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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
My thoughts on this week's debate — Earlier this week I was on a search panel with Harry Shum of Bing and Rich Skrenta of Blekko (and moderated by Vivek Wadhwa) and the video now live. It's forty minutes long, but it covers a lot of ground: — One big point of discussion is whether Bing copies Google's search results.
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Vivek Wadhwa / TechCrunch:
How Google Ambushed Microsoft and Changed the Subject — In previous posts, I wrote about the epic battles that are brewing between spammers and content farms—which are turning the web into a massive garbage dump—and search providers, which have to choose between profit and customer satisfaction.
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Fast Company, TechFlash and Google Watch
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Google's Bing Attack Has Larry Page Written All Over It — Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — While he won't officially take over as CEO of Google until April, the recent full frontal slapfest on Microsoft's Bing search engine for shoplifting results from the search giant …
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Verizon Wireless to begin throttling data speeds of heaviest users, optimizing content; starts today — According to a PDF memo available on Verizon Wireless' website (for now), the company will begin to throttle the data-throughput speeds of customers that consume an “extraordinary amount of data” …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Verizon can now throttle top five percent of bandwidth hogs …
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InformationWeek, Computerworld, AppleInsider, L.A. Times Tech Blog, GottaBeMobile and Examiner
Sinead Carew / Reuters:
Some Verizon Wireless iPhone customers complain
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MacDailyNews, GottaBeMobile, TUAW, Phones Review, SAI, Black Web 2.0, Bits and Tech Musings
Andy Baio / Waxy:
The Daily: Indexed — Anybody else think it's weird that The Daily, News Corp's new iPad-only magazine, posts almost every article to their official website... but with no index of the articles to be found? They spent $30M on it, but apparently forgot a homepage! — So I went ahead and made one for them!
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Joe Weisenthal / SAI:
Sorry Rupert, Everyone Can Now Read “The Daily” For Free
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Examiner and App Advice
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Verizon iPhone 4 pre-orders sold out — Apple and Verizon have officially sold out of iPhone 4 pre-orders. If you didn't snatch one today, you'll still be able to grab the CDMA iPhone model online at 3:01 AM on February 9th and when stores up on the 10th. Did you manage to get one?
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TUAW, AppleInsider, Macworld, MacRumors, BGR, Engadget, Digital Daily and Gizmodo
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
‘Dating’ Site Imports 250,000 Facebook Profiles, Without Permission — How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day? — Simple. — You scrape data from Facebook.
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All Facebook, Gawker, Online Dating Insider, PSFK and Switched
Google Chrome Blog:
A dash of speed, 3D and apps — Today, we're excited to bring several new features from Chrome's beta channel to the stable build, including WebGL, Chrome Instant, and the Chrome Web Store. — WebGL is a new technology which brings hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the browser.
Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Google Gets 75,000 Job Applications in One Week, Topping Record Set in '07 — Google Inc., the world's biggest Internet-search service, received more than 75,000 job applications worldwide last week, setting a record for the company as it embarks on a hiring spree.
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Hillicon Valley, SAI, WebProNews and Search Engine Watch
Henry Blodget / SAI:
Apple Shareholder Demands The Company Establish A CEO Succession Plan — In the wake of Steve Jobs' latest medical leave, an Apple shareholder has demanded that the company establish a CEO succession plan. — This proposal has now been seconded by a major institutional advisory firm called ISS, the FT reports.
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Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple CEO Succession Proposal Gets Backing From ISS
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Ars Technica, L.A. Times Tech Blog and AppleInsider
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
LEAKED: All Of Ron Conway's Investments Since 2005 — We knew Ron Conway and his “SV Angel” were prolific angel investors. But we didn't know he was this prolific. — An Excel file, purportedly of SV Angel's entire portfolio, has made its way into our inbox, and we have reproduced it here.
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@ajoybhambani and Gizable
Andrew Brackin / Gizable:
[UPDATED] Twitter adds (then removes) the ‘shorten’ button. — UPDATE: Twitter has officially responded on the matter, stating on their @TwitterGlobalPR account: 'Reports of Twitter testing a “shorten” button are untrue. As we've said, someday you'll be able to shorten links in Tweets …
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TechCrunch, Thanks:hunterowens
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Hotmail launches accounts you can throw away — Microsoft knows you're making throwaway e-mail accounts, and wants to make that process easier. — Today, Hotmail is getting a new feature aimed at “e-mail enthusiasts,” which lets anyone create multiple e-mail accounts that can be read …
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The Windows Blog, TechCrunch and @inafried
Peter Skomoroch / The LinkedIn Blog:
Introducing LinkedIn Skills — Today, knowledge is evolving at an increasingly rapid pace. To succeed in the talent economy, it is crucial to showcase your skills and build a rich network of connections who have the expertise you need to get the job done.
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TechCrunch, WebProNews and John Battelle's Searchblog
Romesh Ratnesar / Business Week:
Peter Thiel: 21st Century Free Radical — Never mind enormous yachts: Peter Thiel is spending his billions on space travel, life extension, artificial intelligence, and paying top students not to go to college — On a chilly December night, a few hundred people gathered at San Francisco's Palace …
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Piper: Apple's $3.9B component deal more evidence of Apple television — Apple's recent investment of $3.9 billion in components is likely for device displays ranging from the iPhone to the 27-inch iMac, and could signal Apple's intention to build a television set up to 50 inches in size, investment firm Piper Jaffray believes.
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Tech Trader Daily, TG Daily and MacDailyNews
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Canada still wants to “discipline the use of the Internet” — Unlike the parrot in the famous Monty Python sketch, it appears that metered Internet billing in Canada is not quite dead after all. Speaking at a House of Commons hearing today, the head of Canada's telecoms regulator made it clear …
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Engadget
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Moving to IPv6: Now for the hard part (FAQ) — Today is the beginning of the end of the Internet as we know it. — That's because the rules that govern how data is sent across the Net, a standard called Internet Protocol version 4, just became significantly more obsolete.
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CNET News, @theiana, Mashable!, Ars Technica, The Official Google Blog, Networking Blog, BetaNews, Pulse2, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, Inquirer, Gearlog, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Epicenter, Bing, WinRumors and internetnews.com
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Is Apple's Data Center Using a ‘Unique’ Design? — Is Apple using custom enclosures and “unique” airflow and cable management in its North Carolina data center? We can't say for certain, but it sure looks that way based on an announcement today from several data center industry equipment vendors.
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9 to 5 Mac, Between the Lines Blog, MacNN and MacStories
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Not Seeing Much Return on That Massive R&D Spend, Are You, Nokia? — Nokia spent scads of cash on research and development last year, but didn't see much return on it. Certainly, the investment did little to slow the continuing deterioration of its competitive position.
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asymco, IntoMobile and Engadget
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Google Instant Scores 98% Adoption Rate, 2% Opt-Out — When Google launched Instant back in September, users were confronted by one of the most radical makeovers of online search in years: a results-as-you-type search engine, which flashes answers to predicted queries with each key stroke—without having to hit return.
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Search Engine Watch
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Foursquare Enables First “Promoted” Venue And Badge Redemption Codes For The Super Bowl — When it comes to making money, Twitter's approach right now is their group of Promoted Products. That is, the Promoted Tweets, Promoted Users, and Promoted Trending Topics that brands pay for in order to get more exposure.
Chris Preimesberger / eWeek:
NaviSite's Big Week: New Cloud Services Node Opens, New Owner on Way — A trend appears to be starting, one that involves telecoms and cable providers going into the cloud computing services business. — SAN JOSE, Calif. — It was interesting timing that cloud services …
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Seeking Alpha
Douglas Soltys / Inside BlackBerry:
Introducing BlackBerry Radio (Select Beta) — Later today, select BlackBerry Beta Zone users in the United States will get the opportunity to test out an upcoming radio discovery app, BlackBerry® Radio, and provide feedback to help us perfect it. This app will put multiple mobile radio services …
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IntoMobile, Gadgetell, Electronista, Mobilized, Pulse2, The Download Blog, BlackBerry Cool, Know Your Cell, Download Squad, N4BB, CrackBerry.com blogs and Pocket-lint
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Verizon iPhone 4 — It's the same phone. The only difference is the network. And Verizon's network is better. — That's it in a nut. — Here's the whole story. I've been using a Verizon iPhone 4 since Friday morning.1 I was in San Francisco through Sunday morning, and I've been home in Philadelphia ever since.
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Geek.com, GottaBeMobile, Notebooks.com, SlashGear, The Toybox Blog, The Apple Core Blog, Electricpig.co.uk, iPhone Buzz and App Advice
