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Google News Blog:
Perspectives about the news from people in the news — We wanted to give you a heads-up on a new, experimental feature we'll be trying out on the Google News home page. Starting this week, we'll be displaying reader comments on stories in Google News, but with a bit of a twist...
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google News Adds (Special) Comments — Google News USA is rolling out an experimental feature that lets people or organizations who are part of a news story add a comment to the news. "Our long-term vision is that any participant will be able to send in their comments, and we'll show them next to the articles about the story.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google News To Newsmakers: Send Us Your Comments — Weird. That's the only way I can describe it. Google News is asking people who are in news stories to email them comments about the story, which will be associated with those articles. From the Google News Blog post:
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:Freedom from the press: Google News lets newsmakers comment on stories
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John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:Google lets newsmakers talk back; PR hiring boom expected
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Hearst Set to Buy Shoppers Site Kaboodle — Hearst Corp. plans to announce today its plans to acquire closely held start-up Kaboodle Inc., a service for sharing shopping recommendations and style advice online. — The deal marks Hearst's attempt to tap a new area of e-commerce …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:Big-media acquisitions roll on as Hearst snaps up Kaboodle
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Did AT&T Censor Pearl Jam's Lollapalooza WebCast? — Ma Bell seems to be acting like the big brother. Apparently, AT&T censored parts of Pearl Jam's performance over the weekend. Rock band was performing as part of Lollapalooza. On their website, Pearl Jam writes:
Josef Adalian / Variety:
NBC Universal launches Didja — Ad friendly video site to combat YouTube — NBC Universal is expanding its battle against YouTube and other viral video sites, using the weight of its top-rated USA cable network to launch an all-advertising website called Didja.com.
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Brandon Hill / DailyTech:
Asus Launches 13.3" U3 Notebook — Asus launches a high-end leather-clad notebook — Dell isn't the only company these days with a sexy 13.3" notebook to brag about. Asus today announced its sleek new 13.3" U3 (LED backlit, WXGA) which is based on Intel's Santa Rosa platform.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Google Filters Torrents From Search Results — So, apparently one day Google decided that it is illegal in nearly every country of the world to host a .torrent file that (allegedly) links to infringing material. Strange, because there is no legal precedent for this decision in most countries.
Chris / LiveSide:
Get ready for a new Live.com - Windows Live Home — At a briefing given to Japanese press about Windows Live, Tetuya Onoda (Windows Live Director) held up a nice big picture of the new Windows Live Homepage that looks set to replace the existing personalised Live.com page.
BBC:
Photo tool could fix bad images — Digital photographers could soon be able to erase unwanted elements in photos by using tools that scan for similar images in online libraries. — Research teams have developed an algorithm that uses sites like Flickr to help discover light sources, camera position and composition in a photo.
Bill Ray / The Register:
Court finds Qualcomm guilty of standards abuse — First create a standard, then sue the adopters — Qualcomm kept its patents on H.264 a secret until the video standard had been adopted by the industry, and then sued users for breaching those patents, a San Diego federal court has ruled.
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Tom McNichol / Business 2.0:
How a small winery found Internet fame — A small South African winery is using conversational marketing to go global, reports Business 2.0 Magazine. — (Business 2.0 Magazine) — How do you get your product noticed in a sea of look-alike competitors? If you're South African winery Stormhoek …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
People search engine Spock launches — Spock, the Redwood City, Calif. search engine for people, launches tomorrow after a year of suspense. — It has remained secretive for months (see our original coverage), testing its engine, adding some 100,000 profiles and inserting other social networking features.
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Steve O'Hear / last100:
Apple and Google alliance just got stronger — Yesterday's Apple press event saw the unveiling of new iMacs and major updates to the company's iLife and iWorks software suites. But it also provided further insight into the cosy relationship developing between Apple and Google …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Competition is good for search privacy, report says — WASHINGTON—Recent privacy policy makeovers by the five major Internet search companies show competition benefits users but a "comprehensive" federal privacy law is still needed, says a Washington advocacy group in a new report.
