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BBC:
Google ‘faces Street View block’ — Google's plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner. — Street View matches photos of locations to maps, including passers-by who were captured as the photograph was taken.
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Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
What comes next in this series? 13, 33, 53, 61, 37, 28... Late one night in the summer of 2000, I found myself answering user support emails in response to two new features we had just released, Advanced Search and Preferences (at the time catchily called “Language, Display, and Filtering Options” :)).
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Darren Waters / BBC NEWS:
Google, privacy and Street View — As soon as Google launched Street View, its innovative photo-mapping tool, people began complaining that their privacy had been compromised. — From the man walking out of a sex shop, to the sun-bathing girls - had Google compromised their privacy …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Homepage Now Links to Privacy Policy — The Google homepage saw a little change: instead of “©2008 Google” the footer now reads “©2008 - Privacy”, with the word “privacy” being linked to Google's privacy policy help center (which contains videos, legal texts, explanations and so on).
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google, You Can Eat My Cookies Anytime — Google has just released a lengthy blog post to announce that it has finally put its privacy policy on its homepage. The search giant has been repeatedly questioned over the last few months over its lack of a readily available privacy policy …
Zhanyong Wan / Google Testing Blog:
Announcing: New Google C++ Testing Framework — We all know the importance of writing automated tests to cover our code. To make it easier for everyone to write good C++ tests, today we have open-sourced Google C++ Testing Framework (Google Test for short), a library that thousands of Googlers have been using in our C++ programs.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Matias Duarte, designer behind Sidekick and Helio, now developing Palm's next-gen UI — So we heard from a very reliable source that mobile user interface guru Matias Duarte — who you may know as the man behind the Sidekick and Helio UI / user experiences — actually left Helio late last year to join up with Palm.
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Five Best Windows Maintenance Tools — You download, create, delete, and move around countless files and endless piles of data on your PC every day. While your PC would ideally handle all of this data for you, it doesn't take long before you end up with a disorganized, cluttered computer.
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
BSA slams EC's ‘narrow-minded’ interoperability vision — EIF 2.0 draft ruffles some proprietary software feathers — An open standards row is brewing between the EC and a lobbying group for software multinationals over a proposed European framework on interoperability - a draft of which is due to be published on 15 July.
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John Oates / The Register:
eBay Australia ditches PayPal scheme — eBay Australia has given up on its attempt to force virtually all payments through its subsidiary PayPal. — The move proved hugely unpopular with users and had to be put on hold while it was investigated by the Australian Competition …
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Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag:
I Can Has Cheezburger CEO allergic to cats — Consider this: Ben Huh runs a site that takes submissions of stupid cat pictures with pidgin English captions written across them. That site, I Can Has Cheezburger, pulls about 2.2 million pageviews a day. Like the HotOrNot guys …
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
What's in the Works at Strike.TV — Looking for more details on Strike.TV, the network of 40-plus online video series from the Hollywood pros? We're not sure exactly what's happening tomorrow, the supposed launch date, but we dug up some more goodies to give you a hint of what's to come.
Yahoo! News:
Firefox Browser Share Tops 19 Percent as Record Set — The Mozilla Foundation has set a world record and achieved new heights in its battle for browser market share. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Mozilla's Firefox 3.0 Web browser set a record for the most downloads in a day.
Karion / RADAR:
GAWKER CUTS STAFF PAY RATE FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE QUARTER — Who ever said the future of media was going to feel great? With the current traffic success of Gawker—70+ posts a day, amazing SEO results, and relentlessly hammered-home top stories to maximize numbers—comes a downside.
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Associated Press:
YouTube ordered to reveal its viewers — NEW YORK (AP) — Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.
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