Techmeme: MySpace.com Profiles Working for Local Internet Marketing (Loren Baker/Search Engine Journal)

2:55 AM ET, October 25, 2006

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Gizmodo:

Rumor: Zune to Pay You For Sharing Songs? — The Microsoft Zune may pay you for sharing a song with others if they end up buying that song themselves. As you probably know, the Zune's WiFi capability will let you send a song to another Zune user, and then that user can listen to it three times …

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Fred / fredericiana:

FROM REDMOND WITH LOVE — The Microsoft Internet Explorer Team sent us a cake for the release of Firefox 2! — A big thanks to Redmond, Washington! — P.S.: No, it was not poisoned — Trackbacks & Pings — ×"×" ×'×"×'×"...

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Microsoft:

Microsoft, Industry Partners Offer Early Holiday Gifts to PC Buyers Around the World — Microsoft working with PC manufacturers and system builders to provide holiday PC buyers with low-cost upgrades to Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office release. — Microsoft Corp. today announced programs …

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Alex Davis / Courier-Journal:

MySpace.com ads work — Local companies find site helps them connect with clients — A growing number of Louisville businesses are turning to the social-networking Web site MySpace.com to connect with customers, promote events and, ultimately, make money.

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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
MySpace.com Profiles Working for Local Internet Marketing

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Apple:

Apple MacBook Pro Notebooks Now with Intel Core 2 Duo Processors — Up to 39 Percent Faster — Apple® today announced that its entire MacBook™ Pro line of notebooks now includes the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor and delivers performance that is up to 39 percent faster than the previous generation.

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Laurie A. Duncan / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
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Laurie A. Duncan / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Apple releases MacBook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo

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Ken Belson / New York Times:

T-Mobile Tests Dual Wi-Fi and Cell Service — Yesterday T-Mobile became the first major mobile phone carrier in the United States to begin selling service that allows a single handset to communicate over both cellular networks and Wi-Fi hot spots. — The first phones, which are available …

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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:

The New Mozilla Recommended Add-ons List: The Winners and the Losers — In anticipation of the imminent release of Firefox 2.0, Mozilla has relaunched its "recommended add-ons page" this afternoon. (Update: FF 2.0 has officially launched.) The page lost its beta status and gained a picture of a flaming motorcycle (see below).

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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
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Sprint:

Sprint Launches Nation's First EV-DO Revision A Mobile Broadband Network —Upgraded network will provide users in San Diego with significantly faster upload speeds and a more robust experience than other mobile data networks —Revision A-capable device portfolio will expand in November with Sprint Mobile Broadband USB Modem

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Rocketboom / Dembot:

Ze Errors — After some discrepancy, Ze Frank has laid into me because he doesn't believe how he could only have a fraction of the audience size of Rocketboom. — I was pretty surprised because we have had some friendly emails recently and he has asked me about my stats but apparently didn't believe me.

Joe Critchley / Google Blogoscoped:

Joe's Google Redesign: Search Efficiency — Joe Critchley (aka Mambo), now age 17, got his first computer when he was 8, and started making web pages when he was 11. He's currently working as freelancer doing stuff like HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL, as well as web design.

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Judd / Think Progress:

Bush says he uses "the Google." — Watch it: — Digg It! — Transcript:

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Official Google Blog:

Eureka! Your own search engine has landed! — Wouldn't it be cool if you could easily build a search engine on your blog or website tailored to the topics and areas you know and love the most? You're not alone if you'd like that — we've heard from partners large and small …

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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Google Launches Custom Search Engine Service

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Peter Poffenberger / VoIP Lowdown:

33 Reasons why VoIP is Destroying Traditional Telecoms — Over the last 5 years the traditional telecoms' share of the telephone market has shrunk significantly as upstart cellular and VoIP competitors continue to gain ground. But even more bad news is on the horizon for the likes of AT&T …

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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:

Adobe tries again with e-books — Adobe Systems thinks it's time to revisit electronic books. — The publishing software company on Tuesday is scheduled to release a beta of an e-book viewer and manager called Digital Editions at its Max 2006 customer conference in Las Vegas.

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