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5:55 PM ET, June 14, 2006

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Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Google finally puts Picasa albums on the Web  —  Google launched a new beta of Picasa on Tuesday [news story].  Its biggest new feature is the capability to post pictures directly from the application to a Google-hosted Web album.  It's about time.  Picasa has become the PC-based photo manager …
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Google Blogoscoped:
No Privacy for Picasa Web Albums  —  As opposed to what Google seems to suggest in the Picasa Albums interface, there is no such thing as a private album.  For example, I found Larry Page's Picasa homepage.  It announces:  —  This user has no Public Albums.  —  But that's wrong.
New York Times:
Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks an Expansion of Power  —  Google is building two computing centers, top and left, each the size of a football field, in The Dalles, Ore  —  THE DALLES, Ore., June 8 — On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Google data centers vs Microsoft infrastructure - a battle of the titans
Ken Belson / New York Times:
EBay to Add a Phone Link From Listings to Sellers  —  EBay said yesterday that sellers on its auction site would be able to add a link to their listings allowing potential buyers to reach them through Skype, the Internet phone service.  —  The announcement comes nine months after eBay raised eyebrows …
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Rob Hof / TechBeat:
eBay Dives into Web 2.0  —  eBay, arguably the original Web 2.0 company, is sure latching onto the newfangled 2.0 stuff.  Today, it announced eBay Wiki, with service hosted by JotSpot.  It's intended to allow members to offer their own expertise on any eBay topic they know about …
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Send Paypal Via Skype Soon  —  The upcoming Skype version 2.5, seen at the eBay Developer's Conference, apparently will let you send or request money to other users directly from the client software.  Since eBay, Paypal, and Skype are all one big happy family, you'll be able to Paypal money easily …
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Jordan Running / Download Squad:
eBay-Skype-PayPal integration extravaganza
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Why Wall Street didn't believe Steve Ballmer (and what he can do about it)  —  You might have missed that Microsoft's stock has been in a freefall lately.  —  My friends have been asking me "why doesn't Wall Street believe Steve Ballmer?"  —  That's an easy one.
Jo Best / silicon.com:
What will your mobile look like in 2015?  —  Design students get their thinking caps on...  What will your mobile look like in 2015?  Like a necklace, some specs, or a ring?  See the photos here.  —  Those are just some of the ideas dreamt up by 26 design students from London's Central St Martins College …
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Leo Waldock / The Register:
Non-scents from Nokia  —  For six months, 25 Industrial Design …
Discussion: textually.org
Kathleen Craig / Wired News:
Flickr Cracks Down on Screenshots  —  Online worlds collide as Second Life fans and Flickr spar over how to handle screenshots on the popular photo-sharing site.  —  At stake is a little-known Flickr policy of flagging accounts that contain mostly non-photographic images and preventing images …
Steve Hamm / TechBeat:
Flock redux  —  Last October, the folks at Flock broke their silence and revealed their plans for a new "social browser" designed for collaborating, sharing photos, and blogging.  The Flock beta was supposed to come out a couple of weeks later.  It didn't.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Hardware Advances Digital Communications Experiences  —  First webcams from Microsoft make seeing, hearing and sharing a breeze.  —  REDMOND, Wash. — June 13, 2006 — Seeing your grandchild's first steps from miles away.  Hearing your friend's laugh from across the country.
Marc Orchant / Office Evolution:
Living a dual life - desktop and cloud  —  David Berlind nails it in is discussion of the inexorable move to the cloud.  Discussing the recent connection between spreadsheet godfather Dan Bricklin's WikiCalc and SocialText, he perfectly describes the "dual modality" many of us are operating …
Discussion: GottaBeMobile.com and Vacuum
mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp:
30 organizations to jointly develop new advanced Internet search engine  —  About 30 organizations in Japan, including major electronics and communications companies and the University of Tokyo, will jointly develop technology for a new advanced search engine, industry sources said.
Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Earth, Sketchup, and Second Life  —  If the hotel network here at Where 2.0 were faster and there were fewer people on it, I'd be downloading the new version of Google Earth, released for the first time simultaneously for Windows, Mac, and Linux!  (Reportedly, the universal binary screams on the Macbook Pro.)
Mark Wallace / 3pointD.com:
Universal Artists Hit Second Life June 25/26  —  Is a Southern Takeover of Second Life on the way?  Hot on the heels of Warner Bros. launching Regina Spektor's latest album in the virtual world of Second Life comes a press release from the Universal Motown Records Group promising …
Antoinette Martin / New York Times:
Pastoral Site of Historic Inventions Faces the End  —  HOLMDEL, N.J., June 7 — For 44 years, a six-story, two-million-square-foot structure nestled here in a 472-acre exquisitely pastoral setting was a habitat for technological ferment.  —  The vaunted Bell Labs, whose scientists invented …
Discussion: isen.blog
John Leyden / The Register:
PCs to developing world 'fuel malware'  —  Programs to send PCs to third world countries might inadvertently fuel the development of malware for hire scams, an anti-virus guru warns.  —  Eugene Kaspersky, head of anti-virus research at Kaspersky Labs, cautions that developing nations have become leading centres for virus development.
Dhiramshah / New Launches:
Sony develops smallest LED projector  —  Using RGB light emitting diodes (LEDs) as light sources Sony has developed the world's smallest LED projector.  Measuring just 410cc it is equivalent to that of two business cards and shorter than a standard ball pen.  Two major innovations were made to make the projector smaller.
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Microsoft 'Mix-ins' vs. Google Mashups  —  Steven Lawler of Microsoft didn't directly mention Google by name, but many of his comments this morning at Where2.0 were directed toward differentiating Microsoft's Virtual Earth platform and Windows Live Local's consumer destination from the company's chief online rival.
Mary Jo Foley / Microsoft Watch:
Scoble The Exit Interview  —  Microsoft tech evangelist and alpha blogger Robert Scoble talks about everything from his tensest moments at Microsoft, to what Microsoft could have done to keep him, as he prepares to leave the Redmond software maker and join startup PodTech.Net.
Discussion: Scobleizer
Willow Duttge / AdAge:
Clear Channel Eyes One-Second Radio Spots  —  'Blinks' Format Explores New Radio Ad Strategies  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Clear Channel is discussing the idea of one-second radio spots with marketers and media buyers.  —  'Blinks'  —  The real value of the Blinks, as they are being called …
Discussion: Techdirt and AdJab
USA Today:
Microsoft goes after, zaps infections to PCs  —  SEATTLE — EDITOR'S NOTE: This story, originally published Monday, misstated the number of Windows PCs scanned.  The company scanned 270 million computers in a 15-month period and found malicious programs on 5.7 million PCs.
Associated Press:
Dell Seen Rolling Out AMD-System in Sept.  —  NEW YORK (AP) - Dell Inc. could roll out a desktop computer based on an Advanced Micro Devices Inc. chip as early as September, according to a Wall Street analyst.  —  The report comes less than a month after Dell Inc. said it would begin using chips …
 
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Jonny Evans / Macworld UK:
Apple responds to iPod factory claims
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Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
BestBuy.com is selling PS3 games also
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Evan Blass / Engadget:
Japanese pillow offers napping advice
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
LostCherry Takes Aim at MySpace
Dhiramshah / New Launches:
South Korea is playing to death!
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HP's new datacenter in a box
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Jeremy Wagstaff / the LOOSE wire blog:
Keep a Blog, Get Fired
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MySpace Looking To Auction Search To Google, Microsoft or Yahoo
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