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5:20 PM ET, April 5, 2007

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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 …
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Frank Taylor / Google Earth Blog:
My Maps - New Google Maps Update Supports Google Earth Features  —  Google has just released a significant update to Google Maps which allows anyone to, in a sense, create their own maps "mashups" - or what they call "My Maps".  Google was kind enough to demo the new features to me on Wednesday.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Google Launches MyMaps - Platial Gets Screwed  —  A launch from Google that's sure to go down well: MyMaps, rolled out in the last few hours, lets you create your own personalized maps within Google Maps.  —  You can mark your favorite places, draw shapes to represent areas and lines to represent journeys …
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.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google makes mashups easy, even for me
Discussion: Webware.com
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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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:   Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie - The best of both worlds
Nick / Rough Type:   Ozzie walks the line
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.
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 …
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Proof-of-concept iPod virus discovered  —  Russian anti-virus specialists Kaspersky Lab has discovered what is believed to be the first proof-of-concept virus designed specifically to infect Apple's iPod devices.  —  The virus, named Podloso,does not pose a real threat but signals an intent …
Discussion: MacUser
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Kaspersky Lab reports first iPod virus, sort of
Discussion: Michael Gartenberg
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google's Chief Gets $1 in Pay; His Security Costs $532,755  —  It is not common for the salary of an American chief executive to be dwarfed by the cost of keeping that executive safe.  But then, Google is an unconventional company.  —  The Internet search giant paid its top executive …
Discussion: Valleywag, Search Engine Land and digg
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Online Experiment for Print Magazine  —  READERS of a weekly newsmagazine will soon be getting a bonus issue, but they will miss it if they look in mailboxes or on newsstands.  —  The magazine, The Week, will publish the extra issue online, rather than in its regular printed format.
Discussion: paidContent.org and Adrants
Gizmodo:
Verizon Wireless Gets its Mitts on BlackBerry 8830 World Phone  —  Being a Verizon customer, I'm always complaining about their lack of phones, but it looks like the boys in red just got first dibs on RIM's BlackBerry 8830 (aka the Cyclone), which is a CDMA/GSM hybrid.
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
IRS rapped for missing laptops  —  The nation's dedicated tax-collecting agency raised eyebrows about five years ago when it discovered more than 2,300 of its computers had gone AWOL.  (For the record, all but 300 of them were considered old enough to be worthless, and about 1,600 were subsequently located, officials said at the time.)
Discussion: Techdirt and Jarrett House North
Thomas Fuller / New York Times:
Thailand Bans YouTube  —  Thailand's military-appointed government blocked access to YouTube and several other Internet sites on Wednesday in a crackdown on material that denigrates the country's monarch.  —  "We have blocked YouTube because it contains a video insulting to our king," …
Peter Wayner / New York Times:
Beaming Up 3-D Objects on a Budget  —  OVER the last few decades, the electronics industry has worked magic with documents by building gadgets that copy, e-mail, print or fax flat images.  Now it is building boxes that do something similar with three-dimensional objects.
Discussion: MIT Advertising Lab and Slashdot
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Blog Meme - Five Reasons Why I Blog  —  It's been far too long since a blog meme circulated through this neck of the woods, so let's tackle the tagging handed down by Nathan Weinberg.  —  The tag seems to be a little weak - I don't know if it should be 5 reasons, or just 1 - but here goes.
 
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Review: Apple TV brings iTunes videos to your HDTV, but quality disappoints
David Meyer / CNET News.com:
Microsoft criticized for Open XML petition
Discussion: Macsimum News
Lisa Hoover / Download Squad:
Talk to your Skype contacts from any phone
Discussion: jkOnTheRun
Stephan / JAJAH:
PSP (PlayStation Portable) gamers around the globe: Call with JAJAH!
Discussion: GigaOM, Gizmodo, Engadget and Epicenter
Ryan Block / Engadget:
ATI stops shipping CableCARD tuners due to bugs, will resume soon
Discussion: Gizmodo
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Mini Web Sites Target Users of Mobile Phones
Discussion: MoCoNews
Brian Smith / Search Engine Land:
Smarter Video Reviews
BBC:
Cursor hackers target WoW players
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Eddie Hargreaves / The Apple Blog:
Dvorak: iPhone battery dead after 40 minutes
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CBC News:
Apple confirms U.S. iPhone launch set for June
Nokia:
Nokia makes payment to Qualcomm for right to use UMTS patents after April 9, 2007
Discussion: GigaOM
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
WSJ Covers Ask.com's "Information Revolution" Ad Campaign
Tom Krazit / Crave: The gadget blog:
HP has gaming handheld in the works
Discussion: Gadget Lab and Gizmodo
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Rewriting ethics rules for the new media
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