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Lars Rasmussen / The Official Google Blog:
Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave. — Back in early 2004, Google took an interest in a tiny mapping startup called Where 2 Tech, founded by my brother Jens and me. We were excited to join Google and help create what would become Google Maps. But we also started thinking about what might come next for us after maps.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web. — Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google's VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, laid out a grand vision for the direction Google sees the web heading towards with the move to the HTML 5 standard.
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Fast Company, The Technology Chronicles, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Engadget, Between the Lines, VentureBeat, 901am, Bits, Communications …, Webware.com, Lifehacker, I4U News and Maximum PC all, Thanks:dwr
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today? — Yesterday's Google I/O keynote highlighted the power of HTML 5 to match functionality long experienced in desktop applications. This morning, Google plans to announce an HTML 5-based application - still very much in the early stages …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Exclusive: Video Interview With The Google Wave Founders
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Between the Lines, TechNation Australia, Sexy Widget, Android Phone Fans and VentureBeat, Thanks:atul
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Bing! Microsoft Prepares For War With A Revamped Search Engine (Screenshots) — Today, Microsoft publicly unveiled its soon-to-launch search engine Bing. It will become available over the next few days, and be fully launched by June 3. On the surface, Bing has a distinct gloss.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft's Bing Vs Google: Head To Head Search Results — Let's just get it out of the way: no, Bing is not a “Google Killer.” It's also safe to say that Microsoft doesn't see it that way either. My understanding of what Microsoft believes it has in Bing is a much more competitive product than Live Search.
John Paczkowski / D7 Highlights:
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Bing! — “Search and advertising, we are a small share....It's all about Google. They have share, we don't have share.” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that back in February, and according to the latest metrics from comScore (SCOR), it's as true today as it was then.
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Live Search, PC World, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, blogs.chron.com, Neowin.net, The Open Road, CNET News, the Econsultancy blog and StepForth Web Marketing Inc.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Meet Bing, Microsoft's New Search Engine — The speculation is over. Microsoft's search engine officially has a new name, Bing. The name, along with some new features, opens the latest chapter in Microsoft's quest to best Google in the search engine wars.
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Agence France Presse, TechCrunch, eWeek, paidContent.org, dot.life, The Register, Tech Beat, Joe Wilcox and Guardian
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Hulu Launches Desktop App, Forbids Use on Anything Other than PCs — After beating competitors like Joost by choosing to go to the web rather than the desktop, and shutting out third-party apps that enable its videos on desktops or other devices like MyMediaPlayer and Boxee …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:Hulu Desktop Lets You Rot Your Brain From The Comfort Of Your Couch
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Techgeist, D7 Highlights, CNET News, BetaNews, Gizmodo, PC World, Silicon Alley Insider, TUAW, Lifehacker, Maximum PC all, bub.blicio.us, All Facebook and TheFeed, Thanks:atul
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Zune HD Hands On: Photos and Video Tour — Having just played with a prototype for a few minutes, I'm really impressed with the Zune HD. I've got a video, too, showing off how well the animations work. — The device is tighter and more physically beautiful than the iPod Touch and it's got a better UI …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Exclusive: Steve Ballmer demos the Zune HD for Engadget! — That's right kids — Ballmer himself whipped out the newly minted Zune HD for us during D7 and showed of a few of its finer features... including its ability to play a Pixar movie on its gorgeous OLED screen.
John Paczkowski / D7 Highlights:
Rubinstein and McNamee: Remaking Palm — What a wonderful curative the Palm Pre has proven to be for Palm. Especially for a device that's not yet shipped. In early January of this year, the company's shares were trading below $3, having been dragged deep into the mud by a string of nasty quarterly losses.
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Reuters:
Verizon to sell Palm Pre, new BlackBerry Storm — *Verizon to sell Palm Pre, new BlackBerry storm — *Palm shares rise 11 pct, Sprint shares fall 3 pct — Verizon Wireless plans to start selling Palm Inc's (PALM.O) Pre and a new version of the touchscreen BlackBerry Storm in about six months …
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James Warren / Atlantic Correspondents:
Shhhh. Newspaper Publishers Are Quietly Holding a Very, Very Important Conclave Today. Will You Soon Be Paying for Online Content? — Here's a story the newspaper industry's upper echelon apparently kept from its anxious newsrooms: A discreet Thursday meeting in Chicago about their future.
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, Doc Searls Weblog, paidContent.org, Archive and Gawker
Cade Metz / The Register:
Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology — Wikioperating Thetan Level Zero — Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer - 30-day free trial — Exclusive In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned …
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Seth Weintraub / Computerworld Blogs:
Apple secretly updated 13-inch Unibody MacBook screens — If you've bought a 13-inch Unibody MacBook in the last few weeks, you might be in for a pleasant surprise. Apple has secretly updated the screens on recent MacBooks to a significantly higher quality.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Palm Pre First Hands On! — Yes — you're looking at the first site in the world to have a Palm Pre (or at least be able to post it up). There's so much to say but that's going to have to wait for our full review. In the meantime, here's a couple first impressions of the phone and a few more photos after the break:
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MediaPost, TechCrunch, Datamation, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Between the Lines, Palm WebOS, AppleInsider, jkOnTheRun, Techgeist, Macworld, MacBlogz and Treonauts, Thanks:fonearena
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Meet GigaOM Pro, Our Subscription-Only Research Service — When I was looking for funding for GigaOM nearly three years ago, I had a very simple, four-slide PowerPoint presentation that I showed to potential investors. Two slides focused on the past, but the other two — the “money slides” — focused on my plan to build the company.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
AOL Spinoff Approved Last Night by Time Warner Board: Here Are the Inside Details (Not in the Press Release) — While there were reports that the Time Warner board was meeting today to approve the spinoff of its AOL online unit, it actually gave the move an “enthusiastic endorsement” last night, according to sources.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
SourceForge Acquires Open Source Data Community Ohloh — SourceForge, a tech news and e-commerce network has acquired Ohloh, a social network for developers and directory of open source projects, for an undisclosed amount. — SourceForge owns and operates a number of tech media websites …
Economist:
Born free — Open-source software firms are flourishing, but are also becoming less distinctive — MANY technology firms are floundering amid the recession. But many of the ones that offer services tied to open-source software—free programs written by volunteers who collaborate online—are boasting double-digit growth.
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Christopher Lawton / Wall Street Journal:
More Households Cut the Cord on Cable — Amid tighter budgets, more people are trying to save money by cutting their cable cords. In response, cable companies are beginning to experiment with new Internet services. — In what's shaping up as the home-entertainment equivalent of severing …
