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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
A Sneak Peek Look at Microsoft's New Kumo: A Spidery Cloud? A Cloudy Spider? — Here below are three screenshots of Microsoft's internal test of a new search product called Kumo. — The long-expected upgrade to the Live Search product from Microsoft (MSFT) is being tested for a public rollout later this year.
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Between the Lines, Beyond Binary, All about Microsoft, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, ecpm blog and LiveSide
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Kumo: Doomed — Kara Swisher's Microsoft spies have been good enough to send her the Kumo search memo from Satya Nadella. Satya asks his comrades to help test Microsoft's new search service, codenamed Kumo (screenshots here). — Kara has the full, uninterrupted memo here.
Thanks:mrinaldesai
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:Microsoft to start testing ‘Kumo’ search service
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LiveSide, TechFlash, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, paidContent.org, Bits, Neowin.net, The Register and PC World
Arn / MacRumors:
Last Minute Specs: iMac, Mac Minis, Airport Extreme, Time Capsule and Mac Pros? — There's only a few hours left before Apple's rumored announcement of new iMacs and Mac minis but a list of parts/specs posted to our forum indicate that Apple may be pushing out a number of additional updates …
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AppleInsider:
Apple ready with new Time Capsules, AirPort Extremes — Apple is poised to introduce new versions of its Time Capsule wireless backup appliance and AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless routers, regulatory filings with the Federal Communications Commission reveal.
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Gearlog, Engadget, Electronista, The iPhone Blog, Gizmodo, World of Apple, MacBlogz, CrunchGear, 9 to 5 Mac and digg.com
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Apple Store is down worldwide, new iMac, Mac mini, and Mac Pro inbound? — Yes, it's that most exciting time of the week for all the Mac fanboys and fangirls, when the Apple Store goes down and nobody knows why. Okay, so we're pretty sure we know why, but that doesn't mean …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flock Ditching Firefox, Moving To Google Chrome — Flock, a social-focused browser startup that has raised nearly $30 million in venture funding, has ceased building on top of the open source Firefox browser, say multiple sources. The next version of the Flock browser will be built on Google's open source Chrome browser platform.
Miguel Helft / Bits:
White House Denies Shunning YouTube — The blogosphere was abuzz on Monday over reports that the White House's official Web site had stopped putting YouTube videos on its pages after privacy advocates raised concerns about the practice. — Now the White House is denying that it has changed …
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ZDNet Government, The Register, Mashable!, Google Public Policy Blog, paidContent.org, Electronic Frontier Foundation, GMSV, Between the Lines, the Econsultancy blog, NewTeeVee, Technology News, timesonline.typepad.com, VatorNews, Slashdot, Industry Standard, Digital Daily and Technologizer
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Video: Jon Stewart explains Twitter (or tries to) — Earlier, we posted about Twitter chief executive Evan Williams explaining Twitter to Charlie Rose. Tonight brings perhaps a better Twitter video explanation, compliments of comedian Jon Stewart. — In his Daily Show segment …
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Kakul Srivastava / Yodel Anecdotal:
More videos for everyone! — Last year, we introduced video to the Flickr community, allowing Pro members to upload 90-second video clips or, “long photos” as we (and others) like to say. Since then, our Pro community has helped define what video on Flickr looks like.
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paidContent.org, Gizmodo, Neowin.net, RotorBlog.com, ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Journal, Download Squad, NewTeeVee, VentureBeat and Lifehacker
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The Tragic Last Days of Circuit City — Liquidation: It's an ugly word for the ugly process of shutting down a retailer by selling off stuff little by little until there's nothing left that anyone's going to buy at any price. And my most recent visit to my local branch of the soon …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Arrington Back At TechCrunch (For Good?) — TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is back after a month off in Hawaii. Will he stick around for good? — In his post — “Back I Am” — Arrington doesn't specify if he's returning to work full-time or if he's going to take on something new.
Elad Blog:
Twitter is to Facebook as Google was to Yahoo! — My friend David King, (former Googler, founder and CEO of Lil Green Patch (# 1 social game on FB) and one of the smartest people I know) came up with an analogy I thought was really interesting to explore. His basic premise:
Thanks:atul
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook and Oodle Launch New Classifieds Product Today — Today, Facebook and Oodle will announce the launch of the new classified product which will replace the old Marketplace application. In contrast to the previous iteration of the application, all classified listings can be posted for free.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Adobe and Time Warner Partner; HBO Flash Site On the Way — Adobe and Time Warner are announcing Tuesday they have formed an online video alliance. It's unclear exactly what that means, but the two companies say they'll work on finding solutions for issues like digital rights management …
Hindustan Times:
Why Obama can't stop outsourcing — The Indian information technology industry has reacted with a mix of hope and caution after President Barack Obama said last week that he will not allow US companies that send jobs away to enjoy his tax breaks. — Obama is presumably talking …
Thanks:sameerpatel
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Down‚ But Not Out — At the moment there is no estimate for when the site will return. The problem can't be fixed remotely we were told. However, people are on their way to the ‘secret’ location where the Pirate Bay hardware is located to find out what the problem is.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Forrester is Wrong About Paying Bloggers — Analyst firm Forrester published a report this morning telling corporations that it's a good idea to engage bloggers in “sponsored conversations,” or the exchange of goods or credit in exchange for blog coverage. The report, titled …
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Matt Cutts, the Econsultancy blog, Logic+Emotion, B.L. Ochman's blog, The Noisy Channel, chrisbrogan.com, BetaNews and Web Strategy, Thanks:atul
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Tap Tap Revenge 2 Has Landed — The sequel to Tap Tap Revenge, the iPhone's most popular game ever, is hitting the App Store tonight. The original version(iTunes link) of the game has been downloaded over six million times and spawned a number of spinoffs featuring licensed music from Weezer and Nine Inch Nails.
Reid Hoffman / Washington Post:
Let Our Start-Ups Bail Us Out — President Obama noted last week that “we have lived through an era where, too often, short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity.” As the $787 billion stimulus is sorted out, we should consider not only what's there but also what's missing.
Thanks:atul
Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Carly Fiorina has surgery for breast cancer — (03-02) 23:01 PST San Francisco — Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, a Republican who has been widely expected to explore a U.S. Senate run against Sen. Barbara Boxer, was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent surgery at Stanford Hospital on Monday, her chief of staff said.
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
RCTiger.com: Real-time web-based tank warfare — We received an email today telling us about RCTiger.com, a German website that lets you move little remote control tanks around a simulated battlefield. While I was quite skeptical at first, once I started the game I was taken aback at the fun …
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Index Closes a New 350M. Euro Venture Fund — London-based investing hotshot Index Ventures has just announced a new early-stage 350 million Euro venture fund. To hear partner Bernard Dalle tell it, raising the fund was a breeze, with all existing limited partners re-upping their investments.
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Report: iPhone takes 2/3 of mobile Web in February — The latest browser share numbers suggest that the iPhone OS still dominates mobile Web browsing, though it appears as if Apple gave up some ground in the post-holiday months to competition from Google and even Nokia.
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InformationWeek, jkOnTheRun, Electronista, AppScout, The iPhone Blog, The Equity Kicker and iLounge
Mark / MT Hacks:
Realtime Twitter Search Results on Google — During the past few weeks, there has been a lot of discussion about whether Twitter's “real time search” could pose a threat to Google. — While I am not sure if Twitter poses a threat to Google, I think it is clear that real-time search is increasingly important.
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Twitterrati, The Equity Kicker, The Mind of Alex, Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb, Obsessable, Search Engine Land and Gawker
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Government Keeping Its .Gov Domain Names Secret — Despite a presidential promise of openness in government, GSA officials decline to release the full list for fear of cyberattack. — President Obama in January promised “an unprecedented level of openness in government.” But the government has yet to get the memo.
