFFERING `INSTANT' SOCIAL SCENE, FAST MESSAGING ATTRACT YOUNG USERS, STUDY SHOWS — When she gets home from school, 14-year-old Jennica Paho of San Jose switches on the computer and goes to MySpace.com. ``It's very exciting to get new pictures …
Discussion:
textually.org
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Thecus shows five-drive NAS box — Computex 2006 N5200 supplants N4100 — THECUS BROKE COVER on its newest NAS product at Computex, the N5200 NAS box. I looked at the previous N4100 a while ago, and liked it a lot, with a few minor complaints. It looks like Thecus has addressed most of those …
mobiledia.com:
David Beckham Becomes Motorola's Global Brand Ambassador — Motorola today announced the signing of David Beckham as a global brand ambassador. The three-year collaboration with the professional footballer will kick-off with major activities across Asia including advertising appearances …
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Google Maps KML overlays — Google's installable maps software Google Earth makes KML overlay files that add points of interest, descriptions and photos to your earth, and now you can view those KML files live on the web at Google Maps. — Simply enter the URL of your KML file …
Jonny Evans / Macworld UK:
Needham & Co predicts Mac market explosion — Apple's move to Intel processors and its development of Boot Camp could triple its market share in the home markets, according to Needham & Co analyst Charles Wolf. — He describes the dual boot and Intel move as maybe: "Conjuring the magic that could double its market share."
Discussion:
The Apple Blog
USA Today:
Microsoft goes after, zaps infections to PCs — SEATTLE — EDITOR'S NOTE: This story, originally published Monday, misstated the number of Windows PCs scanned. The company scanned 270 million computers in a 15-month period and found malicious programs on 5.7 million PCs.
Eric Caoili / 4 color rebellion:
Spotting Pirated Nintendo DS Carts — While hardware designs for the Nintendo DS homebrew community continue to evolve, ne'er-do-wells hoping to make a profit selling pirated games have kept pace with their progress. Not long after cheap, slimmed-down versions of PassMe devices …
