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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Salesforce.com snags Koral's Web 2.0 content management service — Salesforce.com has taken another drink from its AppExchange marketplace pool, acquiring nine-person startup Koral and its on demand content management service. Kendall Collins, senior vice president of product marketing for salesforce.com …
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:Salesforce Says Hello To Microsoft Sharepoint And Other New ECM Competitors
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
How to win in the Twitter vs. Jaiku battle — Over the weekend, a weird thing happened on the nanoblogging service Twitter (review; how-to): Its most popular contributor, Leo Laporte, announced that he was leaving Twitter for a competing service, Jaiku (review). And that he was taking his fans with him.
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
iTunes streamed to your phone? Possibly — The release of Apple TV a few weeks ago has opened up an intriguing new possibility: streaming music from iTunes on your home computer to your cell phone. — No, Apple TV does not stream over the Internet or across a cellular phone network, but the SlingBox does.
Antony Bruno / Reuters:
New WiMAX broadband technology a boon for labels — LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - If you've never heard the term "WiMAX" before, don't sweat it. You're probably not alone. — But in the hyper-wonk, tech-speak jargon of the wireless industry, WiMAX is the latest thing making its way through …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Takes Partial Ownership Of Maxthon Browser — Multiple sources are confirming that the Chinese/Israeli startup behind the Maxthon Browser has sold a minority stake to Google. The total investment size is rumored to be around $1 million. We are also hearing that this investment is part of a …
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PC World:
Google Admits Using Outside Source for Chinese App — Software updated, but Sohu.com still wants apology and compensation. — Faced with mounting questions over similarities with a rival's software, Google Sunday acknowledged that a dictionary of Chinese words used with one of its recently …
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PlagiarismToday:
Why Wordpress.com is Virtually Spam Free — A recent study by WebmasterWorld found that an estimated 77% of all blogs on Google's Blogspot service were spam. Similarly, AOL Hometown, had well over 80% of its results turn out to be spam. Even MSN Spaces, which as not mentioned in the report …
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Neil McIntosh / Complete Tosh,:
This Blogger's Code of Conduct — God preserve us from the Well Intentioned (WI). In the wake of the shocking Kathy Sierra episode, the WI have managed not to conclude there are simply some unpleasant people in the world who we should ignore, or report to the police.
Joseph Laszlo:
Akimbo Throws in the TV Towel — The key Internet video story for the year, if you ask me, is bridging the gap between the PC and the TV, getting Internet video to the box where consumers most want to see it. [See the outlook and mandate sections of Programming for the Three Screens, a TV and Filmed Entertainment report.]
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Chris Leckness / Mobility Site:
RIP - Dell Axim — It's with great sadness that I bring you the news that the last of the Dell Axim X51v line has gone out the doors of Dell and puts an end of a great run of Pocket PCs from Dell. — In late 2002, Dell released the Dell Axim X5. The Dell Axim X5 shook up the Pocket PC world offering …
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Valleywag:
THE CHART: Hottest startups — In two threads — one on Linked In, the other on Venture Beat — commenters are nominating the hottest startups of Silicon Valley. We totted up the mentions on both threads. Facebook, the college social network, scores highest; with Admob, the mobile ad network, following up.
Tom / I'd Rather Be Writing:
Twenty Usability Tips for Your Blog — Condensed from Dozens of Bloggers' Experiences — I've been doing research on what distinguishes good blogs from poor ones, especially by reading "lessons learned" posts by bloggers. I've come up with 20 principles I think are worthwhile.
Michael White / Bloomberg:
Electronic Arts Plays Catch-Up After Shrug-Off of Wii (Update1) — Video-game designer Nick Earl spent eight months holed up with his development team rushing to adapt ``The Godfather'' for Nintendo Co.'s Wii. — The reason for the long hours: Earl's employer, Electronic Arts Inc. …
Gizmodo:
Gizmodo's Long-Ass Nokia N95 Review: Why it Rocks, Why it Sucks — Nokia's N95 superphone is complicated, taking days for even the most experienced gadget journo to digest. That's why lots of reviews I've seen so far are either extremely light or 10,000 word stunners: This is one of those long ones.
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
YouTube Has Pop-Ups Ads — The GooTube team is not inserting advertising into YouTube clips as post or pre-rolls. That might happen, but not quite yet. Chad Hurley has said that in-clip ads would not be appreciated by the YouTube user base. He may be right.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Widevine to Offer Flash DRM 'Holy Grail' — Widevine, a multiplatform digital rights management provider, will announce Tuesday it has added Flash DRM to its library. The Seattle-based company, which touts its independence from content services, devices, operating systems …
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Fvogelstein / Epicenter:
My other interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt — Eighteen months ago, in November 2005, I interviewed Google CEO Eric Schmidt for a story I was working on for Fortune Magazine. I left the magazine before I finished the piece, and in a classic case of old media thinking, I didn't publish the interview.
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Search Engine Land, Brij Singh's One More Idea, Paul Kedrosky's … and Google Operating System
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Birthplace of Silicon Valley in shambles — The birthplace of Silicon Valley has been closed. — Mountain View residents passing by 391 San Antonio Road - the original site of the Shockley Semiconductor Lab - will find the building is now off-limits. The International Produce Market …
