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Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Launches MyMaps — Tonight Google launched MyMaps. It adds the ability to create and share maps directly from Google's site (you can see a map that I created above). These maps will be added to Google geoindex and will be available to search in Google Earth and in Local Search.
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Ogle Earth, CNET News.com, Webware.com, Center for Citizen Media, Micro Persuasion and Live Maps
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Molly Graham / Official Google Blog:
Map-making: So easy a caveman could do it — Posted by Jess Lee, Product Manager, Google Maps — Humans have been making maps since the Stone Age. In fact, map-making predates written language by several millenia. Nowadays, people make maps online using tools like the Google Maps API …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google MyMaps Smashes Mash-ups — Google is announcing a new service, My Maps, that allows anyone to create their own Google Maps-based mashups, reports The Wall Street Journal. Essentially, anyone can go in and plot all the great Thai restaurants in San Francisco, and save it as SF Thai Food Maps.
Inside AdSense:
A fresh, new look for AdSense ads — You may have noticed that some of your ad units have started to look a little different lately — we're happy to announce that, just in time for spring, we've given our standard ad units a fresh makeover. After extensive testing and research …
Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
The State of the Live Web, April 2007 — Hey, it's that time again, time to slow down, take a deep breath, and dig into the data! — About this Report, and the Obligatory Plug for Technorati — Technorati is known widely for its quarterly State of the Blogosphere reports, analyzing the trends around blogs and blogging.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Trash TechCrunch And Win A Free Pass To The Web 2.0 Expo — We've gotten our hands on three free passes to the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on April 15-18, valued at $1,500 each. We traded these passes for excess advertising inventory on our sites, and our plan is to give them away to readers.
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Knowledge@Wharton:
The Man Who Would Change Microsoft: Ray Ozzie's Vision for Connected Software — Ray Ozzie has a long and storied history of technological innovation, with accomplishments that include creating Lotus Notes and founding Groove Networks. But Ozzie may now be facing the most daunting challenge of his career …
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Rough Type, Don Dodge on The Next …, The Universal Desktop, Between the Lines and Channel 9
David Pogue / New York Times:
TiVo Plays a Trump Card: Web Smarts — What is it with the rash of new set-top boxes lately? One recent box brings the best of the Internet to your TV screen, like podcasts, Web videos and Internet radio. Another one is a video recorder that you can operate from anywhere in the world …
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Marketing in Second Life doesn't work... here is why! — Last week, the Hamburg-based research firm Komjuniti published the first extensive survey of Resident attitudes toward real world marketing in Second Life. It's been a long time in coming: a British branding agency established …
Mike / Techdirt:
Verizon Wireless Slowly, Quietly, Backing Away From Misleading Claims Of Unlimited Service — from the shhhh...-don't-tell-anyone dept — For years, Verizon Wireless has been pushing its EVDO wireless internet service as "unlimited" — but then cutting off users if they passed some unknown, unstated "cap."
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MoCoNews
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Guardian:
Can the internet be truly neutral? — Net Neutrality is dividing opinion. For some it is a cause worth fighting for, but others claim it's a red herring that's impeding progress. Andrew Orlowski investigates — In a much celebrated remark, a senior Bush administration aide told journalist Ron Suskind …
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The Navel of the Internet
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Rewriting ethics rules for the new media — Some members of the so-called old media establishment may no longer be able to wag a finger at what they say is questionable ethics among bloggers. — Two weeks ago, ABCNews.com video blogger Amanda Congdon's appearance in online infomercials …
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
John Leyden / The Register:
WEP key wireless cracking made easy — Code breakers have discovered a technique for extracting a 104-bit Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) key in under a minute. — Cryptographic weaknesses with the first generation wireless encryption standard have been known for years …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft sees DRM-free music in Zune's future — Microsoft plans to follow Apple in selling unprotected songs from EMI, though the company won't say just when such tracks will appear on the Zune Marketplace store. — When CEO Steve Jobs issued his open letter calling for an end to DRM …
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Wall Street Journal:
Ask.Com's 'Revolt' Risks Costly Clicks — Web Users Feel Duped — In U.K. Campaign — LONDON — Internet-search site Ask.com has adopted a risky advertising strategy in Britain: highlighting the huge popularity of rival Google Inc. — The goal of the campaign is to convince consumers …
Reginald Braithwaite / Raganwald:
Don't have a COW, man? What Haskell teaches us about writing Enterprise-scale software — Berlin Brown asked: … Yes, I use what I read on programming.reddit.com in my day job. That's one of the reasons I have this day job: it's part of what I do to sift through all of the cool stuff and find the things that are practical today.
