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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.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
It's Firefox 3 “World Record” Download Day, But I'm Still Waiting — Today's the big day for the official, no-longer-beta release of the Firefox 3 browser. There is even a campaign to make today, June 17, Download Day and “set a Guinness World record for most downloads in 24 hours.”
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Firefox 3: New front in the browser war — Mozilla plans to release Firefox 3 on Tuesday, and the open-source project is opening a new front in the browser wars. — As the Web transforms from a static repository of content into a foundation for applications such as word processors and graphics editors …
Michael Calore / webmonkey:
Why You Should Download Firefox 3 Right Now — Firefox 3 — available for download at 10am PDT Tuesday — is the culmination of a two-year quest to build the best browser ever. And while it's not perfect, it comes pretty close. — The open-source web browser is the fastest and most secure version of Firefox yet.
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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Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Firefox 3 Download Schedule on a World Time Map — Firefox 3 will be up for grabs at 10 AM Los Angeles time. — If you are in a different part of the world, refer to this world time map and know the exact time when Firefox 3 will become available in your region. Happy Firefox 3 Download Day.
Michael Horowitz / Defensive Computing:
Hold off on Firefox version 3 — I love Firefox. Usually it goes hand-in-hand with Defensive Computing, as Firefox is more secure than Internet Explorer. But not today, not with the release of version 3 of Firefox. — Don't install Firefox version 3. Not today. not for a while.
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Matt Asay / The Open Road:
To avoid Flash lock-in, Apple looks at SproutCore — Apple, continuing its reliance on open-source technologies, is using an open-source project called SproutCore to provide rich Internet applications like its new MobileMe service. — The idea is to use to keep Apple from being …
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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.
Benwilson / iPhone Atlas:Adobe Flash running on iPhone emulator; too slow for real devices?
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
BoomTown's Short List of Yahoo CEOs (Sorry Jerry, But Fortune Favors the Prepared) — Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn has asked for it, although he has gone all kittenish now, after realizing his scheme to get Microsoft (MSFT) to buy Yahoo (YHOO) was over, once Yahoo signed on with Google …
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.
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Hulu is kicking Youtube's Ass — It is coming up on 2 years post my declaration that only a moron would buy Youtube and that Google was crazy for actually going through with it. — In that period of time, while Youtube traffic has skyrocketed, they have been steadfast in their admission …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Technorati Launches Blog Ad Network, Technorati Media — Blog-focused advertising networks are all the rage right now, with both Federated Media and Glam pulling down big valuation financing rounds in the last few months based on very early growth metrics. Other startups, like Six Apart …
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).
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations …
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Meraj Chhaya / PhoneReport v2.0:
HTC: Google 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 …
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Glam Media to Announce Acquisition — Glam Media, the largest U.S. Web property aimed at women, plans to announce Tuesday that it has acquired London-based digital-marketing firm Monetise Ltd. to jumpstart its global ad-selling. Within a year, Glam says it will have ad operations up and running …
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Mary A. C. Fallon / DEMO.com:Glam Media buys U.K. Monetise to kickstart global ad selling efforts
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Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Microsoft to Build Search Technology Center in Europe — Ever since the Yahoo! acquisition deal fell through, many have wondered what Microsoft will do to make headway in the search market. Shortly after, they launched Cashback, which seemed to indicate a dedication to build search internally.
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