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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Importance Of A Competitive Search Market — Is Microsoft's vision to compete in search and reinvent itself as an advertising company nothing more than an attempt to get back into its familiar position as Top Gun? Should Microsoft, Google and everyone else just give up on search and outsource to Google?
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
MicroHoo: corporate penis envy? — After reading endless pieces about Microsoft's obsession with search, I am forced to offer the following theory: penis envy (from Wikipedia): … Microsoft was once motivated by its own Big Hairy Audacious Goal: “a computer on every desk and in every home.”
BBC:
Web users ‘getting more selfish’ — Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research. — The annual report into web habits by usability guru Jakob Nielsen shows people are becoming much less patient when they go online.
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Stupid Google Tricks: Get a calendar from the search box — I spend a lot of time in my browser. So much time, in fact, that I notice when I drop down to a command-line to type things. I wanted to look up a day later this year, so I typed “cal 2008″ into a Unix terminal window.
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Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
Blame FriendFeed — Robert Scoble. Blame FriendFeed. Steve Rubel. Blame FriendFeed. The Shel puppet. Blame FriendFeed. Dave Winer. Blame FriendFeed. Etc. — FriendFeed is a parasite service built on the back of Twitter. Let's get this straight. No Twitter, no FriendFeed.
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VentureBeat, ParisLemon, Dembot, WinExtra, Andy Beard, louisgray.com, Webomatica and mathewingram.com/work
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Steven Hodson / WinExtra:FriendFeed won't kill Twitter but Twitter might
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Brian Alvey, ReadWriteWeb, notes, thoughts …, The Last Podcast, Feedonomics and The Inquisitr
Anand Rajaraman / Datawocky:
Are Machine-Learned Models Prone to Catastrophic Errors? — A couple of days ago I had coffee with Peter Norvig. Peter is currently Director of Research at Google. For several years until recently, he was the Director of Search Quality — the key man at Google responsible for the quality of their search results.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Global Dreams for a Wireless Web — SITTING on the porch at Finca Torrenova, his 800-acre retreat on this Mediterranean island, Martin Varsavsky ticks off the credentials of the group of Internet entrepreneurs finishing lunch at a nearby table. — “He has 40 million uniques, he has 50 million …
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Social Media
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Windows 7 to make appearance at D6 Conference — A very tired little birdie who flew all the way from Seattle to Australia has chirped to me Windows 7 will be publically disclosed for the first time at the D6: All Things Digital Conference hosted by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher next week on May 27.
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GottaBeMobile
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
This is why I love the tech industry... Sometimes I get caught up in all the bubble and ego talk. You know, all that stuff that the industry insiders care about and what keeps tech blogging sometimes feeling like a high school (who has the bigger ego? The bigger puppet? Who is going to start a snit on Gillmor Gang?
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Resistance Is Futile — IT'S O.K. to liken Shigeru Miyamoto to Walt Disney. — When Disney died in 1966, Mr. Miyamoto was a 14-year-old schoolteacher's son living near Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital. An aspiring cartoonist, he adored the classic Disney characters.
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Fred / A VC:
Can We Live In Public? — At the start of this decade, Josh Harris (always ahead of his time) created a experimental web video project called We Live In Public. — This Wired magazine piece from 2001 explains the whole story. Josh outfitted his entire apartment with video cameras …
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Something is wrong on the internet! — xkcd recently posted a webcomic that is quickly becoming a classic cartoon: — That comic sums up the internet in one sentence: the scrum of jostling opinions on the web and the optimism that truth can still win out.
