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9:00 AM ET, March 18, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
FriendFeed Adds Search, And Suddenly Feels Like A Destination Site  —  FriendFeed, a service that aggregates social network information, just launched quite a nice little search feature.  Users can search by individual, friends, or all users, and specify the search only to specific services like Twitter or Delicious.
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Bret Taylor / FriendFeed Blog:
FriendFeed has search  —  I am extremely happy to announce that FriendFeed now has search.  There is now a search box on the top right of your FriendFeed home page.  You can search over all of your friends' shared items, an individual person's items, or search all of FriendFeed:
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
FriendFeed gains search.  Hey Twitter, where's your search?  —  Both FriendFeed and Twitter have seemingly been talked about non-stop in the blogosphere since SXSW ended (our coverage).  That will continue at least one more day as FriendFeed has added search functionality.
Frederic / The Last Podcast:   Interview with Bret Taylor from Friendfeed
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Meebo raising round, valued up to $250 million.  Bear Stearns sold for $236 million  —  Meebo, the site that lets users send instant messages from a single page — across various IM platforms — is trying to raise $25-$30 million at a nose-bleed valuation of between $200 million and $250 million, I'm hearing from multiple sources.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Charlie Rose Face Plants To Save His MacBook Air  —  Yeah, you read that headline right.  Apple couldn't pay for better press than this.  —  Viewers of the Charlie Rose show tonight were stunned to see the normally composed Rose looking like he'd just been in a bar fight.
BetaNews:
Six-core Intel processors coming this year  —  Advancing its architecture at what most independent observers would now agree is a breakneck pace, Intel offered further details today on how soon it would begin phasing out the Core Microarchitecture it introduced in the summer of 2006.
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Intel:
Intel Corporation's Multicore Architecture Briefing  —  Intel Corporation today discussed upcoming leading edge microprocessors and technologies.  Intel's 45nm high-k metal gate leading manufacturing technology is enabling the industry to move to multicore processors in all market segments …
Discussion: I4U News, Engadget and One More Thing
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Intel moving to six-cores this year; What will you do with them?
Discussion: CrunchGear, eWeek and TechSpot
InfoWorld:
Intel: Six-core chip to ship by second half '08
Discussion: TGDaily.com
Matt / WordPress:
2.5 Sneak Peek  —  A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting to you?  Then WordPress 2.5 might be the release for you.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple snags 14 percent of US-based PC retail sales in February  —  Growth in Apple's personal computer business continued to outpace the industry average last month, with Macs accounting for a 14 percent unit share and 25 percent dollar share of all US-based PC retail sales, according to market research firm NPD.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Report: Mac sales up 60% in February
Discussion: LoopRumors
canada.com:
Recognize Internet addiction as a mental illness, MD urges  —  Users experience cravings, withdrawal, psychiatrist says  —  Compulsive e-mailing and text messaging could soon become classified as an official brain illness.  —  An editorial in this month's issue of the American Journal …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Push To Classify Internet Addiction As a Mental Disorder
Discussion: Inquirer and VCMike's Blog
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Does More Than One Monitor Improve Productivity?  —  I've been a multiple monitor enthusiast since the dark days of Windows Millennium Edition.  I've written about the manifold joys of many-monitor computing a number of times over the last four years:  — Multiple Monitors and Productivity
John P. Falcone / CNET News.com:
TiVo adds Web video—but there's a catch  —  TiVo has added the ability to view downloadable Web videos on the company's DVRs, making good on its announcement at January's Consumer Electronics Show.  The update will allow Web videos such as video podcasts to be downloaded …
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Paul Buchheit:
Is fragmentation bad?  —  Imagine that you've just finished watching a movie and are in the mood to talk about it.  How are you going to do that?  You could chat with random, semi-anonymous people in the movie theater lobby (assume you went to a theater).  You could find a community of people …
Discussion: WinExtra and mathewingram.com/work
Jordan Golson / Valleywag:
How I gamed Digg — and laughed all the way to the bank  —  If you make your living publishing content on the Internet, you live and die by the pageview.  One way to drive huge amounts of traffic to your site is through “social news” sites like Digg.  If I write something interesting …
Discussion: Clickety Clack and Profy.Com
 
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BBC:
Phorm ‘illegal’ says policy group
Discussion: TechRadar.com and FIPR
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
CBS stations' local ad network
Kate Greene / Technology Review:
Long-Distance Wi-Fi  —  Intel has found a way to stretch …
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Analyst: Returns, technical problems high with flash-based notebooks
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
New business models for citywide Wi-Fi
Discussion: dailywireless.org
Waxy.org:
Internet Power, Volume 1: Flashback to the VHS-Era Web
Bill Ray / The Register:
DVB-H is the official mobile-TV standard
Discussion: Inquirer
Jessica Dolcourt / Webware.com:
LightPole turns on local services aggregator
 Earlier Items: 
cellular-news:
One Company Accused of Sending 80% of Chinese Spam SMS
Discussion: IntoMobile
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
New Video of BigDog Quadruped Robot Is So Stunning It's Spooky
Roger L. Kay / Business Week:
Apple's Icarus Effect
Discussion: Cult of Mac
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Slideshare Ramping Up - Leading Online Presentations App?
Discussion: Ryan Stewart
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
More on Blogs, The Long Tail and Following vs Leading
Jackson West / Valleywag:
A new specter is haunting Valleywag
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag:
BLOGGER FOILS GOOGLE'S APRIL FOOLS' JOKE ON MICROSOFT Sneaky …
Discussion: CyberNet
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Online Games by the Hundreds, With Tie-Ins