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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Trends Comes To Web Sites: Trends For Web Sites — Google has launched a major addition to Google Trends named Trends for Web Sites. Trends for Web Sites extends Google Trends by enabling you to search for web site addresses, as opposed to just searching for trends by keyword.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Faces Off With Compete, Alexa, Comscore, Quantcast (And Soon Firefox) — Google has just introduced Google Trends For Websites, a new tool that lets users take a peek at the traffic data from sites around the web. The new feature pits Google against a number of well-established players …
Maile Ohye / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
A new layer to Google Trends — Written by R.J. Pittman, Director of Product Management - Consumer Search Properties — Two years ago, we launched Google Trends, a tool that lets anyone see what the world is searching for, and compare the world's interest in your favorite topics.
John C Abell / Epicenter:
Dear Yahoo, I Quit! Signed, [Your Name Here] — You know you wish you could quit Yahoo. — It's a drag now that the Microsoft balloon has burst. Like that was gonna make working here anything like the good old days when you could buy a Maserati on yesterday afternoon's pop. — The upside to Icahn?
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Executive exodus leaves Yahoo in a pickle — Voluntarily or not, it looks like Yahoo will be getting a lot less top-heavy. — The pioneering but troubled Internet company is headed for a reorganization that, combined with an exodus of top Yahoo executives, will in all likelihood put power in dramatically fewer hands.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo The Failure: Myth Versus Reality — As SS Yahoo appears to be sinking, let me be the contrarian about her future. I admit, I find it as hard to believe as anyone that Yahoo has much life left in it after all executive departures this week, plus the latest news of Delicious founder Joshua Schacter going.
Robert Cox / Media Bloggers Association:
Back Story AP and Drudge Retort Come to Terms — In what may close one chapter and signal the beginning of another, the AP and Rogers Cadenhead of Drudge Retort have come to resolution on their dispute while leaving unresolved the central source of conflict in the case …
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Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
More on the settlement: AP's nightmare identified — Robert Cox, the Media Bloggers Association guy who represented Cadenhead in this matter, has a lengthy post about what happened this week. Go read it. I wasn't there but I've dealt with lots of similar situations as an editor and this all sounds pretty believable.
David Kirkpatrick / Fortune:
Microsoft without Gates — The challenge isn't replacing Bill. That's already happened. Ballmer's big issues now: growth, Google, and those pesky Apple ads. — (Fortune Magazine) — Steve Ballmer was sobbing. He repeatedly tried to speak and couldn't get the words out.
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Financial Times:
Transcript: Steve Ballmer of Microsoft — FINANCIAL TIMES: So, you finally got rid of that other guy. Now we want to know what you're going to do. — STEVE BALLMER: Onward and upward, baby. Onward and upward. — FT: What does it mean to lose Bill Gates from his full-time role?
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
ComScore: Facebook is beating MySpace worldwide — New numbers from metrics firm ComScore show that in May, the battle of the social-networking sites may have gained a new front-runner: Facebook appears to have surpassed longtime rival MySpace in worldwide unique visitors for the first time.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Dell Studio Hybrid mini PC leak reveals specs, new casing — Remember that tidy little bamboo-encased mini PC Dell showed off in April? Well apparently the company is at work on a variant of the diminutive system, dubbed the Studio Hybrid. In addition to forgoing the eco-friendly wood …
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Jonathan Simon / Official Google Webmaster …:
Get Cooking with the Webmaster Tools API — As the days grow longer and summer takes full stage, many of us are flocking to patios and parks to engage in the time-honored tradition of grilling food. When it comes to cooking outdoors, the type of grills used span a spectrum from primitive to high tech.
Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
How Omidyar Network and Wellington Partners invested $6 million in Seesmic — I am answering questions in video in this post using our new video player, you can reply and get a Seesmic account right there if you like. Hit play, you will see the reply button at the top right.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Seesmic Raises Another $6 Million Round
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Maple Leaf 2.0, DEMO.com, VC Ratings, Enterprise Alley, bub.blicio.us, Startup Meme, The Next Web, NewTeeVee and Webware.com
Jonathan Soble / Financial Times:
Malone gives poor reception to free online TV — John Malone, the billionaire US media mogul, warned on Friday that moves by television networks to make programmes available for free on the internet were doomed to fail. — Such moves could undermine more promising ways of making money …
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Fred / A VC:
Where To Go For Inspiration? — I posted last weekend about the difficulty of blogging every day. It's something I want to do for a bunch of reasons, most of them selfish. But it's not always easy to find something interesting to write about. — Sometimes I wake up with a blog post in my head.
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