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Wall Street Journal:
Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data — Google Inc. wants to offer consumers a new way to store their files on its hard drives, in a strategy that could accelerate a shift to Web-based computing and intensify the Internet company's competition with Microsoft Corp.
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
As Google readies "GDrive", will Microsoft lead, or follow? — Some seemingly non-news coming out of the Wall Street Journal tonight, saying that Google is readying their online storage product, commonly referred to as GDrive. The Journal doesn't offer any really new information, saying only in the publicly accessible copy:
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
MoveOn to Facebook: We caught you red-handed — Is there more to the controversy surrounding Facebook's "Beacon" ads? MoveOn.org thinks so. — Last week, a feud began to brew between leftist activist group MoveOn.org and social-networking site Facebook concerning its "Beacon" advertisements …
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Some Thoughts on the Facebook Beacon — Recently I've read a number of negative posts about the Facebook Beacon which highlight how easy it is for a company to completely misjudge the privacy implications and ramifications of certain features in social software applications.
Nick / Rough Type:
Understanding Google — Any understanding of Google as a business has to begin, I'm convinced, in the idea of complementary goods. In The Google Enigma, an article in the new issue of Strategy & Business, I argue that the wide scope of Google's interest and activity is a natural …
Business Wire:
Intuit to Acquire Homestead Technologies — Expanding Small Business Offerings to Include Web Site Creation and E-commerce Solutions — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq:INTU) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Homestead Technologies Inc. …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Screenshots And Details On Upcoming MySpace "News Feeds" — A Reuters article earlier today gave a few details on MySpace's upcoming "new feeds" product (which is what Facebook calls their similar product launched a year ago. We spoke to MySpace and got a much deeper look at the product, as well as screenshots of how it will look.
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Cory Doctorow / InformationWeek:
How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook — Columnist Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you're looking to avoid. — Facebook's "platform" strategy has sparked much online debate and controversy.
Stephanie Kang / Wall Street Journal:
Fine-Tuning Cable Audiences — Software Monitors — Favored Viewers, — Shifts Commercials — When real-estate company RE/MAX International advertises with local cable operators, it typically asks them to air its commercials during home-improvement shows like A&E's "Flip This House" and HGTV's "House Hunters."
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
News Corp builds online ad network — NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Internet division plans to launch an online network to sell advertising across Rupert Murdoch's sprawling empire and even to other media companies as early as the first half of next year.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
The next step in Digg clones — On Saturday I wrote a post asking for private email from people who are working on Digg clones. I got about a dozen responses, they all look good. I think any of them could work for the project I have in mind. — This left me with a vexing problem …
InfoWorld:
Gartner: x86 servers gain as Unix shipments fall — San Francisco - As adoption of x86 servers increased globally, Unix-based server shipments witnessed a slowdown during the third quarter, a Gartner survey released on Monday said. — Unit shipments of Unix servers dropped for the top Unix vendors …
Ben Kuchera / Opposable Thumbs:
Xbox 360 Fall Update includes social networking features — The Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update will be upon us on December 4, and Microsoft has started releasing details about what we can expect from the patch. Since Xbox Live has always been about the social experience of online play …
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple acknowledges some MacBook hard drive problems — Apple is investigating whether or not faulty Seagate hard drives are to blame for data loss on some MacBooks. — Retrodata, a U.K. data recovery firm, reported earlier this year that certain 2.5-inch Seagate drives used in MacBooks …
