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Yahoo! Search blog:
Yahoo, Google and Microsoft join forces (really !!) behind Sitemaps — The best part about to-do lists is when you get to cross something off, and today we can cross one more from the list of feedback we have collected from webmasters. You have asked us to support a single format for submission …
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Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, SEL, Google Blogoscoped, UMBC eBiquity, GigaOM, Yodel Anecdotal, ReveNews and The Blogging Times
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Live Search's WebLog:
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! Unite to Support Sitemaps — Today, we are excited to announce that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are coming together in support of the SiteMaps protocol. The goal of this effort is to improve search results for customers around the world.
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Joint support for the Sitemap Protocol — We're thrilled to tell you that Yahoo! and Microsoft are joining us in supporting the Sitemap protocol. — As part of this development, we're moving the protocol to a new namespace, www.sitemaps.org, and raising the version number to 0.9.
Jeremy Dunham / IGN:
PS3 Downscales 720p on Incapable TVs — If your TV doesn't support a specific resolution, expect to go low-res. — As final PlayStation 3 units continue to trickle into more and more hands, additional details about how the system works and what it can and can't do are hitting the web.
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Jonathan Cassell / isuppli.com:
PlayStation 3 Offers Supercomputer Performance at PC Pricing, iSuppli's Teardown Analysis Reveals — From delivery delays, to technology hurdles, to missed production targets, to cancelled pre-orders, to an apparently exorbitant price tag—we've all read the bad news regarding Sony Corp.'s …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Jason Calacanis Says Adios to AOL — We just heard from a source that Jason Calacanis has resigned from AOL. Jason joined AOL just over a year ago when his startup, Weblogs, Inc., was acquired. Most recently, he took over management of Netscape, which relaunched earlier this year as a Digg-like news portal.
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
About Jon Miller — Update: Ted checks in with his thoughts on "Miller time." — Today was a very sad day for me. One of the few mentors I've had in my life, Jon Miller, was replaced as CEO of AOL. — I feel in love with the challenge of AOL 18 months ago when Jon Miller, Ted Leonsis …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Google Local Adds Click to Call — The official Google Blog just announced the availability of a click-to-call feature in Google Local. This has been expected for some time, but it's now official and it works well. Businesses you find in Google Local now have a call link included in search results.
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Min Zeng / Official Google Blog:
Click to call in Google Maps — Last week, I was trying to buy blue lightbulbs for a party at my house, and I ended up calling ten different stores before I found one that carried them. Now with the new calling feature on Google Maps, I can do this quickly and easily, and never have to lift a finger to dial.
AppleInsider:
Foxconn to manufacture Apple's iPhone - report — Foxconn Electronics, the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, has secured a contract with Apple Computer to manufacturer its first mobile handset that will also dual as a digital music player, according to an overseas report.
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Nick / Rough Type:
The dingo stole my avatar — An uneasy calm hangs over Second Life this morning after two days of protests over the appearance of the CopyBot replicator. Yesterday, as many as 600 shopkeepers closed their stores in protest, demanding that the online world's owner, Linden Lab …
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Business Week, Gearlog, Mathew Ingram, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, Clickable Culture and Blogspotting
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Antone Gonsalves / InformationWeek:Second Life Shop Owners Threaten Suit Against Virtual World's Creator
Chris Preimesberger / eWEEK.com:
Gates on the Past, the Future, and Google — Reporter's Notebook: Bill Gates tells Charlie Rose and Stanford University audience at TechNet conference that 'we're at the beginning of something important again' in development of technology — just as in the 1980s with the advent of the PC.
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Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Top Microsoft Ad-Sales Exec to Head MSN — Joanne Bradford Move Underscores Portal's Importance to Company Future — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — A major executive revamp at Microsoft's advertising division moves Joanne Bradford, the company's top ad-sales and marketing executive, over to run MSN …
Mike Hughlett / Chicago Tribune:
Craigslist not liable for housing ads: Judge — The popular Craigslist Web site is not legally liable for allegedly discriminatory housing ads posted by its users, a federal judge in Chicago ruled in a case pitting landmark internet and fair housing laws against each other.
Garrett French / Search Engine Journal:
Google's Early Efforts to Monetize Video — Video. I can't stop thinking about it. — Neither can Google. A recent tour of the Google plex by Beet.tv yielded some news (to me) on Google and their efforts to monetize video. — I did not know that "They have done limited advertising …
David Pogue / New York Times:
Free AOL Stuff, Courtesy of Bubble 2.0 — Don't look now, but the bubble is back. — Yes, it's 1999 all over again. Web start-ups are cropping up with names like Bebo, Squidoo and Moblabber. Start-ups like YouTube, less than a year old and unprofitable, are being sold for $1.65 billion.
