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Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google's butt in four years — The only reason you'll watch these two videos is because you trust me to add value to your lives and not sell links. — I explain how SEO-resistant technologies like Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are about to upend the search industry.
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blognation, Insider Chatter, muhammad.saleem, SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog, PC4Media, CostPerNews, Web Strategy, Online Video Watch and Joe Duck
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Google Will Be Beaten By Facebook, Mahalo: Scoble — Above is part 3 of a 3 part Robert Scoble video blog series on "Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google's butt in four years." To see the other parts scroll on the player; Part 2 at around the 6 minute mark gets to the main points*.
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Yahoo Updates Mail — Even after a long beta, revised Web mail service offers some surprises. — Recommend this story? — Yahoo Inc. will close an almost two-year public test for its new version of Yahoo Mail on Monday with several new enhancements, as the Sunnyvale, California …
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Yahoo Mail Out of Beta; New Features
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Yodel Anecdotal, WebProNews, VoIP Watch, Mobile Messaging 2.0, Read/WriteWeb, GigaOM, ParisLemon, ResourceShelf, Download Squad and Mashable!
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MySpace reportedly may allow member ads — Social networking site is looking at ways to lift ban on sales, ads by members on their pages — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — MySpace is considering lifting a ban on commerce on the popular social networking site as a way to increase its own profits, according to a published report.
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Acer to acquire Gateway: so long cow spots? — Acer — the third largest PC company globally — just announced a definitive agreement to acquire Gateway. The acquisition has been approved unanimously by both boards and is expected to close by December 2007. You know, following the usual international, anti-trust approvals.
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Between the Lines, InfoWorld, Ed Burnette's Dev Connection, notebooks.com and GottaBeMobile.com
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Bloglines Launches Beta Re-design and Start Page — Tonight Bloglines is launching a new design at beta.bloglines.com, which includes a new personalizable Start Page, more views, and drag and drop Ajax functionality. I spoke to new Bloglines GM Eric Engleman about the makeover and tested the Beta Bloglines myself.
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Google's friend-to-friend ad network — If Google has its way, web advertising is about to get a whole lot friendlier - and the definition of spam a whole lot fuzzier. — Recently, the search giant, as noted by Bill Slawski, has filed a series of patent applications that point to a new …
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'South Park' Creators Win Ad Sharing in Deal — In March, the season premiere of "South Park" began by barging into typically risqué territory, with a squirm-inducing bit about the taboo of using a certain racial epithet. — To Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators and executive producers of …
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Lenovo's plan for Packard Bell hit by Acer-Gateway deal — (InfoWorld) - Acer Inc.'s agreement to acquire Gateway Inc. has foiled Lenovo Group Ltd.'s plans to buy PC vendor Packard Bell BV, and could leave Acer owning both Gateway and Packard Bell. — On August 7, Lenovo revealed …
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Business intelligence: The next frontier — Business intelligence is arguably the most important enterprise application in your company. But questions abound: How can you get more workers using it? What are the new frontiers? And how simple can you make it?
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Burlington Chosen as Initial Launch City for Next-Generation Local Search Site — Grayboxx Delivers Most Meaningful Local Recommendations for Burlington — BURLINGTON, Vt.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Grayboxx Inc., a Silicon Valley-based online local search firm, today announced that Burlington …
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Search Engine Land
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Intel updates vPro for desktops — SAN FRANCISCO—Intel is expected to release the next generation of its vPro processor for business desktop PCs on Monday. — The updated processor—an Intel Core 2 Duo and Q35 Express chipset—includes the Trusted Execution Technology feature …
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InfoWorld
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New media, new ideas tout shows for fall — NEW YORK — To launch their fall lineups, the major networks are turning to the Web like never before, offering viewers the chance to see premiere episodes for free and producing original content around their new series that doubles as entertainment and advertising.
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Paul Graham on Y Combinator - startup incubator — Paul Graham is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Paul and Robert Morris founded Viaweb in 1995, the first online web store builder, and sold it to Yahoo in 1998. In 2005 they started Y Combinator, a seed stage investment company.
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Should the Net forget? — The New York Times recently got some search-engine-optimization religion, and as a result its articles, including old stories from its vast archives, are now more likely to appear at or near the top of web searches. But the tactic has had an unintended consequence …
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