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Tracy Chan / Official Google Blog:
Insight into YouTube videos — I remember the first time a video I posted to YouTube cracked 100 views. I wasn't so much surprised as curious: Who were these people? How did they find this video? Where did they come from? — Today we're taking our first step towards answering …
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Webware.com, ReadWriteWeb, CNET News.com, TechCrunch, Search Engine Watch Blog, Howard Lindzon and Googlified
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
YouTube Feature Tells Video Creators When and Where a Clip Is Being Watched — In a move to provide better data to its users, YouTube formally announced late Wednesday that it had added a free feature that will show video creators when and where viewers are watching their videos.
Lori Grunin / Webware.com:
Review: Adobe Photoshop Express — Adobe's VP of Hosted and Consumer Services refers to Photoshop Express as “the on-ramp to the Adobe digital-imaging franchise.” Next exit Photoshop Elements? Construction delays? Slippery pavement ahead? The mind reels with metaphorical possibilities.
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GigaOM, Macworld, New York Times, Gizmodo, Marc's Voice, Ryan Stewart, Technology Live, CNET News.com and AppScout
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Adobe opens shop on Web-based Photoshop Express — Adobe Systems will open up Photoshop Express on Thursday, its long-anticipated Web-based image editor aimed at the millions of consumers that want a simple way to touch up, share, and store photos. — Photoshop Express …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Adobe Unveils Webtop Version of Photoshop. Picnik Is Not Scared. — As I alluded to in an earlier post, online photo-editing applications keep getting better as the competition heats up between startups like Picnik and FotoFlexer. Today, a very large competitor, Adobe …
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Maciej Stachowiak / Surfin' Safari:
WebKit achieves Acid3 100/100 in public build — UPDATE We now believe we have a full rendering pass (but not necessarily an animation smoothness pass yet). See the bottom of the post for details. — UPDATE The Windows nightly is now available for download. See below for details.
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Junyor / my.opera.com:
Opera and the Acid3 Test — We have some excellent news! Lars Erik Bolstad, the Head of Core Technology at Opera Software, sent me the following information to share:
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google February Paid Clicks Lousy (Again)* — A source says Comscore has finally released its February “US paid clicks” report for Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO), et al. We have not seen the report, but our source relays the following: — Google had 515mm US paid clicks in February, which is up only 3% year over year.
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Tech Trader Daily, The Last Podcast, WebGuild, Between the Lines, VentureBeat and Mashable!
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Motorola insider tells all about the fall of a technology icon — Last month we were contacted by the late Geoffrey Frost's personal adviser at Motorola; until Frost's death in 2005, Numair Faraz worked under the Motorola's former CMO — the man widely regarded as the father of the RAZR.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
HP UMPC 2133 specs revealed, street date of April 7th? — We'd been hearing that HP's slick UMPC 2133 was going sport VIA processors, and now we've got some more info to back that up — we just received what appears to be a full spec list for the upcoming machine, and it's VIA C7-Ms all around …
24/7 Wall St.:
The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs — There is no way to accurately put a value on blogs and blogging companies. All are privately-held and, as is true with many content businesses, the value of the company is based on what a buyer will pay. The figures we have put together look …
Dion Almaer / techno.blog:
How FriendFeed could dwarf Facebook and Twitter — When FriendFeed first came out it looked like a nice little aggregator done by some smart EIRs who just left Google. A few months later they have grown into being the company that is mentioned on TechCrunch, RWW, TechMeme, and Mashable on a daily basis.
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Reuters:
Online media company CNET cutting 120 jobs — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online media company CNET Networks Inc said on Wednesday it will eliminate 120 jobs, or about 10 percent of its staff, in a restructuring to help it focus on long-term growth amid complaints from some investors.
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Valleywag, TechCrunch, WebProNews, paidContent.org, CenterNetworks, TECH.BLORGE.com and Mashable!
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
GNM hires Yahoo developer — Guardian News & Media is set to expand its technology department with the appointment of Matt McAlister, currently the director of Yahoo's developer network in San Francisco. — McAlister will be taking up the new role as head of the Guardian's development network …
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