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Don Reisinger / Ars Technica:
Opinion: How Apple can gain significant OS market share — Time for a change — Apple's unprecedented success over the past few years has propelled the company from its place as just another tech company to the most respected brand in the entire industry.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Microsoft to launch “Skymarket” applications marketplace for Windows Mobile 7 — If one of the most compelling features of the iPhone are the third-party applications then it's a sad fact for Microsoft since Windows Mobile has supported third-party applications since the last ice age.
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Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
Microsoft readying apps store for Windows Mobile? — It looks as though Microsoft is joining Apple and Google in the mobile “apps store” market. — It appears the software giant expects to launch an applications store called “Skymarket” this fall for its Windows Mobile platform, if a recent job posting is accurate.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Update On The TechCrunch Tablet: Prototype A — Update on the TechCrunch Tablet: A humble (and messy) beginning. Prototype A has been built. It's in a temporary aluminum case that a local sheet metal shop put together for us that's at least twice as thick as it needs to be, but the hardware has been defined and is nearing lockdown.
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
A New Battle Is Beginning in Branding for the Web — To marketers large and small, the Web is a wide open frontier, an unlimited billboard with boundless branding opportunities. — For the empirical proof, look at the filings with the government for new trademarks that, put simply, are brand names.
Fred / A VC:
Web Services That Cater To Both The Publisher And The Reader — I've been noticing a trend lately that certain web services are starting to cater to both the publisher and the reader. And I think this is an important direction for a host of reasons. — You have to build a service …
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Live Feed Kills Twitter & FriendFeed — Yes, I love calling Facebook the Twitter and FriendFeed killer but I seriously think they may have one-upped the competition on their latest release: the Live Feed. You can sit and watch in real-time what is taking place with your friends across their profiles in an unfiltered manner.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Video of New Facebook for iPhone 2.0 — I'm not quite sure that Facebook is going to approve of this but I decided to post it anyways. Browsing through my news feed this weekend I stumbled across the following video which was created by Joe Hewitt at Facebook. I couldn't resist embedding it below.
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Kim S. Nash / PC World:
A Peek inside Facebook — Started in a dorm room four years ago, the social networking site Facebook now claims to be the fourth most-trafficked site in the world. Ninety million active users pound on 10,000 servers every day, uploading millions and millions of pieces of information in a given month.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Net Neutrality Debate All On One Page — Are you confused about Net Neutrality? Who isn't? Some people argue it is necessary for continued innovation on the Internet, and point to Comcast's bandwidth metering as a sign of things to come. Others claim that it is unnecessary regulation …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone Web share hits record 0.48% — The iPhone's growing presence on the Web, having leveled off before the introduction of the iPhone 3G, surged in the month and a half since, according to preliminary data released today by Net Applications, an Aliso Viejo, CA-based Web service company.
Google Watch:
Ciao = Microsoft Playing Monopoly Defense vs. Google — I've now read one dozen reports about Microsoft buying Greenfield Online, which owns a Web research business based in my home state of Connecticut as well as European comparison shopping site Ciao. — My favorite analysis …
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Serkan Toto / TechCrunch:
Google's Strategy In Japan: Avoid Yahoo And Take Over The Mobile Web First — Google may be the leader in the worldwide search engine market, but in Nippon, it has some catching up to do: In 2007, Yahoo Japan saw a whopping 76% of the nearly 350 billion search engine and portal-related pageviews registered …
