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Official Google Blog:
A great day for 3D — Last month we told you that @Last Software had joined the Google fold. Today we're releasing Google SketchUp, a free version of our 3D modeling software, which makes our long-time vision of making 3D accessible to everyone a reality.
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Randall Newton / AECnews.com:Google Releases Free SketchUp and 3D Warehouse
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Wired News:
Your Thoughts Are Your Password — What if you could one day unlock your door or access your bank account by simply "thinking" your password? Too far out? Perhaps not. — Researchers at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, are exploring the possibility of a biometric security device …
Heather Green / Blogspotting:
AOL Launches New Network of Financial Blogs — AOL today is kicking off bloggingstocks.com, a new blogging network that features bloggers posting about individual stocks, ranging from Google to Time Warner. This is the first step AOL has taken to come up with new services since it bought the Weblogs Inc blogging network.
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Leslie Walker / Washington Post:
How to Juice Up a Site's Rank — If your Web site isn't getting the attention it deserves on the Internet, it may be running low on Google juice. — Google juice, for the uninitiated, refers to how high a Web site ranks in Google's search results — the higher the ranking, the more juice.
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Yahoo! Search blog:
Say "Hello" to my little friend — I'd like to introduce you to someone - or perhaps I should say "reintroduce" you, since you've probably known him for years. (Sure, he's had a little work done, but who among us couldn't use the help of a pixel-painting designer to freshen our look now and then?)
Melissa J. Perenson / PC World:
First Look: Seagate's New Giant Hard Drive Screams to the Top — The Barracuda 7200.10 750GB uses new technology to achieve 50 percent greater capacity—and top-flight performance—in our tests. — Seagate's Barracuda 7200.10 750GB drive, the largest hard drive to date, sets new high-water marks for capacity, price, and performance.
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Justin.Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook expands to corporate social networking; again with staggered rollout strategy — Earlier today Facebook publicly opened registration beyond the world of students for the first time (!) to people with select corporate email accounts. — But, like Facebook's limited initial availability …
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Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
Aperture future in question as Apple axes bulk of team — April 27, 2006 - Apple recently asked the engineering team behind its Aperture photo editing and management software to leave, Think Secret has learned. The move, which resulted in the departure of several engineers while others …
PR Newswire:
SideStep Enters New Market Expanding the Power of Travel Search into Local Attractions, Events & Activities — New Offering Allows SideStep to Better Serve Travelers and Locals Alike — SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 27 /PRNewswire/ — SideStep, Inc. (www.sidestep.com), the Web's leading travel search engine …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Can blogs affect politics and society? — As a lead-up to mesh in May, the Gang of Five — that is me, Rob Hyndman, Mark Evans, Mike McDerment and Stuart "call me Chairman Mao" MacDonald — have been talking a lot (not surprisingly) about the themes we want to look at, and crawling the blogosphere …
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Rob Hyndman / robhyndman.com:The mesh Sessions: Can Blogs Influence Politics?
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Reuters:
Vonage to start Wi-Fi service in Britain — Vonage subscribers in the U.K. will soon be able to make mobile phone calls over the Internet, the company said Wednesday. — The U.S.-based Net phone company and Wi-Fi hot spot operator The Cloud are working together to launch a service …
Dean Takahashi / A+E Interactive:
Exclusive: Nicole Wong Reveals Identity Of EA Spouse — EA Spouse shook up the video game industry in November, 2004, when she posted an anonymous letter that detailed the harsh working conditions that led to overtime lawsuits against Electronic Arts and other big video game companies.
Warren St. John / New York Times:
Rituals of Grief Go Online — Like many other 23-year-olds, Deborah Lee Walker loved the beach, discovering bands, making new friends and keeping up with old ones, often through the social networking site MySpace.com, where she listed her heroes as "my family, and anyone serving in the military — thank you!"
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Is the Palm OS missing the multimedia boat? — The Palm OS may be losing its mojo with software developers. — It's been two years since the release of the last major upgrade to the Palm operating system for mobile devices, not counting the upgrade that never appeared in public.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Varying Number Of Ads Displayed & Revisiting Search Engine Ad Breaks — Wow — Google may be about to do what was so annoying and eventually abandoned by Ask, dump more ads into its search results. (Note: see postscript below, overall number of ads won't change, Google says).
Nick / Rough Type:
Web 2.0's numbskull factor — On his blog, Harvard's Andrew McAfee mulls over some of the barriers to the successful adoption of Web 2.0 collaboration technologies by businesses. He points out that even the most prominent examples of Web 2.0 platforms, such as Wikipedia …
