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YouTube Blog:
YouTube and Omnisio Join Forces — As you probably guessed, we're big fans of anything that lets people interact with online video and gives the YouTube community the chance to express themselves in creative ways. New features such as Video Annotations, which allow you to insert comments …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires Omnisio To Spice Up YouTube — Google has acquired Atherton, CA based startup Omnisio, the companies are announcing this afternoon. Omnisio, which is a Y Combinator company, first demo'd to us in early March 2008, and it launched later that month.
Live Search:
New home page helps you explore more on the Web — Today we're releasing an update to the Live Search home page that received positive feedback from customers in trials last month. The new design features background images that will change frequently, augmented with what we call “hotspots.”
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft launches new search home page; refreshes Live Mesh preview
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Technologizer
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Google to Extend Reach With Venture-Capital Arm — Ex-Entrepreneur Hired To Assist in Setup; Brand-Name Advantage — Google Inc. is working on plans to start a venture-capital arm, according to several people briefed on the discussions. — The group will be lead by David Drummond …
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Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
Report: Google developing VC arm — Google is revisiting efforts to create a venture capital arm, according to a report on The Wall Street Journal's Web site Wednesday night. — Google senior VP David Drummond is expected to lead the effort, according to people who were briefed on the discussions.
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Clickety Clack
Amit Chowdhry / Pulse 2.0:
Scrabulous Relaunches Under A New Facebook App Name Called Wordscraper — Pulse 2.0 commenter, Adam Rinkleff pointed out that Scrabulous has relaunched into a new game called Wordscraper. This news comes one day after the blogosphere reported that Scrabulous, an application created …
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Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Scrabble vs. Scrabulous: A lesson in copyright law — Wednesday's demise of the Scrabulous application on Facebook led some of our readers to question the legal claim Hasbro has on Scrabble, the official game. The toy company last week filed a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit …
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple warns resellers of Mac and iPod drought, says load up now — With the first phase of the iPhone 3G launch in the rear view, Apple Inc. is now shifting much of its focus towards product refreshes targeting its two other revenue drivers and is advising resellers to be prepared for product shortages in the interim.
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One More Thing, CrunchGear, iLounge, Digital Daily, iPhone Atlas, Byte of the Apple, Infinite Loop, SlashGear, TUAW, The Tech Report, Gadget Lab, Engadget, PC World, Gizmodo and Macsimum News
Pete Kazanjy / Team Fusion:
Safer, Stronger, and More Seamless: VMware Fusion 2 Beta 2 Now Available — The VMware Fusion team is proud to announce VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 2. — This latest public beta, a free download, builds on VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1, adding the Unity 2.0 suite of Mac-Windows integration features …
Doc Searls Weblog:
Why newspapers shouldn't die — Dan Gillmor: … Those aren't just opportunities. They're advantages that papers still have. Even if they're not using them.
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Dan Gillmor / Center for Citizen Media:Journalists and Communities: What I Told AJR
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Smalltalk Tidbits …
Rachel Garb / The Official Google Blog:
More transparency in customized search results — As we continue to refine our search algorithms to deliver more relevant results, we strive to be as open as possible about how we use data to improve your search experience. Today, we're rolling out a new feature in Google Web Search …
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Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land, WebProNews, CNET News.com and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Cuil: Why I'm trying to get off of the PR bandwagon... Sarah Lacy, tech journalist for Business Week, has a post that demonstrates well why I am really trying to get off of the PR bandwagon. — See, on Sunday night a ton of blog posts all went up. Most of which were pretty congratulatory …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Google testing “AdSense for Games” in bid to shake up in-game advertising — Google is the sleeping giant when it comes to advertising in video games. While the company dominates search advertising, it has yet to make a big splash in video games. That could change soon …
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Geek Gestalt, TECH.BLORGE.com, The Tech Report, TechSpot, Destructoid and [H] Enthusiast
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Does your house need a tail? Sizing up customer-owned fiber — The really long tail — Last month, construction was completed on a pilot project that ran fiber optic cables to 400 homes in Ottawa. Stringing fiber optic cables isn't a big deal by itself—Verizon has been running fiber …
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Technology Liberation Front
Wall Street Journal:
Newspapers Think Locally for Online Ads — Sales Efforts Increase, But ‘Smaller Dollars’ Prove Hard to Chase — In an effort to make up for their plunging print-ad revenues, newspaper companies have been scrambling to train their sales teams in the intricacies of selling online ads to local marketers.
Gabor / Gabor's Blog:
Five Open Questions in Email — The email space is heating up after a long cool-off: The modern email desktop application was invented 15 years ago, and webmail is now 12 years old. With few exceptions, little about how users interact with email has changed since then.
