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Microsoft launches Tafiti - Search and Silverlight experiment — Tafiti, an experimental demonstration site that combines Live Search with Silverlight has just been launched. Its described as follows: … Search results are presented in the central column, with the right hand "shelf" …
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First Look: Microsoft Tafiti — About a week back I got an internal email asking us to kick the tires on a new Silverlight/search demo called Tafiti. Tafiti is a mashup that uses the resources of Windows Live Search driven by a Silverlight top layer. The result is a search experience unlike anything you've seen before.
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US ISV Developer …, LiveSide, All about Microsoft, BetaNews, Channel 9, Mix Online, Delicate Genius Blog and Mashable!
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MTV NETWORKS, REALNETWORKS AND VERIZON WIRELESS JOIN FORCES TO OFFER A NEW INTEGRATED DIGITAL MUSIC EXPERIENCE — Pictured left to right, Rob Glaser, chairman and CEO of RealNetworks, John Stratton, SVP of Verizon Communications and Van Toffler, president, MTV Networks' Music/Logo/Films Group.
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last100, Valleywag, Gizmodo, Silicon Alley Insider, Podcasting News, Digital Trends, Geek Speaker, muSick in the Head, Brier Dudley's blog, SMS Text News, John Cook's Venture Blog, Epicenter, Digital Media Wire, dailywireless.org, iLounge, Future Now's GrokDotCom, paidContent.org and Digital Media Update
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MTV bails on Microsoft, partners with RealNetworks for "Rhapsody America" — 15 months after partnering with Microsoft on URGE, MTV has decided to cut its ties with Microsoft and cast its lot with with RealNetworks and Verizon. At a news conference this morning, MTV and RealNetworks announced …
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InfoWorld, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, Reuters, The Technology Chronicles, ZDNet, WebProNews and Engadget Mobile
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Would you like video with that? — One of our goals at Google News is to offer as many different perspectives on the news as possible. That means bringing content from multiple sources together in a way we hope you find to be organized and relevant. Now we're adding video to the mix …
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Insider Chatter, Publishing 2.0, PC World, Download Squad, Googlified, paidContent.org, CNET News.com and Search Engine Land
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Google News Adds YouTube Videos — Google News has integrated video footage to its aggregated news results using the Plus Box technology which has become a staple of the Google Universal Search experience. — The video news footage which is served within Google News results is now provided …
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An update on Google Video feedback — When your friends and well-intentioned acquaintances tell you that you've made a mistake, it's good to listen. So we'd like to say thank you to everyone who wrote to let us know that we had made a mistake in the case of Google Video's Download to Own/Rent Refund Policy vs. Common Sense.
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Apple secures Europe iPhone revenue deals — By Astrid Maier in Hamburg and Volker Müller in Munich — Apple has succeeded in committing European mobile phone operators that want exclusively to sell its new iPhone to share parts of their revenues with the technology group.
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YouTube-style Embeddable Maps — Today we're excited to announce a new feature on Google Maps that allows you to add maps to your blog or website just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML. And once you embed the map, it has all the same functionality of the Google Maps you know and love; it's clickable, draggable, and zoomable.
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Google, Google Maps Mania, TechCrunch, Screenwerk, CyberNet Technology News, Googlified, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, The Map Room, Search Engine Land, Webware.com, TECH.BLORGE.com, Ogle Earth, O'Reilly Radar, Widgets Lab, Internet Marketing Monitor, Google Blogoscoped, BlogStorm, Bloggers Blog and Global Nerdy
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US launches 'MySpace for spies' — Spies and teenagers normally have little in common but that is about to change as America's intelligence agencies prepare to launch "A-Space", an internal communications tool modelled on the popular social networking sites, Facebook and MySpace.
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Between the Lines, TechCrunch, The Bivings Report, Mashable!, muhammad.saleem and Paul Kedrosky's …
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YouTube Premiering InVideo Ad Format — Showing 3 billion minutes of videos every month, Google-owned YouTube is the top video destination on the Internet today. And starting tomorrow, marketers will have another reason to turn to YouTube—a new InVideo ad format designed …
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Yahoo! buys Actionality — Yahoo! has bought the ad-funded gaming specialist Actionality, ME understands. — The search giant moved for the Munich-based mobile company earlier this month, but did not announce the deal to the press. — It represents a further commitment to the mobile channel for Yahoo! …
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Search Engine Journal, paidContent.org, ClickZ News Blog, MobileCrunch and Search Engine Land
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Apple Releases iPhone 1.0.2 Update — Apple has posted iPhone Update 1.0.2. Available via iTunes. — The update only lists "bug fixes" as its description and weighs in at 3.7MB. According to early reports, no new features have been noted. — Users who have hacked their iPhone may see problems with their update.
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Dear Palm: It's time for an intervention — Man, what a crazy year, right? We know things haven't really been going your way lately, but we want you to know that we haven't given up on you, even though it might seem like the only smartphone anyone wants to talk about these days is the iPhone.
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The Mobile Gadgeteer, Charles Hudson's Weblog, BlackBerry Cool, Steve Sloan … and PalmAddicts
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YouTube Initiates Monetization Strategy With Transparent Video 'Overlays' — People have been speculating about how YouTube would eventually monetize video streams, as opposed to page views. The answer comes in the form of an innovative approach that involves almost transparent animated flash …
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US web hosting provider Go Daddy suspends 10 Chinese human rights sites without warning — Reporters Without Borders today called on US web hosting provider Go Daddy to explain why it suddenly withdrew hosting for several Chinese sites specialising in human rights in China.
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