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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.
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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InsideGoogle, Valleywag, Micro Persuasion, Mark Evans, Conversion Rater, Coolz0r, Ben Metcalfe Blog and Tech.Life.Blogged
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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.
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, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus and The Cult of Mac Blog
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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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 …
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AMCP Tech Blog, Conversion Rater, Bloggers Blog, Charlene Li's Blog and Rex Hammock's Weblog
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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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linuxdevices.com:
Linux gains enhanced WiFi stack — The day when WiFi cards "just work" under Linux may be fast approaching. WiFi software stack specialist Devicescape has released its "Advanced Datapath" 802.11 driver stack to the open source community under the GPL, and the Linux kernel developer community appears …
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David Berlind / Between the Lines:
JavaDB: An idea whose time has finally come? — Last year, at ApacheCon, according to Sun Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps, Sun senior staff engineer Francois Orsini apparently gave a demonstration of JavaDB — Sun's version of Apache Derby. Apache Derby is basically …
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Nick / Rough Type:
Monetizing the wasteland — User-generated content is great stuff. Why? Because it's generated by users. And as we all know, users are natively gifted at producing great content. Users would have been generating great content for the last few millennia if they only had the right software tools.
