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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Web 2.0: End of Innocence — David Galbraith, a good friend of mine, is not a man of extremes. Polite to a fault, he uses logic to make his arguments. Today, in response to our My Maps post, he wrote a stinging piece, The Day Web 2.0 Died. Hyperbole? I don't think so …
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Osunick / del.icio.us:
making Firefox more del.icio.us — For the past few months, we've been working on a new del.icio.us Bookmarks extension for Firefox. We quietly released it to the addons.mozilla.org community to see what would happen, and we've been constantly working on it to make it great for our core community of users.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
If You Don't Use Del.icio.us, You Will Now — Social bookmarking service Del.icio.us has one of the more popular Firefox Add-ons, but until recently it didn't sync with your account and bring bookmarks and tags to the browser. A few months ago they quietly released a new version …
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Inside AdWords:
Two changes to how top ads are displayed — Our product teams are constantly making adjustments to improve both the user and advertiser experience. As many of you may have already noticed, we've recently made two changes to the top AdWords ads that appear above search results on Google.com.
Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:
Comcast Cuts Off Bandwidth Hogs — Man your PCs. The bandwidth hogs are revolting and Comcast is the recipient of their virtual torches and pitchforks. — Customers across the country have been contacted by the telecom giant with a warning to curb excessive bandwidth consumption or risk a one-year service termination.
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:Startups...please think about your marketing messages... re …
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Jessica Hodgson / MarketWatch:
Apple probe will shake up whole music industry — LONDON (MarketWatch) — A European antitrust probe into the pricing of Apple Inc.'s (AAPL : , , ) iTunes music downloads service could force the music industry to unravel the complex web of intellectual property agreements which allow music to be sold across the world, experts say.
Stephen Bagg / Compete Blog:
Craigslist's Dirty Little Secret — It's no wonder that Craigslist is champion of the online classifieds revolution; Compete reports just under 17 million people visiting per month. The site boasts quick accessibility, a straight-forward interface, and a posting registry ranging from video games …
Simon Carless / Gamasutra:
GameTap Reveals Sega Saturn License, Plans — Turner's GameTap subscription PC 'all you can eat' gaming service has now added Sega Saturn games to its service, with the debut of platform game Bug! as a special Easter-timed Easter Egg for its service. — The game is currently filed as 'Insect? …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple's not fighting back against Apple TV hacks — We had a word with Apple yesterday about the Apple TV — specifically about that supposed backdoor. We asked whether enthusiasts really are in fact having services and hacks shut down through surreptitious software updates and backdoors into the Apple TV …
Business Wire:
Hop-on Receives U.S. Design Patent on MP3 Phone — "Boom Box in a Cell Phone" — IRVINE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—HOP-ON, INC. (Pink Sheets:HPNN) announced today that the Company has successfully received from The United States of America a Design Patent on a MP3 Phone with speakers on the side …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Francisco, MKTW and DJ Draw Attention For Reporter's Role In Start-Up — For months, high-profile MarketWatch journalist Bambi Francisco has been involved—quite publicly—in a start-up with PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Vator.tv (as in elevator pitch) features video reports by Francisco and Thiel on various start-ups.
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
GOOGLE TALK WIDGET GETS BETTER — Google pushed out a nice update to the Web version of their Talk application earlier this week. Users can now have more than four conversations at once, embed Flickr slideshows into chat, and my personal favorite: popping out the chat list as its own window.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Early Prototype Of FireFox Coop Released — Firefox's exploration of bringing social networking features into the browser has moved forward a step. There is now a very rough prototype of "Coop" available as a Firefox Add-on that tries out some of the ideas discussed on the Firefox Labs wiki.
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple's Mac OS X may gain multi-sized icon interface — Apple Inc. has developed an enhancement to its Mac OS X Finder user interface that will allow for different-sized icons within the same window as a means of representing their importance, a recent patent application has revealed.
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Neil Long / Computer gaming industry news from MCV:
Secret Atari project revealed — Ambitious new PS3 Home-beating community portal in the works, says Atari online boss. — MCV can reveal that Atari is to roll out a major new online initiative in the summer which will allows users to create their own gaming experiences.
