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John Markoff / New York Times:
Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching — A new company founded by a longtime technologist is setting out to create a vast public database intended to be read by computers rather than people, paving the way for a more automated Internet in which machines will routinely share information.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Freebase Will Prove Addictive — Danny Hillis' latest venture, Metaweb, is about to unveil its first product, the aptly named freebase, tomorrow. While freebase is still VERY alpha, with much of the basic functionality barely working, the idea is HUGE. In many ways, freebase is the bridge between …
Terry / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
NEWS AS A SOCIAL PLAY: HERE COMES MYSPACE NEWS! — MySpace is getting into the news business with launch due in early 2nd quarter, according to inside sources and the company's own sales materials. — MySpace News takes News to a whole new level by dynamically aggregating real-time news and blogs from top sites around the Web
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James Quintana Pearce / PaidContent:
MySpace To Launch News Service, May Need Age Checks — MySpace is planning to get into the news business early in the second quarter, according to Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog...the surprising thing is that it hasn't happened sooner considering the owner is News Corp. The post appears to quote …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Is 'Social News' the New Trend? — TREND SPOTTING: As a child I remember sitting around with the grown-ups at the neighborhood tea stall - grizzly old blokes, friends of my grandfather and listening to them discuss political developments of the day, reading from the newspapers, and putting their spin on it.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
It Looks Like MySpace Will Finally Do Something With Newroo — I read with interest that MySpace will be launching a news site in the coming months. Given the feature set (dynamically aggregating real-time news to create focused and topical news pages, and allowing users to rate and comment …
David Braue / CNET News.com:
iTunes: Just how random is random? — Think that song has appeared in your playlists just a few too many times? David Braue puts the randomness of Apple's song shuffling to the test — and finds some surprising results. — Quick — think of a number between one and 20.
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Wall Street Journal:
Music's New Gatekeeper — From their Silicon Valley cubicles, Apple staffers have become music's unlikely power brokers. Our reporters on the horse-trading that can turn unknowns into stars. — Every day, the roughly one million people who visit the iTunes Store home page are presented …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Palm Responds to the iPhone — Palm Inc., the maker of hand-held computers, has hired a top Silicon Valley software designer as it seeks to respond to the challenge posed by Apple's new iPhone. — The designer, Paul Mercer, a former Apple computer engineer, began work three weeks ago …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
New My Yahoo Signals It Has Abandoned the Geeks — Does anyone among the tech influential spend any significant time on Yahoo anymore? I sure don't and for years I did. I have a couple of their news feeds, but for the most part it seems like all the action is on Google and a bunch of startups.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:
SEC Suspends Trading Of 35 Companies Touted In Spam Email Campaigns — Investor Protection Agency Unveils "Operation Spamalot" — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — 2007-34 — Washington, D.C., March 8, 2007 - The Securities and Exchange Commission this morning suspended trading in the securities …
Tod Hilton / dirtyDogStink:
Starting a new chapter @ Microsoft — Today is my last day working in Windows Live Operations, excuse me...Global Foundation Services [fancy new name announced a few months ago]. … Anyway, I won't be saying "I work in Ops, um, Global Foundation Services" any longer.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Confirmed: Microsoft Building Google Apps/Zoho Competitor
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Charlene Li's Blog
adamap:
Google Keyword Tool Showing Number of Previous Month's Searches — Just caught this development this morning. — Click for larger image.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Local Business Center Adds Photos, Attributes, Maps Corrections & Stats — The Google Local Business Center has just added four new features for business owners who want to maintain a Google Local Business listing. Below, a step-by-step guide to how you can adjust the marker for your business …
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Molly Graham / Official Google Blog:Photos on Google Maps
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Search Engine Watch Blog, All Points Blog, Digital Markets, Google Operating System and Slashdot
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Austin, beware: The SXSW geeks are back in town — In the wee hours of a Texas morning last March, two of the world's most creative geeks, armed with Bluetooth and a vacuum, set out to subject one innocent frog to a certain future as roadkill. — Animal activists can rest easy.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
10 Fun Facts About Storage — TECH HISTORY: The New York Times had a nice story about dressy hard drives that reminded me how much of our digital lives are dependent on this often ignored low-margin business. As mentioned before, from iPod to TiVo to our set-top boxes - everything is touched by storage.
Robert Vamosi / Webware.com:
NEW FIREFOX EXTENSION, FIREKEEPER, LETS YOU SURF SAFE — Do you trust that the Web site you're visiting is secure? By now most people know to avoid sketchy sites with complicated URLs, misspellings, or seedy graphics. But what about legitimate sites, such as the one for this year's Super Bowl …
