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louisgray.com:
Should Fractured Feed Reader Comments Raise Blog Owners' Ire? — One of the more frequently mentioned suggestions for avid Google Reader users is the addition of comments to the service, so RSS readers could respond to blog posts, either directly from the reader and back to the originating blog …
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Tony Hung / Deep Jive Interests:
Fine, I'll Say It: Shyftr Crosses The Line — Well, I can already tell what the headlining post this weekend is going to be on Techmeme (or bitchmeme, a la MG), and its going to probably revolve around Shyftr, a relatively new service in the RSS aggregating category (and lo, since I started writing, it has begun!)
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Anthony Klan / The Australian:
Google execs out of sight — THEY spend their days devising technology that eats away at privacy but when it comes to disclosing their own personal information the people behind Google's prying mapping systems are less than co-operative. — Google Australia is expected within months …
Alina Tugend / New York Times:
At a Certain Age, Simplicity Sells in High-Tech Gadgets — ALL right, everyone under the age of 40, go run around the block or something. This column is not for you. — It is for people like me, inching toward 50, who are, let us say, not technology-averse, but do not embrace it with the unquestioning love that our children do.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hacker News Bans Valleywag — Hacker News, a small but influential digg/reddit-like tech news site hosted at Y Combinator, is asking its users if stories from Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag should be banned from the service. … After 20 hours of voting, 60% of the 400+ people who voted said yes to the ban.
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Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
The problem with Google Apps Engine — If you are considering taking advantage of the new Google App Engine service from Google, I suggest you read this article first. There are some hidden facts that you should be aware of before making your decision to adopt this platform.
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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Crawling through HTML forms — Google is constantly trying new ideas to improve our coverage of the web. We already do some pretty smart things like scanning JavaScript and Flash to discover links to new web pages, and today, we would like to talk about another new technology we've started experimenting with recently.
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AI3, Google Blogoscoped, Search Engine Watch Blog, InfoWorld, ReadWriteWeb and Matt Cutts
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Google Now Fills Out Forms & Crawls Results
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eWeek:
Driving IT Innovation at General Motors — Table of Contents: — Driving IT Innovation at General Motors — GM CIO Ralph Szygenda discusses the outsourcing payoff and plans for the future. … It has been nearly two years since GM handed out its IT outsourcing contracts.
John Markoff / Bits:
The Coming of the Holodeck — Virtuality reality at a desktop computer has always seemed so — how should I say it? — unreal. — Now a new generation of inexpensive video cameras that sense 3D information is taking a tiny step toward the Star Trek Holodeck.
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Craigslist Competitor OLX Raises $13.5M — According to co-founder Fabrice Grinda, “OLX is probably the largest classified site no one has ever heard of.” And now it's also the most funded classified site no one has ever heard of, having secured an additional $13.5M in Series B funding today …
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Sara Corbett / New York Times:
Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty? — If you need to reach Jan Chipchase, the best, and sometimes only, way to get him is on his cellphone. The first time I spoke to him last fall, he was at home in his apartment in Tokyo. The next time, he was in Accra, the capital of Ghana, in West Africa.
Royal Pingdom:
Map of all Google data center locations — Data Center Knowledge recently published a “Google Data Center FAQ”. As most other web geeks, we here at Pingdom tend to find this kind of information quite fascinating. We have extracted some interesting tidbits, and also used the information …
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The Register, TechCrunch, CNET News.com, Google Maps Mania, WebProNews and Data Center Knowledge
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Reports of Windows' demise are greatly exaggerated — I was planning to avoid posting about Gartner's “Windows will collapse under its own weight” presentation from earlier this week because I felt it was a bunch of hype that didn't provide any new insights or conclusions.
Jessi Hempel / Fortune:
Meet Facebook's new number two — Sheryl Sandberg has held high-profile jobs at the World Bank, the Treasury Department and Google. Her latest challenge? Making Facebook as profitable as it is popular. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — This is only day 13 on the job for Sheryl Sandberg …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Microsoft not opposed to regulation of online privacy — Microsoft on Thursday issued its response to proposed Federal Trade Commission guidelines for online ad industry self-regulation, but the company wouldn't necessarily oppose regulation, a Microsoft representative said.
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Kevin McLaughlin / crn.com:
Microsoft Exec: UAC Designed To ‘Annoy Users’ — The User Account Control in Windows Vista improves security by reducing application privileges from administrative to standard levels, but UAC has been widely criticized for the nagging alerts it generates. According to one Microsoft executive …
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