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John Markoff / New York Times:
A Google Prototype for a Precision Image Search — SAN FRANCISCO — Google researchers say they have a software technology intended to do for digital images on the Web what the company's original PageRank software did for searches of Web pages. — On Thursday at the International World Wide Web Conference …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Experiments With Next Generation Image Search — Two Google scientists presented a paper (pdf embedded below) at the World Wide Web Conference in Beijing last week that outlines their vision for the future of image search. — Notably, the new image search technology …
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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo — We have seen extensive press coverage of Microsoft's pursuit of Yahoo over the last few months, including notably excellent coverage from Silicon Alley Insider and the Wall Street Journal. However, I have not seen a detailed analysis …
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Microsoft Confronts Tough Choice on Yahoo — Steve Ballmer is facing one of the biggest decisions of his career: Walk away from Microsoft Corp.'s $42.7 billion acquisition offer for Yahoo Inc. or launch the largest hostile takeover battle in tech-industry history.
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Says Yes With Mesh — Back in the good old days, big software companies did big things. Little companies tiptoed around in the shadow of the platform makers, gaining enough speed to liftoff and attract enough attention to survive long enough to be acquired.
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Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web — Public Profiles Raise Questions of Propriety and Privacy — It's almost like Googling someone: Log on to Facebook. Join the Washington, D.C., network. Search the Web site for your favorite school system. And then watch the public profiles …
I'm Not Actually a Geek:
Early Adopters: Attention Is Migrating to FriendFeed — Based on the reaction to a recent post about Twitter early adopters, it's clear there's an appetite to understand when trends emerge and applications migrate across the technology adoption lifecycle. — To that end, there are important updates about FriendFeed.
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Charles Cooper / Coop's Corner:
Twitter gets another round of funding — Tweet and ye shall have. — A source familiar with the negotiations tells me that Twitter signed a term sheet for “either $15 million or $20 million” last week. We're still trying to find out who is in, but the word is that it's largely an inside round …
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Take a Picture of an Ad, Earn a Reward — Two men's magazines are trying to engage their readers more — by increasing their cellphone bills. — Rolling Stone and Men's Health are both testing programs in which readers can take cameraphone pictures of icons on ads, then send them to a certain number.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Golden Years of Television Find New Life on the Web — Is there still money to be made from “Matlock”? — Within the last few months, television distributors have opened up their libraries of classic content online, making thousands of episodes of programs like “The Twilight Zone” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” available free.
Fred / A VC:
Aggregation Wins - Not So Fast — I was thinking about the twin techs tonight while I was doing the dishes. That being Techcrunch and Techmeme. I was thinking about the chart that shows how Techmeme has overtaken Techcrunch because it's better to read a link heavy page that aggregates …
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Bob Rudis / The Apple Blog:
Read RSS Newsfeeds In Style With “Times” — From Google Reader to NetNewsWire to Vienna, RSS readers have become somewhat of a commodity, with all of them providing a similar feature set and the same approach to getting your fill of feeds. Then, along comes Dustin MacDonald who …
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Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
FM Media Looks To Invest In Content Companies And Tie Up Multi-Year Ad Contracts — I spent much of last week away from the Web 2-point yawn crowd. Instead, I was at my favorite conference, New Communications Forum held this year in Sonoma county. — I was speaking on two panels …
Nokia:
Beautiful to use: Nokia unveils three new handsets that merge modern functionality with classic and sophisticated looks — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today unveiled a trio of mobile devices that balance stunning and sophisticated looks with the latest in mobile functionality.
