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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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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Queries Decelerated in February—Comscore — More fodder to support Google (GOOG) Q1 revenue concerns: Comscore's February report says U.S. query growth decelerated again in February. — The good news for Google fans is that it did much better than Yahoo (YHOO), where queries actually declined (per Comscore).
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Search Engine Watch Blog, WebProNews, Searchviews, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and GigaOM
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:Report: Google widens Web search lead, again
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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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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Y Combinator Demo Day - which one will be the next Google? — Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, and the Y Combinator gang held their Demo Day yesterday for 21 hopeful startups. In most cases these “companies” are only 3 months old, have two or three founders, and are just launching a beta product/service.
Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Adobe realizes SDK not enough for Flash on iPhone — Adobe has admitted it can't bring Flash to the iPhone just because it thinks that would be a neat idea. — Comments made Tuesday by Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen were widely interpreted this morning as confirmation that Adobe and Apple …
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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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Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
AMD makes massive layoffs — Five per cent cull — AMD IS QUIETLY cutting five per cent of its workforce. Pink slips have been handed out now. The cuts are going to be across the board, not targeted at any specific group. — Whispers also say that this is because the chip maker …
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 …
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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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Heather Havenstein / Computerworld:Microsoft forges first official link to Eclipse
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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.
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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MobHappy, TechCrunch, Google Operating System, VentureBeat, eWeek, jkOnTheRun, MobileCrunch, Engadget Mobile, the::unwired and Pocket PC Thoughts.com
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.
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Facebook Should Buy Xobni — There was a rumor recently that Xobni was to be acquired by MSFT. I could certainly see that happening, Xobni is an email inbox on crack... I saw it at TC40... right now, it's compatible with MSFT Outlook alone. — While MSFT remains a likely company to buy it …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is Facebook Playing Favorites With App Developers? — Facebook has taken steps to limit application spam numerous times in the past. One of the recent steps they took was to specifically limit the number of daily invitations that users could send out to others - going from a hard cap of 20 …
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Louise Story / New York Times:
A Push to Limit the Tracking of Web Surfers' Clicks — AFTER reading about how Internet companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo collect information about people online and use it for targeted advertising, one New York assemblyman said there ought to be a law.
