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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
More Details On The Google-Salesforce “Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend” Alliance — On Monday, Google and Salesforce are officially announcing the complete integration of Google Apps (Docs, Calendar, Gmail, and Gtalk) and Salesforce's online enterprise apps. TechCrunch broke the story last week.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google and Salesforce Join to Fight Microsoft — Google and Salesforce.com, two of Microsoft's most conspicuous rivals, are expanding a 10-month-old collaboration in an effort to accelerate their sales of customer management and office software to businesses.
Mike Ricciuti / CNET News.com:
Google, Salesforce link up for business apps — It has hardly been a well-kept secret. Now, Salesforce.com and Google have made it official: they're linking up to offer Google Apps integrated with Salesforce.com's CRM (customer relationship management) applications.
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Search Engine Journal
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Pageflakes Acquired By Live Universe — Pageflakes, an Ajax home page service that originally launched in Germany in late 2005, has been acquired by Los Angeles based Live Universe, sources tell us. The deal has not yet been announced, and both Live Universe and Pageflakes refuse to comment.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Clock Ticking On Pageflakes? — Personalized web page startup Pageflakes has run into trouble and is desperately seeking a buyer, according to our sources. The company is rumored to be running low on cash and will join the dot.gone club unless it can find last-minute buyers.
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WebGuild
Arn / MacRumors:
‘OpenMac’ Promises $399 Headless Mac... But Not From Apple — A company called Psystar has started advertising a $399 computer called “OpenMac” which claims to be a Leopard compatible Mac built from standard PC-parts. For $399, you get a tower computer with the following specs: — 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Twitter and inadequacy (er, the great friend divide) — I'm tracking the new “friend divide.” What is it? — Well, compare your experiences on a number of services when you only have one friend vs., say, 500. Look at Upcoming.org. Have only one friend? It really is empty looking and there's not much value.
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Link by Link: He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work) — It's not easy to write a book. First you have to pick a title. And then there is the table of contents. If you want the book to be categorized, either by a bookseller or a library, it has to be assigned …
Amazon Web Services Blog:
Storage Space, The Final Frontier — Developers who have found our cloud computing model attractive have been asking us to be a little bit more open about what we are planning to do in the future. To date we've simply announced new additions to the Amazon Web Services lineup …
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All Things Distributed
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Profile redesign pushed back several weeks — A few weeks ago, when Facebook initially announced its Profile page redesign effort, developers scrambled to get questions answered in anticipation of an early launch date. — Since that time, Facebook has solicited developer feedback …
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Mashable!
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
TwitLinks: The Techmeme of Twitter? — Just launched today is a new Twitter mashup called Twitlinks. This one aggregates the latest links posted to Twitter by tech industry pundits. The end result is a homepage that kind of resembles Techmeme, only without the threading of topics.
Charles Cooper / Coop's Corner:
What's interesting is what we say it is. Really? — With the annual Web 2.0 conference only a week away, we're about to get bombarded with the latest avalanche of marketing hype about technologies that are supposed to change our lives. And if past is prologue, I'm quite sure …
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Microsoft may be barred from EU public procurement procedure — The undeclared war between the Microsoft and the European Union has been relatively quiet for the past few months; we haven't heard much from either party since the EU fined Microsoft $1.36 billion.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Incredibly Shrinking Music Biz — EMI Shutting Down Some Asian Offices — EMI, one of the global music majors, is shutting down some of its offices in Asia. Offices in Thailand and Singapore have already been shuttered, while regional headquarters in Hong King are ready for the grim reaper, Music 2.0 reports.
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louisgray.com:
Shyftr Responds to Critics, Alters RSS Commenting Strategy — Friday night's discussion around the fragmenting of comments between blogs, FriendFeed and RSS readers grew well beyond what I had expected. While the issue of comments and where they should live, relative to the original blog …
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Dave Stanley / Shyftr Blog:RSS Feeds, Community, Publishers, and Revisions
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WebProNews, Mark Evans, I'm Not Actually a Geek, SheGeeks, Internet Cases, Deep Jive Interests, Mashable! and mathewingram.com/work
