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Gmail Blog:
Updates to Gmail contact manager — Posted by Benjamin Grol, Product Manager Engineer, Google Contacts Team — We've heard from some of you that Gmail's auto-added contacts can lead to too much address book clutter. One of the advantages of automatically creating contacts …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Gmail Tries to Be Less Creepy, Fails — Gmail, Google's powerful web based email service, announced some changes to its contact management features today. Contact management has for some time been a contentious matter among Google Account holders - the company does strange and mysterious things …
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:
Is Facebook Ready To Face The Music? — On today's Gillmor Gang recording, Marc Canter frequently alluded to a Facebook announcement next Wednesday, July 23rd at its F8 platform conference in San Francisco, about their new thinking on the privacy of user-contributed data.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is This The Future Of Search? — The video above shows a user interface being bucket tested by Google to select (probably randomly determined) users. Earlier today we showed a screen shot of the interface and a video of the search history, recorded by Adrian Pike, the CTO of startup Tatango.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Google Continues To Test A Search Interface That Looks More Like Digg Every Day
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Meebo launches instant message platform so other web sites can build branded chat services — Meebo is turning its instant message aggregator service into a “platform” that other web companies can use to build instant message features into their own sites. The new platform …
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Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:Meebo wants to get the Web chatting
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Sophos:
Video: Change your date of birth on Facebook - right now — If you're on Facebook and acting sensibly you'll already have told the social networking site to hide your date of birth, so other Facebook users cannot view it. It's a sensible thing to do, because your date of birth …
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Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter:
YouTube Scores Revenue-Share Agreement With Lionsgate — YouTube nabbed a revenue-share agreement with Lionsgate, under which the independent film studio will get a branded video channel to broadcast movie clips — from pictures such as “Dirty Dancing” — and TV clips, including “Weeds” (right).
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:Hum, YouTube, Get a Clue; Take Cue from Yahoo!
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
SAI Parent Company Raises Pots Of Money At Mind-Boggling Valuation — Silicon Alley Media, the parent company of this web site, is pleased to announce that a consortium of media moguls has been kind enough to infuse it with cash. The money will allow it to pay rent, buy more chairs, and pay more people to sit in them.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Media Site AlleyInsider Gets Funding From Allen Morgan And Others; $6 Million Valuation — AlleyInsider, the year-old media/tech news site founded by Kevin Ryan, Dwight Merriman, and Henry Blodget, has received less than $1 million in funding at $6 million post-money valuation, we have learned.
Alexander Wolfe / InformationWeek Weblog:
Steve Jobs Decision Behind iPhone Apps' Achilles' Heel — Steve Jobs is ruining the new iPhone apps! OK, I guess should explain. Take a perfectly good Apps Store entry, such as the AIM client. It won't work unless it's front-and-center on your phone. That is, AIM won't run in the background …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft faces lawsuit over Silverlight — Microsoft's latest legal headache is a suit from a little-known company called Gotuit Media, which charges elements of Silverlight infringe on the video metadata company's patented technology. — In a suit filed July 2 in San Francisco Federal Court …
AppleInsider:
Apple passes Acer to become third largest U.S. PC vendor — Macs garnered an 8.5 percent share of the U.S. PC market during the second quarter of the year, pushing Apple past Acer in the national rankings and into third place overall, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by market research firm Gartner.
Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:
Technologies behind Google ranking — In my previous post, I introduced the philosophies behind Google ranking. As part of our effort to discuss search quality, I want to tell you more about the technologies behind our ranking. The core technology in our ranking system comes from the academic field of Information Retrieval (IR).
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Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Microsoft explains Halo's no-show at E3 game conference — Halo Nation has been abuzz since Bungie, the developer of the blockbuster video game franchise Halo, put out a cryptic letter on its website Tuesday apologizing for not making an appearance at E3, the game industry conference taking place this week in downtown Los Angeles.
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Chris Morris / Forbes:Look-alike Gaming Machines
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New York Times, The Technology Chronicles, CrunchGear, Gizmodo and Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
Nivi / Venture Hacks:
I have a job offer at a startup, am I getting a good deal? Part 1. — We've been answering this question a lot lately: … This isn't a comprehensive answer—just some questions we would ask if we had an offer. — If you don't understand your offer, get a lawyer.
Industry Standard:
Techmeme Leaderboard analysis: Is the old-guard A list fading? — The Techmeme Leaderboard is a valuable tool for tracking the influencers of the tech world. However, over the last few months an interesting trend has emerged: A-list bloggers are dropping off.
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PR Newswire:
Snipitron Acquires OnlyWire.Com — Next Generation Interactive Social Research & Networking Platform for Professional Users — SNiPiTRON, (www.snipitron.com) the Social Research and Networking Platform, has completed the acquisition of OnlyWire.com, a “bookmarklet site” or bookmarking aggregation and syndication platform.
