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Mshapiro / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 3 coming soon! — The outpouring of interest and enthusiasm around Firefox 3 has been overwhelming (literally!). Our servers are currently feeling the burn and should be back to normal shortly. Download day will officially commence once the site goes live. The 24 hours period will be clocked from that moment.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Firefox 3 download fiesta: Ready, set, kaboom — The world record download attempt for Firefox 3 is off to a rough start. — Shortly after 1 p.m. EDT, 10 a.m. PDT (Mozilla's official launch time) I went to spreadfirefox.com and got the following: — I'm sure Mozilla will fix this little glitch …
Kevin Heisler / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Download Firefox 3 Today: Firefox Download Day to Set a Guiness World Record — Firefox 3 will be released today which makes today Firefox Download Day 2008. — To build its user base, Mountain View-based Mozilla will attempt a Guinness World's Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo — Photo sharing site Flickr is one of the leading lights of Yahoo - but cofounders (and husband/wife team) Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield won't be around to keep driving the product forward. They are both joining the mass exodus of executives from the company.
comScore:
More than 4 Billion Videos Viewed at Google Sites — In April, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with more than 4.1 billion videos viewed (38 percent share of all videos), as YouTube.com accounted for 98 percent of all videos viewed at the property.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Adobe Flash Coming To Apple's iPhone — Maybe, Someday (AAPL, ADBE) — Adobe's Flash animation/video player, missing from the 3G iPhone that Apple unveiled last week, could still make its way to Apple's phone sooner or later, via the iPhone's third-party apps program. If Apple lets it get there.
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iPhone Atlas, Infinite Loop, Seeking Alpha, Unwired View, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Boing Boing Gadgets, CrunchGear, Macsimum News, Lockergnome and iLounge
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google App Engine Goes Down and Stays Down — Google App Engine, which launched in April to compete with Amazon's web services unit, has been having major problems over the last day. Currently, the application directory and, more importantly, all third party applications (here's our test application), are offline.
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CNET News.com
The Technium:
One Dead Media — One of my suppositions is that technologies rarely go extinct — on the global level. Usually someone, somewhere will continue to employ the most ancient technology. There are probably more people making swords by hand now than in the past.
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Fred / A VC:
Why Widgets Is The Wrong Word For What We're Doing — I am speaking at WidgetWeb today. They asked me to talk about widgets as startups, but I am not going to talk about that. I am going to talk about the end of widgets as we know them, starting with the word itself.
Brad Stone / Bits:
A Redesign at Skype — Skype, eBay's Internet phone division, has always been something of a problem child for the e-commerce giant. — The service is growing like a weed, with 309 million registered users. It earned $126 million in the first quarter of the year, exceeding what eBay and PayPal earned at similar age.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Associated Press: Fair Use Limits You To Four Words; Five Words Costs $12.50 — As we wait with bated breath for the Associated Press to come down from the mountain with its own rules for “fair use for bloggers,” Patrick Nielsen Hayden gives us a sense of what the AP considers fair use (found via Boing Boing).
Meraj Chhaya / PhoneReport v2.0:
HTC: Android Q4, Windows Mobile 7 Q1 09 — At the HTC Touch Diamond launch in South Africa, I had the opportunity to have a little chat with Kevin Chen, General Manager of HTC for MEA and CIS. Besides having an in-depth explanation on the innovations that the Touch Diamond brings …
James Lewin / Podcasting News:
Did Hulu Just “Kick YouTube's Ass”? — Mark Cuban has a must-read post over at Blog Maverick looking at Internet television service Hulu and Google's struggle to make its investment in YouTube pay off. — Cuban argues that Google made a billion-dollar mistake buying YouTube, and that Hulu is “kicking YouTube's ass”.
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Joost CEO: We've Figured It Out This Time — Two years ago, in the wake of Google's $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube, Joost was suposed to solve a very 2006 dilemma: Fearful media companies wanted to distribute their video over the Internet, but didn't know how they'd do it. — But that was then.
Doc Searls Weblog:
What you frame is what you get — I'm due to be on a panel at Supernova in five minutes. I won't be there. If I were, I would say the following, and then some. Alas, no time. But, since the Net is essentially spaceless, here ya go: — If you say the Net is a system of “pipes” and …
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Ross Mayfield's Weblog
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Facebook and Google still not ready to connect friends — The meaning of openness in the realm of social networks continues to be difficult to pin down. At a panel discussion at Supernova 2008, representatives from Facebook, Google and Plaxo discussed their various interpretations of openness …
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The Real McCrea
