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comScore:
comScore Releases February 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace. February 2008 saw Americans conduct nearly 10 billion core searches …
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:Report: Google widens Web search lead, again
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant. — More blogs are raising venture capital, we're hearing from people they've pitched. Newcomer Silicon Alley Insider is looking for a $3 - $5 million round, if reports are correct.
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Robert Hamilton / Official Google Mobile Blog:
Fast is better than slow — A few weeks ago, we launched a plug-in for Symbian devices that put a Google search shortcut onto the phone's home screen. This shortcut reduces the time it takes for you to get answers from Google by eliminating the initial search steps (e.g. finding the browser application …
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TechCrunch, MobileCrunch, MobHappy, jkOnTheRun, eWeek, Google Operating System, Engadget Mobile, Pocket PC Thoughts.com and the::unwired
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Michael Rose / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Is your Airport Extreme suddenly Time Machine-happy? — Update 9 pm ET: Our comrade David Chartier from Ars Technica points out that the 7.1.3 firmware itself may not be necessary for the new functionality to work; he says he tested a 7.1 AEBS with a machine running Time Capsule & Airport 1.0 …
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MacFixIt, The Apple Core, Gizmodo, Dan's Tech-n-Stuff Weblog, jkOnTheRun, Ubergizmo and Engadget
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Port 25:
Supernova — I'm writing this from EclipseCon in Santa Clara, California, where I'm going to announce the beginning of Microsoft's collaborative work with the Eclipse Foundation. — This started about a year ago when I met Mike Milinkovich at an open source event (the Open Source Software Think Tank 2007) …
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Open Sources, Computerworld, People Over Process, CNET News.com, ZDNet.com.au, Ian Skerrett and Micronet's blog
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Apple may bundle unlimited iTunes with iPods — A report by the Financial Times (registration required) cites unnamed executives who say that Apple is in talks with record labels to offer access to the entire iTunes music library for a lump sum price. The fee would be added as a premium option …
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Los Angeles Times, Bits, madisonian.net, Techdirt, Coolfer, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Macworld, Electronista, Media Bullseye and CNET News.com
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Roger Cheng / CNN:
2nd UPDATE: Verizon Wireless Unveils Open Network Specs — (Recasts first paragraph, includes additional background and executive comments from Verizon, Motorola and Sony, plus the move's impact on consumers.) — Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES — NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- In unveiling …
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Fred / A VC:
Thoughts On FriendFeed — I know I am late to this discussion and that many bloggers have already weighed in on this topic already. — Back a few months ago, the New York Times covered FriendFeed and after reading the story I set up my FriendFeed. I have always been a fan of aggregation and life streaming.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple and Adobe: Who needs whom? — Adobe has tipped its hand, and it now seems clear that it needs Apple's iPhone more than Apple (AAPL) needs Adobe's Flash. But it's not at all clear that Adobe (ADBE) will get the foothold on the device it seems to want so badly.
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Official Google Blog:
Opening Google Docs to users and developers via Gadgets and Visualization API — Whenever we're asked “how do people use Google spreadsheets?”, we always struggle with where to start. It's not that we can't think of examples, it's just that the examples are all so different, so unique.
Naomi Gleit / Facebook Blog:
More Privacy Options — Today, we are introducing privacy changes that work towards our goal of giving you the control you need in order to share information comfortably on Facebook. There are two ways we've changed things: a standardized privacy interface across the site, and new privacy options available through this interface.
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
SugarSync: Most useful sync tool ever. But you'll pay for it. — Today, Sharpcast is launching the public beta of its new file synchronization product, SugarSync. Like other sync tools (FolderShare [recently updated] and BeInSync), it performs the useful service of automatically keeping the data on one PC the same as on another.
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
VC confab: Please, no more social networks — REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—The consensus here at the Dow Jones Web Ventures conference this week seems to be that the world doesn't need another social network. — That's considering that the advertising model for even the largest social networks …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo turns to radio ads to lure Google Web searchers — Updated 10 a.m. PDT with quotes from radio ad. — Yahoo is running radio ads in the San Francisco Bay Area and several other markets in an effort to get more people to use its search engine instead of Google's.
eMarketer:
Online Advertisers To Spend Through Turbulence — The shift online will continue in 2008. — eMarketer predicts that, despite the economic rough patch, US online advertising will continue to grow through 2008. Online ad spending will rise by 23%. — Yet even that reduced rate of growth …
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Search Engine Land, paidContent.org, HipMojo.com, Valleywag, Silicon Alley Insider, 901am, Todd Watson, Mashable! and Darren Herman
Dennis Howlett / Irregular Enterprise:
The end of software... ...as you know it. Right now I'm falling over startup vendors vying for attention in the so-called ‘social software’ space. The fact enterprise people hate the term doesn't seem to bother those who are bypassing IT as they sell into the marketing departments of companies at departmental budget prices.
