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Sarah Mitroff / VentureBeat:
Instant messenger app IM+ raises $10M   —  Shape, the company behind online instant messenger service IM+, announced Monday it has raised $10 million from Russian brokerage firm Finam.  —  IM+ is an online instant messenger and mobile app that connects with multiple instant messaging services …
Feb 13, 2012, 8:40 PMIn context
Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:
New Chrome Will Pre-Load Web Pages Before You Hit Enter   —  Google Chrome released a new beta version today that takes the insurgent browser's instant and predictive features even further.  The Instant Pages feature that pre-loads Web pages in the background as you search has been expanded to the omnibox …
Jan 5, 2012, 4:50 PMIn context
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Instant Costs Google $65,000 In France   —  The Local, a French newspaper, reports Google France was ordered to pay €50,000 ($64,670) to Lyonnaise de Garantie, a French insurance company over a search suggestion that had them labeled as being a “crook.”
Dec 30, 2011, 4:50 AMIn context
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More   —  Since January 2011, Google has been filtering “piracy-related” terms from its ‘Autocomplete’ and ‘Instant’ services.  —  Google users searching for terms like “torrent”, “BitTorrent” and “RapidShare” will notice that no suggestions …
Nov 23, 2011, 4:35 PMIn context
The How-To Geek:
Program Your Online Life with If This Then That (ifttt.com)   —  Lots of tools integrate websites together, but keeping track of which you use can be a hassle.  If This Then That allows you to program dozens of services together so content management can be automated the way you want.
Sep 13, 2011, 4:45 PMIn context
Timo Burkard / Google Chrome Blog:
Instant Pages on Google Chrome   —  A few weeks ago, we announced that Google's Instant Pages feature would be available to our Chrome beta channel users.  Today, we're happy to let you know that Instant Pages is on by default in the latest stable version of Chrome.
Aug 2, 2011, 1:15 PMIn context
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
The Slowest Loading Tech News Sites on the Techmeme Leaderboard: Scobleizer, PreCentral, Cult of Mac   —  With Instant Pages, Google launched a new product today that could significantly speed up page load times for sites that rank high in the company's search results.  There is a clear need for a product like this.
Jun 14, 2011, 5:25 PMIn context
Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:
Knocking down barriers to knowledge   —  As much as technology has advanced, there are still many barriers between you and the answers you're looking for—whether you're juggling a clunky mobile keyboard or waiting for a website to load.  Today we held a media event in San Francisco where we talked …
Jun 14, 2011, 1:50 PMIn context
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Announces ‘Instant Pages,’ ‘Instant’ Image Search And ‘Instant’ Availability In 32 Languages   —  Google's launch of Google Instant last year was limited in its scope.  At today's event Google's Amit Singhal went through some recent developments in Instant Search, which currently saves users 2-5 seconds in search.
Jun 14, 2011, 1:45 PMIn context
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Live Blog: Google Unveils Voice Search & Search By Image For Desktop, “Google Instant Pages”   —  Everyone ready?  Because the big day has arrived!  Google's “Inside Search” event begins today at 9:30am Pacific Time.  OK, reset your expectations.  It might not be that big.
Jun 14, 2011, 12:25 PMIn context

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Cloud Foundry:
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Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API  —  The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR  —  Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review.  Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).