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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Frames a Video Search Engine — Google Video, now a video search engine, shows a frame similar to the one from Image Search when you click on a search result. The frame lets you rate the video, share it, and watch related videos. You can also watch the previous or the next search result …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Video Now a Video Search Engine — Google Video went through many reincarnations in the past. It allegedly started out as one of those 20% side projects within Google, and Larry Page admitted, "We're not quite sure what we're going to get, but we decided we'd try this experiment."
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NewTeeVee, Search Engine Watch Blog, Googlified, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Jim Kukral
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
YouTube Redesigns and Moves to Google Accounts — After updating their embeddable player, YouTube experiments with a new layout for the site. The new design places the search box in the center, moves the metadata below the video, makes it easier to rate the video and to find other related videos.
Richard Koman / Silicon Valley Watcher: Exclusive interview with Google video platform director Jennifer Feikin
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:Google Video Morphs Further Into New Video Meta Search Role
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InsideGoogle
Wall Street Journal:
Sprint Explores Options for WiMax — Sprint Nextel Corp. is exploring new options for financing its ambitious plan to build a wireless broadband network known as WiMax, including forming a partnership or joint venture with cellphone pioneer Craig McCaw and seeking an infusion of cash from cable providers …
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Valleywag:
Housekeeping: Owen Thomas is the Valleywag — Owen Thomas, the Business 2.0 editor whom we've lured to run Valleywag, is all smiles. But don't be deceived. This Silicon Valley gossip rag, after he takes over in July as managing editor, will remain as obnoxious as ever.
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Paul Kedrosky's …
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Dan Primack / PE HUB:
Veoh Hosts $26 Million Round — Veoh may no longer host popular adult videos, but that hasn't stopped venture capitalists from backing up the Brink's truck. peHUB has learned that the San Diego-based company recently raised around $26 million in Series C funding - which gives it more venture capital …
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
Apple updates Safari with version 3.0.1 for Windows (beta) — Stung by the harsh reception to Safari for Windows (beta), Apple today released Safari 3.0.1 for Windows (beta), addressing three flaws. The updated version patches CVE-2007-3186, a command-injection vulnerability that may lead …
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Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:
Microsoft Signs Another Linux Deal — Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that it will license instant messaging and digital media technology to a small desktop Linux distributor, Linspire Inc., adding to a growing number of deals meant to help the Windows operating system work more smoothly with open-source software.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The 3D Real/Virtual World Hybrid: How Far Away? — How long will it be until we can stroll through the streets in a virtual world that is identical to our own? Given the state of a number of technologies, not very long. Over the last couple of years we've seen Microsoft Street Side …
Vanessa Fox. Nude.:
a few changes — For the last two years, I have had a fantastic time helping to build Google Webmaster Central. I have loved working with the (ever-expanding!) team, writing about search on the blog and for the help center, and designing features for the webmaster community.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
YouTube Passes Debates to a New Generation — The quadrennial ritual of presidential debates has long followed a tried and true format. — A guy in a suit asks mostly predictable questions of other people in suits. The voter is a fixture in the audience, motionless until he or she gets to address the candidate, respectfully.
Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Taking a detailed look at Windows Vista DVD hologram — An astute Windows user was intrigued by the holographic image on the face of the Windows Vista Business DVD and decided to take a much closer look, discovering in the margin a microscopic photograph of three men. Just who they could be?
BBC:
FBI tries to fight zombie hordes — The FBI is contacting more than one million PC owners who have had their computers hijacked by cyber criminals. — The initiative is part of an ongoing project to thwart the use of hijacked home computers, or zombies, as launch platforms for hi-tech crimes.
John Solomon / Washington Post:
FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting Data — An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years …
The Boy Genius Report:
Apple iPhone sighting? — Looks like they're out there, and no, we don't just mean in Walt and David's hands...we mean out there. Check out this flick of someone using what almost definitely appears to be an iPhone. He's all listening to Journey probably, reminiscing about The Sopranos season finale.
InfoWorld:
iPhone disappoints mobile developers — San Francisco (InfoWorld) - No one ever said Apple marketers weren't clever. So if they wanted to start a firestorm of ISVs developing applications for the iPhone, how better to do that than to make development as simple as possible with the least barriers?
Sprint:
Customers Get High Speed Multimedia and Industry-Leading Walkie Talkie Services With Newest Sprint PowerSource Phone — The Motorola Deluxe™ ic902 provides customers with industry-leading Nextel® Walkie-Talkie services, powerful Sprint Power Vision(SM) voice and data services …
