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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Buzz Launches: Popular Stories To Go On Yahoo Homepage — Yahoo launches the much anticipated Yahoo Buzz tonight - a Digg-like site that takes stories from pre-approved news publishers (100 to start) and let's users vote on stories and push them up to the top of the page.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Yahoo Buzz hopes to generate more buzz than BuzzTracker did — Yahoo continues to roll out new services post-Microsoft offer, tonight launching Yahoo Buzz, a popularity-based news aggregator. The site will take into account a number of factors including votes, search frequency and times …
Google:
Global Consortium to Construct New Cable System Linking US and Japan to Meet Increasing Bandwidth Demands — Construction underway to build 10,000 km linear cable system with a capacity of up to 7.68 Tbps to enhance Trans-Pacific connectivity — A consortium of six international companies announced …
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Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
Digg's inaugural town hall: Too much navel-gazing — On Monday night, social-news site Digg took a new approach to its famously clamorous users: CEO Jay Adelson and founder Kevin Rose sat down in front of a Ustream-connected camera with their MacBook Pros and a couple of beers and answered questions that had been submitted by Diggers.
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
6 Adobe AIR Apps to Check Out — Adobe's AIR platform allows developers to create web applications that run on your desktop without the need of a web browser. Now that AIR has dropped the beta tag (see our previous coverage), it's time to look at some of the AIR apps you can use today.
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InfoWorld, CyberNet, Somewhat Frank, Ryan Stewart, Macworld, The Universal Desktop, Insanely Great Mac and LinuxInsider
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Announces Open Search Platform — Yahoo will soon be allowing third parties to enhance the Yahoo Search experience. The new platform, codenamed “SearchMonkey” and officially called Open Search Platform, will consist of a set of APIs that allow third parties to modify search results …
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Friendfeed, the best software for conversations, raises round and launches publicly — FriendFeed is like Facebook's news feed. But it's more of a dynamic conversation among close friends about what they're up to all over the web — and not so much a social network.
Google Talkabout:
Google Talk chatback — Do you have a blog, online profile, or some other personal web page? Would you like to communicate more with your visitors? Today we're launching a new Google Talk feature that lets visitors to your web site chat with you. We call it “chatback” …
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Google Operating System, Digital Inspiration …, Googlified, Brandon LeBlanc, AccMan Pro and Googling Google
Jeff Bakalar / CNET News.com:
Sony PX-LX300USB lets you breathe new life into your old vinyl records — Got a stack of old records that you would like to get onto your iPod? Sony's PS-LX300USB may be just what you need. The turntable can be connected to any standard Windows PC via a USB cable, where your 33 1/3rpm albums …
Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
Come for brunch. Bring billions. — For access to Silicon Valley camaraderie and capital, you can't beat the informal Founders spread. — SAN FRANCISCO — The Internet bubble of the late 1990s ended with a painful pop. When today's young entrepreneurs get together, the only bubbles they see are in their mimosas.
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Business Week
Lessig Blog:
On why I am not running — With lots of mixed feelings, I have decided a run for Congress would not help the Change Congress movement. I explain the thinking in this 5 minute video (a new record for me!). First question: What happens to the contributions to Lessig08?
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BoomTown, Ars Technica, The 463, MediaShift, CNET News.com, TechCrunch, Salon, AppScout, Vindu's View from the Valley, InfoWorld, Techdirt, techPresident, Social Media and Slashdot
Yi-Wyn Yen / Techland:
Yang breaks silence on Microsoft takeover — PHOENIX — Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang knew exactly what was on everyone's minds at the Interactive Advertising Bureau conference on Monday. — In their first public appearance since Microsoft's hostile $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo …
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New York Times, Bits, WebProNews, Search Engine Journal, HipMojo.com, The Mac Observer and BetaNews
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:Yahoo mum on Microsoft, but hints at Digg rival
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Yahoo! Finance
Matthew Moskovciak / CNET News.com:
New Sony Blu-ray players: Better than PS3? — Sony has announced two new Blu-ray players scheduled to be released in the second half of the year: the entry-level BDP-S350 and the step-up BDP-S550. We haven't been the biggest fans of Sony's recent standalone Blu-ray players …
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Gizmodo
CNET News.com:
How Pakistan knocked YouTube offline (and how to make sure it never happens again) — (Declan McCullagh wrote this article. It was reported by Greg Sandoval and Declan McCullagh.) — A high-profile incident this weekend in which Pakistan's state-owned telecommunications company managed …
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New York Times, Renesys Blog, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Threat Chaos and Digital Daily
Brian Heater / Gearlog:
Sony Announces an Ungodly Number of Audio Accessories — Tags: — Bluetooth, clocks, headphones, iPod, MP3, Sony — Sony announced a slew of new music players and accessories, including headphones, speakers, Bluetooth receivers, and audio recorders, early this morning.
