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Peter Rip / EarlyStageVC:
Web 2.0 - Over and Out — Many of us in the VC community have been quietly wondering about the state of Web 2.0 innovation. We aren't seeing much. Startup activity remains strong, but the consumer web landscape seems to be populated with the same bodies with different skins.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Does everything have to be Web 2.0? — Web 2.0 might have jumped the shark - that is not exactly what Peter Rip says, but that is the essence of his argument: Web 2.0 has gone mainstream, and the innovation around it is scuffling. The personal anecdote Rip retells is pretty amusing.
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O'Reilly Emerging Telephony
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
First Look: Yahoo Hopes to Gain #1 Mobile Search Spot With Expansion — Despite many believing mobile marketing to be a "non starter", the search engines continue to invest heavily in mobile search. With $11.4 billion expected to be spent on mobile search advertising by 2011 …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Exclusive: Yahoo oneSearch Launches on US Mobile Web — On Tuesday Yahoo will significantly expand the reach of their new mobile search product, Yahoo! oneSearch, by making it the default mobile Yahoo homepage at http://m.yahoo.com for US users. In effect this brings oneSearch …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
MySpace Restrictions Upset Some Users — Some users of MySpace feel as if their space is being invaded. — MySpace, the Web's largest social network, has gradually been imposing limits on the software tools that users can embed in their pages, like music and video players that also deliver advertising or enable transactions.
Symantec Corp.:
Symantec Reports Rise in Data Theft, Data Leakage, and Targeted Attacks Leading to Hackers' Financial Gain — New Internet Security Threat Activity Research Reveals a Shift towards Collaborative, Global Online Communities Operated by Cyber Criminals — The latest Internet Security Threat …
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TechCrunch, Computerworld Blogs blogs, Datamation IT News Blog, John Furrier and Slashdot
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Ian Murdock / Ian Murdock's Weblog:
Joining Sun — I saw my first Sun workstation about 15 years ago, in 1992. I was a business student at Purdue University, and a childhood love for computers had just been reawakened. I was spending countless hours in the basement of the Math building, basking in the green phosphorescent glow …
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Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
How Google Blog Search Ranks Results — Unlike most blog search engines, Google Blog Search ranks the results by relevancy. You can change that by clicking on "sort by date", but the default option is useful if you want to find the most significant blog posts about a topic. But how does Google rank blog posts?
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Conversion Rater, WebMetricsGuru, 901am, Search Engine Roundtable, Jim Kukral Online … and UMBC eBiquity
BBC:
YouTube to present video awards — Video-sharing website YouTube is to present awards for the best user-generated videos of 2006. — YouTube users will be able to vote for their favourite clips in seven categories, including most creative, and "most adorable" video ever.
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Profy.Com
Julio / iinnovate:
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google — Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, talks about Google's industry and competitors, about leading innovation, and career advice. — MP3 File | Subscribe via iTunes | Digg it! Add to del.icio.us — We caught up with Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google last week …
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple's next-generation iMacs to add a touch of grace — AppleInsider has learned that Apple's popular line of iMac personal computers are about to undergo a substantial facelift that will showcase striking new industrial designs aimed at leaving both competitors and onlookers smitten.
LC Angell / iLounge:
Philips intros iPod-ready LCD-TV kitchen system — Philips has introduced a new iPod-compatible, under-cabinet multimedia player. The Philips DCD778 Docking Entertainment System sports an 8.5-inch widescreen LCD display and can play audio and video from an iPod, DVD, (S)VCD, MP3-CD, CD(RW) and Picture CD.
Harry McCracken / PC World: Techlog:
Google Personal Homepage Gets Skinnable — When I think of Google, I think of a site with a relentlessly consistent—and ultimately mundane—look and feel. Which is why a fairly minor new Google feature—dynamic themes (aka skins) for the Google Personalized Homepage—is worthy of comment here.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ridiculous: One Digg Clone Takes Legal Action Against Another Digg Clone — File this under "ridiculous." Digg clone SuperGu has sent a cease & desist letter to (open source) Digg clone Pligg alleging a number of copyright infringements. — Among the complaints: SuperGu is claiming ownership …
Tariq Krim / Netvibes.com Blog:
Coriander launch: second step — Here it is, the long awaited Netvibes coriander release. — Firstly, thanks for the incredible feedback for the new features we introduced during the first step of the Coriander launch, when we discussed the release of the universal widget API.
