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Biz / Twitter Blog:
The Discovery Engine Is Coming — A few weeks ago we started testing Twitter Search in the web interface for a subset of folks. We had the search box way up near the top of the page and the results on a separate page. It turns out that's not the awesome way to do it.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Palm announces webOS SDK availability, Palm OS emulation for Pre, new cloud services — Well, it's not quite the release date and price you were hoping for, but it's definitely something. Today Palm — via a short keynote at the Web 2. Expo — announced that the company would begin taking names …
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Bonnie Cha / CNET News:
Really? I can't touch the Palm Pre? Really!?! — OK, I know I just got done gushing about the third-party apps on the Palm Pre, and I didn't want to take anything away from that but there's something I need to get off my chest. — Sprint, Palm, what is the deal with not being able to hold and use the Pre with my own two hands?
The Official Palm Blog:
The webOS developer community leaps ahead — Today, Palm expanded the Mojo SDK program for webOS, announcing that a broad group of developers will be provided with the software development kit to create applications for the Palm Pre phone (as well as other future devices running webOS).
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Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:Palm Pre 3rd Party App Video Walkthrough
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Is Office Finally Coming To The iPhone? — I'm here at the Web 2.0 Expo keynote, where Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft Business Division, hinted that we may be seeing Microsoft Office make its way to the iPhone some time soon. After his interviewer Tim O'Reilly caught him on the comment …
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eWeek, TUAW, The Register, CloudAve, MobileContentToday and TechFlash, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google uncloaks once-secret server — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but the company for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet might at a conference here about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency.
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Search Engine Land, Computerworld Blogs, Data Center Knowledge and rc3.org, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Amazon launches Hadoop data crunching service — Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a free software framework, to crunch tons of data. — The service, called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is designed for businesses, researchers and analysts trying …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Complex — “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Hulu begins encrypting HTML content to thwart non-browser apps — It looks like Hulu's trying yet another ill-fated tactic to keep its content restricted to traditional browsers and off things like Boxee — TunerFreeMCE's Martin Millmore says Hulu's HTML is now encrypted at the source and then decrypted using Javascript on the client.
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
SlideShare's April Fool's Prank: Cruel, Or Just Unusual? — April Fool's Day pranks are in full effect around the Web, and so far, most of them have been pretty easy to defuse. But SlideShare - the service that lets you share presentations online - is catching some heat for a prank that a lot …
New York Times:
Light and Cheap, Netbooks Are Poised to Reshape PC Industry — SAN FRANCISCO — Get ready for the next stage in the personal computer revolution: ultrathin and dirt cheap. — AT&T announced on Tuesday that customers in Atlanta could get a type of compact PC called a netbook for just $50 …
Jon Healey / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Gawkk, the online video Twitter? — I'm sure someone has quantified this phenomenon by now, but one of the truisms of user-generated content sites is that most of the work — posting, linking and reviewing — is done by a relatively small percentage of the users.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
No Joke: The Onion Wins One of Journalism's Biggest Awards — It's not layoff news, and it's not an April Fools prank: The Onion has won a Peabody, one of journalism's most highfalutin awards. — The Peabodys, administered out of the University of Georgia, date back to 1941, and honor …
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Senator Stephen Conroy / Sydney Morning Herald:
Conroy rapped for ‘improper’ iiNet gaffe — The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, is under fire for potentially prejudicial comments he made about the legal battle between iiNet and the movie studios, saying iiNet's defence “belongs in a Yes Minister episode”.
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Erik Palm / CNET News:
Net traffic down on first day of Swedish antipiracy law — This post was updated at 2:30 p.m. PDT Wednesday with new information about Internet traffic. — The same day a new antipiracy law went into effect in Sweden, Internet traffic took a dive and five audio book publishers went after an alleged illegal file sharer in court.
Jeff / Venture Chronicles:
Is Twitter Killing RSS? — For media, there are two primary use cases for RSS, promotion of new content and content syndication. The latter is true plumbing that offers low cost, reliability and convenience while the former is a means for promoting new content through RSS client applications …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Stealth Webmail Product Definitely Happening (Internal Memo) — In January we wrote about rumors of MySpace launching a webmail product that would compete head on with Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. At launch it could be as large as some of the biggest players in the space.
AdAge:
Microsoft Looks to JWT to Market New Search Engine — Web Giant Expected to Spend Up to $100 Million in Bid to Win Share From Google, Yahoo — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Can Microsoft market its way out of the search basement? Probably not, but it's going to try, entrusting roster agency JWT …
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Wired.com ‘Gutted’ in Conde Layoffs — More detail on the layoffs at Conde Nast Digital today (which is not an April Fool's joke, okay): Wired.com was reportedly hit hard. Internal turf war? — SAI says that Wired.com was “gutted.” We've heard the same, although exact numbers are hard to come by …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Video: NVIDIA's ION-based netbooks and nettops are go for launch — Things are finally hotting up in NVIDIA's ION camp. An official press release now tells that the first batch of “incredibly small and affordable PCs” (like the Acer Hornet rumored for an April 8th launch) are due in Q2 …
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
Senators agree on patent changes — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Wednesday they had reached agreement on key elements of a bill to revise U.S. patent law. — One of the changes would require judges hearing patent infringement cases to play …
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David Kadouch / The Official Google Blog:
Local flavor for Google Suggest — Since the launch of Google Suggest last August, you may already be used to the magic feeling of getting real-time suggestions just after typing a few keystrokes — that is, if you're searching on Google.com. But what if you're doing a search on Google in the U.K., India, Ireland or Australia?
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Search Engine Land, Google Operating System, paidContent and Pocket-lint.com, Thanks:atul
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Sales of Start-Ups Plummet, Along With Prices — Venture-backed start-ups hoping to go public or get acquired had a tough first quarter, according to data released Wednesday. — So you'd think that with start-up valuations down, corporate acquirers could be jumping on opportunities.
