Techmeme: Keynote: Adrian Van Klaveren (journalists.org)

1:25 AM ET, October 7, 2006

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Google Puts Lid on New Products — Realizing that its myriad services are confusing users, it will focus on refining what it has. — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In another sign of Google Inc.'s growth from start-up to corporate behemoth, the company's top executives said Thursday …

Discussion: Search Engine Watch Blog, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Read/WriteWeb, ResourceShelf, Zoli's Blog, Geeking with Greg, Paul Kedrosky's …, .:UNEASYsilence:., Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, David Card and Slashdot

Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:

WSJ reports Google and YouTube are in acquisition talks — It looks like Michael Arrington's report last night that Google is in talks to acquire YouTube may have been more than what he called "40% likely to be at least partially true." The Wall St. Journal is reporting this morning …

Discussion: Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, Medialoper, Download Squad, Geek News Central, Paul Kedrosky's …, Bloggers Blog, HipMojo.com, InsideGoogle, Enterprise Web 2.0 and digg

LeeAnn Prescott / Hitwise US:

Google YouTube Rumor - Hitwise Perspective — Today's rumor that Google might be buying YouTube strikes me as highly unlikely, but deserves some analysis. Firstly, how does YouTube's traffic compare to Google Video, and what effect did Google's replacing the Froogle link with Google Video have?

Discussion: Compete Blog and Search Engine Journal

Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:

Google to buy YouTube? Perfect match. — This makes total sense to me for a number of reasons: — Google's search business makes so much money that they could leave the YouTube service the way it is and make back their $1.6B in 6-7 years just by putting Google search boxes all over the site.

Discussion: HipMojo.com, ben barren, Howard Lindzon, SuperGeek, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, E-consultancy, Smalltalk Tidbits … and digg

Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:

Google in Talks to Acquire YouTube for $1.6 Billion — Google is in serious talks to acquire YouTube, the wildly successful online video-sharing Web site, for $1.6 billion in cash and stock, people involved in the negotiations said today. — A deal would end an almost yearlong chess game among …

Discussion: Valleywag and Perceptric Forum

Paul Elias / Associated Press:

Google said in talks to buy YouTube — SAN FRANCISCO - Internet search leader Google Inc. is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube Inc. for about $1.6 billion in cash and stock, according to published reports. — Mountain View-based Google and San Mateo-based YouTube …

Discussion: Gizmodo

Carlo / Techdirt:
Who Needs The Truth When We Can All Just Point At Each Other?

Discussion: Howard Lindzon

Kevin Maney:
YouTube-Google rumors and the danger of the Web echo chamber

Discussion: Good Morning Silicon Valley, Valleywag and Rational rants

Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog: Google + YouTube: What it means

Om Malik / GigaOM:
YouTube, Google ... fuggedaboutit

Discussion: Tech Beat, Silicon Valley Sleuth, CNNMoney.com, Tech Digest, Digital Micro-Markets, The Tech Report, Screenwerk, Mark Evans and Blogging Stocks

Nwhite / Windows Vista Team Blog:

Windows Vista RC2 is now available to technical beta testers! — Today, Microsoft is excited to announce the availability of Windows Vista RC2 to Technical Beta Testers, TAP Testers, and MSDN/TechNet subscribers. This new build of Windows Vista offers users a higher level of performance and stability …

Discussion: CyberNet Technology News, Bink.nu, TechSpot, jkOnTheRun, Teching It Easy, TechBlog, MSTechToday and Slashdot

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Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:
Windows Vista RC2 Available to TechBeta Members

Discussion: Teching It Easy, InsideMicrosoft and MSTechToday

Bloomberg:

Google to Subpoena Yahoo, Microsoft on Book Scanning (Update1) — Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. will subpoena information from Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. to help fight copyright lawsuits over its book-scanning project. — Google, the world's most-used search engine …

Discussion: Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Search Engine Watch Blog and digg

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Mike / Techdirt:
Turns Out Putting Your Books On Google Does, Indeed, Help Sales

Discussion: Google Watch

Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:

New Hot Spot For Tech Firms Is the Old One — Matt Sanchez was just the kind of entrepreneur that the new wave of the Web boom was supposed to spawn: one untethered by geography, able to locate his company anywhere there was broadband Internet connection and a good idea.

Discussion: paidContent.org, Beet.TV and GigaOM

Business 2.0:

20 Smart Companies to Start Now — Howard Schultz, Steve Case, Vinod Khosla, and other major investors are sharing their best startup ideas. And they're willing to give a collective $100 Million to the entrepreneurs who can make them happen. — (Business 2.0 Magazine) …

Discussion: O'Reilly Radar, Alpha.CNET.com and Slashdot

Olga Kharif / Business Week:

Was MySpace Sold on the Cheap? — One of the site's co-founders offers new evidence that parent Intermix Media knew the $580 million it accepted from News Corp. was too low — When News Corp. (NWS) Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch paid $580 million for Intermix Media, parent of social network MySpace.com, talk was he overpaid.

Discussion: Download Squad

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Mathew Ingram / mathewingram.com/work:
$20-billion worth of sour grapes

Discussion: HipMojo.com, Mashable!, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web and The Blogging Times

Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:

A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools — In an effort to replace my home backup server with Amazon's S3, I've been collecting a list of Amazon S3 compatible backup tools to look at. Here's what I've discovered, followed by my requirements. — The List — I've evaluated exactly zero of these so far.

Discussion: eHomeUpgrade and digg

AppleInsider:

Apple prepares for Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro ramp — Apple Computer this month has begun to slow production of its existing Core Duo MacBook Pro professional notebooks ahead of refreshed models that will sport Intel Corp's higher-performance Core 2 Duo microprocessors, AppleInsider has learned.

Discussion: Gizmodo, Engadget, CrunchGear and digg

IEBlog:

IE7 Is Coming This Month...Are you Ready? — The final release of IE7 is fast approaching ... and I mean really fast ... and will be delivered to customers via Automatic Updates a few weeks after it's available for download. We want to ensure that you are ready and the information below will help get you there.

Discussion: Niall Kennedy's Weblog

Stuart Elliott / New York Times:

Living the Promotional Life — CAN an affable 30-year-old conceptual artist turned comedian sell cars to his generation by using nontraditional media like blogs and Webisodes? — That is the multimillion-dollar question Nissan North America is asking as an unconventional campaign gets under …

Discussion: Screenwerk

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