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Allison Linn / Associated Press:
Amazon.com Drops Search Engine Features — Amazon.com's A9 Search Engine Drops Highly Touted Features — SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon.com Inc.'s A9 search engine has dropped some of its most widely touted features, including the ability to remember everything a user has ever searched for and a service …
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R. Craig Endicott / AdAge:
100 Leading Media Companies Report; Revenue Hits $268 Billion — Also: Download the 2006 Media Family Trees Poster — CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Internet and cable were the growth locomotives behind the 6.6% increase in 2005 U.S. media revenue, reaching $268.48 billion for the 100 Leading Media Companies.
Dana Hanna / An App A Day:
Day 17 - WPM Tray — Tonights application is a Words Per Minute meter in your systray. The algorithm used to determine a word is VERY simple (a space, tab, or return separated by anything else). — It's a green box for 0-99wpm, a gold box for 100-199wpm, and a red box for 200-299wpm.
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE RUNNING SEARCHMASH — Google is running an alternate search engine called SearchMash, which includes some useful and "out there" features that might not be right for Google.com, but could make a really interesting search engine. Of course, if any of the features turn out to be huge hits, who knows?
Jeremy Caplan / Time:
Google's Chief Looks Ahead — In an interview with TIME, CEO Eric Schmidt explains what's behind the company's new push for partnerships — Google wants new friends. After signing a series of new partners, CEO Eric Schmidt says the Web giant's spate of recent deals is just a start.
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
More info on PageRank — Every few months we update the PageRank data that we show in the toolbar, and every few months I see a few repeated questions, so let me take a pass at some of them. Note: I wrote this kinda quickly, so I think this is pretty good, but if I spot something incorrect later, I'll change it.
Ben Yoskovitz / Instigator Blog:
5 Things You Shouldn't Spend Money On When Starting a Business — Some things are worth spending your money on. Others aren't. — Worth it: — Not worth it: — When starting a business, here's 5 things you shouldn't spend a lot of money on: — Fancy shmancy marketing materials.
Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog:
One Small Step for the Blogosphere... I've been an officer of a public company for a while, and I've had access to confidential information for a good while longer. And I'm used to holding my tongue on issues that'd be deemed material to Sun's financial performance.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Analysts don't like YouTube's chances — Another Internet research firm has predicted doom for YouTube's business model. — Copyright issues that have plagued video-sharing site YouTube since its official launch almost a year ago will mean that "YouTube will get sued.
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Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
New Conductors Speed Global Flows of Money — Cellphones Make Transfers Faster, Cheaper — MANILA — It was 10:33 p.m. when Dulce Amor Bandoy's cellphone beeped with her favorite kind of message. — "You have received 1,321.00 of G-Cash," read the text on her phone's glowing screen.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Google takes a bigger bite of Big Apple — Google, headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is hoping to make it big in New York City. — After a year of speculation, the company on Monday officially opened a new, bigger and more Google-y office in the Big Apple in the trendy Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan.
Paul Thurrott / windowsitpro.com:
Exclusive: Here Comes Windows Vista RC2 — Microsoft this Friday will ship the final pre-release version of Windows Vista and, unexpectedly, will name the release as Release Candidate 2 (RC2). Previously, Microsoft had publicly asserted that it would not ship an RC2 milestone release of Windows Vista.
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Mike / Techdirt:
To Protect Our Ports, We've Now Banned Online Gambling — from the say-what? dept — A bunch of politicians have been pushing for this for quite some time, but this weekend, it surprised many people when the Senate was able to squeeze in an anti-gambling bill with an unrelated bill on port security.
Gizmodo:
GPS Fails, Police Give Away a Car — Police in Dallas, TX are kicking themselves in the ass after the GPS functionality of a "bait car" has failed and their baited criminal has gotten away, scott-free, with a new car. Bait cars are cars prepped for the purpose of being stolen.
Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
Hidden Labels in Gmail — If you enable saving your chat history in Gmail, your conversations from Google Talk are saved as standard emails. To make them stand out from the rest of messages, Gmail adds two labels: chat and chats. — If you want to search your chats, you just have to add label:chat to your query.
RON / Rondam Ramblings:
Top ten geek business myths — Since I've started my new career as a venture capitalist I have become keenly aware of some of the classic mistakes that geeks make when trying to raise money for a new business. Instead of writing the same comments over and over again I thought I'd try …
BBC:
Video games have 'role in school' — Video games could have a serious role to play in the classroom, a survey of teachers and students suggests. — The Teaching with Games report was commissioned by games giant Electronic Arts (EA) and carried out by FutureLab.
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