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Kalpana Shah / Red Herring:
Google to Fund Indian Startups — Early-stage fund, Seedfund, will help Google sow the seeds of a future buyout. — Google's style is usually to pay huge dollops for the startups it finds interesting. In India, though, it has chosen to take an indirect route.
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Nikhil Pahwa / PaidContent:Google Invests in India Via New Investment Firm Seedfund
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Matt / WordPress Development Blog:
WordPress 2.1 Ella — On behalf of the WordPress.org community of commiters, contributers, and volunteers, I'm very proud to announce the immediate availability of WordPress 2.1 "Ella", named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald. Here's a sampling of what's in the new version:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TellMe Launches a Killer Mobile Product — If you have a cell phone that supports the new TellMe mobile application, you will never use 411 again to find a business. It launches today at 5 AM PST. — TellMe mobile is a free Java application that you install on your phone.
Victoria Shannon / New York Times:
Record Labels Contemplate Unrestricted Digital Music — As even digital music revenue growth falters because of rampant file-sharing by consumers, the major record labels are moving closer to releasing music on the Internet with no copying restrictions — a step they once vowed never to take.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
IBM Launches Enterprise Social Networking Suite; Microsoft Helpfully Offers To Migrate IBM Customers Off It — The big news today is that IBM has released an enterprise social networking suite, called Lotus Connections. The NY Times explains: … The NY Times article notes that IBM …
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Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
E-mail from the grave? Microsoft seeks patent on 'immortal computing' — In this culture of instant information, some Microsoft Corp. researchers are pursuing a radical notion — the concept of saving messages for delivery in decades, centuries or more. — The project, dubbed …
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David Flynn / APC:
Vista Service Pack 1 is coming — Reckon you won't upgrade to Vista until the first service pack is released? That's looking likely to be the second half of this year, according to Microsoft's latest email blast. — The company has put out a call for "customers and partners (to) …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Find Out If Your Social Security or Credit Card Numbers are on the Internet — Silicon Valley based Trusted ID, which launched IDFreeze last year to help protect people from identity theft, released their second product this evening - Stolen ID Search. — Type a social security …
Doug Mellgren / Associated Press:
German, French groups want open iTunes — OSLO, Norway - German and French consumer groups have joined a Nordic-led drive to force Apple Inc. to make its iTunes online store compatible with digital music players made by rival companies, a Norwegian official said Monday.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Throwaway Identities — Written by Jitendra Gupta of KarmaWeb and edited by Richard MacManus — Social Media researcher danah boyd recently recently wrote in her blog about throwaway identities in MySpace: … danah notes that teens often start new accounts on a whim - in IM, email, website logins.
David Kirkpatrick / Fortune:
Second Life: It's not a game — Fortune's David Kirkpatrick reports on why IBM's Sam Palmisano and other tech leaders think Second Life could be a gold mine. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Last November in Beijing, IBM gathered 2,000 employees, with 5,000 more watching on the web …
Neil Patel / Search Engine Land:
Forget ABCs - The Social Media Alphabet Is DNRS — Many search marketers know their search engine alphabet, A for Ask.com; G for Google; M for Microsoft Live.com and Y for Yahoo. But how many know the important letters of the social media alphabet, D for Digg; N for Netscape; R for Reddit and S for StumbleUpon?
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Randfish / SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog:
Best Practices for Title Tags — It's been a while since I provided some straightforward, back to basics style advice and there can be little doubt that the title attribute is worthy of attention for beginners and experts alike. And so I present... How to Make the Best Title Tag Possible:
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
The Connection Between Short, Modular and Open — How did we get from the two-hour film to the 24-minute TV sitcom? Why is it that the Academy award-winning short film of yesteryear was watched by a few thousand, while a YouTube clip shot on a camera phone might be watched by hundreds of thousands or even millions of viewers?
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Rob Beschizza / Gadget Lab:
Blu-Ray DRM Cracked — The plaintext exploit used to partially crack HD-DVD a couple of weeks ago was brought to bear on Blu-Ray by the same gents this weekend—and it worked a treat. — "We need to kick DRM in the butt!" declares the sigfile of Doom9 forum poster Janvitos, launching his inspection of the format.
Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Cracking Down on Mixtape CDs — Not long before Christmas, Jeff Baker, the chief of police of Morrow, Ga., a small town just south of Atlanta, and one of his officers were walking through a local shopping mall when they happened to pass a kiosk hawking rap music CDs. One in particular caught their attention.
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