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Karen / Official Google Blog:
Collaborating with Marratech — As a company, we thrive on casual interactions and spontaneous collaboration. So we're excited about acquiring Marratech's video conferencing software, which will enable from-the-desktop participation for Googlers in videoconference meetings wherever there's an Internet connection.
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Download Squad, VentureBeat, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Digital Markets, John Furrier, Epicenter, Startup Meme, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, Sramana Mitra on Strategy, Digital Inspiration, CyberNet Technology News, StartupSquad.com, Vecosys, SearchViews, Google Watch, NewTeeVee, WebProNews, Harold Jarche and Microsoft News Tracker
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires Marratech; Gets Into WebEx Territory — After reporting a monster fiscal quarter (the company has close to $12 billion in cash sitting around now and has hired nearly 2,000 new employees this year), Google made a quiet announcement on its corporate blog tonight …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
MySpace News...Kinda Sucks — Update: Ironically, I just saw this post at the top of MySpace News. Feel free to vote for it. — Mashable was the first blog to announce the imminent launch of MySpace News on Wednesday evening, but now the site is live, it seems to, well, suck a little bit.
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Owen Thomas / Business 2.0 Beta:
Rupert, the Cowardly Internet Lion — What is it about the Web that made Rupert Murdoch lose his taste for synergy? Offline, his News Corp. (NWS) empire is as self-promoting as always. But MySpace, Murdoch's Internet jewel, can't even seem to promote its own services.
Anil Dash:
Google Web History - Good and Scary — Many years ago, when the web was a simpler place, one of the scariest monsters conjured up to describe the privacy threats that lurked on the Internet was the DoubleClick cookie, used for tying your ad-viewing behavior on the web to your real-world identity.
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Digital Markets, Valleywag, SEO by the SEA, WebMetricsGuru, ResourceShelf, V7N Search Marketing News and digg
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Karen / Official Google Blog:Your slice of the web
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Epicenter, Liquidmatrix Security Digest, Google Blogoscoped, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Digital Markets, CyberNet Technology News, Download Squad, Lifehacker, John Battelle's Searchblog, Vecosys, Gray Hat Search Engine News, WebProNews, creativebits, InsideGoogle, Google Operating System, Googlified, Search Engine Roundtable, parislemon, rexblog.com, Search Engine Land and Guardian Unlimited
BBC:
Users force Dell to resurrect XP — Responding to customer demand Dell has restarted selling new PCs with Windows XP installed on them. — The decision reverses a policy begun in January that meant Windows Vista was the only operating system available on almost all new home machines.
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Waxpancake / upcoming.yahoo.com:
The New Upcoming — Whew! The new release of Upcoming is finally out the door. We're still working out the bugs, so let us know if you find anything broken or weird! Lots to talk about, and I'm sure you'll have lots of questions, so let's get right into it. What's new? — Upcoming Grows Up
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WebProNews, Download Squad, Yahoo! Search Blog, SearchViews, Screenwerk, Darren Straight's Blog and Scobleizer
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Winda Benedetti / MSNBC:
Were video games to blame for massacre? — Pundits rushed to judge industry, gamers in the wake of shooting — Jack Thompson, a Florida attorney and opponent of violent video games, said Va. Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui played 'Counter-Strike,' Valve Software's popular multiplayer game.
Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
Digg API, Flash Application Toolkit, and Contest Announced! — Many of you have been asking about the Digg API and I'm happy to announce that it is now publicly available at services.digg.com along with a Flash application toolkit. This will be a great tool for Digg users and partners …
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Epicenter, Compiler, TechCrunch, 901am, Laughing Squid, Startup Meme, Quick Online Tips, Vecosys, Mashable!, franticindustries, parislemon, Pronet Advertising and TechFold
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
STUMBLEUPON LAUNCHING SITE-SPECIFIC STUMBLING — This is weird. Last night it occurred to me that Webware should have a "StumbleUpon"-like feature: In other words, that there should be a button on the site that links to a random Webware review — because if you don't come to the site frequently …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
The Wal-Mart $299 HD DVD player on the way — Get ready to get your cheap HD on kids. Wal-Mart just threw down some serious green for a batch of Chinese-made HD DVD players. Just as they brought DVD players down to near-disposable status, their deal for 2 million HD DVD players produced …
Gizmodo:
McCaslin vs Menlow: 45 Nanometers Prove That Size Matters — There's been a lot of UMPC talk and action in the latter part of this week. And it's not stopping today. Size queens among you will be interested to see a spiffy 2008 Menlow-based UMPC parked up close and personal on the left of the oh-already-so-tired-O-seven McCaslin.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Big Money in Little Screens — Searching the Web on a mobile phone has been a lot like getting online via dial-up modem circa 1995: slow, tedious and not terribly useful. Typing on tiny buttons, squinting at a list of links and clicking through to a page that won't display properly is enough to test anyone's patience.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Stephen Colbert finally drops a Google bomb — Considering he's already pranked Wikipedia and weaseled his way into online polls aplenty, here at News.com we're actually kind of surprised that Comedy Central talk show host Stephen Colbert took this long to instigate a self-promoting "Google bombing" campaign.
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
New Google AdWords Dashboard Looks Like Yahoo Panama — Dan London of AdwordsEditor.blogspot.com sent me a screen shot of the new Google AdWwords Account Snapshot Beta which looks very similar to Yahoo Search Marketing's Panama admin. — Similarities include : — Personalized advertiser alerts
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James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
HTC Shift is appearing in the wild — The HTC Shift UMPC slated to appear later this year has me excited more than any other UMPC that's been announced. I don't know if it's the fact it will be using the new Intel Mobile Platform 2007 processor or the cool sliding keyboard that hides out of the way when not in use.
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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Dell Still Losing Market Share to Hewlett and Others, Data Shows — Dell's personal computer sales continued to decline in the first quarter in the United States and across the world, according to analyses of PC sales made public yesterday by IDC and Gartner, two major consulting and market analysis firms.
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Jeremyliew / Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog:
Most frequently visited websites - not what you'd expect — March's Comscore numbers just came out. I took a look at the top 2000 web domains, but this time I ranked them by number of visits per month. The results were a little surprising. Here are the 41 sites that were visited 10 times …
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Pronet Advertising
Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
The hidden lives of MySpacers — Why opinions from anybody but users rarely matter. — It's too fun to play pundit. When MySpace was growing hugely popular, about the time that it was sold to News Corp. for 580 million dollars, everyone had an opinion about it. — It's ugly. It's horribly designed.
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