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Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo-Google Deal Advances — Yahoo Inc. moved closer to outsourcing its search advertising to Google Inc. after an initial test of the system yielded what the two firms deemed positive results, people familiar with the matter said. — A partnership could give Yahoo some needed leverage …
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Between the Lines, VentureBeat, BoomTown, Search Engine Journal, CNET News.com, paidContent.org, Valleywag and WebProNews
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Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Something's Fishy About This Yahoo-Google Deal — Oh, please. An initial test of outsourcing Yahoo's search to Google showed positive results, according to an account in the Journal. Hold it; didn't that test just start this week? Wasn't it supposed to go two weeks?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Puts All The Chips On The Table. Time For Somebody To Fold. — The WSJ, Yahoo's unofficial partner for information leaks over the last couple of months, is reporting that “people familiar with the matter” (i.e. Yahoo) say that Yahoo and Google have completed a preliminary test …
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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Alexander van Elsas's Weblog …, Profy.Com, All Facebook, The Social Times, Clickety Clack and Slashdot
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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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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.
Erik Kennedy / Ars Technica:
Keeping your Mac locked down: a Mac OS X security primer — Mac users need to think about security, too — Apple's approach to security can be a little bewildering at times. It's a well-trumpeted aspect of the OS, marketed in detail on the website. Mac OS X has integrated smartcard support …
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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.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
A New Chief, but eBay's Struggles Continue — SAN FRANCISCO — As John Donahoe takes over as chief executive of eBay, the company is still struggling to improve its business. — The company, which has been refocusing its business, reported that net income in its first quarter rose 22 percent …
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Business Week, Associated Press, The Register, Techland, IP Democracy, paidContent.org and CNET News.com
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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.
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last100, NewTeeVee, Variety, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, MacDailyNews, TechSpot, iLounge, Macsimum News and GigaLaw.com Daily News
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, Brij's One More Idea, David Recordon's Blog, Changing Way and TechCrunch
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 …
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Techdirt, mathewingram.com/work, The Blog Herald, CNET News.com, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Valleywag and Mashable!
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, Engadget, CNET News.com, CrunchGear, The 463 and Venture Chronicles
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Extra Cost to Buy Yahoo: Retention Pay — Microsoft's pursuit of Yahoo, if successful, will leave it with more than one bill due. — The shareholders, to be sure, will collect their payment, but Microsoft will most likely need to put together a package of financial incentives …
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CNET News.com
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Riya to Change Name, Looking to Sell Its Tech — Earlier this week, I got a tip from one of my reliable sources that Riya, a San Mateo, Calif.-based startup, was looking to either sell or license its core technology and instead focus solely on Like.com, its visual shopping search business.
