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WordPress.com:
OpenID — You can now use your WordPress.com blog as an OpenID. — Are you fed up with having to remember dozens of usernames and password? Does the idea of creating yet another account on yet another site leave you cold? — OpenID is a new standard that hopes to alleviate some of the pain …
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Inside Google Desktop:
The New Sidebar and Gadgets — With the dramatically increasing amount of content out there, you need better ways to find relevant information, whether searching your computer or reading the latest headlines in sidebar. How could we improve the way you stay up-to-date with sidebar and gadgets?
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
New and improved Desktop — For the past several months, we've been working on ways to let you better get information on your desktop through gadgets and sidebar. We've also thought about improving how you search your computer. Today, we are happy to be releasing the Google Desktop 5 beta application.
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Forrester Report Claims R&D Studies Are Biased — Despite U.S. spending of almost $300 billion on knowledge, the analyst firm found common flaws: bias, flawed analysis, and shortsightedness. — National investments in innovation are largely wasted and technology studies confirm the political …
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Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
GDC07: EA Signs Harmonix — Maxim's Big Buck Hunter Girlies — Arcade game Big Buck Hunter Pro makes its way into America's favorite jubblie-glossy Maxim Magazine this month. Turn to page 34, and the cabinet's in the "Good" section of "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" column. Those plastic shotguns?
Google Blogoscoped:
Ex-Google Answers Researchers Launch Q&A Site — This just in: Uclue.com is a new website by a number of researchers who used to work for the (now cancelled) Google Answers program. This is cool, and I wish my former colleagues all the best! (Disclosure: I watched the site come to life from afar …
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:Google Answers to Rise From Dead?
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BBC:
Microsoft attacks Google on books — Microsoft is to launch an attack on Google, saying the search giant's rival book-scanning service "systematically violates copyright". — Since December, Microsoft's project - Live Search Books - has allowed users to access certain publications which were no longer under copyright.
Business Wire:
Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 Goes Windows Mobile — Yahoo! and HTC Announce Partnership to Distribute Yahoo! Go 2.0 on Millions of Windows Mobile-Based Devices — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Continuing to redefine the mobile Internet experience for millions of consumers around the world …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Exclusive: Microsoft and the Associated Press Teaming with Thousands of Newspapers and Broadcasters in New Online Video Network — The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization, and Microsoft have developed an online video platform for thousands of U.S. newspapers …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
BT to Invest in FON? — FON, the Spanish share-your-Wi-Fi services company, is close to announcing a new round of funding that could total to as much as 10 million Euros (shade over $13 million.) — While some of its existing investors - Index Ventures, Skype and Google …
Adam Green / Feedonomics:
$1.5M Series A, Dan Bricklin joins Board, Version 1.1 of Grazr.com — I know I've been pretty quiet here, but behind the scenes lots of things have been happening. I probably should spread this into multiple posts, but I'll just lay it out briefly here and then go into details over the next few days.
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Commodore set to introduce high-end gaming PCs — Commodore's big beige glory days may be long past, but the familiar name is still out there kicking (such as it is), lending its considerable cachet to an array of otherwise unremarkable devices. Now the company appears to have decided …
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Paul Kapustka / GigaOM:
Does Presence really matter? — Is the idea of "presence" really one of the next steps in communications applications, or is it just a fancy way of not having to answer your phone? — Alec Saunders, one of the founders of VoIP presence software startup iotum, definitely hopes it's the former …
Live Search's WebLog:
Breaking Out of the Browser — Got Vista? Then check out these two Live Search gadgets for your Vista Sidebar and stop waiting for that browser to load! Today we're announcing the launch of two new gadgets that bring some of the most popular Live Search services directly to your desktop:
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
AT&T turns cell phones into TV remotes — AT&T Homezone subscribers are now able to program their digital video recorders from their cell phones. — AT&T said that starting Tuesday, it will allow customers of its Homezone product, a service that offers video-on-demand and other content …
mamamusings:
why twitter matters — I'm completely fascinated by Twitter right now—in much the same way I was by blogging four years ago, and by ICQ years before that. — If you haven't tried it yet, Twitter is a site that allows you to post one-line messages about what you're currently doing—via the web interface, IM, or SMS.
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Scribd "YouTube for Documents" Gets $300K — Scribd, a site for sharing documents, is coming out of private beta this morning with a fresh Angel investment of $300K on top of their original Y Combinator nest egg of $12,000. Scribd is most easily described as a text version of YouTube.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Research Unveils More Than 100 Innovations for Future of Computing — Researchers introduce new technologies to explore distant galaxies, bring friends and co-workers closer, and teach kids the magic of programming. — Whether it's helping people discover distant planets online …
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