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9:20 AM ET, October 19, 2007

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Reuters:
Google quarterly profit swells 46 percent  —  Web search leader Google reported on Thursday a 46 percent rise in profit that topped Wall Street expectations, fueled by accelerating market share gains and tighter cost controls.  —  Third-quarter net income rose to $1.07 billion …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
What do 16,000 people do at Google?  —  I'm beginning to think that besides search advertising, hiring is the thing Google does best.  —  On Thursday, the company reported gains of 50 percent or so in quarterly profit and revenue from a year ago, beating analyst expectations.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Google Promises Again to Swear Off Binge Hiring
Discussion: Between the Lines
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Google Reports Impressive 46% Jump in Q3 Profit
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Twine: The First Mainstream Semantic Web App?  —  Tomorrow Radar Networks is announcing a new Semantic Web application called Twine.  Founder Nova Spivack showed me a demo today of the new app, which he described as a "knowledge networking" application.  It has aspects of social networking …
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Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Twine: A social network built on the semantic web dls interview  —  There's been a lot of talk over the last few years about the semantic web.  While Google and other search engines do a pretty good job of ranking web pages and providing relevant results to keyword searches …
Discussion: Rough Type
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Eric Traut talks (and demos) Windows 7 and MinWin  —  If I told you there was a public presentation and arguably demonstration of Windows 7, you probably wouldn't believe me.  Which is why I had to share this video with you.  —  Thanks to DigitalDud on Channel9 for noting, on October 13 last week …
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Robot Cannon Kills 9, Wounds 14  —  We're not used to thinking of them this way.  But many advanced military weapons are essentially robotic — picking targets out automatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pull the trigger.  Most of the time.
Associated Press:
Brit spies use video game job ads  —  LONDON, England (AP) — GCHQ, the surveillance arm of British intelligence, said Thursday it hopes to attract computer-savvy young recruits by embedding job ads within video games such as "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent."
Discussion: MarketingVOX and GamePolitics.com
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Leo Lewis / Times of London:
Why video gamers make the best spies
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
'Become a spy' ads target gamers
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flickr Launches New Geotagging and Places Pages  —  When I heard that Flickr was making announcements this evening, I assumed it was the long awaited integration of video into the service.  That isn't happening (it will soon, though), but they are making significant upgrades tonight around geotagging …
Discussion: GigaOM, CNET News.com and ParisLemon
Krista Bessinger / Seeking Alpha Internet stocks:
Google Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript  —  Executives  —  Eric E. Schmidt - Chairman of the Executive Committee, Chief Executive Officer, Director  —  George Reyes - Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President  —  Lawrence Page - President - Products, Director  —  Sergey Brin - President - Technology, Director
Rogers Cadenhead / Workbench:
Exclusive: Techbloggers Have Sold Their Souls  —  On WebProNews, Robert Scoble demonstrates why the leading techblogs are becoming less critical and more susceptible to hype — they're bargaining with PR flacks for exclusives: … One of the reasons mainstream tech magazines like PC Magazine …
Darren Waters / BBC:
EA wants 'open gaming platform'  —  Games are exploiting the increasing power of games consoles  —  Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo should abandon the console wars and help build a common gaming platform, a senior executive at Electronic Arts has said.  —  Gerhard Florin said incompatible consoles …
Discussion: Channel 9
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Strange Bedfellows  —  I have been asleep, apparently, at the big switch.  This is according to former Harvard Business Review editor (and technology pundit in his own right) Nicholas Carr, who said as much this week in his very nice blog, Rough Type (look to your right, it's in the links).
Amanda Lorenzani / blognation:
GoAdv Announces Acquisition Of Excite Europe  —  GoAdv, the online media company co-founded by one of Italy's well known young entrepreneurs Luca Ascani - founder of First Tuesday Italy - has acquired the European arm of Excite.  With offices in Rome and Dublin and a R&D team in Pisa …
Discussion: The Register
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
@Web2.0: Steve Ballmer Wants To Buy Your Company  —  Alberto Escarlate, the CTO-turned-reporter, sends us these dispatches from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's Web 2.0 Q&A session with John Battelle:  —  How are the Facebook negotiations coming along?  —  "Mark Zuckerberg says it goes pretty well.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Web is the Platform  —  The platform wars are over.  Long live the Web.  That was the basic message delivered by Jeff Huber, Google's vice president of engineering, in a ten-minute presentation at Web 2.0 a few minutes ago.  His talk was nominally about widgets (which Google calls Gadgets).
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Standing Up To Takedown Notices  —  Web Users Turn the Tables on Copyright Holders  —  On a chilly February day, Stephanie Lenz decided to show her family and friends what her bouncing baby boy could do.  She plopped 13-month-old Holden, then learning to walk, on the floor, cranked up Prince's song …
 
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
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 Earlier Items: 
Mark Coker / VentureBeat:
Surprise: Mary Meeker offers skepticism about U.S. tech industry
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Ford sells pink 30GB first-gen Zune, donates 100% to breast cancer research
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Unlimited online storage for free, almost: Wuala
Neely Tucker / Washington Post:
Taking a Whack Against Comcast
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
RIAA threatens 19 universities with lawsuits
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Web 2.0 Summit: Panel on Facebook as a Platform
Wall Street Journal:
Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again?