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11:50 AM ET, June 14, 2006

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Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Google finally puts Picasa albums on the Web  —  Google launched a new beta of Picasa on Tuesday [news story].  Its biggest new feature is the capability to post pictures directly from the application to a Google-hosted Web album.  It's about time.  Picasa has become the PC-based photo manager …
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Google Blogoscoped:
Google Picasa Web Albums Live  —  Google's Picasa Web Albums program is live now (instead of a Beta or Labs product, they're calling this a "Test") after a link to this was spotted recently.  Google calls Web Albums "a super easy way to get photos off your computer and share them on the web …
Google Blogoscoped:
No Privacy for Picasa Web Albums  —  As opposed to what Google seems to suggest in the Picasa Albums interface, there is no such thing as a private album.  For example, I found Larry Page's Picasa homepage.  It announces:  —  This user has no Public Albums.  —  But that's wrong.
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 …
Ken Belson / New York Times:
EBay to Add a Phone Link From Listings to Sellers  —  EBay said yesterday that sellers on its auction site would be able to add a link to their listings allowing potential buyers to reach them through Skype, the Internet phone service.  —  The announcement comes nine months after eBay raised eyebrows …
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Soon - Send money via Skype
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Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Send Paypal Via Skype Soon
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
EBay integrates Skype into auctions
Mary Jo Foley / Microsoft Watch:
Scoble The Exit Interview  —  Microsoft tech evangelist and alpha blogger Robert Scoble talks about everything from his tensest moments at Microsoft, to what Microsoft could have done to keep him, as he prepares to leave the Redmond software maker and join startup PodTech.Net.
Discussion: Scobleizer
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TDavid / Things That:
The Scoblelizer Replacement pool odds  —  The who will replace Robert Scoble tickle continues with Valleywag weighing in with a few names.  Looks like they might do a daily feature on it for a few days.  —  As I looked over the existing notable and famous Microsofties …
Discussion: Valleywag and Barnako.com
Ryan Block / Engadget:
MusicGremlin launches the Gremlin MG-1000 WiFi DAP  —  It's a little weird that it's 2006 and we're only now seeing a major launch of a WiFi-enabled, service-driven digital audio player, but we've got to start somewhere.  Say hello to MusicGremlin's Gremlin MG-1000 — the wireless player we first wrote about just shy of two years ago.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Wireless Factor: A Challenge to the iPod
Discussion: Gizmodo and Wi-Fi Networking News
Microsoft:
Microsoft Hardware Advances Digital Communications Experiences  —  First webcams from Microsoft make seeing, hearing and sharing a breeze.  —  REDMOND, Wash. — June 13, 2006 — Seeing your grandchild's first steps from miles away.  Hearing your friend's laugh from across the country.
Leo Waldock / The Register:
Non-scents from Nokia  —  For six months, 25 Industrial Design MA students from London's CSM College of Art and Design have been working to create concepts for a premium but mass market mobile device capable of providing 4G or 5G multimedia services.  —  The students worked for a cash prize and …
Discussion: textually.org
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 …
Richard Lawler / HD Beat:
Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray player hands-on, cracked open, pored over  —  While it may be delayed (only in Europe, Blu-ray fans don't jump off the ledge just yet!), a few guys at Greek home theater site AVSite.gr got a demo of Samsung's BD-P1000 Blu-ray player and said it looked beautiful.
Kathleen Craig / Wired News:
Flickr Cracks Down on Screenshots  —  Online worlds collide as Second Life fans and Flickr spar over how to handle screenshots on the popular photo-sharing site.  —  At stake is a little-known Flickr policy of flagging accounts that contain mostly non-photographic images and preventing images …
Discussion: VTOR
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Google Is Killing the Economics of Content  —  When Seth Jayson at Motley 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:
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 …
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
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
 
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Google Homepage Design Experiment, Again
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Microsoft's deja-vision of the future
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Update: new patent illustrates a wireless video conferencing iPod
microsoft.com:
Skip the details  —  NOTE: Please review the FAQ on the site …
U.S. Newswire:
SavetheInternet.com Releases Song, Free Download about Net …
Michal Lev-Ram / Business 2.0:
Would you watch ads just to talk for free?
USA Today:
Microsoft goes after, zaps infections to PCs
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Strobist Boot Camp: Rules, Guidelines and First Assignment
mobiledia.com:
David Beckham Becomes Motorola's Global Brand Ambassador
Sharon Noguchi / Mercury News:
Teens turn away from e-mail
Discussion: textually.org
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
A year later, crumbling VSP disintegrates further
Matt Casamassina / IGN:
Wii Before PS3  —  Sources say Nintendo to launch its new …
Read/WriteWeb:
eBay Wiki - world's largest commercial wiki launched
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flock Raises New Venture Round, Launches Public Beta
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Bill Slawski Interview
 

 
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