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Carrie Grimes / The Official Google Blog:
Our new search index: Caffeine — Today, we're announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of web content we've offered.
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Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:
Google's New Indexing Infrastructure “Caffeine” Now Live — Google first mentioned their new indexing infrastructure, Caffeine, back in August 2009 in order to solicit feedback, then launched it at one data center in November. Finally, it's live everywhere.
Sean Garrett / Twitter Blog:
Links and Twitter: Length Shouldn't Matter — Since early March, we have been routing links within Direct Messages through our link service to detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of malware, phishing, and other dangers. Any link shared in a Direct Message has been wrapped with a twt.tl URL.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, GigaOM, Domain Name Wire, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Mashable!, Geek.com, paidContent, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, Silicon Alley Insider, Search Engine Land and DailyFinance, Thanks:atul
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
An Android User's Take On Yesterday's iPhone News — Yesterday's Apple keynote was, I think more than ever, a testament to Steve Jobs's presentation skills. Faced with an audience that had already seen the grand finale, he still had no trouble evoking plenty of gleeful gasps and applause.
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Daring Fireball, louisgray.com, Gadget Lab, Gizmodo, Tech Eye, Guardian and Gawker, Thanks:auralab
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
How Apple Tricks You — Steve Jobs has already been busted for exaggerating the resolution of a new iPhone screen the Apple CEO unveiled yesterday. It's only the latest in a series of misleading videos, pictures and claims designed to part you and your money.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple Makes Good On Steve Jobs' Promise, Invites Other Advertisers. But What About Google's AdMob? — Last week, Steve Jobs promised that his iPhone and iPads would be open to outside ad networks. Yesterday Apple made good on his promise, by changing the terms of its developer agreement.
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Apple WWDC 2010 Keynote Address — Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduce the new iPhone 4. See the video-on-demand event right here, exclusively in QuickTime and and MPEG-4.
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Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Jobs has lofty goal for FaceTime video chat with an open standard — Apple CEO Steve Jobs bit off a lot when he vowed to make FaceTime video calling an open industry software standard and that Apple will ship tens of millions of FaceTime connected devices in 2010.
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AppleInsider, MobileContentToday, Computerworld, ZDNet, Daring Fireball, PC World, TUAW and TiPb
Brad Stone / Bits:
Times Company Objects to News-Reader App — Last week I wrote about the Pulse News Reader, a popular iPad application developed by two students at the Stanford Institute of Design that collects and presents articles from Web sites of news organizations like The New York Times.
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BoomTown, Computerworld, CNET News, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable!, Digital Daily, Techdirt, Epicenter, NBC Bay Area, AppScout, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Technologizer and bijan sabet
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Did the New York Times Just Declare War on News Aggregators?
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WebProNews, Scripting News, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, paidContent, GottaBeMobile, /Message, PadGadget, BoomTown, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog and MediaPost Raw
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Android's Acne Problem: Or Why You Should Stick to the Google Phone — HTC's Evo might be the last phone running custom software on top of Android that you should even consider buying. Because the whole trend of skinning Android has become a horrible, dividing mess.
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
HTC EVO 4G sold out across the country — You snooze, you lose. That's exactly what thousands of EVO 4G hopefuls are learning today as the smartphone that smashed Sprint sales records has gone out of stock across the country. So what can we learn from all of this?
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Gizmodo, Unwired View, Mashable!, Android Phone Fans, fiercemobileit.com, The Next Web, Fortune, Yahoo! News and Electronista
Hibah Yousuf / CNNMoney.com:
BP buys Google, Yahoo oil spill search terms — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — As BP continues to try to stop the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the energy giant is also dealing with a public relations nightmare. — That's why the company is snapping up search phrases like “oil spill” …
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Sue Zeidler / Reuters:
Hulu plans to charge, expand to devices: sources — (Reuters) - Free video website Hulu plans to soon begin charging customers and is looking to expand its content to consumer devices like the Xbox and iPad, according to two sources, as the site's media owners experiment with platforms beyond an ad-supported TV model.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft: Office 2011 for Mac will be 32-bit only — When Office 2011 for the Mac ships this holiday season, it will be available as a 32-bit product only, Microsoft officials said in a blog post on June 8. — Microsoft is attributing the decision to the fact that it hasn't transitioned …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Hello iPad, goodbye netbook — Morgan Stanley sees the tablet reshaping the PC market, raises its Apple target price to $332 — Click to enlarge. Source: Morgan Stanley — As if Steve Jobs wasn't getting enough attention after his iPhone 4 keynote Monday, Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty issued …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Updated Applications Disappearing from Android Market — This is one headline Google doesn't want to see this morning. Less than 24 hours after Apple introduced its latest and greatest creation, the iPhone 4, at its conference for Apple developers, a small, but growing group of Android developers …
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Muglia on Google, Azure, and the future of Windows Server — Although he's presided over the expansion of Microsoft's server business, Bob Muglia is ready to help companies move away from that same server software. — Well, he is at least as long as those businesses are moving …
Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:
Twitpic Launches Face Tagging — Just one week after announcing Events grouping for photos, Twitpic is rolling out Face Tagging. — Just as you do on Facebook, you can now tag images of you and your friends and acquaintances on Twitpic. Below the image in question, just click the blue link reading “Add/Edit Faces.”
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Google, Bing ranking practices ‘remarkably similar’ under hood — As the SMX Advanced conference got underway in Seattle this morning, one thing was abundantly clear: Microsoft Bing is on the minds of the search industry more than ever, thanks to its deal to take over Yahoo's underlying search engine …
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SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog, Computerworld, Search Marketing Expo News, dotCULT.com and Search Engine Land
Josh Teague / Gmail Blog:
Making it easier to video chat, voice chat, and group chat in Gmail — Video chat, voice chat, and group chat have all been available for some time within Gmail, but they've been curiously tucked away. Getting them up and running required fidgeting with a little menu at the bottom of each chat window.
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Jacob Brody / VentureBeat:
Dude newsletter Thrillist moves from email to iPhone with new app — Men's lifestyle newsletter Thrillist is expanding beyond email, a niche which has proven appealing to advertisers if limiting the startup's appeal to the digerati. That could change now that the New York based startup …
Bill Howard / Gearlog:
2TB Hard Drives Crack the $100 Barrier — 2TB drives are down as low as $100 street, a year and a half after first coming to market, at $250 and up. That's $100 on promotional sales, for moderate-performance drives. Over the weekend, NewEgg.com offered the Seagate LP ST32000542AS …
