Techmeme: GOOGLE. DOES. NOT MARKET. EXCEPT WHEN IT DOES. (John Battelle/John Battelle's Searchblog)

10:15 AM ET, May 16, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Data Portability: It's The New Walled Garden — The scuffle today between Facebook and Google has very little to do with user privacy and everything to do with user control. A huge battle is underway between Google, MySpace and Facebook around control of user profiles and, therefore, users themselves.

Discussion: Guardian Unlimited, Darren Herman and Collaborative Thinking

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:

Facebook has a point where it comes to your privacy — My ex-boss, John Furrier, goes after Facebook after Facebook blocked Google's Friend Connect from using its API to inport friends from Facebook into Google's Friend Connect. — I saw Dave Morin, who runs Facebook's developer platform, at Google's event Monday night.

Discussion: mathewingram.com/work, Between the Lines, Regular Geek, InformationWeek, Facebook Developers, Collaborative Thinking, TechCrunch, The Social Times, Furrier.org, Valleywag, STARTUP CHATTER, VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, Smalltalk Tidbits …, All Facebook and WebProNews

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
He Said, She Said In Google v. Facebook

Discussion: Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts, Voidstar: blog, The Real McCrea and 20bits

Steve Lohr / New York Times:

Microsoft Joins Effort for Laptops for Children — After a years-long dispute, Microsoft and the computing and education project One Laptop Per Child said Thursday that they had reached an agreement to offer Windows on the organization's computers. — Microsoft long resisted joining …

Discussion: TeleRead, BBC NEWS, Forbes, All about Microsoft, My Blog Posts, WinBeta, Xconomy and Slashdot

Steve Hamm / Business Week:
Microsoft Joins One Laptop per Child

Discussion: 901am

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Poor Children Of The World No Longer Will Have To Struggle With Linux

Discussion: Webreakstuff

Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft, OLPC officially team up

Discussion: Electronista

Microsoft:
Microsoft and One Laptop per Child Partner to Deliver Affordable …

Discussion: Between the Lines, Xconomy, Engadget, CrunchGear, The Tech Report, MAKE Magazine, MacUser, Tech Tracks, BBC, Inside UP, Guardian Unlimited and Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog

Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Windows XP on OLPC XO Laptop Now Official

Discussion: The Register and Electronista

Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:

MacBook upgrade set for Q3 — Apple is moving toward the release of a redesigned MacBook, a new report emanating from the company's Asian Mac manufacturers claims. — AU Optronics Corp. and Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp. have been signed-up to produce flat-panel screens for the new MacBook models …

Discussion: Electronista

Reuters:

Orange to sell iPhone in Europe, Mid East, Africa — The list of countries where Apple's <AAPL.O> iPhone will be sold grew further on Friday with Orange announcing a deal for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Orange, France Telecom's <FTE.PA> main brand, will sell the iPhone in Austria …

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, Engadget and O'Grady's PowerPage

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:

France Telecom to carry Apple's iPhone to Africa and beyond — Napoleon would be proud. — France Telecom's wireless subsidiary Orange laid out expansion plans on Friday that will extend its iPhone market beyond France's borders and into Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean.

Discussion: Between the Lines and Gizmodo

Business Wire:

Yahoo! Responds to Carl Icahn's Intention to Nominate Candidates for Election to Yahoo!'s Board of Directors — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company, today sent the following letter in response to Carl Icahn's announcement regarding …

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
BoomTown Decodes Carl Icahn's Letter to Yahoo!

Discussion: CNET News.com, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, Business Week, WebProNews, Tech Beat, Furrier.org, Wall Street Journal and Microsoft Watch

Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Gordon Crawford To Carl Icahn: You're Not So Clueless, After All

Discussion: Valleywag, Tech Ticker, MediaFile, Digital Daily and Reuters

Shadowmite.com Blog:

Treo 800 Prototype picture — Someone stopped into our chat room today with this to show us: — Its a CDMA WM Treo 800, but according to our source in the Ukraine it is also known as the Palm Zeppelin. More details will follow, as we are unsure of the pixel count on the screen as well as several other important details.

Discussion: Gizmodo, SlashPhone, Treonauts, CrunchGear, Unwired View, Engadget and Tech Blog

Chris Davies / PHONE Magazine:
Palm Treo 800w CDMA live pic shows up

Discussion: Gadgetell and IntoMobile

Bruce Schneier / Guardian:

Taking your laptop into the US? Be sure to hide all your data first — Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you're entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days.

Discussion: TechRadar.com and Slashdot

Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:

Google's Laser Logo — This is one of the weirder and more interesting logos to show on the Google homepage: in disco neon colors, Google today celebrates the anniversary of the first laser. Wikipedia explains (footnotes removes, my emphasis): — A laser is an electronic-optical device that emits coherent light radiation.

Discussion: Search Engine Land

New York Post:

YAHOO! SEEKING OPEN ALLIANCE WITH GOOGLE — Yahoo! executives are scrambling to finalize a search-advertising pact with Google in the face of a fresh challenge to its independence from billionaire investor Carl Icahn, The Post has learned. — According to two sources close to the situation …

Discussion: MediaFile, Silicon Alley Insider and Portfolio

Ryan Spoon:

Disqus - After 5 Days on Disqus, I'm Turning Back to Wordpress Comments — I'm an avid reader of Fred Wilson's blog and was tempted to test-drive Disqus when Fred first integrated it onto his site. I finally decided to install it on my blog (which is powered by Wordpress) after Fred wrote his post “Three Reasons to Use Disqus”.

Discussion: I'm Not Actually a Geek, The Inquisitr and broadstuff

John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:

GOOGLE. DOES. NOT MARKET. EXCEPT WHEN IT DOES. — Over the years I have often pondered the connundrum of Google as a marketing driven company. On the one hand, this company is entirely driven by marketing - hundreds of thousands of businesses, small and large, marketing themselves through …

Smashing Magazine:

More (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers — Desktop wallpapers are always nice to look at and to draw inspiration from. They may provide with some fresh perspective and offer you some eye-candy for tedious coffee breaks. We are regularly hunting for free high-quality icons …

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