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Google Analytics Blog:
New Version of Google Analytics! — Today at the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco, Brett Crosby and Jeff Veen unveiled the new version of Google Analytics. We will be activating this new version on all current Analytics accounts over the next few weeks, so please be on the lookout for an email …
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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) …
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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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Geek News Central, Marketing Nirvana, Ken Yarmosh …, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, alex.moskalyuk, Newsome.Org, Rough Type, rexduffdixon.com, PodTech Network, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Valleywag, Buzzworthy, Matt Cutts, ALLIED, Business Filter, Loic Le Meur Blog, collision detection, Weblogg-ed and InsideGoogle
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Microsoft Help and Support:
The Safely Remove Hardware feature and the Windows Explorer "Eject" command do not work correctly with an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer … SYMPTOMS — Consider the following scenario. You have an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer through a USB connection.
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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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Mark Wallace / 3pointD.com:
Microsoft Flies A Blimp Into Second Life — Mysterious news on the Millions of Us blog this evening: it seems there's now a Microsoft island in the virtual world of Second Life. At least, that's what the »teleport link« in the blog entry implies.
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John Cook / John Cook's Venture Blog:
Mpire and the year of the widget — Looking to capitalize on its shopping analytics, Seattle's Mpire today is rolling out about 80 new e-commerce "widgets." — The free "widgets" — small online applications or tools that easily plug in to Web sites — will allow bloggers and online publishers …
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 …
Xavier / notebooks.com:
The Dragon: HP Pavilion HDX 20-inch Notebook Announced — HP announced an entertainment notebook today dubbed "The Dragon" or Pavilion HDX. The HDX features a tilting 20.1-inch widescreen display. The HDX will compete with Dell's XPS M2010 for users who want serious multimedia power in a quasi-portable form factor.
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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Kotaku, Download Squad, 4 color rebellion, Webware.com, CrunchGear, franticindustries and Go Nintendo
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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Gamerscore Blog:
Windows Live Messenger Comes to Xbox LIVE, Uniting Friends and Families on the TV, PC and Mobile Phone — Starting tomorrow more than 6 million members of Xbox LIVE can instant message with people on PCs and mobile phones, one of the hundreds of enhancements coming with the Xbox 360 Spring Update
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Gates makes case for Microsoft's ad business — SEATTLE—While Microsoft may face some challenges as it attempts to take advantage of the shift to Internet advertising, it has plenty of company and the determination to make the most of whatever opportunities the shift presents, said the company's chairman.
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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.
Microsoft:
J Allard's bio page is temporarily unavailable. It will return later this week — "Would he really ditch the dreads?" — That's what I was wondering after an E3 dinner with Newsweek's N'Gai Croal in 2005, knowing that it would be about a year before I knew the answer. And what do you know, N'Gai called it.
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Xbox 360 Fanboy, Game | Life, PSP Fanboy, Joystiq, Kotaku, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog and Microsoft News Tracker
