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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.
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.
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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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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:Yahoo shareholders meeting a case of deja vu?
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Silicon Alley Insider, The Icahn Report, Bits, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, BoomTown and GMSV
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 …
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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.
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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Business Wire:
Monster Worldwide Reports Second Quarter and Six Months 2008 Results — Revenue Increases 9% to $354 Million; Operating Efficiencies Drive Year Over Year Non-GAAP Operating Margin Expansion to 22.1% — Diluted Earnings Per Share From Continuing Operations of $0.15, Impacted by $47 million of Pro Forma Expenses
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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 …
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:Forrester Buys JupiterResearch For $23 Million
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Tech Trader Daily, Business Wire, CNET News.com, 901am, Between the Lines and Tech Confidential
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google To Launch Venture Fund — The WSJ is reporting that Google is set to launch a venture fund to give it the option of investing in startups instead of just flat out buying them. The fund will be led by Google's SVP Corporate Development David Drummond and Bill Maris …
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:Google to Extend Reach With Venture-Capital Arm
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Ars Technica, Go West, BetaNews, GMSV, A VC, 901am, GigaOM, VC Ratings, VentureBeat, Pulse 2.0, MediaFile, BloggingStocks and John Cook's Venture Blog
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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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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Webware.com, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch UK, Guardian, Mashable!, Ogle Earth and paidContent
Martin Heller / Strategic Developer:
Open source ECM Alfresco now emulates SharePoint — I had a long talk the other afternoon with John Newton (that's his picture at the left), CTO and Chairman of Alfresco. John previously co-founded Documentum. — If the name Alfresco rings a bell but you can't place it …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Seeds 2nd Beta of iPhone 2.1 Firmware to Developers — Just a week after the first iPhone 2.1 beta seed, Apple has released another 2.1 firmware release to developers. The new version appears to include several bug fixes. … Apple has not announced a timeframe for the 2.1 release …
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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.
The Smoking Gun:
Google: “Complete Privacy Does Not Exist” — Defending “Street View” lawsuit, firm says trespasses to be expected — Arguing that technology has ensured that “complete privacy does not exist,” Google contends that a Pennsylvania family has no legal grounds to sue the search giant …
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Ars Technica, The Digital Home, p2pnet, The Register, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Gizmodo, Search Engine Land, Beyond Search, broadstuff and WebProNews
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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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 …
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.
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
Intel to provide Facebook with hardware, Jedi secrets — Recent rumors of Intel employees signing up for Facebook accounts en masse might not have been totally unfounded: Facebook has chosen to use Intel's Xeon 5400 processor-based servers to deal with its hardware and software demands.
