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YouTube:
YouTube Everywhere — We try really hard to make YouTube as open as possible. Anyone can upload and view videos, which can be embedded anywhere and viewed on all kinds of different devices. And, of course, anyone can participate in our community by commenting on videos, rating them, and sharing them with friends.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
YouTube: The Platform — (Update: Comment from YouTube added below). In case there was still any doubt that Google wants to use YouTube to host all the video on the Web, it's announcement earlier today to broaden its APIs makes it clear that is its goal. Once again, instead of making …
Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
YouTube, once just a destination, becoming a service too — Google's YouTube just announced that it is expanding its APIs to allow more direct access to the service. — The updates to the APIs, or application programming interfaces, give developers deeper access into YouTube for video uploading …
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:The Future is Web Services, Not Web Sites
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John P. Falcone / Crave: The gadget blog: TiVo joins small but growing list of PC-free YouTube venues
Apple:
iPhone SDK Downloads Top 100,000 — Apple® today announced that more than 100,000 iPhone™ developers have downloaded the beta iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) in the first four days since its launch on March 6. The iPhone SDK provides developers with the same rich set …
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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
The Search for the Killer iPhone App — Many developers are hard at work building tools for Apple's popular phone, despite what some consider limits on their ability to collaborate — Executives at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers had a running bet as they announced …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:iPhone 2.0 Unlocked, Runs All Apps
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo Disaster Scenario: Blowing Q1 — Kara Swisher revives an issue we raised a few weeks back: What happens if Yahoo (YHOO) blows Q1? This question has no doubt been bandied about in Microsoft (MSFT) conference rooms as an exasperated Steve Ballmer watches Yahoo's molasses-like response to its bid.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo's Nightmare Scenario, Part 1 — Here's what many people within Yahoo (YHOO), who are not CEO Jerry Yang and the board of directors, are chattering about these days: That the Internet portal will not make a deal, any kind of deal, related to the outstanding unsolicited acquisition offer by Microsoft …
Tony Wright / Venture Hacks:
Half-Assed Startup: How do I start my company and keep my day job? — [Ed: I enjoyed Tony Wright's contrarian article, Half-Assed Startup, when I first read it on his excellent blog. Tony, a founder of RescueTime (Y Combinator), argues that you can start a company while you're otherwise employed.
Billboard.Biz:
Apple's iTunes Store Has Sold 4 Billion Tracks—But Is It Profitable? — Research group NPD recently named iTunes the second-largest U.S. music retailer, and the company has just revealed that its store has passed the 4 billion download mark. So Billboard decided to crunch some numbers …
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Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
Google could be superseded, says web inventor — The next generation of web technology is likely to be far more powerful than the current crop, Tim Berners-Lee said — Google may eventually be displaced as the pre-eminent brand on the internet by a company that harnesses the power …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
The Tools Google Uses Internally — A web seminar Google held yesterday at KMWorld Magazine offered a great deal of insight into how Google manages projects and communication internally. The presentation by Google followed an employee through his first few weeks at the company …
Barnaby J. Feder / New York Times:
A Heart Device Is Found Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks — To the long list of objects vulnerable to attack by computer hackers, add the human heart. — The threat seems largely theoretical. But a team of computer security researchers plans to report Wednesday that it had been able …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft buys virtualization player Kidaro — Updated at 10:30 a.m. PDT with comments and further details from Microsoft. — In its latest move into virtualization, Microsoft said on Wednesday that it has bought Kidaro, a company that helps businesses manage their collection of virtual machines.
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Sprout's WYSIWYG Flash Editor Now Available to Everyone — Sprout, the WYSIWYG flash editor that launched a private beta in January at DEMO, is now available to everyone. After earning a “DEMOgod” award and inviting around 5,000 beta testers, the site is also releasing a handful of new features …
Verizon:
Verizon Expands 7 Megabits per Second High Speed Internet Service to 1.2 Million Additional Customers in the East — Service Offers Great Value With Ultra-Fast Downstream Connection Speeds; Provides Prime Opportunity for Consumers to Drop Cable Modem Connections
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Iphone to go x86 — Moorestown is fruity — THE IPHONE IS going to go x86 in a year or two, and Moorestown is set to be the lead vehicle. A year of whispers was finally nailed down a few days ago with a comment and a slide. — First let me say that the rumour mill has been running amok since …
