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The Official Google Blog:
Hard at play in Google Labs with Similar Images and Google News Timeline — At Google, we are constantly researching, designing, and brainstorming about the next big idea, and when we think we've found something compelling, we often use our “20-percent time” to build a working version.
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Andy Hertzfeld / Google News Blog:
Introducing Google News Timeline — At Google, we spend a lot of time thinking about how to organize information. Today, we're announcing Google News Timeline—a new feature on Google Labs that organizes many different types of search results on a zoomable, graphical timeline.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Similar Images First Look — A new 20% time Google project has just launched called Google Similar Images. It's pretty self-explanatory — when you search for an image and find one close to what you're looking for, Google can now find ones that it believes to be the same, or similar.
Matt Mullenweg:
Sun, Oracle, WordPress, and MySQL — It's magically beautiful outside in San Francisco today, but instead everyone is talking about the $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. (More on Techmeme.) A number of people have contacted me with questions to the effect of …
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Victoria Barret / Forbes:
Why Oracle Won't Kill MySQL — Marten Mickos, MySQL's former chief, discusses Oracle's $7.4 billion bid for Sun Microsystems. — It's tempting to speculate that Oracle's bid for Sun Microsystems is a convenient way to kill off open-source database wonder, MySQL.
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
iPhone OS 3.0 to feature voice control and feedback — Various voice-related features, under the codename “Jibbler,” have been discovered in the version of SpringBoard set to ship with the next update to Apple's mobile operating system. — Sources speaking to Ars have discovered evidence …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Interview With Digg's Kevin Rose: The State of The Union — Last week I sat down with Digg founder Kevin Rose to get the Digg “State of the Union.” The company, now more than four years old, has continued to grow incredibly since launching in late 2004 and regularly innovates with new products.
Wall Street Journal:
America's Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire — In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than Americans working as computer programmers, firefighters or even bartenders.
Wall Street Journal:
Computer Spies Breach Fighter-Jet Project — WASHINGTON — Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project — the Defense Department's costliest weapons program ever — according to current and former government officials familiar with the attacks.
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
Should Google pay a tax to media corporations? — Returning from a mostly-offline spring break vacation, I find that the future-of-news debate has been going round in circles. In the most interesting turn of the wheel, Nick Carr weighed in with an elaboration of his argument that Google …
Sunshine / LiveSide:
Web IM In Hotmail — Web IM is coming to Hotmail. It became available to users in France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK last month and starting today it will roll out to Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and the USA. If your country is not in this list yet, don't fret!
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent.org:
Korean Officials Angered By Google's Decision To Bypass Law — Google's decision to bypass a new South Korean law by shutting off comments and video uploads on its YouTube Korea site appears to have seriously irked the Korean government. Korean paper Hankyoreh reports that the Korean government …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
VMware unveils its cloud OS; Wants to be a bridge for the enterprise — VMware on Tuesday will announce its cloud operating system—dubbed vSphere 4—with plans for general availability in the second quarter. — With the effort, VMware is attempting to bridge virtualized data centers …
Twitter Status:
A note about per day following limits — For some time, we've limited the number of accounts that a single person can follow in a day to 1000. A few days ago, we found that this limit was not being consistently applied and we started enforcing it for all users.
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
A Magazine With a Puzzle Buried Inside — A few nights ago Steven Bevacqua, a postproduction supervisor for the television series “Life,” was flipping through the May issue of Wired magazine when he thought he started seeing secret messages. Yes, he'd just come home from a long day at work …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Amazon Wants To Bully Amazee Into Changing Its Name — Online retail juggernaut Amazon isn't too pleased with the name Swiss startup Amazee picked for its social collaboration service, and is now trying to persuade the young company to change it to something else.
eMarketer:
Brand Mentions Preferred over Ads — Young people especially receptive. — Want to get Internet users to visit your Website or follow your brand? — The best way to accomplish those tasks, according to ARAnet, based on polling by Opinion Research Corporation, may not be advertising.
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Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Yahoo's Bartz Picks Balogh to Tear Down ‘Wall of Shame’ of Failed Products — Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz said last month that she created a “wall of shame” for products she isn't happy with. She's counting on her top technology executive to fix them.
Major Nelson / Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Announcing the Xbox 360 Game Of The Year Bundle — Starting in May, keep an eye out for the Xbox 360 Game of the Year bundle. This limited edition bundle will contain an Xbox 360 Elite and a copy of the award winning titles Halo 3 and Fable II for US $ 399. That's the normal Elite Price plus two games at no additional cost.
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
6 Weeks After Redesign, A Look at the Top 10 App Developers on Facebook by Reach — Like last year's profile page redesign, Facebook's recent home page redesign has shaken up the AppData application developer charts. Several developers who saw the change as a disruptive opportunity have moved …
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AppleInsider:
NVIDIA unveils $1800 Quadro FX 4800 card for Apple's Mac Pro — Filling a void for a true professional video card on the Mac platform, NVIDIA on Monday announced plans to begin shipping its Quadro FX 4800 ultra-high-end solution for the Mac Pro next month. — The $1800 card boasts 192 …
Matt Mullenweg:
Blo.gs Lives On — Do you guys remember Blo.gs? In addition to being a cool domain, it's a ping-update service like Ping-O-Matic that was started by Jim Winstead and acquired by Yahoo in June of 2005. — Some exciting news today: Yahoo! is transferring blo.gs to Automattic for safekeeping and further development.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple's Mac Business To Shrink For First Time Since 2003 — With the PC market in the toilet, it's no surprise that Wall Street expects Apple (AAPL) to report lousy March quarter Mac sales growth this Wednesday. (Join us for LIVE coverage and analysis.) But it's still stunning to see how fast the Mac growth engine has stalled.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Scientists Break Brain/Twitter Barrier — University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering doctoral student Adam Wilson has successfully tested a “brain wave monitor” to Twitter publishing interface, allowing him to compose a message merely by thinking and publish it to the arguably too-popular microblogging service.
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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
Time For Google To Fund An Online-Only Version Of The Pulitzers? — The Pulitzer Prizes were announced today — and sincere congrats to the hard-working journalists who've won those highest of prizes. But with no online-only publications winning — in the first year they were eligible to enter …
