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Glenn Derene / Popular Mechanics:
How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It — Google owns search for now, but as PM's senior tech editor explains in his biweekly column, the evolving nature of how we use the Internet has left an uncertain future for search—and it's all the fault of you and your friends.
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Charles Cooper / Coop's Corner:
Microsoft 1, blogosphere 0 — Guys, the joke's on us. Big time. — Bloggers have been chortling all day over a goofy video made for Microsoft's sales team that made its way onto YouTube. — The video, “Rocking Our Sales,” by “Bruce ServicePack and the Vista Street Band,” is painfully lame.
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Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:Don't shoot the messenger: Microsoft internal promo video …
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Crave, istartedsomething, Forrester Research, Engadget, Microsoft Watch, Tech Tracks and One Microsoft Way
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
stackoverflow.com — What is stackoverflow.com? — Nothing, yet. — But here's the concept: — Programmers seem to have stopped reading books. The market for books on programming topics is miniscule compared to the number of working programmers. — Instead, they happily program away, using trial-and-error.
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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Introducing Stackoverflow.com — A little over a month ago, I announced that I was quitting my job. But there was also something else I didn't fully announce. … The “building stuff”, as you helped us determine, is stackoverflow.com. It's a small company Joel Spolsky and I are founding together.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Alexa Overhauls Ranking System — Everyone's favorite web statistics whipping boy Alexa has announced a major overhaul of how it compiles traffic figures. — The biggest change is Alexa's decision to drop exclusive reliance on the Alexa toolbar for traffic data, with Alexa now aggregating data from …
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CenterNetworks, Mashable!, diego's weblog, Trends in the Living Networks and ProBlogger Blog Tips
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:Alexa Updates Its Web Rankings - Still Not Good Enough
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
eBay Snoring, Skype Roaring — Ebay reported its first quarter earnings today, and there was nothing impressive about the results, especially their core auction-related business. On the other hand, Skype seems to be doing pretty well. … Those are impressive numbers.
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Business Wire:eBay Inc. Reports First Quarter 2008 Results
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Between the Lines, Silicon Alley Insider, Forbes, BloggingStocks, TechCrunch and Mashable!
Brad Stone / New York Times:A New Chief, but eBay's Struggles Continue
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Business Week, Techland, paidContent.org, The Register, Tech Check with Jim Goldman and IP Democracy
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
SixApart's BlogIt Could Be the Start of Something Big — SixApart launched BlogIt by TypePad last night, a Facebook app that lets you post to SixApart blogs and other blogging software like WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr, to your Facebook Newsfeed and to Twitter all from one place.
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The Real McCrea, David Recordon's Blog, Brij's One More Idea, Changing Way and TechCrunch
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Psystar Exposed: Looks Like a Hoax — After the Guardian did their own investigation into the Mac clone maker Psystar yesterday, we decided to take it a step further and see if they actually exist, in the physical sense. How could a company so brazenly challenge Apple and have little to no record of actually being a company?
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WebProNews, Infinite Loop, GeekBrief.TV, Gadget Lab, DailyTech, ZDNet Government, The Apple Core, MacUser, netkas.org, Byte of the Apple, Computerworld, PC World, Engadget and Cult of Mac
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
NBC to Apple: Build antipiracy into iTunes — SAN FRANCISCO—NBC Universal would like to have its TV shows distributed once again through Apple's iTunes service, a top executive said Wednesday, but he called for antipiracy measures to help protect his business' revenue.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
A new reason to hate Comcast — As long as I've been a customer of Comcast I've been writing how much I wish they'd sell their Internet business to a company that doesn't hate its customers so much. But sometimes you forget, when the service is good, you just cruise along, happy and productive.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Pays Users $1 Million — YouTube said today it has paid out more than $1 million to its user partners through its partner program. The figure came as part of an announcement that YouTube is expanding the program to users in Japan, Australia and Ireland (it was previously only available …
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Portfolio.com:
Comcast Sends Its Regrets — Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, has opted to sit out tomorrow's Federal Communications Commission hearing on broadband network management practices at Stanford, Portfolio.com has learned. — As a result, the company will not face one of its most prominent critics …
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Molly Peterson / Bloomberg:
Google ‘Gamed’ Airwave Sale, Republican Lawmakers Say — Google Inc. manipulated a U.S. government spectrum auction by bidding just enough to trigger rules that will open a nationwide set of airwaves to any device and then walking away, Republican lawmakers said.
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Capitol Valley, Epicenter, Gizmodo, CNET News.com, Engadget, CrunchGear, The 463 and Venture Chronicles
Danieleran / Roughly Drafted:
IBM Launches Pilot Program for Migrating to Macs — Daniel Eran Dilger — As further evidence of the growing interest in Macs among enterprise customers, IBM's Research Information Services launched an internal pilot program designed to study the possibility of moving significant numbers of employees to the Mac platform.
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InformationWeek, VentureBeat, Infinite Loop, TechRadar.com, TechSpot, CNET News.com, Macsimum News and The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Blogging Service — In their ever continuing battle to free the Internet, The Pirate Bay has now launched an uncensored blogging service, called Baywords. The service is intended to be a safe haven for bloggers who want to be able to write whatever they want …
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
The Decline and Fall of Tech on Digg — If you're a fan of digg, you've probably been noticing that tech stories are becoming less and less a feature of the social news site. The reason? Digg is attempting to attract a large mainstream user base. Just how low has tech sunk in digg?
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The Last Podcast
Jeremy Cole / jcole's weblog:
Just announced: MySQL to launch new features only in MySQL Enterprise — Just announced at the MySQL Partner meeting as part of the MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, CA: — MySQL will start offering some features (specifically ones related to online backups) only in MySQL Enterprise.
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CNET News.com, SmugBlog, MySQL Performance Blog, TechSpot, Computerworld, Kevin Burton's NEW FeedBlog and Slashdot
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Windows Vista update ‘kills’ USB devices — Defeat 99.7% of all Spam! — Microsoft has admitted it is investigating reports that a recent Windows Vista security update causes havoc with some USB devices, but the software giant is yet to provide a fix for the cock-up.
