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Yahoo! Developer Network blog:
Introducing the Yahoo! Mail Web Service — At Yahoo!, we pride ourselves on helping people around the world (over 500 million of them!) connect and communicate with each other using the vast array of communications platforms we offer. Of those platforms, the most popular is Yahoo! Mail …
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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Yahoo! Mail API and Unlimited Storage — I'll have more to say about some of the larger issues around this in a few days, but now that the embargo has been lifted (damn you, Om Malik), I wanted to point at the pair of announcements from Yahoo! Mail today and yesterday. — The Bottomless Inbox
Sramana Mitra / Sramana Mitra on Strategy:
Shai Agassi is Leaving SAP — Bookmark — WSJ reports: — Shai Agassi, president of SAP's product and technology group and architect of SAP's Netweaver software, is leaving the company to pursue interests in alternative energy and climate change, says a person familiar with the move.
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PR Newswire:SAP Realigns Executive Board Responsibilities
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Larry Larsen / Channel 10:
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: New mobile web browser - Deepfish! — Sorry to quash the irrational exuberance of suspected Zune and Halo 3 announcements, but this one is still big and you're getting it early. There's a new web browser in town for Windows Mobile fans that goes by the name Deepfish.
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Dell to Expand Linux Factory Installed Options — Since launching Dell IdeaStorm a little more than a month ago, one idea has risen to and stayed at the top: better support for Linux. We have heard you and appreciate the direct feedback. On March 13, we responded by launching …
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BBC:
US 'no longer technology king' — The US has lost its position as the world's primary engine of technology innovation, according to a report by the World Economic Forum. — The US is now ranked seventh in the body's league table measuring the impact of technology on the development of nations.
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Web ad spend overtakes newspapers — Spending on UK internet advertising surged in 2006, overtaking newspaper ads for the first time, a report says. — Online advertising expenditure jumped 41.2% to £2.01bn during the year, the report by the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers said.
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter Online:
EyeTrack07: The Myth of Short Attention Spans — Poynter unveiled the initial findings of its most recent study of reader behavior at the ASNE convention in Washington, D.C., this morning. Watch, listen and read about them here first. — Media Business Analyst — Contributors: Pegie Stark Adam, Sara Quinn
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Journalistopia, Techdirt, The Blog Herald, Micro Persuasion and Search Engine Watch Blog
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Torvalds 'pretty pleased' about new GPL 3 draft — Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel project and a major figure in the open-source programming movement, said Wednesday he's "pretty pleased" with changes in a third draft of the General Public License (GPL) released Wednesday.
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Live Search's WebLog:
We are flattered, but... For those of you who use some of the advanced query syntax in our search engine such as link:, linkdomain: and inurl:, you may have noticed that this functionality has been recently turned off. We have been seeing broad use of these features by legitimate users …
Zune Insider:
Zune Software Update 1.3: Wednesday — <Update 10:17 AM PT> - As of 10:00 am today (March 28), the update is out. — Ok, dear blog reader: Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 28, you'll be able to download firmware update 1.3. Mea culpa on communicating a non-final date in my earlier post (which ended up being wrong).
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Microsoft Live Labs:
Take Deepfish for a Swim — We are excited to announce public availability of the Deepfish technology preview from Microsoft Live Labs. Deepfish is a new type of mobile information browsing experience, aimed at preserving the rich layout and full form of documents on mobile devices …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Exclusive: YouTube Set for Big Revision Tonight: Platform to Become more "Flickr-Like" — Beet.TV has learned that You Tube will introduce new functionality to its platform tonight which will allow users to organize clips around specific categories. — Up to now, clips saved to an account …
Dan Frommer / Forbes:
Can Adobe Unbox? — Bruce Chizen's Adobe Systems is in a sweet spot. — This week, the company unveiled its biggest software package ever, and initial reactions are positive. For the event, Chizen and executives traveled from their San Jose, Calif., headquarters to Manhattan …
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JD Lasica / Social Media:
Citizen media: Where is it heading? — Elliot Margolies, director of the Community Media Center in Palo Alto, Calif., just posted three video excerpts from the appearance Dan Gillmor and I made there last week as part of their new Conversation Series. — Here are the three videos Elliot just posted to Ourmedia:
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