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reddit:
reddit goes open source — Today we're excited to announce that we're open sourcing reddit. We've always strived to be as open and transparent with our users as possible, and this is the next logical step. When we say ‘open-source’ we mean specifically that the code behind reddit …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Digg this: Reddit goes open source — In the arena of crowd voting sites there is Digg and then there is everyone else. Every once in a while a challenger will come up that looks promising, but it fades away. — For a while that was Netscape (now called Propeller), then it was Mixx …
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PR Newswire:
Microsoft Announces Acquisition of Navic Networks — Navic enables Microsoft to work with industry partners to optimize the delivery and placement of television advertising. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the acquisition of Navic Networks, a leading provider of television advertising solutions.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Grabs Navic, Stalks Google TV (MSFT, GOOG) — At some point, someone is going to figure out targeted, Google-style TV advertising. Startups and ad agency holding companies are trying their hands at it. So are the cable operators and Google (GOOG) itself. Now Microsoft (MSFT) is, too.
In Pursuit of Mysteries:
IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3 — 4699 people have read this post. — Sean from Microsoft came by just a few minutes ago to drop off a cake for the Internet Explorer team. As people may recall, the IE team sent Mozilla a cake after Firefox 2 shipped and it seems that they wanted to continue the tradition.
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Gina Trapani / Lifehacker:Power User's Guide to Firefox 3
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The Mozilla Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Pito's Blog, Technology Live, The Blog Herald, Marketing.fm and Digg
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Firefox Reaches Its Goal Despite Site Problems — When the final version of Firefox 3 became available yesterday, it seemed they were going to have a hard time reaching their goal of five million downloads - an arbitrary number, since the record for most software downloads in 24 hours didn't exist before …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Statistics show Firefox 3 spreading fast — Firefox 3 is spreading fast, claiming more than 4 percent of the share of Web browser usage less than 24 hours after its release. — According to Net Applications, which monitors browser usage at major Web sites, Firefox 3 rapidly ascended …
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo — Stewart Butterfield, the cantankerous cofounder of Flickr, has, as we've noted, tendered his resignation to Yahoo, as has wife and cofounder Caterina Fake. The two recently celebrated, along with Flickr's other original employees …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo
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Search Engine Land, The Register, The Inquisitr, Guardian Unlimited, broadstuff, BoomTown, CNET News.com, Search Engine Journal, /Message, Startup Meme, paidContent.org, The Blog Herald, Valleywag, Coop's Corner, Maple Leaf 2.0, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, The Technology Chronicles, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Forbes and Silicon Alley Insider
Verizon:
Verizon Extends Groundbreaking 50/20 Mbps FiOS Internet Service to Entire FiOS Footprint — Verizon President and COO Denny Strigl Announces Groundbreaking 50/20 and 20/20 Mbps FiOS Internet Services Will Be Available to More Than 10 Million Homes and Small Businesses
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InfoWorld:
Microsoft unaware of reported China investigation — Microsoft said it is unaware of an investigation into whether the company unfairly dominates China's software market as reported by the country's state media on Wednesday. — “Microsoft is unaware of any investigation but is always willing …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Is LinkedIn Worth $1 Billion? — LinkedIn Worth $1 billion? — I think so — It is seriously overvalued — I don't care either way. — The big news tonight is business social network LinkedIn raised $53 million in Series D funding at a valuation of $1 billion.
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
‘New York Times’ goes social with TimesPeople — CNET News.com's Caroline McCarthy interviews two NYTimes.com — software engineers for a video in collaboration with Beet.tv. — (Credit: Beet.tv) — The New York Times has added a new feature to its Web site that takes a few cues …
Daniel Langendorf / ReadWriteWeb:
The Coming World of Mobile Sensors — At Supernova 2008 this week we got a glimpse of what's next for mobile; and it has little to do with hardware like the iPhone, software like Google's open-source operating system Android, mobile platforms put forth by Apple, Google, Nokia, Research in Motion, and the carriers.
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
OurSignal: Mashup of Digg, Reddit, Delicious and HackerNews — OurSignal is the latest site from the makers of CushyCMS, designed to bring you the freshest and most popular news from across the Web. It's a mashup of several social bookmarking sites focused on news, including reddit, digg, delicious and hackernews.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Nokia to launch advertising ‘ad labs’ — Nokia is to open a series of “Ad Labs” to train traditional advertising agency staff in the “black art” of mobile advertising in a bid to more rapidly unlock the potential of the nascent £1bn sector. — The mobile phone producer's new Ad Labs …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Irony: If Google Can't Reach Your Robots.txt File, It Might Not List Your Site — I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable this morning that Google said if your robots.txt is unreachable, your site might not make it into the Google index. By unreachable, Google means that if your server simply times …
