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The Official Google Blog:
This is your pilot speaking. Now, about that holding pattern... Imagine if you were trying to fly from New York to San Francisco, but your plane was routed through an airport in Asia. And a bunch of other planes were sent that way too, so your flight was backed up and your journey took much longer than expected.
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Craig Labovitz / Arbor Networks Security:
The Great GoogleLapse — Your web sites go down. Circuits fail. Network engineers goof router configs. And mostly you don't worry about making the nightly news. — But if you happen to be Google and your content constitutes up to 5% of all Internet traffic, people notice.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities
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Jerry Cain / Facebook Developers:
Introducing New Application Directory and App Profile Pages — In the nearly two years since Facebook Platform opened to developers, over 52,000 applications have gone live in the Application Directory. Ensuring that applications are trustworthy, meaningful (whether for entertainment or utility value) …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook to finally launch “Verified Apps” program (and more) — What makes a Facebook application good? The social network is going to try to make that clearer to users in the next few weeks, when it introduces a program it's been talking about since last year, called Verified Apps.
Biz / Twitter Blog:
The Replies Kerfuffle — Twitter evolves and thrives on how folks use it. Some of our best features are invented by users, so listening is extremely valuable. Replies and conversations are awesome and we fully intend to support and encourage their growth.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:Twitter's Spectacularly Awful 24 Hours
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Eiji Hirai / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Product Search for Android now with Barcode Scanning — Since we launched Google Product Search for mobile a few weeks ago, I've been using it to check prices, reviews and product details on my Android phone. In addition to typing in my product searches, I've also had some fun speaking them.
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Exclusive: Steve Jobs' Amazon.com Account Hacked, Hacker Claims — CC-licensed picture by Ben Stanfield. — A hacker claims to have broken into Steve Jobs' private Amazon.com account. — The hacker is trying to sell details of Jobs' Amazon.com account to journalists …
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Exclusive: First Look at the BlackBerry Storm 2!! — BOOM. Here it is CrackBerry Nation, your FIRST look at the BlackBerry Storm TWO. I'm not even sure what to say here... other than a super trusty source sent us in these pictures of RIM's next generation of BlackBerry touchscreen.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June — The dream of owning a keyboard embedded with a full-blown PC running XP on an Atom N270 processor and 5-inch, 800 x 480 pixel touchscreen display/trackpad is nearly upon us. A dream, quite honestly, nobody had prior to seeing the reveal …
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple, AT&T sued over ties to Shazam music ID service — Apple, AT&T and several others have been named in a new patent infringement lawsuit, presumably for their connection to Shazam, a maker of music identification software distributed under the same name for the iPhone and several other mobile devices.
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Apple OS X Update Gives Battery Boost to Hackintoshes — Here's a rather odd little tidbit regarding Apple's latest update to OS X. While it doesn't bring many new features to the Mac, consisting as it does of mostly bug-fixes, OS X 10.5.7 apparently gives a significant boost to battery-life on hackintoshes.
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GigaOM, MacRumors, The iPhone Blog, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, Liliputing, TheAppleBlog, Crave and GottaBeMobile.com
John Koblin / New York Observer:
Twitter Culture Wars at The Times: ‘We Need a Zone of Trust,’ Bill Keller Tells Staff — On Monday, The New York Times Web chiefs held a meeting about the future of nytimes.com. They discussed several proposals being considered for the future of paid content on the Web. It was an internal meeting.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
MLB.com Gets Geolocation Patent — Another achievement for Major League Baseball's incredibly successful Internet arm: The company has been awarded a patent for a system that verifies access to a service based on a subscriber's location. — MLB Advanced Media uses this system to determine whether …
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Inside Google's Plans To Save The New York Times — Google took a look and decided it didn't want to buy the New York Times Company (NYT). But that doesn't mean it isn't trying to help the newspaper and others like it. — We hear Google (GOOG) continues to hold talks …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Makes A Twitter Clone...In Portuguese — We've heard that Yahoo may be unveiling a Twitter clone called Yahoo Meme. According to our tipster David Ruiz's blog (it's in Portuguese, here's the translated version), Yahoo is inviting users to test out the alpha version of a competitor to Twitter.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
How The Kindle Now Lets You Steal This Blog — Amazon's new blog publishing program has a major flaw: it lets anyone steal other people's blogs and charge readers for them. — Yesterday, Amazon opened up the ability to publish a blog on the Kindle to anyone who sets up an account.
Google Code Blog:
Google OpenID API - taking the next steps — Six months ago, we announced our first step in supporting single sign-on using OpenID. Well, we wanted to share with you what we have been working on since. As a strong supporter of open standards such as OpenID, Google's top priority in this area …
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Sharon Pian Chan / Seattle Times:
K&L Gates loses preferred status as Microsoft law firm — The law firm K&L Gates, named for Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' father, has been dropped as one of Microsoft's preferred legal providers... The law firm K&L Gates, named for Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' father …
David Liu / Team Fusion:
A Message to VMware Fusion Users with Macs that have ATI Graphics Cards about Apple's Mac OS X Update 10.5.7 — Apple released the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update yesterday, and I know many of you are eager to try it out. However, if your Mac has an ATI graphics card (MacPro or iMac) …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
More Tim Armstrong Fallout: Departures at Google, AOL — More ripple effects from Tim Armstrong's departure from Google to run AOL for Time Warner (TWX): Tom Phillips, Google's director of search and analytics, is out. — No word on whether he has a new job lined up, but it wouldn't be a huge shock to see him land at AOL.
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Windows Mobile 6.5: the UI was rushed, more on widgets — A TechEd 2009 video gives more information on widgets, talks about how the UI in Windows Mobile 6.5 was rushed, and that Silverlight won't be coming till a later version. — TechEd 2009 already gave us details on Windows 7 …
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Google Lifts Ban on Trademark Terms for Search Ads — Move Could Increase Keyword Costs for Blue-Chip Brands — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Get ready for an influx of brand names in Google keyword ads. The search giant, which until now has prohibited the use of trademarked brand terms …
Tameka Kee / paidContent.org:
@ EconSM: How Twitter Plans To Make Money From Search, Carriers and Content — We've gotten hints about Twitter's business model from its founders, its backers and random speculators—but Kevin Thau, Twitter's director of mobile business development, gave EconSM attendees a more tangible picture …
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
HP recalls 70,000 notebook batteries because of fire hazard — The lithium-ion batteries in about 70,000 HP and Compaq notebook computers are being recalled because they pose a fire hazard. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said today in a statement that there are two reported incidents …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
April Video Winners: Hulu, of Course. And... MTV? — Here's an online video story you haven't seen before: Viacom's MTV sites had a really good month last month. — This news comes from Nielsen Online, which just released its video traffic numbers for April. The top line is more or less unchanged.
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Who Has the Most Web Servers? — There was a milestone buried deep within the earnings tables in this week's first quarter results from Rackspace: the San Antonio company has become one of a select number of companies that have more than 50,000 servers. Rackspace reports that as of March 30 …
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Google's Rich Snippets and the Semantic Web — There's a long-time debate between those who advocate for semantic markup, and those who believe that machine learning will eventually get us to the holy grail of a Semantic Web, one in which computer programs actually understand the meaning of what they see and read.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Video games slide down the recession slope as April sales fall 17 percent — Hurt by the recession and a tough comparison to a year ago, video game sales fell 17 percent in April compared to a year ago. — That means game sales have fallen for the second month in a row, with sales in March also falling 17 percent.
