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Stephen Hutcheon / Sydney Morning Herald:
Why I quit Google to join Facebook: Lars Rasmussen — Lars Rasmussen, the Sydney-based co-founder of Google Maps has spoken publicly for the first time about why he quit his job and joined the growing band of high profile Googlers who have switched allegiances to Facebook.
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The Next Web, Neowin.net, Delimiter, Redfin Corporate Blog and Victus Spiritus, Thanks:mathewi
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google's Real Problem - GTD? — Google has made it a habit of making news for the wrong reasons! Days after it reported a blockbuster quarter, the company's chief executive made some childish remarks about privacy. — And in past week or so, the company saw three well-known executives leave the company.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Blekko, The “Slashtag” Search Engine, Goes Live — Blekko, the long anticipated search engine founded by Rich Skrenta, has finally opened to the public. The service offers an interesting way to “slash” or create specialty search engines for any topic, along with new features the company hopes will improve relevancy.
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CNET News, New York Times, SEO Book.com and SEO and Tech Daily
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Skrentablog:
Crowdsourcing search relevance — How on earth do you try to disrupt the search space? — Search requires not only a big software system, but also a massive set of relevance data to help the algorithms make sense of the billions of pages on the web. — Bing and Google have hundreds …
Jayne O'Donnell / USA Today:
EBay social-network, e-mail plan aims to ease group gifts — EBay will launch an online group gift-buying service today designed to make it easier for several people to pitch in, buy and pay for gifts using their social-network and e-mail contacts. — EBay North America Vice President Christopher Payne …
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Wall Street Journal:
EBay Attempts to Clean Up the Clutter — Redesign This Week Uses Technological Overhaul to Organize Thousands of Listings — As eBay Inc. prepares for a critical holiday shopping season, the company this week plans to unveil new elements of an overhaul in how shoppers find and buy products on its Web site.
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AuctionBytes Blog
Steve Cheney / steve's blog:
The Sexy Details of How the iPad and MacBook Will Hook Up — During the “Back to the Mac” event two weeks ago, Steve Jobs made a particularly witty remark as he unveiled the MacBook Air, one that made the audience chuckle in laughter: … There is always a strategic intent with the things …
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TechCrunch and RazorianFly
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Zuckerberg Vs. D'Angelo, ‘Before They Were Stars’ And ‘Where Are They Now?’ … Above is the Team page for Synapse, the Pandora-like music recommendation plugin Mark Zuckerberg and former Facebook engineer and Quora founder Adam D'Angelo built in 2002, while they were in high school together.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
LimeWire Alternatives See Huge Increase in Downloads — A few days after LimeWire shut down nearly all alternative file-sharing applications report a massive increase in downloads, most likely from LimeWire refugees. On the one hand the developers of LimeWire's competitors are pleased …
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ReadWriteWeb and Techie Buzz
Ryan Spoon:
Must Read Quora Threads for Startups — For entrepreneurs, Quora has become the new Hacker News: the go-to-place to glean great, rich information related to startups - culture, technology, product, design, history, financing, etc. It's all there and much of it is outstanding.
Thanks:ryanspoon
Economist:
End of the silicon honeymoon — The love affair that technology firms had with America's president is fading fast — PASSING through California on a mid-term campaign swing, Barack Obama made a point of stopping off to see Steve Jobs, the boss of Apple. He also hob-nobbed with executives …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
PayPal Beats Google Checkout To The Local Payments Market But Will It Work? (TCTV) — In conjunction with the company's developer conference, PayPal announced a slew of news and product releases this week, including a new micropayments product and an apps platform for businesses.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Facebook:
Special Purpose Investment Vehicles Snap Up Facebook Shares — A new type of player is emerging in the market for Facebook shares. — Investors are banding together and creating a growing number of entities that exist solely to buy stock in the company. While investors have been able …
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