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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Blog Search Engine Sphere Launches — New blog search engine Sphere launched just moments ago and has also announced a $3.75 million round of venture financing. In addition to covering the launch of Sphere here, we have a podcast interview with CEO Tony Conrad and advisor Toni Schneider over at TalkCrunch.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sphere Launches With New Cash — Sphere, a San Francisco- search engine company that specializes in searching blogs, for relevant information has closed a $3.75 million in fresh capital from Hearst Publishing, Trident Capital and About.com founder Scott Kurnit.
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Google's Double Standard — Okay, there's been too much written about this already, so I'll try to keep my 2 cents short. — Concerned about Microsoft's decision to make MSN Search the default search engine in Internet Explorer 7 (earth shattering, isn't it?), Marissa Mayer said:
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
Google cries foul, but for what? — I'm having a hard time understanding why Google is so outraged at Microsoft's design of the search bar in IE7. Steve Lohr summarizes the complaint in today's New York Times: … I don't get this at all. Let's look at IE7 up close and compare it to Google's preferred browser, Firefox.
Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
Google/Microsoft: Careful What You Whine For — One of many smart comments/links to the last post re MSN's deterioration concerned the default search setting for the forthcoming IE 7.0. As the NYT details, Microsoft is embedding a search window in the browser header of 7. with MSN …
Financial Times:
Apple sets tune for pricing of song downloads — Apple Computer on Monday revealed it had renewed contracts with the four largest record companies to sell songs through its iTunes digital store at 99 cents each. The agreements came after months of bargaining, and were a defeat for music companies …
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TechBlog, paidContent.org, Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus, Smalltalk Tidbits … and The Cult of Mac Blog
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Yahoo Tech Is Tech For the Rest of Us — Yahoo launches a consumer tech site and the blogosphere is not impressed . Why — because they're all a BUNCH OF GEEKS (with all due respect). — Here's why I think Yahoo Tech is a serious threat to CNET: — 1. "Advisor" Blogs — Sure they're …
Mike Davidson:
ABC Full Episode Streaming is Live... and it's Spectacular — Seinfeld fans will note the Teri Hatcher reference in the title of this post, but I just tried out ABC's full-episode streaming video service which launched a few minutes ago (around 2am this morning), and it is indeed quite nice.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Helio launches — Alright kids, it's the moment we've all been waiting for (and by we, we mean the MVNO nerds). SK Telecom's and Earthlink's joint-venture Helio is officially lighting up today with their first two devices — the Hero and Kickflip. We're all pretty well briefed to date …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Intel to Offer Its Own Plan for Global Internet Access — SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 — Aiming to help close the so-called digital divide, the Intel Corporation plans to announce a design for a sub-$400 educational laptop and a five-year, $1 billion program to train teachers and to extend wireless digital Internet access worldwide.
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IP Democracy
mindstorms.lego.com:
Hackers, Get Ready! LEGO Group Announces Open Source Firmware, Developer Kits for LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT — Consumer-directed robotics experience creation to enter "NXT" phase with open firmware, Software, Hardware and Bluetooth Developer Kits to launch in August
Ellen Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
Video bloggers claim spotlight — Online diaries looking a lot like television — Jay Dedman's life plays out in snippets of video, captured on a handheld video camera and posted on his online diary, Momentshowing. — A Manhattan subway bomb scare spurs him to post a photo montage of Sept. 11 and the days before and after.
New York Times:
Microsoft and Google Set to Wage Arms Race — Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, described Google in an interview late last year as a worthy adversary, a company to test Microsoft's mettle. "This is hypercompetition, make no mistake," Mr. Gates observed.
Justin Davis / modojo.com:
First Lumines Mobile Screens & Details — Ubisoft's Lumines undoubtedly sold more than a few PSPs to hardcore puzzle fanatics. It remains to this day one of the strongest-reviewed products on the platform. We at Modojo even awarded it a perfect score. It came as no surprise when a PSP sequel and PS2 remix were announced.
Jonathan Watts / asiamedia.ucla.edu:
CHINA: How Google became a rude word in China — Google's adoption of Mandarin name in China opens up online debate — Gougou, Gugu, Gege, Goule or Guge? A furious online debate has opened up in China over the recent adoption of a Mandarin name by Google — the latest in a series …
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Gray Hat Search Engine News
Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
Google and the Long Tail of Time — As I look more at the "Long Tail of Time" (see my first post on that here) in preparation for this Long Now talk, I'm finding that one of the biggest forces driving demand into the archives is Google. We're used to the newspaper model of content …
John Gaudiosi / next-gen.biz:
Top Industry Figures Muse PS3 — Gearbox's Randy Pitchford, Eidos' Bill Gardner, Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter and four other top game industry figures tell Next-Gen.Biz their opinions so far on the PS3, from Sony's online strategy to the importance of Blu-ray.
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Rumor: OS X Leopard To Have BitTorrent Client for iTunes Store — Mac OS Rumors says an Apple insider and long-time regular tipster of theirs has told them the next version of the Mac OS X, 10.5, will have a BitTorrent client built-in: … Mac OS Rumors doesn't exactly have the best track record …
