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6:35 AM ET, March 27, 2008

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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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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.
Discussion: Ajaxian
J .D. Biersdorfer / New York Times:   A One-Stop Site Offers All the Photo Functions, From Posting Online …
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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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.
Discussion: Pulse 2.0 and Mashable!
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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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Google Feb. Paid Clicks Up 3% Year-Over-Year  —  Google's (GOOG) paid clicks were up 3% in February from the same month last year, and down 3% sequentially from January, according to new data from ComScore.  (Note that February this year had one extra day.)
Discussion: WebProNews
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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Matt McAlister:
My new gig at the Guardian in London
Discussion: paidContent
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.
Reuters:
Maoists shun gun for mobiles in Nepal poll campaign  — Maoists shun gun for mobiles in Nepal poll campaign  —  KATHMANDU (Reuters) - For 10 years, Nepal's Maoist guerrillas waged a bitter “people's war.”  Now they are waging an election battle — with mobile phones.  — Motorola to break into 2 companies
Discussion: textually.org and Associated Press
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 …
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Steve Jobs Apple Collage Looks Impressive  —  The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.We're not sure how many hours it took to assemble this collage of Steve Jobs made solely out of Apple products, but we're pretty sure the process was done on a Mac.
Discussion: Cult of Mac and Tech Blog
 
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Chris Pirillo:
We're Taking an Open Direction with Web Communities: Are You In?
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The real roadblocks to data portability on social networks
Dion Almaer / techno.blog:
How FriendFeed could dwarf Facebook and Twitter
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
AMD releases Quad and Triple core Phenom processors
Seth Finkelstein / Guardian:
Wikipedia's school for scandal has plenty more secrets to reveal
Discussion: Infothought
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Dash's Car Navigator Gives Smart Directions, If Others Participate
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Email Consumes Us
Harrison Hoffman / CNET News.com:
Facebook quietly launches “People You May Know”
 Earlier Items: 
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
More Questions Than Answers About OpenSocial
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Koolhaas Transforming House Is Worthy of Iron Man, Batman …
Discussion: Random Culture
Karen D. Schwartz / eWeek:
Report: Subscriptions to Surge for Open-Source Licensing
Discussion: Open Source
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Live from Mozilla: Firefox for iPhone? No.
Paul Carton / ChangeWave HotWire Blog:
PC Spending Heads South
Reuters:
Online media company CNET cutting 120 jobs
Cade Metz / The Register:
Apple forbids Windows users from installing Safari for Windows
Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Finally, the $500 ultramobile with touch coming in May
 

 
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Michael Gold / New York Times:
President-elect Donald Trump announces he has chosen Karoline Leavitt, who served as his campaign's press secretary, to be his White House press secretary

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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