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LeeAnn Prescott / Hitwise US:
PhotoBucket Leads Photo Sharing Sites; Flickr at #6 — In the SF tech bubble that I live in, most of the talk about photo sites has been centered on Flickr. In fact, you could get the impression from most people I meet that Flickr is the ONLY site at which you can share and store photos.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Photobucket vs. Flickr in Alexa and Technorati — One of the top stories in the blogosphere today is a new Hitwise chart finding that Photobucket has a 46% leading market share in online photosharing and that Flickr is in 6th place with only 6%. — This was a big surprise for parts of the blogosphere where Flickr is a hot topic.
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:Shocking News: Photobucket is World's Biggest Photo Site, Flickr is Irrelevant
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Om Malik / GigaOM:PhotoBucket Rules — Photobucket, the plain vanilla photo hosting site …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg 3.0 To Launch Monday: Exclusive Screenshots and Stats — Digg 3.0 will launch Monday, June 26, in the morning PST. The launch is being announced this evening, and Digg has made a number of screen shots available to me which are included in this post.
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katu.com:
Wireless Piggybacking Lands Man In Trouble — VANCOUVER, Wash. - Brewed Awakenings, with its pithy name, artful drinks and wireless Internet service, has found itself unexpectedly percolating on the forefront of high-tech law. — "He doesn't buy anything," Manager Emily Pranger says about the man she ended up calling 911 about.
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Techdirt, The Technology Chronicles, iBloggedThis, TechSpot, dailywireless.org, duncanriley.com and thebloggingtimes.com
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google details Mountain View Wi-Fi service — SAN FRANCISCO—Google does not plan to use ads to pay for the free wireless Internet service it's offering in its hometown of Mountain View, Calif., and there's no secret plan to monetize the service, a Google Wi-Fi product manager said Wednesday.
Jo Best / CNET News.com:
Next Nokia minitablet to get Webcam, WiMax? — After the success of its original Linux tablet, the 770, Nokia is looking at the next generation of Internet-only devices. — The original tablet device debuted last year and caught the attention of gadget fans wondering why Nokia was making a device that had no cellular connectivity.
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Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
Spike in Laptop Thefts Stirs Jitters Over Data — It has become the police-blotter item of our age: A small-time burglar swipes a laptop and fences it for a quick $200 at a pawnshop. — But increasingly, these petty crimes are causing anxiety in executive suites across the country …
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Ben Kuchera / Opposable Thumbs:
Is Bill Gates learning from the mod community? — A lot of interesting data came out of Ars Technica's interview with Matt Lee, a Microsoft software developer in the Xbox division. The nice thing about Matt Lee was that when the interview was over, he answered some questions in the discussion.
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
I know you are , but what am I... I think I have been called more names by more people in the last week than even I thought possible. The beauty is in the irony of it all. — In the first year I owned the team, I was called the same names and media wrote the exact same things they are writing today.
www-128.ibm.com:
An introduction to Ruby on Rails for DB2 developers — Agile Web development meets DB2 — Edd Dumbill (edd@usefulinc.com), Principal, Useful Information Company … Ruby on Rails is an open source Web framework causing a lot of excitement among Web developers.
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
Locked Doors, Martin Taylor, MarkZ, and Links — I parked my car, grabbed my stuff, and went to the usual entrance to my building. I waved my badge, waiting for the prompt click! that unlocks the door. — No click. — Uh-oh. — Wave. No click. Wave. No click. Wave. No click.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Wine.com raises $12 million more — to try seventh time lucky — Wine.com has become the most stubborn dot.com hangover ever. — The San Francisco online wine retailer, which depending on how you count is now on around its seventh reincarnation since launching in the 1990s …
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David Walker / eHomeUpgrade:
RoverTV PMP Features Line-In Recording and SD Memory Card Storage — Thin is in. Just look at the example set by Apple in everything from it's Macbook and Macbook Pro series to the constant shrinking of the iPod. Thick and heavy tech devices are yesterday's news.
Geeknews / Geek News Central Revealing Technical News …:
VOIP callers will Pay Universal Service Fee Taxes — Well I know what this means for Vonage customers, your bill is about to go up, and you will now be contributing to keep small rural telephone companies in business. You will be paying to support companies that are still trying to surcharge for touch tone services.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Partners With Adobe For Toolbar Distribution In Shockwave, Other Product To Be Named — Both Adobe (PDF link) and Google have announced a new deal where Adobe will distribute the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer as part of Adobe Macromedia Shockwave Player downloads.
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Supernova: Yahoo flexing research muscles — Usama Fayyad, Yahoo's chief data office, pitched his company's reseach prowess at Supernova 2006. He is putting together what he described as the largest, deepest and smartest research group studying search, community, personalization …
Valleywag:
How to fix conference wifi — Here at the Supernova tech innovation conference, speaker Craig Newmark (the Craig in Craigslist) was wandering around with a network administrator, testing the main room's wireless connection (so he could write this blog post).
Jacob Ogles / Wired News:
Laptops Give Hope to the Homeless — FILLMORE, California — Happy Ivy doesn't have a bathroom or a kitchen in the bus he calls home. He does, however, have a video-editing station. — Living in a squalid, Woodstock-style bus parked in a Fillmore, California, orange grove …
