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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Amazon Takes on Oracle and IBM With SimpleDB — Companies can now go ahead and fire their expensive database administrators—those engineers who keep the Oracle or IBM databases humming. Amazon has just added an enterprise-class database called SimpleDB to its suite of cloud-based IT infrastructure …
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Cying / inside looking out:
What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB — Well after being under NDA for so long, I'm glad to be able to say that Amazon SimpleDB has gone into limited beta. Congratulations to everyone on the SDS / SimpleDB team; their several years of work on SimpleDB (formerly called SDS) is a brilliant piece of engineering.
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GigaOM, Read/WriteWeb, InformationWeek, Sriram Krishnan, Amazon Web Services Blog, Rough Type, rc3.org and Venture Chronicles
Phil Windley / Between the Lines:
Economics that are impossible to stop — A few days ago, Jeff Barr, Amazon's Web services (AWS) evangelist visited my class and got a report of what we'd built over the course of the last semester on top of AWS. Each student had built part of a project that eventually used 25-30 independent machines.
Nick / Rough Type:
Googlepedia — Just to underscore the impetus behind the launch of Googlepedia - er, Knol - I went back to rerun a test I first ran over a year ago to see how high Wikipedia pages rank in a random set of Google searches. Here were the results on August 10, 2006: — World War II: #1 — Israel: #1
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Google Knol - Google's Play To Aggregate Knowledge Pages
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Webware.com, Salon, DailyTech, AppScout, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Ars Technica, ZDNet, BetaNews, Epicenter, Today @ PC World, Digital Daily, Searchviews, Hightouch, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Todd Watson, Charles Hudson's Weblog, John Battelle's Searchblog, VoIP Blog, /Message, Anil Dash, Lifehacker, GigaOM, Business Filter, Valleywag, PPC & SEO Blog, Search Engine Roundtable, Screenwerk and Techdirt
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
What's Wrong With Windows Mobile and How WM7 and WM8 Are Going to Fix It [What's Wrong With Windows Mobile] — We just got the scoop from Microsoft on Windows Mobile 7 and Windows Mobile 8, the two upcoming platforms that will fix what is undeniably broken about the Windows Mobile platform to date.
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
A Year Later, the Same Scene: Long Lines for the Elusive Wii — SAN FRANCISCO — Linda Beattie is trying desperately to pay Nintendo $250, but the company is not cooperating. — Two weeks ago, Ms. Beattie went to a video game retailer in the Bay Area in search of a Wii, Nintendo's intensely popular video game machine.
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Federal Trade Commission:
Petition Seeking My Recusal from Review of Proposed Acquisition of Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners V, LP (DoubleClick Inc.) — This statement responds to the "Complaint Requesting Recusal of the Federal Trade Commission Chairman From the Pending Review of the Proposed Google-Doubleclick Merger" …
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Epicenter, paidContent.org, Computerworld, Technology Live, Mashable!, p2pnet, ClickZ News Blog and Digital Daily
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:FTC chairman won't recuse self in Google-DoubleClick
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Bill Gates / BBC:
The skills you need to succeed — One of the most important changes of the last 30 years is that digital technology has transformed almost everyone into an information worker. — In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.
Apple:
How to create custom ringtones in GarageBand 4.1.1 — With GarageBand 4.1.1 you can export your original song, your original audio recordings, or use Apple Loops and iLife jingles to create a custom ringtone for your iPhone. — Here's what you need to do it: — GarageBand 4.1.1 or later
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PalmAddicts, Podcasting News, Lifehacker, InformationWeek Weblog, Infinite Loop, Gizmodo, Engadget, Gadget Lab, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and iLounge
eMarketer:
The Promise of Social Network Advertising — How much can social networks net? — Social networking is an Internet success story. — This year, 37% of the US adult Internet population used online social networking at least once a month. That figure will rise to 49% in 2011.
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HipMojo.com, p2pnet, WebProNews, Valleywag, Silicon Alley Insider, The Social Times and Mashable!
Anne Zelenka / GigaOM:
Webkinz Advertises, and Parents Say That's OK — Kids' plush toy social network Webkinz.com has started running advertising, a move that, if recent articles in New York Times and Silicon Alley Insider are to be believed, has greatly upset parents. In fact, whatever controversy exists seems …
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Mike / CrunchNotes:
The Fact And Fiction Of Sam Sethi — So Sam Sethi, former TechCrunch UK editor, announced the closing of his Blognation blog network today. Hey lays 100% of the blame for the failure on me personally. And while I agree with Mathew Ingram, Techfold and others that it isn't appropriate to lay blame on others for your own failure.
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TECH.BLORGE.com, PDA, How To Split An Atom, WebProNews, TechWag, A View from the Isle and MarketingBlog.eu
Benwilson / iPhone Atlas:
Officially unlocked iPhones not really unlocked — It turns out that the officially (Apple-sanctioned) unlocked iPhone you bought for 649 Euros (about US$965) from Orange in France — which, according to some reports, accounts for up to 20% of total iPhone sales in France — is not really unlocked.
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iLounge, Valleywag, O'Grady's PowerPage, Gadget Lab, The Apple Core and The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Kate Kelly / Wall Street Journal:
How Goldman Won Big On Mortgage Meltdown — A Team's Bearish Bets Netted Firm Billions; A Nudge From the CFO — The subprime-mortgage crisis has been a financial catastrophe for much of Wall Street. At Goldman Sachs Group Inc., thanks to a tiny group of traders, it has generated …
Danny Mendez / Download Squad:
YouTube adds cool visualization for browsing related videos — For a while, YouTube was just, well, YouTube. Now under Google's wing, the popular video sharing site receives the random, occasional upgrade. Here's a new one: You can now browse videos related to the one you're watching through an interactive web-like interface.
