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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 …
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 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 …
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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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.
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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]
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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.
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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 …
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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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.
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 …
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 …
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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.
Enid Burns / ClickZ:
TNS Ups Internet Ad Spend Forecast — U.S. Internet ad spending, excluding search, is expected to increase by 13 percent in 2006, according to a revised full-year forecast released today by TNS Media Intelligence. Earlier estimates had pegged 2006 growth at just 9.1 percent.
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:
