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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Powerset's search technology scoop, may scare Google — Powerset, a San Francisco search engine company, will announce Friday it has won exclusive rights to significant search engine technology it says may help propel it past Google. — The technology, developed at Palo Alto Research Center …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
In a Search Refinement, a Chance to Rival Google — Early in the decade, a struggling Xerox Corporation was trying to sell off a stake in its Palo Alto Research Center, which it could no longer afford to support. But with the technology bubble bursting, the price that investors were willing …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nokia's E90 Communicator: first pics! — Check it QWERTY geeks, we've got a trio of clandestine snaps of Nokia's oft rumored, but never seen E90 communicator. As you can see from the pics, the E90 does indeed pack a dual-hinge allowing it to open like a 9500 or fold-up flat like the 9300.
Erik Sass / MediaPost Publications:
DMarc Founders Leave Google — CHAD AND RYAN STEELBERG, THE founders of an automated radio ad placement company purchased by Google in January 2006, have left the company. — The brothers resigned amid reports of growing tension between dMarc, the company they founded, and Google over differing approaches to radio ad sales.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Is interoperable DRM inherently less secure? The case of FairPlay versus Windows Media — It's been said before: security systems that rely on secrecy are only as secure as their secrets. This was one of the more interesting assertions echoed in Steve Jobs' now famous open letter on DRM …
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Your mail is here, come and get it!:
We Heard You Loud and Clear — Just on the heels of another great release for the beta (M9), I'd like to share some interesting news to our loyal users. When we launch the mail service worldwide, it will be named Windows Live Hotmail. That's right! And for starters, some of you will begin …
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Paul Cesarini / Observer:
Caught in the Network — At 9:15 one Thursday morning, there came a polite knock on my mostly closed office door. I was expecting the knock. A student was coming to talk to me about getting into one of my courses, which he needed to graduate. — So when I heard the knock, I said, "C'mon in, Kyle."
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Wired News:
XBLA's Greg Canessa Poached by PopCap — The man who birthed Xbox Live Arcade has abandoned his brainchild. With freshly inked adoption papers, Greg Canessa, former general manager of Xbox Live Arcade, will now nurture PopCap Games' console and handheld divisions as the vice president of video game platforms.
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Ben / Ben Metcalfe Blog:
On linkbaiting, SEO'ing and all that other crap — I guess I must be a blog puritan. A naive, day-dreaming, quasi-utopian blog puritan at that. — There's been a lot of discussion about Jason Calacanis calling bulls**t on the SEO industry (I'm not going to get into that echo chamber …
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Meta:
An Open Letter to Google Founders— to save Google in China and save Internet in China — I'm writing you the short letter on behalf of many Internet users in China to have some suggestions to resolve the current dilemma for Google in China, from both business and social perspectives.
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MediaShift:
WE MEDIA 2007 Mainstream Media Wants to Take Back Control — MIAMI — Thanks to the audience taking control of their media experience and creating their own media in blogs, podcasts, video and social networks, the people who are losing control have decided to meet — and meet, and meet again …
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Michael Copeland / Dawn Patrol:
Who Says Security Companies Don't Have a Sense of Humor — I will admit that I get bored to tears by all the fear-mongering that usually accompanies the marketing pitch from software security companies. Apparently, Fortify Software, a KPCB-backed startup is too.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Photobucket To Show Off Latest Flash Tools — We are expecting Photobucket and Adobe to jointly announce a new Flash based tool for Photobucket users within the next couple of weeks. The tool will allow users to mash up videos, photos and music clips into a timeline, and add titles …
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Ryan Stewart
Lifehacker:
Make your own mashup with Yahoo! Pipes — Yahoo releases a brand new web service called Pipes that mixes, mashes and - you Unix geeks will appreciate this - pipes feeds through filters you define in an attractive, visual IDE. — What the hell does that mean?
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
Where's Ray? Where's the Vista Campaign? — Random unconnected things... Where's Ray? I'm sure Ray Ozzie has been busy being the wizard behind the connected services scene of the future, but he's just plain running too silent for my comfort. And I'm sure with Mix07 he's …
Pat Phelan / Roam4free:
Allfreecalls.net launches in Ireland — Allfreecalls.ie is now live in Ireland Yipee! — Since I'm part owner I won't brag but I will allow you a sneak preview of our Press Release. — Thanks again to Uber designer Eoghan McCabe — "AllFreeCalls now from Ireland"
Abe Olandres / The Blog Herald:
We're reshuffling and Tony's taking charge — We're barely 3 months in since we first took charge of the Blog Herald. A lot of things have happened since then and I believe we have survived one problem after another pretty well. Our roster of contributors has grown and our rhythm has been stabilized.
Reuters:
YouTube founders split $650M payout — Web search leader Google details the payout from its $1.65 billion acquisition of the popular online video service. — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Two of YouTube's founders stand to divide shares of stock now valued at around $650 million …
