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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: MySpace News Launches Thursday — On Thursday morning MySpace will launch its much rumored news property at news.myspace.com. Expect the site to go live and a press release to be issued around 7 am EST. — The news property is built on Newroo technology, a company they acquired in early 2006 for a rumored $7 million.
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Times of London:
MySpace takes on Google News and Digg — MySpace is going into the news business with a service that will scour the internet for news stories and let users vote on which ones receive the most exposure. — This approach blends elements of Google News and sites such as Digg and Netscape …
Joseph Menn / Los Angeles Times:
MySpace visitors to vote on what's news — Leave it to the folks behind "American Idol" to ask tens of millions of MySpace visitors to vote for their favorite news story. — News Corp., which owns the world's top social-networking website as well as the Fox television network …
Karen / Official Google Blog:
Back to basics — Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search & User Experience, and Jeff Bartelma, Product Manager, Google Product Search (the product formerly known as Froogle :) ) — Today, we're making some changes to how we help users find things to buy. You may be familiar with our product Froogle (a pun on "frugal").
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Goodbye Froogle — Froogle has been renamed "Google Product Search" …
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John Furrier
experiangroup.com:
Acquisition of Hitwise — Experian, the global information solutions company, announces that it has acquired Hitwise, a leading Internet marketing intelligence company, which helps clients monitor the performance of their websites and target their online advertising spend more effectively.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Cho-TV, day 2 — When it came out yesterday that Cho, the Virginia Tech killer, had sent 23 QuickTime videos to NBC in NY, that changed forever how I thought about blogging, video, podcasting, etc. When I first put up the post, Steve Garfield sent an email saying he didn't think it was vlogging, but I'm not so sure.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:Vlogging comes to mass murder
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GigaOM, HipMojo.com, John Furrier, Publishing 2.0, BuzzMachine, NewTeeVee, Boing Boing, Webomatica, New York Times and digg
Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Commitment to Promote Sustained Social and Economic Opportunity for the Next 5 Billion People — Company unveils affordable education suite for young people in developing nations and announces plans for 90 new Innovation Centers to promote local software ecosystems.
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Ubuntu Releases:
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) — Select an image — Ubuntu is distributed on three types of images described below. — Desktop CD — The desktop CD allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. This type of CD is what most people will want to use.
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Found Footage: Apple TV Plugin Loader — AwkwardTV has just posted this video demonstrating a new Apple TV 'meta plug-in' that retrieves and installs other plug-ins from around the net. Developer Alan_Quartermain built this brilliant tool that displays a list of third party items …
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Probono / AwkwardTV:Apple TV can now get 3rd-party software from the Net
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IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
How Security Companies Sucker Us With Lemons — More than a year ago, I wrote about the increasing risks of data loss because more and more data fits in smaller and smaller packages. Today I use a 4-GB USB memory stick for backup while I am traveling. I like the convenience, but if I lose the tiny thing I risk all my data.
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Slashdot
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
EBay Profit Climbs 52 Percent — EBay posted better-than-expected profit in the first quarter as several of its newer businesses compensated for disappointing results in its mainstay auction service. — The faster-growing units include shopping.com, a price comparison site …
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Mr Blog:
Fring is technically impressive, but I'm still wondering about its utility — I have mentioned Fring a few times before. The most recent post left it that I had not been able to complete the setup because I never received the SMS from Fring on my phone. — I sat down with Boaz Zilberman …
Reuters:
iPhone on target for end of June launch, AT&T says — BOSTON (Reuters) - The iPhone, Apple Inc.'s first mobile handset, is on schedule to hit the U.S. market at the end of June, a senior executive with AT&T Inc. said on Wednesday. — AT&T's wireless unit has an exclusive U.S. deal to sell the highly anticipated new handset.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Vista, IE7 help Microsoft boost search market share — In a rare bit of good news for Microsoft on the search front, web metrics firm comScore reported that for the month of March, Microsoft's search engines saw their first market share increase in nearly a year.
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Neowin.net
TalkBMC - opensville:
Welcome to Opensville, Population Zero — At conferences I'm often asked, "What is the state of open source?" I usually toss out some variation of my "Opensville" analogy. Today I thought I'd elaborate on the analogy in my first TalkBMC post. — Nestled between Proprietary and Freedomberg, Opensville is a utopia.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
SimpleTech announces 512GB and 256GB 3.5-inch SSD drives — You know how it is, five minutes ago we were not aware of our dire need for 512GB of ridiculously fast NAND storage, but it's all so clear now: there can be no substitute. SimpleTech has announced the Zeus-IOPS SSD 512GB and 256GB SSD drives …
Pew Internet:
Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks: How teens manage their online identities and personal information in the age of MySpace — The majority of teens actively manage their online profiles to keep the information they believe is most sensitive away from the unwanted gaze of strangers, parents and other adults.
