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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Rips Down HuddleChat — Google showcased HuddleChat, a real-time chat application, as one of many test applications (directory here) to show off their new Google App Engine platform last night. — Some bloggers noted that the application was a rip off of Campfire, a 37Signals product.
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Nate Westheimer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's App Engine: Aiming At Facebook, Not Amazon — There's no shortage of stories about Google's newly launched App Engine, but almost all of them get it wrong — because they compare the new service to Amazon's EC2 and S3 services (AMZN). — If the Silicon Valley echo chamber wants …
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Red Dog: Ray Ozzie's answer to the Google App Engine? — (Note: while we've been serving up a number of potential new Windows Live logos recently, this isn't one of them. I just happen to like Clifford the Big Red Dog) — Much has been made recently about last night's announcement …
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:Google Takes Down HuddleChat After Complaints About 37Signals Ripoff
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Silicon Alley Insider, Download Squad, Guardian Unlimited, Rev2.org, blackrimglasses.com and Forbes
Heather Champ / Flickr Blog:
Video on Flickr! — Also available in: Deutsch, , Español, Português — Video! Video! Video! The rumours are true and “soon” is now. We're thrilled to introduce video on Flickr. If you're a pro member, you can now share videos up to 90 glorious seconds in your photostream.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flickr Video Launches - A Unique Experience — Flickr users can now add video clips alongside their photos, a much requested and much anticipated feature that has been promised for over a year. — The puppet version of Shel Israel graciously kicked things off for us by announcing the new feature in the Flickr Video below.
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Mark Evans, Guardian, Guardian Unlimited, Switched, Flickr Blog, Gadgetell, Contentinople, Outside the Lines, Dembot, WebProNews, NewTeeVee, Changing Way, The Social Times, Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts, rexblog.com, Podcasting News, CNET News.com, Webware.com, JD on EP, Silicon Alley Insider, Search Engine Watch Blog, i-boy, Oatmeal Stout, TECH.BLORGE.com, Download Squad, Mashable!, bub.blicio.us, The Social Web, VentureBeat, Ewan Spence's All New Musings, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Digg
Business Wire:
Yahoo! Announces Agreement to Acquire IndexTools' Analytics Business — Acquisition intended to enhance platform for comprehensive Web — analytics and extend offerings for on-line marketers — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that it has entered …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:Yahoo to acquire marketing analytics company
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Yodel Anecdotal
Adobe:
Adobe Media Player Now Available — For immediate release — New Adobe AIR Application Redefines Next-Generation TV Experiences for Viewers and Broadcasters — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Media Player 1.0 software.
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Bret Taylor / Bret Taylor's blog:
We need a Wikipedia for data — I just started blogging. I am not sure what I want to write about, but I think one theme will be “things I want but want someone else to build.” This article describes one of those things. — At Google, I worked on a number of projects that required data from third party data sources.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
I Saw The Future Of Social Networking The Other Day — Anyone who's been reading this blog for more than a few months knows I'm bullish on mobile social networking. — The space is wide open at this point - no one has created an application that has gotten enough traction to go mainstream.
Symbian Smart Phones World:
Exclusive: Latest update on the hotly anticipated Nokia Tube - The Rumours are over - Hands on the Nokia “Tube” — + Exclusive: latest update on the hotly anticipated Nokia Tube — Hands on the Nokia “Tube” — The Rumours are over! — Now whether the phone was inadvertently …
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Latest iPhone 2.0 beta reveals 3G chipset — Hidden away in the latest test firmware for iPhone developers is the mention of the chipset that will power third-generation cellular Internet access in Apple's next generation of the device. — Discovered by the creators of the popular ZiPhone jailbreak …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
More Motorola makeover: Former AT&T exec becomes chairman — Motorola announced Wednesday another in a series of moves to right its ship: It elected David Dorman to be the non-executive chairman of the board. — Dorman takes over for Ed Zander, Motorola's former CEO and current chairman.
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Electronista
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Former Yahoo Exec to OpenX; OpenX to L.A. — Former Yahoo senior vice president Tim Cadogan will take the CEO job at OpenX, the popular open-source ad server startup, backed by Index Ventures, Accel Partners and others. — As part of the change, the company will move from it London HQ to Los Angeles.
CupBoy / nihilogic:
Super Mario in 14kB Javascript — Here's an experiment in keepings things small and confined to one Javascript file. There are no external image files or anything, everything is rendered with Javascript using either canvas elements or old fashioned div-making tactics (for IE).
New York Times:
Economy Has Become a Drag on Silicon Valley — SAN FRANCISCO — Housing prices in Silicon Valley remain defiantly high. New BMWs and Saabs cruise Highway 101. But for the first time there are signs that the current economic downturn is taking its toll on the country's cradle of technology and innovation.
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Silicon Alley Insider
Michael Kwan / Mobile Magazine Online:
Asus Eee PC with Windows XP Has Hidden Shortcomings — Remember yesterday when we discovered that the Windows-powered Asus Eee PC would cost the same as its Linux-powered counterpart? Well, while the two units may bear the same outward appearance and come attached with the same price tag …
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Virtualization's Dark Side — SAN FRANCISCO - — The decision to switch to virtualization is easy enough: As companies discover that the process can consolidate hardware and save space, energy and money, virtualization is sweeping through the world's desktops and data centers.
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Virtualization.com
