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5:20 AM ET, March 5, 2008

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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Tests Additional Search Box Within Search Results  —  Tamar tipped me off to people seeing secondary search boxes in the Google search results.  I see them myself now.  For example a search on amazon returns this search box directly under the snippet but above the URL, here is a picture:
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google Offers Secondary Search Boxes
Nancy Gohring / PC World:
Microsoft Develops New Operating System From Scratch  —  Microsoft Research unveiled the new operating system, Singularity, as a prototype aimed at academics and researchers.  —  Microsoft showed off a new operating system on Tuesday, but don't get too excited.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:   Singularity: Microsoft's research OS available for download
InfoWorld:
Microsoft's cutting edge on display at TechFest
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Love Him or Hate Him, Fortune Cannot Make Up Its Mind About Steve Jobs  —  Once again, Steve Jobs is on the cover of Fortune magazine.  He is there because Apple is the most admired company in America.  No, wait.  He is there because investigative reporter Peter Elkind wrote a 12-page takedown of his Steveness.
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Ellen Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
Apple shareholders OK ‘Say on Pay’
Discussion: Macworld
Matt / Photo Matt:
Backing BuddyPress  —  Some of you may remember when I wrote about Chickspeak, a WordPress MU-based social network.  Andy Peatling, the fellow behind it, later decided to recreate the work he had done as an Open Source effort he called BuddyPress.  And it was good.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
WordPress: The Social Network  —  Can WordPress become the basis of a social network?  Automattic founder and WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg hinted today on his blog that WordPress might go in a more social direction.  He announced a new hire, Andy Peatling, the developer behind BuddyPress …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:   Wordpress: Going after Ning.com?
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Yahoo Looks at New Way to Survive  —  As it scrambles to avoid defeat in its battle with Microsoft, Yahoo may try to put a little more time on the clock.  —  Microsoft, whose offer for Yahoo is now worth $41.2 billion, was preparing to escalate its takeover fight by starting a proxy contest next week.
Discussion: paidContent.org
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Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Searches for Options  —  Yahoo and Time Warner stepped up talks on creating an alternative to Microsoft's bid for Yahoo.  A possible deal would fold AOL into Yahoo.
The Technium:
1,000 True Fans  —  The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers.  Of those two, I think consumers earn the greater reward from the wealth hidden in infinite niches.  —  But the long tail is a decidedly mixed blessing for creators.
Discussion: BUZZYEAH
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Sheryl Sandberg Will Become COO of Facebook  —  Facebook will announce that it will hire top Google executive Sheryl Sandberg as COO this afternoon, in a major hire that is sure to shake up the company and also deliver a blow to rival Google.  —  At Google (GOOG), Sandberg is the vice president …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Q&A with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, on hiring, growth, and its platform  —  Facebook has just hired a new COO, Sheryl Sandberg of Google (our coverage).  So I talked with Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg today, to get some more context on her hire and how it fits in with the company's larger plans.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Office Live Workspace vs Google Docs: Feature-by-Feature Comparison  —  Today, Microsoft announced that the Office Live Workspace beta is publicly available for everyone to access.  The site, a free web-based extension of Microsoft Office, lets you access your documents online and share your work with others.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Demand Media Buys Pluck for $75 million  —  Demand Media, a big buyer and operator of Internet domain name companies, completed negotiations to acquire Austin-based Pluck last night after about two months of negotiations.  The price is not being disclosed but is rumored to be in the $50 million range.
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Will 2008 be the Year of Micro Deals?
Discussion: Howard Lindzon
Brian Bergstein / Associated Press:
Did IPods Cause a Crime Wave?  —  It's easy to see why iPods would be alluring targets for criminals: The music players are valuable and easy to resell, and people absorbed in their personal soundtracks can be vulnerably oblivious to their surroundings.  —  But could the temptation …
Discussion: Techdirt
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:   Warning: Your iPod may get you mugged
Steven Hodson / WinExtra:
The economy of Friending  —  Just about every part of the Web 2.0 evolution that has occurred over the last while has all been based on the success of one thing - the likelihood of people willing to mark some-one that they may or may not know from either mutual reputation or mutual interests as a friend.
Stuart Elliott / TV Decoder:
Firebrand Burns Out  —  The fire has been banked in an experiment to transform advertising into entertainment.  —  Firebrand, a television and online service that since October has been presenting commercials as content, is being shut down as its major investors decided to stop providing more money.
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
When the music costs nothing, why do freetards prefer to leech?  —  As we reported yesterday, Nine Inch Nails has followed the Radiohead example and is giving the music away for free.  Not all of it, but nine of the thirty six tracks from Trent Reznor's instrumental LP Ghosts I-IV are available for free, with a PDF thrown in.
 
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Associated Press:
Nike, Apple bring iPod to gym near you
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Gets It Right With Open AIM 2.0 - Embraces Meebo and eBuddy
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Omniture Unifies Marketing Suite, Adds Video Analytics
Discussion: Will Price
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Ask.com scales back in makeover
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
EveryScape takes on Google Streetview and raises $7 million
Roi Carthy / TechCrunch:
Monetize Your Search Box with PredictAd
Discussion: Clickety Clack
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Generate, a video creation shop, joins Velocity's digital media portfolio
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears
InfoWorld:
Samsung's new drives can give laptops 1TB of storage
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
ETech: Google Prediction Market Datamining Shows Meatspace Matters
Discussion: BoomTown and Laughing Squid
Bobby White / Wall Street Journal:
The New Workplace Rules: No Video-Watching
comScore:
Number of U.S. Computers Accessing the Internet Via Mobile Broadband …
Underwire / Wired:
Gary Gygax, ‘Father of D&D,’ Dies at 69
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 delayed
Nick Heath / CNET News.com:
Windows-based cash machines ‘easily hacked’