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5:05 AM ET, September 8, 2008

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Nick / Rough Type:
The Omnigoogle  —  “Some say Google is God,” Sergey Brin once said.  “Others say Google is Satan.”  —  The confusion about Google's identity may not be quite that Manichean, but it does run deep.  The company, which today celebrates the tenth anniversary of its incorporation …
Discussion: broadstuff, Gizmodo and Guardian
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Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Marissa Mayer talks about Google at 10 — and 20  —  She is not nearly as famous as celebrity founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.  But, in many ways, Marissa Mayer has become the public face of Google, which was incorporated 10 years ago today.  —  The Internet giant's first female engineer …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is Search Really 90% Solved?  —  Jessica Guynn has an excellent …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
A World Without Google
Discussion: Ars Technica
Eric A. Taub / New York Times:
New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper  —  The Plastic Logic reader, left, has a screen the size of a sheet of paper for a copy machine.  Center, Sony's eReader; right, Amazon.com's Kindle.  The Plastic Logic device, which is yet to be named, can be updated wirelessly and store hundreds of pages of documents.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
RealNetworks to Introduce a DVD Copier  —  People have been avidly feeding music CDs into their computers for years, ripping digital copies of albums and transferring the files to their other computers and mobile devices.  —  This has not happened nearly as much with DVDs, for both practical and legal reasons.
Ted Dziuba:
A Web OS?  Are You Dense?  —  People are calling Google Chrome a “Web Operating System” and a “Cloud Operating System”.  Some are even calling it a Windows killer.  —  I think it's time to nip this horses**t in the bud, before it gets out of hand.  —  How Does Arringtons Know What Operating Systems Is?
Daniel Boffey / Daily Mail:
Apple admit Briton DID invent iPod, but he's still not getting any money  —  Apple has finally admitted that a British man who left school at 15 is the inventor behind the iPod.  —  Kane Kramer, 52, came up with the technology that drives the digital music player nearly 30 years ago but has still not seen a penny from his invention.
Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
One Bad Apple  —  Apple is looking like what Microsoft was 10 years ago—a Bigfoot that squeezes smaller competitors.  —  From the magazine issue dated Sep 15, 2008  —  A former lieutenant of Steve Jobs's once told me something surprising about his ex-boss.  “Steve is a monopolist at heart,” he said.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Applications, coming soon to a Mesh near you  —  If you think Live Mesh is just about syncing some TPS reports across a couple of computers and maybe a mobile phone or two then you're a very narrow-minded person.  —  Bit and pieces of information about what else Mesh can do has been scattered …
Discussion: LiveSide and wmpoweruser.com
BBC:
‘Tough choices’ for UK broadband  —  The cost of taking fibre-based broadband to every UK home could top £28.8bn, says a report.  —  Compiled by the government's broadband advisory group, the report details the cost of the different ways to wire the UK for next generation broadband.
Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
Real-estate site expands ad deal with newspapers  —  NEW YORK - Real-estate Web site Zillow.com is expanding its partnership with 282 newspapers to give national advertisers new ways to reach local markets, changes that the news companies hope will allow them to raise their fees for online ads.
Discussion: paidContent.org
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Reliance Buys Majority Stake in Cricket Video Webcasting Site Willow.tv  —  Reliance ADA Group, the Indian telecom and media conglomerate, has bought a 70 percent stake in Willow.tv, the Cricket webcasting site based in Sunnyvale, CA.  The price was undisclosed, but according to Rajesh Sawhney …
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Ad trade group opposes Yahoo-Google search deal  —  Update at 3:03 p.m. PDT, with comments from the Attorney General from the state of Connecticut, which is one of the lead states in the multi-state antitrust review of the Yahoo-Google deal.  —  The Association of National Advertisers announced Sunday …
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Gina Keating / Reuters:   Advertiser group objects to Google-Yahoo tie up
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Discussion in Facebook Groups and Pages is Public and Searchable  —  While discussion on Facebook Pages has always been publicly accessible to the world and indexed by search engines like Google, wall posts and discussion within Facebook Groups have historically been “off limits” to search engines.
 
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Electronista:
Intel boosts quad-core Xeons to 3.4GHz
Discussion: CNET News, PC World and TG Daily
Brad Linder / Liliputing:
Eee PC 1000H vs. Eee PC 1000: SSD ain't always faster
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Avril's video tops 100 million views
Mr. Besilly / iPhone Savior:
First Look At 'Let's Rock' Banner from Yerba Buena Center
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Law prof warns against coming ISP privacy apocalypse
Ross Mayfield / Ross Mayfield's Weblog:
Leadership and Management of Distributed Collaboration, and the Rise …
Discussion: Between the Lines
 Earlier Items: 
Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Old Web idea of micropayments finally finds a home
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
The Troubles with Google FeedBurner
Fred / A VC:
The “Feedization” Of The Web (continued)
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Roku: We Ain't Afraid of No Caps
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Chrome Receives Heavy Criticism in Germany
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Patrick Frater / Variety:
Tencent Music reports Q4 revenue down 7% YoY to $971M and a $198M profit; in 2023, paying subscribers rose 21% YoY to 107M and net profit rose 36% YoY to $735M

 
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