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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Comcast, Twitter And The Chicken (trust me, I have a point) — I've had a very odd weekend. — First, I've taken a dozen or so phone calls from concerned relatives and friends over this NYTimes article. But a bigger issue is that the Internet was down in the house starting late Friday night, so I haven't been online much.
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Charles Cooper / Coop's Corner:
For some reason, Twitter hasn't yet taken the journalist community by storm — After the derision which greeted the New York Times' blogging will kill you story on Sunday, I'm probably not going to do much for the reputation of the mainstream media with hard-core bloggers. So it goes.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo Reveals Details of Its New Ad Sales System — SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo is beginning to pull the wraps off an online advertising system that the company said would help it and its partners drive sales of graphical and other premium ads. — Yahoo said the system …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Internet Irony: Amazon Getting Disrupted By Apple, BitTorrent, Pirate Bay, et al — Barnes & Noble? Tower Records? Buggy-whip makers? Amazon (AMZN) feels your pain. — A decade after Amazon's explosive entrance into book and music retailing dented big media retailers and put smaller ones …
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Reuters:
Yahoo not opposed to Microsoft deal: source — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo is not opposed to a deal with Microsoft but Microsoft should pay more than $31 a share if it wants to buy the company, Yahoo plans to say in a letter to Microsoft, a person familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
For Facebook Chat, a quiet and cautious Sunday debut — Facebook chose a Sunday afternoon, when much of the tech blogger corps was pleasantly enjoying real life (we can hope), to start rolling out its previously announced instant-messaging client. That's likely no coincidence …
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:Facebook Chat Launches - Tour & First Impressions
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Harry McCracken / Techlog:
The Frustratingly Unfulfilled Promise of Google Gears — Back on May 30th of last year, Google released Google Gears, a browser plug-in designed to help Web-based applications work even when they couldn't connect to the Internet. I was pretty jazzed up about it, and so were my PCW colleagues …
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JD on EP
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Major Google Announcement Monday Evening: Is It BigTable? — Google is hosting the second of their developer events, called “Campfire One,” on Monday (April 7) evening. Multiple people have forwarded email invitations to me for the event, where Google promises they'll be …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Joost CEO Admits to Trimming Head Count, But Not Global Vision — Joost CEO Mike Volpi refuted a widely circulated report that his company was scaling back to focus on the U.S. market in an interview with Om tonight. Om surmises that the company has reduced head count by 35 to 40 to about 100, though Volpi wouldn't give a number.
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Heather Timmons / New York Times:
Scrabble Tries to Fight a Popular Impostor at Its Own Game — RealNetworks is quietly introducing a version of Scrabble on Facebook, despite pledging to save Scrabulous, the wildly popular, unauthorized online version of the board game. — In recent weeks, Gamehouse, a division of RealNetworks …
Steve Lohr / Bits:
Aiming for a Virtual End to PC Headaches — So-called virtual machine software, which allows a computer to simultaneously run different operating systems and applications, is already having a big impact in corporate data centers. And the leader in virtual software for server computers …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Collaborative software company Jive acquires Jotlet, gets better project management — We're already pretty impressed with Jive Software, a startup that integrates collaborative tools like blogging, wikis and forums into office applications through a single interface, and the Portland, Ore.-based company is still building momentum.
Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Sun refashions Java support options — San Francisco - Sun Microsystems is refashioning customer support options for Java Platform, Standard Edition (SE), extending support to 15 years under one paid plan and reducing it from six years to three years under an alternative free plan.
Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
The Other Dangers Of The Blogger Lifestyle... Blogging is stressful, you are always on. Matt Richtel at the New York Times nailed it: In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop. — Here are some of the other dangers (tongue-in-cheek) of the rock-and-roll blogger lifestyle:
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