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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
More on Powerset, the secretive search engine — We promised to bring you more on Powerset, that secretive company that wants to better Google with a new kind of search. — Powerset is going after the holy grail. It is called "natural language" search, or understanding language …
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Barney Pell / Barney Pell's Weblog:
Powerset and Natural Language Search — Ever since I stated that Powerset was in "semi-stealth" mode about a year ago, I have been pretty quiet about the company on my blog. A few months ago we realized, after going through a fundraising process with a great set of angel investors …
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USA Today:
What's Teoma, you ask? You could ask Jeeves, but he's become ... Teoma — Hard to believe that while I was attending Rutgers University — in a building not far from the grain-alcohol frat parties that I may or may not have gone to, depending on who's asking — the history of Teoma was taking shape.
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Code Search Live — Google released Code Search, a search engine dedicated to finding pieces of public source code. There are existing code search engines, but this one seems to top them in terms of scope; not only does Google snoop around in ZIP files of different sorts, they also go check different CVS repositories.
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Verne Kopytoff / The Technology Chronicles:Coders, start your (search) engines
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NEWSFACTOR:
Tech Gadgets Banned in the USA — There's no doubt about it: foreign technology can whet your appetite. Super-lightweight laptops from Japan, feature-packed smartphones from Europe, and shiny, gotta-get-it devices designed in India, South Korea, and Taiwan are but a few of the items that currently reside on tech's cutting edge.
b5media:
b5media Inc. Raises US$2 Million — TORONTO, ONT, October 4, 2006 - b5media Inc. ("b5media"), a global new media network, has raised US$2-million of equity financing in a transaction co-lead by Brightspark Ventures and J. L. Albright Venture Partners. The funding will strengthen …
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Knowledge@Wharton:
Dot-Com Bubble, Part II? Why It's So Hard to Value Social Networking Sites — Less than three years after emerging from nowhere, the hot social networking website MySpace is on pace to be worth a whopping $15 billion in just three more years. Or is it? — Is the much smaller Facebook …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
del.icio.us Plans To Become A Social Network — I recently interviewed del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter, who is now with Yahoo after the popular social bookmarking service was acquired last December. Joshua was recently named as top innovator of the year by MIT Technology Review Magazine.
Reuters:
Scientists teleport two different objects — LONDON, England (Reuters) — Beaming people in "Star Trek" fashion is still in the realms of science fiction, but physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication and computing closer to reality.
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Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Skype's Venice Project Revealed — The company is combining professionally produced TV and videos with the Internet, and BusinessWeek.com got the first look — Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are preparing to unveil their latest venture to the public …
Knowledge@Wharton:
Henning Kagermann: Balancing Change and Stability in the Evolution of SAP's Enterprise Software Platform — When Henning Kagermann became the sole CEO of SAP in 2003, a role he had previously shared with company co-founder Hasso Plattner, he faced a number of challenges, including an economic slowdown that hurt SAP's growth.
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
New Google Groups product for testing — Google has announced a new beta version of Google Groups — it looks really good. You can tell they have spent many hours on the user experience, however I have a few suggestions that would add to the usability a bit later in the post.
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Download Squad, Mashable!, Official Google Blog, Search Engine Watch Blog and Lifehacker
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
The State Of Web Development - Ajax set to surpass Flash in '07 — Ektron and SitePoint did a survey of 5,000 web developers over the US summer, and have just released the results in a report entitled The State of Web Development 2006/2007. It's packed full of useful data, even in the 25-page preview (which is free).
BBC:
Mobile phone sales start to slow — Worldwide sales of mobile phones will hit a billion next year but the days of massive growth could be over, says an industry report. — According to research firm Informa Telecoms and Media, the battle now will be persuading users to upgrade their phones regularly.
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
PodZinger to Offer Targeted Video Ads — Audio and video search engine PodZinger is launching a new advertising platform that targets video ads based on search queries and the content being viewed. — "We're taking one of the key advantages of PodZinger — the words people are searching for …
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Rebecca Barr / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Cuts Bonuses for Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer (Update1) — Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software company, cut bonuses paid to Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer as profit growth slowed in three of the past four quarters.
ongoing:
Practical Transparency — A few days ago, our CEO Jonathan Schwartz sent a letter to SEC Chairman Christopher Cox calling for SEC financial-disclosure regulations to allow for publishing material financials on the Web. It's obviously a good idea, but there are some implementation issues.
