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Techmeme News:
Techmeme Leaderboard is live — The Techmeme Leaderboard, that much-leaked list of Techmeme's top 100 sources, including blogs, non-blogs, and everything in between, is now up. It ranks sites, every 20 minutes, simply by the amount of headline space they've occupied on Techmeme over the past month.
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The Jason Calacanis Weblog, Webware.com, blognation, TechCrunch, Library clips, odd time signatures, Future Now's GrokDotCom, A VC, Brij Singh's One More Idea, the Constant Observer, TechBizMedia, Insider Chatter, Between the Lines, ALLIED, Traffick, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, ProBlogger Blog Tips, David Dalka, franticindustries, Search Engine Land, Bloggers Blog and :Ben Metcalfe Blog
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
TechMeme list heralds death of blogging? — I was just looking at the TechMeme Top 100 List and noticed that it has very few bloggers on it — I can only see about 12 real blogs on that list. Blogging being defined as "single voice of a person." Most of the things on the list are now done …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:Beyond Blogs: Old & New Media Converge
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franticindustries
Yahoo! Search Blog:
From "To Do" to "Done" in One Search — That sums up Yahoo! Search in a nutshell; the whole point is we want to get you from "to do" to "done." Whatever it is you want to do: research a topic, find a website, plan a vacation, research a medical condition, view a funny video …
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Between the Lines, Google Operating System, New York Times, Yodel Anecdotal and ParisLemon
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Search Just Got Smarter — Yahoo is adding some major features to its search engine today. For instance, images from Flickr and playable videos are now embedded in the main results page. A search for a major rock band like U2 brings up information from the artist's Website …
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Search Launches Google Killer : Search Assist, Videos, Flickr Integration — Yahoo Search, over the past 5 years or so, has been trying hard to step out of Google's shadow, a shadow that Yahoo cast upon itself when they made Google their search technology provider in 2000.
David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Yahoo Gives An Assist To Search — Yahoo Search Assist expands on a person's query to suggest additional relevant searches and concepts for the searches they perform. — The search box on Yahoo has been offering search suggestions for the queries people make.
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Silicon Alley Insider
Ed Oswald / BetaNews:
Microsoft to Debut Zune 2 on Tuesday — Microsoft will hold a event on Tuesday in Redmond to herald the second generation of Zune music players, BetaNews has learned. — According to sources close to the situation, both Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Design and Development chief J Allard will be on hand for the event.
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Zune-Online.com, Electronista, Anything But iPod, last100, Gizmodo, Digital Media Wire, One Microsoft Way, I4U News, CNET News.com, Things That, ParisLemon, The Boy Genius Report, CrunchGear, Forever Geek, DailyTech, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Engadget, jkOnTheRun, Microsoft News Tracker, greg hughes, Gadgetell and Mashable!
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Zune 2 leaks out in three flavors — Well, we'd heard new Zunes were coming tomorrow (or maybe October 16th) and it looks like retailers are starting to receive display units — everyone, say hello to the new Zunes. Barring some Photoshop trickeration, it looks like we're getting …
Guardian:
EBay says it paid almost $1bn too much for Skype — Graeme Wearden — Dotcom giant eBay has admitted it paid far too much when it bought internet telephony company Skype for $2.6bn (£1.28bn) in 2005. — The web auction company said it was writing down the value of Skype …
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
EBay's $4 Billion Lesson in the Value of Hype — As Microsoft mulls putting up to $500 million into Facebook at a $10-billion-plus valuation, it may want to consider the fate of eBay's adventure with the Internet phone service Skype. — When eBay bought Skype in 2005 …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:It's Finally Official: eBay's Skype Has Bombed
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New York Times, blognation, Thomas Crampton, Babbling VC, WebbAlert, Hitchhiker's Guide to 650, CyberNet, Techdirt, Howard Lindzon, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Todd Watson, Mark Evans, Vindu's View from the Valley, Ars Technica, Traffick, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, biz.yahoo.com, Between the Lines, TechCrunch, SiliconValley.com, mathewingram.com/work, BeyondVC, Digital Daily, VoIP Watch, GigaOM, Paul Kedrosky's …, Venture Chronicles, InformationWeek, Business Week, Business Technology, IP Democracy, Engadget, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Janus Friis, The Register and HipMojo.com
Telegraph:
Microsoft powers up for change — Chief executive says free software, downloadable online, is on the horizon for consumers. Josephine Moulds reports — Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, yesterday signalled another step towards a dramatic change in the software giant's business model.
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Ed Gorman / Times of London:
Steve Ballmer stirs the technology pay row — The Microsoft chief executive has questioned the mammoth $74m pay-package taken home last year by Oracle's Larry Ellison — Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, waded into the debate over executive pay today and questioned …
How to of the Day:
How to Quit Facebook — Maybe your affinity for Facebook began with a simple desire to keep in touch with your friends, or make new ones online. Or perhaps you were just bored. But now Facebook is the thorn in your side, and possibly a bona fide addiction.
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Live Search:
Microsoft acquires Jellyfish.com — We want to welcome some new folks to the Live Search family - we recently purchased a company called Jellyfish.com, based in Madison, Wisconsin. Jellyfish has done some really innovative work in comparative shopping engines.
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WebProNews, Search Engine Journal, TechCrunch, All about Microsoft, Mashable! and LiveSide
