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Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well — Abigail L. Garvey Wilson — Emerges From Obscurity; — Millions of John Smiths — Before Abigail Garvey got married in 2000, anyone could easily Google her. Then she swapped her maiden name for her husband's last name, Wilson, and dropped out of sight.
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
First Look - Google Analytics Launches New Interface and Reporting — Since Google acquired Urchin's popular web analytics technology in 2005, re-branding as Google Analytics, the service has become a popular choice among marketers looking to understand their web site's traffic.
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Avinash Kaushik / Occam's Razor:
Google Analytics Is Re-Launched: Do These Five Things First In V2 — Google announced the launch of Version 2 of Google Analytics today. Over the next few weeks Google will upgrade current GA users to the new version. Many of the most frequent GA users (big or small) …
Tom Sanders / Silicon Valley Sleuth:
Sun goes after Adobe Apollo, Ajax, Silverlight — The dust has hardly settled after Microsoft's unveiling of its Silverlight beta, or Sun Microsystems is making a plunge into the rich internet application market. — The server vendor on Tuesday will unveil its Java FX technology …
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The Universal Desktop, Valleywag, All about Microsoft, RIA pedia, Ryan Stewart, Richard Leggett, JD on EP and vnunet
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Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog:The Question Isn't Where, It's When... The CTO of a big media …
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:Sun tries again with consumer-flavored Java
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InfoWorld, The Technology Chronicles, Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect, PC World, The Age, Open Source, Ed Burnette's Dev Connection, New York Times, Between the Lines, Todd Watson, TechCrunch, mocoNews.net, dailywireless.org, Mobile Games & Gaming Blog, Kveton, Webware.com and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Globe and Mail:
Warners cuts promo screenings over movie piracy worries — TENILLE BONOGUORE — TORONTO — One of America's biggest film companies has cancelled all promotional movie screenings north of the border because they claim there is no other way to stop Canadian movie piracy.
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Valleywag:
Exclusive: Natalie Portman's lifecast — Natalie Portman, the actress who played Queen Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars saga, is touring around Silicon Valley in search of funding for a new project. The winsome movie star, who came to public notice as a 12-year-old in the charge …
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mathewingram.com/work, Industry Girl, PE HUB, Digital Media Wire, rexduffdixon.com and Reel Pop
Business Wire:
HP Lifts Guidance for Second Quarter Earnings, Revenue — PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—HP (NYSE:HPQ - News) today announced that it has raised its financial guidance for the fiscal second quarter ended April 30. — Based on preliminary data, HP expects to announce on May 16 …
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GigaOM, BARRONS.com, Between the Lines, Paul Kedrosky's …, Good Morning Silicon Valley and Computer Stock …
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mac share of surfers doubles in 8 months — Apple is eroding Microsoft's online market share, says analyst — The portion of people surfing the Web using a Mac has doubled in the past eight months, an Internet metrics analyst said today, and represents an audience that can't be ignored by Web application developers.
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google launches Google Reader for the Wii — Google quietly launched Google Reader specifically designed for the Wii last night — the new interface even makes use of the buttons found on your Wiimote. On my initial digging, I cannot find a similar interface designed specifically for the PS3 browser.
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Download Squad, Kotaku, 4 color rebellion, Webware.com, franticindustries and Go Nintendo
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Screen Shot of Truemors: Guy Kawasaki's Rumor Service — We mentioned Guy Kawasaki's newest venture, Truemors, last week along with some early comments we got from the private beta testers ("rumor reporting bulletin board with twitter-like capabilities"). — We've now gotten …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Yet Another Newspaper Publisher Blames Internet For His Own Failure To Adapt To The Times — Okay, this is really beginning to get tiresome. We thought that the newspaper industry had figured out that it needed to adapt to the times a few years ago when they finally started ditching subscription fees and registration gates.
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kottke.org:
Growth of Twitter vs. Blogger — Further update: The Twitter data is bad, bad, bad, rendering Andy's post and most of this here post useless. Both jumps in Twitter activity in Nov 2006 and March 2007 are artificial in nature. See here for an update. — Update: A commenter noted …
GamePolitics.com:
Hey, Jack... You Want Fries With That? — Not content to sue (so far this year) the Florida Bar, the Florida Supreme Court, GTA publisher Take-Two Interactive and leading gaming blog Kotaku, game-hatin' barrister Jack Thompson has focused on a new target, burger franchise Wendy's.
Nick / Rough Type:
Google preparing to police web — Increasingly worried by the use of conventional web sites to distribute the viruses that turn innocent PCs into botnet "zombies," Google appears to be readying a plan to police the web. If the plan goes forward, Google will use new software …
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Donald Bell / CNET News.com:
First 1 trillion-pixel image — Medical imaging specialists Aperio have broken the 4GB file size limit on the TIFF image format by creating their own format called BigTIFF and offering the format into the public domain (an amazing fact in its own right). To showcase the power …
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Jason Brooks / eWEEK.com:
The State of Ubuntu 7.04 Is Strong — Review: Ubuntu 7.04—also known as Feisty Fawn—shines for its excellent software management tools and large catalog of ready-to-install free software applications. — With companies and individuals everywhere failing to find the wow in Windows Vista …
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Eric Savitz / BARRONS.com:
Is Big Software Now Like Big Pharma? — Fascinating discussion today at the venture capital panel at the Software 2007 conference in Santa Clara. The panel included Bob Lisbonne of Matrix Partners, Ravi Mohan of Shasta Ventures, and Ted Schlein of Kleiner Perkins, and was moderated by Dan Dorosin of Fenwick and West.
