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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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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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WinBeta
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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Google Maps Mania
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.
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.
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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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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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:The (evil?) genius of Nick Denton
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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 …
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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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.
Charles Babcock / InformationWeek:
Linspire Chairman Frustrated By Futility Of Desktop Linux, Rebuts Carmony — Michael Robertson says Microsoft's imposing lead in the desktop market means Linux should look to next-gen devices for growth. — Michael Robertson, chairman of Linspire, said the assets of his company were sold to Xandros after …
