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Stephen Hood / delicious blog:
Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here — Over the past few days we've been transitioning Delicious over to our new platform, quietly starting with RSS feeds and APIs. Today we're taking the final step and flipping the switch on the new web site: delicious.com.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Delicious 2.0 Launches. Really. It Totally Launched. — YAY! The long awaited, much promised, never delivered Delicious 2.0 will launch in the next few minutes, just like they promised again last week. — The new Delicious is just like the old Delicious, except for the way it looks.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Delicious 2.0: Who bookmarks any more? — When I saw the news about the launch of Delicious 2.0, I can't say I felt a huge wave of joy, despite the fact that I am what most people would probably consider a hard-core Delicious user, with about 10,000 webpages saved since I started using it.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Delicious Finally Launches Version 2.0: Easier, Prettier, Faster — The popular social bookmarking service Del.icio.us launched a complete redesign of its service today. Ever since it was bought by Yahoo in 2005, the company added very few new features and the redesign had been rumored to be in the works for almost a year now.
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:Yahoo gives Delicious more speed, fewer punctuation marks
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Carl Icahn / The Icahn Report:
Concerning the Annual Yahoo! Meeting — I will not be attending. The proxy fight is over and it will not do shareholders or Yahoo! any good to have the annual meeting turn into a media event for no purpose. Last week, I realized it was impossible to gain enough support from the large institutions …
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
YouTube Has Speech-to-Text Functionality.....and it Works — YouTube has introduced rich metadata into select videos, which will significantly impact how online video is discovered and consumed. — Announced in June, we have found the technology is very useful.
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Provides iPhone Developers with Daily Download Stats — Apple is now offering registered iPhone developers with daily download statistics on how well their applications are doing in the App Store. — Before today, most developers had been left in the dark about their applications performance …
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Brian Solis / TechCrunch:
SEC To Recognize Corporate Blogs as Public Disclosure. Can We Now Kill the Press Release? — For several years, Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz has lobbied the SEC to allow disclosure of financial information through corporate blogs. In a landmark announcement, it seems that Mr. Schwartz …
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Launches News Feed Filters - First Look — It's been nearly two years since Facebook's News Feed launched. Tonight, Facebook is turning on the first major change to the News Feed user experience: News Feed filters. — News Feed filters are tabs at the top of the News Feed that allow you to view stories of only one type.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:Facebook Furthers Attack on FriendFeed, Adds Comments to News Feed
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Can New Media Be Taught in Schools? — Tests on Twitter, wiki-style study groups, students quizzed on yesterday's most popular YouTube videos and the biggest hits on Del.icio.us/Popular - is this what the future of education is going to look like? — In some journalism schools around the US, it just might be.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Open Source and Cloud Computing — I've been worried for some years that the open source movement might fall prey to the problem that Kim Stanley Robinson so incisively captured in Green Mars: “History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.”
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Business Wire:
Monster Adds Next Generation Intelligent Search Technology with Acquisition of Trovix, Inc. — Acquisition will enable Monster to Provide Unrivaled Search and Match Capabilities — Company also announces acquisition of Armees.com; Alliances with Cornerstone OnDemand and HireRight
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BBC:
Google Street View gets go ahead — Google's controversial Street View photo-mapping tool has been given the all clear by the UK's privacy watchdog. — The system takes pictures of streets and adds them to online maps to let people see what locations look like.
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Adam C. Engst / TidBITS:
Five iTunes 7.7.1 Bug Fixes Detailed — Apple has released iTunes 7.7.1 with the criminally terse release notes saying that it “fixes to improve stability and performance.” As a result, it's nearly impossible to figure out what has changed, although some trawling through Apple's discussion forums yielded actual information.
DigiTimes:
Asustek preps launch of Ultimate and Pro Fashion Eee PCs; prices to hit US$700 or more — Asustek Computer plans to launch more Eee PCs designed to address different market segments, according to company president Jerry Shen. — Shen said he anticipates the netbook and Mobile Internet Device …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Band Leaks Track to BitTorrent, Blames Pirates — When we reported about the leak of a BuckCherry track last week, and specifically the band's response to it, we hinted that this could be a covert form of self-promotion. Indeed, after a few days of research we found out that the track …
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David Schatsky / JupiterResearch:
Forrester Buys Jupiter — It was announced today that Forrester Research has bought JupiterResearch from MCG Capital for $23 million in cash. Forrester plans to integrate Jupiter's staff into its Marketing & Strategy division. The goal is to create a dominant marketing & strategy research organization …
Wade / Voltage Blog:
I'll Give You $50 for a Worse Brand Name Than Knol — Knol is Google's newest assault on the rest of the internet. (They're convinced they own it.) I'm sure it will do well, because it's a Google property, but... K-N-O-L is their brand name? I couldn't think of a worse name if I tried.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Yo FCC! Are You Doing Anything About Metered Broadband? — In an effort to burnish his public image, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has taken up a populist and politically lucrative crusade against the evil cable company Comcast and its nefarious efforts to block certain kinds of traffic.
SEO Book.htm:
Google Beta Testing Showing Related Phrases Near Documents in Search Results — While using Opera I noticed the following Google test which places related phrases near some documents in the search results — When I entered our above link building page into the Google AdWords Keyword Tool …
