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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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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.
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.
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Between the Lines, Google Operating System, Corante Web Hub, TalkCrunch, SiliconBeat and paidContent.org
Rob Hyndman / robhyndman.com:
Bottom-Up Marketing - at mesh — When we started organizing mesh we all agreed that we were going to get the word out ourselves, using essentially the same tools that we'd all grown accustomed to using on the web. Of course, we're 5 guys with day jobs holding a conference …
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Michael McDerment Blog
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Web 2.0 marketing — bottoms up! — One of the concepts we're trying to tackle as part of mesh (May 15th and 16th in beautiful downtown Toronto, get your tickets before it's too late, etc. etc.) is the idea that Web 2. and blogs and all that they represent are fundamentally rewriting the rules …
Stuart MacDonald:
Who's in charge around here? Marketing 2.0 — For the past 50 or more years, advertising has been based on one basic concept: yelling at people via the television, works. You could get enough of them in one place, nice and passive, and if you delivered the right message enough times you could create awareness.
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 …
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 …
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
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Newsmaker: Asking more of Ask.com than of Jeeves — Ask.com relaunched earlier this year with new features and a new logo as part of an attempt to shake off its old Ask Jeeves image. Now it also has a new chief executive—Jim Lanzone, who was promoted this week to replace Steve Berkowitz.
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Search Engine Watch Blog
Carlo / Techdirt:
Here's An Idea: If You Don't Like What's On TV, Don't Watch It — from the personal-responsibility-goes-missing- again dept — The idea of so-called family-friendly cable TV packages is turning into quite the Goldilocks tale. First, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin tacitly threatened operators …
samsung.com:
SAMSUNG's D520: Stylish Simplicity and Stunning — Seoul, Korea - 2 May, 2006 -Samsung maintains its leadership in the mobile industry with the launch of the new slim SGH-D520. A masterpiece in design, the tri-band D520 is slimmed and trimmed with all of today's latest features.
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.
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 …
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 …
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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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.
