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We've been Googled! — Disclaimer: The contents in this post may pertain to the author's personal interests. — They say “All good things come in threes” - well, the year 2008 was the living proof of that phrase for me. Firstly, Sara and I had our first baby son, Issac, who is our biggest blessing.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Google buys Korean blogging software platform TNC, one of first purchases in Asia — Google has reportedly acquired its first Korean company, a blogging software in Korea called TNC (Tatter and Company), for an undisclosed amount of money. — The founder Chang Kim blogged about the purchase tonight.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Yahoo gives a taste of its ‘open’ overhaul — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Yahoo showed its vision for what its Yahoo Open Strategy makes possible, demonstrating how it hopes to engage users more by enabling its existing sites to grow beyond their current confines. — Ash Patel, head …
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Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, take two: Bill's mother ship over Seattle — Now we know what they're up to. — The second Bill Gates-Seinfeld ad that's debuting tonight during “Big Brother” on CBS is a million times better than the freaky churro spot that kicked off the $300 million Windows campaign last week.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soon
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
IPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do — Your iPhone is watching you. — If you've got an iPhone, pretty much everything you have done on your handset has been temporarily stored as a screenshot that hackers or forensics experts could eventually recover, according to a renowned iPhone hacker …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Video: Interview With Skype CEO — Where is Skype for the iPhone? — Do You Want Skype on Your iPhone? — Oh god yes... I can't wait. — Not Really. — In this era of flat rate plans from mobile companies, does anyone need Skype? — That's exactly the question …
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PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-G1: WORLD'S SMALLEST AND LIGHTEST DIGITAL INTERCHANGEABLE LENS CAMERA* — World's First Micro Four Thirds System Camera Features Portability, Ease-of-Use and Colorful Blue and Red Models For Personalized Style and Active Lifestyles — Panasonic today announced the world's …
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Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1: Smallest Micro Four Thirds camera yet — Is the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 an SLR or a point-and-shoot? The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, as it often is. — It's actually Panasonic's first Micro Four Thirds camera. (Four Thirds cameras let manufacturers create interoperable exchangeable lenses.)
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Cuil's VP Product Bails Out A Month After Launch — Louis Monier, Cuil's VP Product, quietly resigned from the newly launched search engine last week, we've heard from a reliable source. — This is a big blow to the troubled search engine - Monier was recruited away from Google a year ago …
Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
Zune's Recommendations Make Genius Look Average — Microsoft showed us a sneak preview of the Zune 3.0 software it plans to release on Sept. 16 with the latest generation of Zune devices, and what we saw made iTunes' simple Genius feature look like a blast from digital music's past.
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
iPod 2.1 offers promise for Friday's ‘big’ iPhone software update — Apple on Friday will unleash iPhone Software v2.1, a major bug fix release for all iPhone owners that will include a number of other improvements that iPod touch users are discovering as part of yesterday's similarly number iPod touch update.
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld / Between the Lines:
100Mbps. 2010. Over The Air. Don't Be Surprised. — What if WiFi could square off or even beat WiMax or other approaches to broadband access to the Internet, over the air? — If you listen to comments from Tom Rutledge, the chief operating officer of Cablevision Systems Corp. …
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Mary Schlangenstein / Bloomberg:
American Air Attendants Urge Filters to Bar Web Porn — Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) — American Airlines flight attendants are urging the world's largest carrier to filter its in-flight Internet service to block access to pornography and other Web sites the workers said were inappropriate.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Greatly Exaggerated — At Tuesday's annual iPod/iTunes special event, Steve Jobs both (a) served in his usual role as showman, and (b) appears to be just as thin as he was at WWDC in June, when his appearance sparked rumors that he was seriously ill. Like it or not, his appearance and health remains a big story in the major media.
Stephen Baker / Blogspotting:
We're doing Yammer: A workplace Twitter — When we saw that Yammer, a messaging service for the enterprise, won the TechCrunch 50 award, we had to try it out here at BusinessWeek. Heather and I both signed up, and in no time were exchanging the most ridiculous messages at lightning speed.
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mozilla adds privacy mode to Firefox 3.1 plans — Pressured by rivals, Mozilla hopes once-yanked privacy tools ship with 3.1 beta — Computerworld) Mozilla Corp. will respond to rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. with a private-browsing mode in Firefox, according to notes posted on its Web site …
