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Philip Tucker / Official Google Docs Blog:
Bringing the cloud with you — We know that many of you have been waiting for offline access to Google Docs, and I'm happy to tell you we'll be rolling it out over the next few weeks, starting today with a small percentage of users. — Here's why I'm excited about this development.
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Google Docs getting offline access — Google Docs' word processor is finally getting offline access. Using the free Google Gears extension, users will soon be able to read and edit their files even when they have no Internet connection. — The Gears-enabled version of Google Docs will roll …
Sir Richard Branson / Official Google Blog:
Announcing Project Virgle — In my life, I've had a lot of exciting adventures and launched a lot of ambitious business ventures. I'm delighted today to announce Virgle, Inc., a joint venture between the Virgin Group and Google which qualifies on both counts.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google And Virgin Team For Human Settlement On Mars — Sir Richard Branson has announced on the Google Blog Virgle, a joint Google/ Virgin project to establish permanent human settlement on Mars. — Sir Richard writes: … Virgle is currently taking applications on its site here.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
YouTube RickRolls Users — If you aren't familiar with RickRolling - it's when someone puts a link on website to something, but it actually takes you to a music video of Rick Astley's “hit” song Never Gonna Give You Up. — YouTube is RickRolling its own users on April 1.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why We're Suing Facebook For $25 Million In Statutory Damages — When I started TechCrunch nearly three years ago it was meant to be little more than a hobby. I love startups, and writing about them was fun, not work. But since then this hobby has grown into a real business.
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Jim Kerstetter / CNET News.com:TechCrunch acquires Tiger Beat, will rename it CrunchKids
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
Windows: A Monopoly Shakes — [Editor's Note: This is the first of two posts pulling data from Forrester report, “Enterprise Desktop And Web 2.0/SaaS Platform Trends, 2007”.] — Forrester Research published the data on Thursday, but only released it publicly today.
Dave McClure / Master of 500 Hats:
Web 3.0 isn't the Semantic Web, it's Hailstorm 2.0. Why it Matters & How Microsoft-Yahoo can beat Google. — note: this isn't an April Fool's post, at least not intentionally... Semantic Web, WTF? — Nigga please, tell me something i give a s**t about.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Web surfers know advertisers are watching—and don't like it — When I visit digg, I most often get ads for shoes available at Cole Haan and Nine West. Incidentally, I happen to like shoes from those retailers, and although I don't really need to buy new shoes, I find myself clicking through …
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MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
The Transition to a Mac-ready Workforce — This is a few days old, but I didn't have a chance to write about it: A new Morgan Stanley survey suggests that 40% of college students plan to buy a Mac as their next computer. I mention this because it goes along exactly with what I've been saying for a while …
Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
How Google Can Eat Amazon's Lunch — I can't believe I'm going to do this, but I'm going to do it. — Yesterday, Dave Winer ranted about how blogs have become an ecosystem of recycled conversations about an original thought that happened long ago. Even so, I am going to talk about a post that Dave Winer wrote this weekend.
InfoWorld:
Norway asks to suspend its ‘Yes’ vote on OOXML — Members of the Norwegian technical committee that voted to ratify Microsoft's OOXML document format as an ISO standard are protesting that decision even before the full results of the standards body's vote on the technology have been announced.
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Anil Dash:
Your April Fool's Day Joke Continues to Suck — Having been blogging for a few years, I've developed a few annual traditions. This one's a favorite: Warning you off of lame April Fool's jokes on the web. Every year, I get called a curmudgeon, or lambasted for having no sense of humor.
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David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Sony BMG's hypocrisy: company busted for using warez — Sony BMG is no stranger to piracy. As one of the most vocal supporters of the RIAA and IFPI antipiracy efforts, the company has some experience hunting down and punishing consumers who don't pay for its products.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Deutsche Telekom / T-Mobile demands Engadget Mobile discontinue using the color magenta — So last week Deutsche Telekom, owners of the global T-Mobile brand, sent Engadget a late birthday present: a hand-delivered letter direct from their German legal department requesting the prompt discontinuation …
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Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Sharing My Location Just the Way I Like It — I've been waiting eagerly for FireEagle. It launched at ETech (video & Radar post). It's Yahoo's service for brokering locations. The app itself is very simple and clear; it's the way it should be because it can be used to make some very big mistakes.
