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Gmail Blog:
Millions of Buzz users, and improvements based on your feedback — Posted by Todd Jackson, Product Manager, Gmail and Google Buzz — It's been just two days since we first launched Google Buzz. Since then, tens of millions of people have checked Buzz out, creating over 9 million posts and comments.
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Evgeny Morozov / Foreign Policy:
Wrong kind of buzz around Google Buzz — The launch of Google Buzz has set various parts of the technology blogosphere afire — and for all the right reasons: it does introduce a number of interesting social features that could make our email experience much more social (whether it has to be more social is a different question).
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires Aardvark For $50 million — Google has acquired social search service Aardvark, says a source that has been briefed on the deal, for around $50 million. We first reported on the discussions between the two companies in December. Those discussions have now turned into a signed deal …
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Jeff Bertolucci / PC World:What Google Gets from Aardvark's Ask-A-Friend Service
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Veoh Finally Calls It Quits: Layoffs Yesterday, Bankruptcy Filing Soon — Veoh, one of several well-funded start-ups that have tried and failed to cash in on the Web video boom, is finally calling it quits. The company let go of the remainder of its workforce yesterday …
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Podcasting News, PE Hub Blog, The Next Web, NewTeeVee, fierceonlinevideo.com …, NBC Bay Area, Xconomy and Mashable!
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Dmitry Shapiro / Chief Disruptor:
Veoh Letter — Veoh launched in September of 2005 with a bold goal: To make it possible for anyone with a video camera and a computer to broadcast video to the world. While others were working on helping people share short video clips, Veoh created technologies that made it possible …
T3.com News:
Microsoft hints at Office for iPad — Microsoft has revealed to T3 that it may be ready to unleash a version of Office for Mac for the Apple iPad. — The Seattle-based company let slip the possibility of a suite for the new tablet during a demonstration of the brand new Office for Mac 2011 …
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John Herrman / Gizmodo:Office For Mac 2011 First Look: Ribbons, Sharing, and... Outlook?
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Bing Demos StreetSide With Flickr Photos, Live Video & “Bing Sky” — Today at the TED conference in Southern California, Microsoft demonstrated its enhanced, Silverlight version of Bing Maps, with StreetSide imagery, Photosynth and Map Apps, which allow third party data and content to be placed within the map.
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Bing / Search Blog:
Spatial Search: The Next Frontier — Have you ever thought about all the content and media out there on the Web? Information that we use daily to help make decisions, like reviews of the best restaurant for chicken parmesan or the t-shirt shop perfect for a vintage G&R t-shirt?
Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
Palm orders halt on production of Palm Pre, Palm Pre Plus, and Palm Pixis? — According to an OTR Global report, three different sources have confirmed that all future orders of the Palm Pre and Palm Pre Plus are being suspended as of Wednesday. One of the sources said, “The decision is very sudden …
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Paying Apple More Than $100 Million Annually For iPhone Search Deal (AAPL, GOOG) — The rumor that Apple is building its own search engine “isn't credible,” according to a source familiar with Apple's operations. — Our source tells us “there's too many options” for search on the market …
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App Advice, Edible Apple, AppleInsider, MacRumors, O'Grady's PowerPage, Macsimum News and Gizmodo Australia
Gregg Keizer / InfoWorld:
Windows patch cripples XP with blue screen, users claim — Angry customers blame MS10-015 for Blue Screen of Death and XP reboot hell — Tuesday's security updates from Microsoft have crippled Windows XP PCs with the notorious Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), users have reported on the company's support forum.
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Mark Mentovai / The Official Google Blog:
Bringing extensions to Google Chrome for Mac — As thousands of Mac fans and developers gather in San Francisco for this week's Macworld conference, we're particularly delighted to announce a new beta release of Chrome for Mac. Today's release includes some of our most requested features …
Richard Lai / Engadget:
Dell Mini 5: we have it (update: new pics and video!) — That's right! After all those quick and dirty appearances, we've finally got our own Dell Mini 5 (aka “Streak” or “M01M") prototype for a more in-depth look. Got a question about this mysterious beast?
Dharmesh Shah / HubSpot Company Product News Blog:
One Lesson From The Twitter Grader Screw-up: OAuth Rocks — Most days, I lead a pretty happy existence. I write code. I meet with folks at HubSpot. I talk to fellow entrepreneurs and generally try to spread goodwill and love. Today, however, it sucks to be me.
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Jim Dalrymple / CNET News:
Apple counts down to 10 billionth song download — Apple on Thursday began its “Countdown to 10 Billion Songs.” — Apple is getting close enough to having 10 billion songs downloaded since opening in 2003, that it is beginning a countdown on iTunes. Official rules are available from Apple's Web site.
Anna Richardson / YouTube Blog:
Speed Matters: Introducing the YouTube Video Speed Dashboard — Your YouTube video speed can mean the difference between a fast and fun video viewing experience, or a slow and frustrating one. That's why, today, we're launching a YouTube video speed dashboard to make the speed information available to you.
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Roman Loyola / Macworld:
Macworld Expo 2010 Best of Show winners — When it comes to Macworld Expo, there's one question that Macworld editors are asked without fail: What are the most interesting products at the show? And that's the idea behind the Macworld Expo Best of Show awards—to highlight the products that stand out at the show.
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PC Magazine, Between the Lines, Brainstorm Tech, Gizmodo, MacRumors Page 2, TUAW, Gearlog, Mashable! and CrunchGear
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Feds push for tracking cell phones — Two years ago, when the FBI was stymied by a band of armed robbers known as the “Scarecrow Bandits” that had robbed more than 20 Texas banks, it came up with a novel method of locating the thieves. — FBI agents obtained logs from mobile phone companies corresponding …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Yahoo Founders To Sell Shares — Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) founders Jerry Yang and David Filo (pictured, in 1998) are cutting back their holdings in the company. In a filing with the SEC, Yang said he is selling three million shares via a blind trust, which was set up in April and is set to expire …
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
4chan's moot takes pro-anonymity to TED 2010 — LONG BEACH, CA—TED 2010. Christopher Poole is not a name known by many, but Poole's handle is certainly (in)famous: moot is the founder of 4chan, the largest, most raucous, alternately hilarious and serious online community in the English-speaking world.
Opera browser:
You have never browsed this fast before — Introducing Opera 10.50 beta for Windows — Opera today released the beta of Opera 10.50 — the latest and the most advanced version of its cutting-edge desktop Web browser. Besides being the fastest Web browser, Opera 10.50 beta also offers a minimalist …
Serkan Toto / CrunchGear:
Coming soon: Postage stamp-sized 1TB SSDs — SSDs haven't found their way into the mass market yet, but a team of Japanese researchers is already trying to make them more worthwhile. The team claims it has developed a technology that helps to shrink the size of SSDs by no less than 90% …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Preview: Meebo's Simple, Quick, And Slick iPhone App — Though they're not planning to unveil it until next week, Meebo has given us a sneak peek at their iPhone app. My immediate reaction? This will be my go-to messaging app on the iPhone. — While there are no shortage of apps …
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Web Strategy Matrix: Google Buzz vs Facebook vs MySpace vs Twitter (Feb 2010) — Lack Of Signal In A Sea of Noise — There's an incredible amount of media and blogger noise about social networks, yet most focus on “killer app” hype without an objective point of view. My career mission?
