Top Items:
Andrew Zaeske / Official Google Blog:
Google Sites now open to everyone — A few months ago we launched Google Sites exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies and organizations that wanted to use the service on their own domains. Now we've made it easy for anyone to set up a website to share all types of information …
RELATED:
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Google Sites for everyone: GeoCities 2.0? — Google announced on its official blog late Wednesday that Google Sites, its simplified Web site creation service, is now available to any registered Google user. — Previously, only businesses with Google Apps accounts and their own domains had had access to Google Sites.
Discussion:
My Blog Posts
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Twitter VC Funding Done, Raises $15M — I spent most of the day digging up more information on Twitter and its new round of funding that I reported last night. The update is that Twitter reached an agreement with investors today to raise $15 million in funding at around $80 million pre-money valuation.
Discussion:
STARTUP CHATTER, The Social, CNET News.com, SEO and Tech Daily, paidContent.org, Tech Confidential, Silicon Alley Insider, bub.blicio.us, Texas Startup Blog, Webomatica, Pulse 2.0, The Inquisitr, notes, thoughts …, MYBLOG by Ouriel, VentureBeat, Valleywag, The PhoneBoy Blog and Mashable!
RELATED:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Highly Likely Rumor: Twitter Closes Third Round Of Financing From Spark Capital
Discussion:
Rev2.org
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Latest iPhone 2.0 beta adds geo-tagging to Camera photos — A new beta of Apple's iPhone Software v2.0 Update released privately to a select group of enterprise partners this week adds a few new preferences and the beginnings of geo-tagging support for the handset's Camera app.
Discussion:
MacRumors, IntoMobile, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Ubergizmo, Engadget Mobile, InformationWeek Weblog, The iPhone Blog and iLounge
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Search Engine Optimization Through Hoax News — Over at Search Engine Land's Sphinn, people are discussing a search engine optimization tactic which tries to assemble backlink juice by posting a fake news article. Jonathan Crossfield wraps it up: “Online marketer Lyndon Antcliff recently helped …
RELATED:
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Doing A Fake Story For Linkbait? Disclose — Or Face The Wrath Of Google — Link baiting entered a new area last week when Lyndon Antcliff had success with a fake story being picked up by some mainstream media sites as well as social news sites. Controversy erupted over the tactic …
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Daydreaming: Report Predicts Move Toward Home Devices — Predicting the new gadgets that Apple might concoct next is a favorite parlor game of the technology industry, Wall Street and the blogosphere. The latest chatter is that company CEO Steve Jobs will reveal at a developer …
RELATED:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Empire Strikes Back: Our Analysis Of Microsoft Live Search Cashback — Most are negative. Some excessively so. After hearing Bill Gates give the pitch and trying the service myself to make a couple of purchases, here's what I think: It's a bold move that goes for Google's throat …
Discussion:
TG Daily, VoIP Blog, Washington Post, New York Times, Search Marketing Gurus, ComparisonEngines.com and Search Engine Land
RELATED:
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Whoa: Microsoft Cashback Google-Killer Generates NO Revenue For Microsoft
Discussion:
Things That, BetaNews, Traffick, p2pnet, CenterNetworks, STARTUP CHATTER, TechCrunch and Wall Street Journal
Andrew Wallenstein / Reuters:
ABC soups up online video player — LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC.com is souping up its full-episode broadband player with new features for the fall. — Among the bells and whistles set for the broadcaster's online destination are full-screen viewing, closed captioning and the ability …
RELATED:
PR Newswire:
AT&T Nears Completion of 3G Wireless Technology Deployment that Delivers Broadband Wireless Speeds - for Downloads and Uploads — AT&T Will Be First in U.S. to Fully Deploy HSPA Technology in Its Wireless Network, Giving Customers Unsurpassed Speeds of up to 1.4 Mbps (Down), 800 Kbps (Up)
Discussion:
Apple 2.0, Techland, localmobilesearch.net, Gadget Lab, PhoneDog.com, Network World, GottaBeMobile, DSLreports, Macsimum News, Insanely Great Mac and LoopRumors
RELATED:
BBC:
Gamer anger at Nokia's ‘lock in’ — Gamers have hit out at Nokia after learning that N-Gage titles bought for their handsets are locked to that specific device forever. — If a gamer changes or upgrades to a diferent Nokia handset they have to purchase the games again if they want to continue playing.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
How to Use Social Media for Social Change — Did you participate in the Twit-Out yesterday? Do you even know what that is? To get you up to speed, a handful of Twitter users, fed up with the regular outages of their favorite service, decided to band together to show Twitter some tough love by boycotting the service for a day.
Discussion:
Techmamas
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Google Says It Will Defend Competitive Rationale of a Yahoo Deal — How can Google, the Internet search and advertising giant, contend that teaming up with Yahoo in search ads would not invite an antitrust challenge? — Under a proposed partnership, Google would let Yahoo use …
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
UK to streamline identity theft with data retention proposal — The British government is developing a proposal to centralize the data-retention practices of UK communications firms. Under current law, communications providers are required to retain certain kinds of data about their customers for a year …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Akamai: Goldman Says “Sell,” Sees More Competition — Akamai (AKAM) shares are trading lower this morning after Goldman Sachs analyst Derek Bingham cut his rating on the content delivery network operator to Sell from Neutral and trimmed his price target on the stock to $33, from $35.
