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Google Q3 2006 Earnings Call Transcript — Executives — Kim Jabal - Director of Investor Relations — Larry Page - Founder and President of Products — Sergey Brin - Founder and President of Technology — Jonathan Rosenberg - Senior Vice President of Product Management
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Google profit jumps — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) on Thursday posted a 92 percent jump in quarterly profit and revenue near the top end of forecasts as the company tightened its grip on the Web search market, sending its shares up 7 percent.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Google Quantifies Its Momentum — Google's third quarter earnings announcement today came in strong, as expected given the company's growing domination of search and momentum over the last several months. The other big players may be struggling, but Google has the numbers to show that they are not.
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Ian Kallen / The Technorati Weblog:
Blog Claiming with OpenId — Blog claiming enables a blog author to associate their identity with their blog. Technorati has long supported a number of different ways for members to verify that they can author on a blog: — Logging into it programmatically with a username and password (AKA "quick claiming")
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Technorati Announces Support for Open ID — Blog search engine Technorati announced tonight that bloggers will now be able to claim ownership of their blogs with Open ID credentials and that more work in support of Open ID is on the way. — Open ID is a standards based protocol that any server …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Sony claims Xbox 360 requires HD DVD, etc., thus costs $700 — Ok, here's a new one: with Sony's announcements today they've issued a titled "Next-generation Console Comparison Fact Sheet," (downloadable here [DOC]) so let's see some facts. First up, were you aware that to use …
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Guardian:
Preserving a copy of the future — The British Library and the recording industry are arguing about proposals to extend the lifespan of copyright. Wendy M Grossman looks at the issues behind the row — Will you still need me, the songs asks, will you still feed me, when I'm 64?
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The Technology Liberation …
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Andy Kim / Potion Factory Blog:
Introducing Tangerine — We're proud to announce the beta release of Tangerine, our third application. Tangerine lets you easily create playlists with upbeat music, or playlists for relaxing. It does that by analyzing the BPM and beat intensity of the songs in your iTunes library.
Rex Crum / MarketWatch:
Apple profit up 27% on iPod, Mac sales — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 27% on higher sales of the company's line of iPod digital media players and its signature Macintosh computers.
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Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
Yahoo!'s Big Small Business Opportunity — Yahoo! Small Business — Let's forget about whether there are 10 million, 14 million or 22 million small businesses. In a way it doesn't matter. Most of them don't have a website or, if they do, it's not especially polished or functional.
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Ross Miller / Joystiq:
Mizuguchi defends Lumines Live — Q Entertainment founder Tetsuya Mizuguchi spoke with IGN today to defend his choice to split Lumines Live into four pieces (Basic, Advanced, VS CPU, and Mission / Puzzle pack). He gives two reasons for the division: the 50 MB limit on XBLA title …
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Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Interview with Adam Sah of Google — Adam Sah on the Google Gadgets team talks about a newer product from Google called "Gadgets For Your Web Page" on the Google Code Blog. He outlines a few limitations that currently exist in version 1 of the service.
BBC:
Single on memory stick for Keane — Rock band Keane will be the first act to release a single on USB flash drives, their record label says. — 1,500 of the gadgets will go sale with MP3 copies of the band's latest single, Nothing In My Way, later this month.
Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
First 500K PS3s get Blu-ray Talladega Nights — The PlayStation 3's system font isn't the only thing it's borrowing from Spider-Man. Just like the first one million PSPs came bundled with Sony Pictures' Spider-Man 2, the first half million PlayStation 3 systems will come with Will Ferrell's NASCAR opus …
Melanie Colburn / John Battelle's Searchblog:
ADWORDS WEBSITE OPTIMIZER TOOL — Google has a new tool out that allows AdWords advertisers to track and analyze experimental changes in their landing page designed to boost conversion and ROI. The Website Optimizer measures success of grouped or singular altered elements, like copy or images …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
MyBlogLog: Readers Network Around Their Favorite Blogs — MyBlogLog is a social networking system for blog readers to connect and learn about each other around their favorite blogs - and for blog publishers to access detailed information about their readers.
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Ryan Saghir / Orbitcast:
The Satellite iPod Returns (Apple Patent) — Perhaps this explains yesterday's rumor - today Apple filed for a patent application (PDF) for a method of saving media from various sources for later purchase. It's an ingenious method of grabbing snippets of audio, identifying the song …
