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Trevor Claiborne / Inside AdWords:
Announcing Google Insights for Search — In June, we updated Google Trends with numbers and the ability to download results to a spreadsheet. We received a lot of great feedback from agencies and advertisers on how they're using the new version; from identifying new growth markets to optimizing their Google AdWords campaigns.
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Search Engine Watch Blog, Profy.Com, The Next Web, WebProNews, Startup Meme and Web Analytics World
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Expands Trend Tracking With “Insights For Search” — Google has just written a blog post introducing “Insights for Search”, an extension to its Google Trends and AdWords products that allows users to track keywords across different verticals, geographic locations, and time periods.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Insights For Search Launches — Google has launched Google Insights for Search, a tool that helps advertisers and marketers understand searcher behavior. The tool offers a comprehensive set of statistics based on search volume and patters. You can compare seasonal trends …
Joe Wilcox / Apple Watch:
Should You Pay Twice as Much for a Mac? — [Editor's Note: This is companion to another post at Microsoft Watch telling a different story from the same NPD data.] — On Saturday, I got to wondering about Mac versus Windows PC pricing after seeing two HP notebooks on sale at the local Target.
chrisbrogan.com:
When Google Owns You — Nick Saber isn't happy now. Monday afternoon, after lunch, Nick came back from lunch to find out that he couldn't get into his Gmail account. Further, he couldn't get into anything that Google made (beside search) where his account credentials once worked.
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Comcast Buys DailyCandy For $125 Million* — As previously reported, Comcast (CMCSA) was indeed interested in buying DailyCandy. But they ended up paying much more than the $75 million we head about earlier this month — the cable company is paying Bob Pittman's Pilot Group Ventures $125 million …
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paidContent.org, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Startup Meme, Webware.com, Screenwerk, Pulse 2.0, AppScout, Gawker, VentureBeat, Beet.TV, Valleywag and DealBook
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Vishesh Kumar / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Sets Deal to Buy Daily Candy — Comcast Corp. has struck a deal to acquire Daily Candy, an email fashion and culture newsletter aimed at women. Comcast is paying $125 million for the property, according to people familiar with the matter. — With 2.5 million readers …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The First $1000 iPhone Application — iPhone developer Armin Heinrich has released an application for the iPhone with two noteworthy characteristics: — 1) Its primary function is to display a handsome glowing red jewel on your iPhone's screen: — 2) It sells on Apple's App Store for $999.99 …
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The Register, The iPhone Blog, The Next Web, Gadget Lab, Gizmodo, MacRumors iPhone Blog and TUAW
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The How-To Geek / Lifehacker:
Debunking Common Windows Performance Tweaking Myths — As a tech writer, one of my biggest pet peeves is the plethora of bad advice littered across almost every web site dedicated to system tweaking. Besides the tweaks that simply don't work, some of them will actually cause your computer to run even slower—or worse.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Google Search Appliance gets bigger, better, stores 10M docs in a box — The Google Search Appliance, which can make all of a company's data accessible through through a simple Google search interface, is getting an upgrade. There are a bunch of improvements being announced …
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InformationWeek, Beyond Search, Search Engine Journal, CNET News.com, TechCrunch, eWeek and Startup Meme
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Which Facebook Applications Really Are the Most Engaging? A Look at MAU & MAU%. — Given that yesterday was the last day that total active installs and daily active users were published for the directory, Inside Facebook has combined that data with Facebook's newly released monthly active user data …
Deborah Gage / San Francisco Chronicle:
Lost laptop found in SFO office — (08-05) 15:37 PDT SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT — A laptop containing personal information on 33,000 travelers enrolled in a fast pass program at San Francisco International Airport turned up Tuesday in the same airport office from which it had been reported missing more than a week ago.
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Technologizer, CNET News.com, VentureBeat, Techdirt, KPIX-TV, Threat Level and Digital Daily
Jay Lyman / 451 CAOS Theory:
LinuxWorld 2008 - nobody cares — There are certain phrases that we tend to hear a lot from vendors — ‘enterprise-class, best of breed, customer choice,’ etc. However, I was repeatedly hearing somewhat surprising phrases as I made the rounds at LinuxWorld this year: 'We don't care, customers don't care, no one cares ..."
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Network World
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Venture capital investing: What's next? — For the past two years, venture capitalists have been betting on social media start-ups with an enthusiasm reminiscent of the dot-com heyday. — Now that the economic downturn has somewhat cooled early stage investing, some venture capitalists …
Om Malik / Business Week:
Standing Out in a Sea of Storage Startups — It isn't easy for online storage companies to break through and cash in. Winners will learn to layer storage with more valuable services — Online storage companies pop up more frequently than mushrooms after a downpour in Southern France.
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