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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, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, VentureBeat, John Furrier, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Startup Meme, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, Digital Markets, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Epicenter, InsideGoogle, SearchViews, CyberNet Technology News, Connecting the Dots, WebProNews, Vecosys, Harold Jarche, StartupSquad.com, Google Watch, NewTeeVee, Microsoft News Tracker and Digital Inspiration
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Google Acquires Marratech; Gets Into WebEx Territory
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mathewingram.com/work, Between the Lines, Sramana Mitra on Strategy and dailywireless.org
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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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Amazon Sues Alexaholic...Everyone Loses — Alan Graham published a great account of my discussion with Jeff Bezos about Alexaholic (now Statsaholic at the Web 2.0 Expo on Monday. Entitled Amazon sues Alexaholic...Everyone Loses, Alan's blog entry does a good job of summarizing the the conversation …
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TechFold, Mashable!, WebProNews, Deep Jive Interests, New Web Order, Chuqui 3.0, Profy.Com and 606Tech
BBC:
Blackberry reveals failure cause — The maker of the Blackberry wireless e-mail device says an insufficiently tested software upgrade was the cause of this week's network failure. — Blackberry's US and North American users lost their service on Tuesday and Wednesday as a result of the problem.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Oh Valleywag — I think they're all smoking crack down there, or abusing small animals, or sticking things in orifices god never intended things to be stuck in, or maybe all of the above (at the same time), because their brains seem to be shrinking, visibly, every day.
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The Last Podcast
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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.
Kelly Yamanouchi / Denver Post:
Southwest reaching for Wi-Fi in sky — Southwest Airlines is exploring how to put Wi-Fi Internet service on its airplanes, as the no-frills carrier seeks to add some frills. — Southwest plans to outfit a few planes with in-cabin wireless Internet service that would "allow for e-mail …
Marla Nitke / Interactive Advertising Bureau:
THE INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING BUREAU CHALLENGES comSCORE AND NIELSEN//NETRATINGS IN OPEN LETTER — Demands Third-Party Audit of Methods That Count the Size of Web Audiences — The Interactive Advertising Bureau announced today that it has sent a letter to the two major Internet audience …
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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Podcast Advertising Firm PodBridge Raises $8.5M More — By most accounts podcast advertising has been very disappointing. There is just not enough podcast listeners for advertisers to scale as they can with Adsense or other buys. But a couple of research groups keep publishing glowing reports about the future.
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.
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 …
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
NEWS ANALYSIS: MICROSOFT GENERAL COUNSEL ON DOUBLECLICK AND ANTITRUST — I had an interesting call today with Brad Smith, the general counsel of Microsoft. I was eager to understand Microsoft's position on the Google/Doubleclick deal, and to parse the issues swirling around the companies decision to …
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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cruel to be kind, WebProNews, Download Squad, SearchViews, Screenwerk, Yahoo! Search Blog, Scobleizer and Darren Straight's Blog
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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Mobility Site
Mark Henderson / Times of London:
Yahoo! sued over torture of Chinese dissident — Chinese political prisoner sues Yahoo! in a US federal court in what is believed to be first case of its kind — A Chinese political prisoner sued Yahoo! in a US federal court, accusing the internet company of helping the Chinese government torture …
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IP Democracy
