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8:50 PM ET, June 5, 2007

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Anildash / Movable Type News:
Movable Type 4 Beta: We're On A Mission  —  If you're reading this blog, you probably know a lot about Movable Type.  It's the power bloggers' tool, made by people who just wanted to make a good, flexible blogging application.  Over half a decade, it's grown into a platform that even enterprises …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Movable Type 4.0 Announced - Becomes Social Media Platform  —  Six Apart is announcing today the beta release of Movable Type 4, a much anticipated upgrade to a blog platform that has two distinct user bases nowadays - consumer base (like R/WW, which uses MT) and Enterprise.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:   WordPress vs. Movable Type: Open Source Blogging Software Showdown
Katy Dormer / Google:
Salesforce.com and Google Form Strategic Global Alliance  —  Two industry leading platforms come together to allow companies to acquire customers, run more efficiently and thrive  —  Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, and Google …
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Apple:
Apple Updates MacBook Pro  —  Latest Intel Core 2 Duo Processors, Memory Up to 4GB and Higher Performance Graphics Across the Line  —  Apple® today updated its MacBook® Pro line of notebooks with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, memory up to 4GB, and high-speed graphics in a stunning …
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Gizmodo:
Apple Interview: Details on the New LED Macbook Pro
Discussion: Macworld, Engadget and MacUser
caminobrowser.org:
Camino 1.5 Release Notes  —  After over a year of hard work by devoted volunteers, the Camino Project is proud to give you Camino 1.5.  This latest version fixes hundreds of bugs and implements many new features, providing all users with an improved browsing experience.
Discussion: Ars Technica and Forever Geek
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Inside AdSense:
Policy updates — and it's not even Thursday!  —  After our many weeks of policy posts on Thursdays, you're probably intimately familiar with all of our program policies.  So we can imagine your surprise when you woke up today, got your morning coffee, and settled in for your daily re-read of the policies …
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Google shivs server crowd with PeakStream buy  —  Exclusive Google has stunned the server world by acquiring superstar start-up PeakStream, The Register can confirm.  —  PeakStream's website and phone lines mysteriously crashed yesterday, indicating that the software maker was struggling to pay its bill or had been gobbled.
Niels Provos / Google Online Security Blog:
Web Server Software and Malware  —  In this post, we investigate the distribution of web server software to provide insight into how server software is correlated to servers hosting malware binaries or engaging in drive-by-downloads.  —  We determine server operating system by examining the 'Server …
Discussion: Computerworld
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
LIFESLICES: COMPUSA CALLS.  OOPS, OUR BAD!  —  I got a phone call last night from Loretta Anderson of corporate customer service at CompUSA apologizing for the incident involving the empty box and offering restoration.  Loretta called back this morning to tell me a $300 gift certificate is in the mail.
Discussion: Engadget and Lost Remote
Will Watts / The Register:
Microsoft threatens its Most Valuable Professional  —  Who said you could improve our software?  —  What's the best way to attract a pile of threatening lawyers' letters from Microsoft?  Sell pirate copies of Windows?  Write a DRM-busting program?  —  Londoner Jamie Cansdale has just discovered a new approach.
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Intel updates compilers for multicore era  —  Intel has announced major updates for its C++ and Fortran tools, updates that are aimed at making it easier for programmers to exploit thread-level and data-level parallelism in multicore processors.  On the data parallelism side …
Discussion: The Register and Slashdot
Tony Long / Wired News:
June 5, 1977: From a Little Apple a Mighty Industry Grows  —  1977: The Apple II, the world's first "practical" personal computer, goes on sale.  —  The Apple II is the computer that made Apple a driving force in a new industry.  The company's original computer bore little resemblance …
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
Why there's no such thing as Web 2.0  —  Proposed: There's no such thing as Web 2.0.  —  Well, that's not actually true.  —  Let me back up.  —  Here's what I think happened.  —  In the beginning, Web 2.0 was a conference.  —  As conferences go, a good one — with a great name.
Discussion: point being
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Yahoo! Search Crawler, Slurp, has a new Address and Signature Card  —  As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we've been migrating our crawler, Yahoo! Slurp, over to the new domain at crawl.yahoo.net.  As of today, the transition is complete and all machines crawling as Slurp are now in crawl.yahoo.net.
Discussion: WebProNews and Search Engine Land
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Intel, Asus Announce $199 'Eee PC'  —  TAIPEI — Asus and Intel have teamed up to develop a $199 notebook PC, the companies announced here on Tuesday.  —  In a keynote address given by Sean Maloney, an executive vice president at Intel and chief marketing and sales officer, Jonney Shih …
 
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Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Google at odds with the locked-down enterprise
Patrick Klepek / 1UP.com:
RESIDENT EVIL 5 RELEASED BY MARCH 2008?
Discussion: Game | Life and Kotaku
Fareastgizmos.com:
Porsche Design Mobile Phone P'9521 presented
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Rob Bushway / GottaBeMobile.com:
New U560 UMPC from Amtek
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
Shane Richmond / Telegraph Blogs:
Putting the 'ahhhh' into RSS
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Coalition wants FCC to save 700MHz spectrum for wireless broadband
Frank Caron / Ars Technica:
Microsoft to unify MSN, Xbox and Zune with Ignition music platform
Rich Brown / CNET News.com:
Alienware's Hangar18 HD Entertainment Center goes on sale
Discussion: NewTeeVee
 Earlier Items: 
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Xandros makes a Novell-style deal with Microsoft
Joe Weisenthal / Techdirt:
Google/Salesforce.com Announcement Is A Yawner
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News.com:
Xbox 360 getting next-gen 'Pac-Man'
BBC:
Talking paper made by scientists
Discussion: CNET News.com and Gadget Lab
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:
Xandros deal is Microsoft water torture strategy
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Local TV in five cities goes online through YouTube
Discussion: rexduffdixon.com
Gizmodo:
Exclusive: iPhone Data to be Boosted by AT&T's Operation "Fine Edge"
 

 
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New York Times:
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The UK's Reach plans to move 300 of its 2,000 journalists into central traffic-driving content hub to reduce the number of journalists writing similar stories

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

 
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