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Black Voices:
You've got to see it to believe it — The new AOL OpenRide™ Beta software helps you do what you want online in fewer clicks and fewer hassles. No more jumping from one window to the next - everything you need is right there the moment you need it. — OpenRide is more than just a browser.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Your Name Here On Google's Home Page — Via the New York Times Pogue's Post, Custom Google is a way to get the Google home page showing whatever words you want in place of the Google logo — but using the Google logo's style. You're supposed to be able to do the same for the Yahoo home page …
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Replacing my home backup server with Amazon's S3 — Not too long ago, Amazon released their Simple Storage Service (or "S3" for short). It provides a hosted storage platform which developers can build all sorts of applications on top of. Smugmug, a popular photo sharing web site, is using it to store and host pictures.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
WalMart's MySpace Clone Dead on Arrival — TheHub, WalMart's ill-fated attempt at building a social network for kool kidz who just happen to like shopping at Walmart, has gone offline. The site, which was up for 10 weeks, tried to keep content wholesome, and featured profiles and videos from …
Brian Steinberg / Wall Street Journal:
Web-Video Spots Present Dilemma For Advertisers — Web video is a regular part of Dima Abelsky's routine. The 19-year-old University of Georgia sophomore enjoys looking at sports reports and entertainment news, watching as many as seven to eight videos a day.
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Will Low-Power Wibree Spec Replace Bluetooth? — Do we need yet another short-range wireless specification? Apparently, yes. — The new "Wibree" specification may end up being adopted as essentially a low-power version of the Bluetooth specification, to be used in conventional mobile phones …
Javester / MacTelChat:
iPhoto 6.0.5 shows evidence of Google collaboration — In the middle of preparing an article speculating what Apple and Google are up to with Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently joining Apple's board, I decided to poke around iPhoto to see if one of my suspicions held water.
Discussion:
Infinite Loop, CNNMoney.com, michael parekh on IT, Gadgetell, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, CrunchGear and digg
Microsoft:
Microsoft's Software Protection Platform: Protecting Software and Customers from Counterfeiters — The company announces innovative technology in Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" to reduce the risk of piracy and software tampering while improving software licensing.
Discussion:
Between the Lines, Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, All about Microsoft and Microsoft News Tracker
1up.com:
Pirates Claim US Final Fantasy XII Leaked — Torrent site users saying files are completely legit. — UPDATE: Since filing our original report, it appears Square Enix has started asserting legal control. One popular torrent site, where many others were linking to as an originator …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Amie Street Takes Innovative Music Model Into Beta — DRM-free music marketplace Amie Street is announcing its beta launch this morning. We wrote about the company's alpha launch and interesting demand-driven pricing model here in July. Songs uploaded by artists fluctuate in price according to demand over time.
Jeff / Venture Chronicles:
The Internet Empowers Small Business — At the Longworth Ventures conference today and there is a panel about empowering small business, something near and dear to me for reasons that will be further revealed next week. — On the panel are Jana Eggers from Intuit Innovation Labs …
dlink.com:
D-LINK ANNOUNCES ENTRY INTO MOBILE PHONE MARKET WITH V-CLICK™, AN UNLOCKED, DUAL-MODE GSM / WI-FI® PHONE — V-CLICK Makes It Easy to Switch from GSM and Wi-Fi® Modes with a Single Click — D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumers and business …
Davevr / Shell Blog:
Back in Black! Or rather, back OUT black! — Just a quick blog post to update you on an issue near and dear to the hearts of some people. Well, at least the 1300 or so people so far who have contacted me about this issue. — Background — In Vista, we are really trying to reduce …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Introducing SlideShare: Power Point + YouTube — SlideShare is a new service launching this morning that lets users upload PowerPoint or Open Office presentationi files and share them online through a You Tube-like interface. — Power Point documents (or any office documents) …
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Engagement Is a Euphemism For Measuring the ROI of Brand Advertising — Last week I attended the Consumer Engagement Conference, put on by the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) and the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), where I discovered that the word "engagement" …
Rob Bushway / GottaBeMobile.com:
We've got Lenovo X60s Tablet PC specs — An anonymous GottaBeMobile.com reader sent us the specs on the yet to be announced Lenovo X60s Tablet PC. We have every reason to believe that these are accurate and believable; however, official specs will be released when it is announced, which according to our source, is next month.
Business Wire:
Yahoo! Sponsored Search Comes to the Mobile Web — Beta Launch Extends Leadership in Sponsored Search to the — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! today announced the beta launch of sponsored search results on the company's Mobile Web service in the United States and United Kingdom.
