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Valleywag:
Housekeeping: Owen Thomas is the Valleywag — Owen Thomas, the Business 2.0 editor whom we've lured to run Valleywag, is all smiles. But don't be deceived. This Silicon Valley gossip rag, after he takes over in July as managing editor, will remain as obnoxious as ever.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The (B)Log-Rolling Post — Why have a blog, I say, if you can't write about people you actually like in it every now and then. — First, the news that Owen Thomas, who writes the most excellent blog Beta for Business 2.0 magazine's Web site, where he has worked in a variety of reporting and editing jobs …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Frames a Video Search Engine — Google Video, now a video search engine, shows a frame similar to the one from Image Search when you click on a search result. The frame lets you rate the video, share it, and watch related videos. You can also watch the previous or the next search result …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Video Now a Video Search Engine — Google Video went through many reincarnations in the past. It allegedly started out as one of those 20% side projects within Google, and Larry Page admitted, "We're not quite sure what we're going to get, but we decided we'd try this experiment."
Dan Primack / PE HUB:
Veoh Hosts $26 Million Round — Updated Veoh may no longer host popular adult videos, but that hasn't stopped venture capitalists from backing up the Brink's truck. peHUB has learned that the San Diego-based company recently raised around $26 million in Series C funding …
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Microsoft Connect:
We have just reached a new milestone, Release Candidate 1! — Welcome to the Windows Home Server page on Microsoft Connect - Microsoft's community destination for downloading beta products. — If you wish to participate in Windows Home Server evaluation program and/or to participate …
Wall Street Journal:
Sprint Explores Options for WiMax — Sprint Nextel Corp. is exploring new options for financing its ambitious plan to build a wireless broadband network known as WiMax, including forming a partnership or joint venture with cellphone pioneer Craig McCaw and seeking an infusion of cash from cable providers …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
YouTube Passes Debates to a New Generation — The quadrennial ritual of presidential debates has long followed a tried and true format. — A guy in a suit asks mostly predictable questions of other people in suits. The voter is a fixture in the audience, motionless until he or she gets to address the candidate, respectfully.
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Vanessa Fox. Nude.:
a few changes — For the last two years, I have had a fantastic time helping to build Google Webmaster Central. I have loved working with the (ever-expanding!) team, writing about search on the blog and for the help center, and designing features for the webmaster community.
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Vanessa Fox / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:Expanding the webmaster central team
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BBC:
FBI tries to fight zombie hordes — The FBI is contacting more than one million PC owners who have had their computers hijacked by cyber criminals. — The initiative is part of an ongoing project to thwart the use of hijacked home computers, or zombies, as launch platforms for hi-tech crimes.
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Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Taking a detailed look at Windows Vista DVD hologram — An astute Windows user was intrigued by the holographic image on the face of the Windows Vista Business DVD and decided to take a much closer look, discovering in the margin a microscopic photograph of three men. Just who they could be?
The Boy Genius Report:
Apple iPhone sighting? — Looks like they're out there, and no, we don't just mean in Walt and David's hands...we mean out there. Check out this flick of someone using what almost definitely appears to be an iPhone. He's all listening to Journey probably, reminiscing about The Sopranos season finale.
Business Wire:
Clearwire Partners with DIRECTV and EchoStar — Agreements Facilitate Bundled Offering for Current and Future Clearwire and Satellite TV Customers — KIRKLAND, Wash.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ:CLWR) announced today distribution agreements with DIRECTV (NYSE:DTV) …
Sprint:
Customers Get High Speed Multimedia and Industry-Leading Walkie Talkie Services With Newest Sprint PowerSource Phone — The Motorola Deluxe™ ic902 provides customers with industry-leading Nextel® Walkie-Talkie services, powerful Sprint Power Vision(SM) voice and data services …
Russ Mitchell / Portfolio.com:
Dark Days for Terry Semel — Yahoo, once an internet highflier, has been lapped by Google and hears the footsteps of MySpace and Facebook. How long can its C.E.O. keep his job? … Terry Semel took his glasses off, then he put them on again. Then he took them off. On again. Off. On, off.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The 3D Real/Virtual World Hybrid: How Far Away? — How long will it be until we can stroll through the streets in a virtual world that is identical to our own? Given the state of a number of technologies, not very long. Over the last couple of years we've seen Microsoft Street Side …
