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Michael Weiss-Malik / Google LatLong:
Organizing more than one world's information — We like to think big. Vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big (to paraphrase one of my favorite authors). And thanks to the flexibility of Google Maps technology and the world wide web, we've been able to work at a universal scale (literally).
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Sky Site Launched — Google Sky was already a feature of desktop app Google Earth. Now it's moved to the browser at sky.google.com. The Google Lat Long blog and Google's press release list the features of this new service: — Zoom and pan the sky, like with Google Maps
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Is KickApps Next to Board AOL's Gravy Train? — While a lot of focus yesterday has been on the gobs of cash that Time Warner shareholders now have to fork over to social networking site Bebo, which was bought by its AOL division for $850 million in spite of low revenues …
Brad Stone / Bits:
Breaking Google Captchas for $3 a Day — In the last two months, several Internet security firms have suggested that spammers had devised a way to bust the “captcha” that is protecting Gmail. This would allow them to use the popular e-mail service to drown the rest of the Internet …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Google's Trojan Horse: Let the Free Ad Serving Begin — One of the biggest misunderstandings in much of the discussion about Google's deal to buy DoubleClick is the perception that DoubleClick actually is involved in selling advertising. — It's not. It sells software that advertisers …
Cade Metz / The Register:
Google claims ‘non-existent’ Android beats everything but the Jesus Phone — $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — eComm One day, Google believes, software developers will love its “non-existent” Android handset just as much as they love the iPhone - and maybe more.
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David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Reznor: Radiohead offering was insincere, industry is inept — Major musicians are exploring the market potential for directly interacting with their fans and releasing music independently. Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead both made headlines recently for experimenting with Internet-based releases …
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Financial Times:
Yahoo to quit London offices for Geneva — Yahoo, the internet company, is planning to move its European headquarters from London to Switzerland. — One person close to the move - understood to be called “Project Yodel” - said it was made for corporate tax reasons.
Bill Ray / The Register:
Indian gov says no plan to squeeze out Blackberrys — $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — Indian telecoms secretary Siddhartha Behura has confirmed the country is not seeking a ban on the use of BlackBerrys, as the government continues talks with operators about lawful interception.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Andersen attorney on RIAA suit: “They can't run now” — Friday may mark a significant milestone in the RIAA's legal campaign against file-sharing, as it is the deadline for exonerated RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen to refile her malicious prosecution lawsuit against the record labels.
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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
Getting a FriendFeed new friend every minute or so ! — Welcome to my blog. Based in San Francisco, I am an entrepreneur and a blogger. I just started my fifth startup, Seesmic, a community driven video social software. Here is what TechCrunch says about it.
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David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
Hello BlackBerry, Meet the iPhone — Before you start reading this, a word of warning: this column is about the iPhone. If you're one of those people who are sick and tired of hearing about the iPhone, then scroll on while you still can. — Then again, if you're one of those people …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Who wants Windows 7 more, Microsoft or the users? — It seems that barely a day goes by now without a new rumor surfacing about the next iteration of Microsoft's Windows operating system, smartly dubbed Windows 7 (it will be the 7th major version of the software).
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Marius Oiaga / Softpedia News:Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 for 2010 - No Word on Windows 7 M2
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
One App at a Time — One week in, the most controversial aspect of the iPhone SDK seems to be the limitation that third-party apps can only run when frontmost — once the user goes back to the home screen or switches to another app, the frontmost app needs to quit.
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
MySpace Opens Up The OpenSocial Spigot: App Gallery Goes Live — Today is the first chance most people will get to actually see an OpenSocial app working on MySpace. The MySpace developer platform, which was first rumored waaaay back in October 2007 and announced shortly afterwards …
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Blogging and Newspapers, a Lesson in How Not to Brand and Market — Much is being made of my decision to ban bloggers from the locker room. To me its pretty amusing. In particular I find it amusing that there is a presumption that if a blogger works for a big company, they must be better.
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Stephen Lawson / Macworld:
Adobe executive leaves for equity firm — The head of Adobe's Platform Division, which oversees Flash Player, PDF (Portable Document Format) and other technologies, has left to join a Silicon Valley private equity firm. — John Brennan, who was senior vice president of the division …
EE Times:
AI researchers think ‘Rascals’ can pass Turing test — PORTLAND, Ore. — Passing the Turing test—the holy grail of artificial intelligence (AI), whereby a human conversing with a computer can't tell it's not human—may now be possible in a limited way with the world's fastest supercomputer …
Nathan / FlowingData:
17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe — I just created a new Twitter account, and it got me to thinking about all the data visualization I've seen for Twitter tweets. I felt like I'd seen a lot, and it turns out there are quite a few. Here they are grouped into four categories - network diagrams, maps, analytics, and abstract.
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Reuters:
AOL to buy Bebo social network for $850 million — NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc's AOL Internet division is to buy social network Bebo for $850 million in cash, bolstering its consumer Web offerings even as the media conglomerate mulls splitting off the business.
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