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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Ask.com Revamps Search Engine — Ask.com has a record of coming up with interesting innovations that are often copied by others in the Internet search business. Yet those innovations have done little to help the company expand its share of the search audience.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
So, you need a job? Man, do resumes suck — Since the economy is slowing down, I'm hearing of lots of you who are getting laid off and looking for jobs. Here's my experience on the other side of that — being someone who is trying to hire someone. — Fast Company TV is hiring an administrative assistant.
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Enterprise Irregulars
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
eBay-backed community site Tokoni leaves beta — Tokoni, a community site for “sharing stories,” has formally launched after nearly a year of public beta. It has taken investment backing from eBay as well as the auction giant's founder, Pierre Omidyar, and was founded by former eBay executive Mary Lou Song …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Story-sharing site Tokoni makes blogging a little less lonely — Tokoni, a site where users can share their stories in the form of notes, photos and videos, is formally launching today. Think of it as a YouTube for stories, or as a broader version of medical support sites like Trusera and DailyStrength, but not limited to health.
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The Inquisitr
Mark Evans:
Wordpress 2.7 is the Real Deal — For all the excitement about Wordpress 2.5 with its pretty new design, Wordpress didn't change all that much for me. — The layout was different, the design (provided by hot-shot consulting firm, Happy Cog) was a lot more user-friendly but Wordpress continued to be Wordpress.
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
WordCamp NYC: Matt Mullenweg on the State of Wordpress (video) — Today in NYC WordCamp was held at the Sun Microsystems HQ. A big thanks to Jonathan Dingman for organizing everything... having been to many “camps”, this one was better organized than most.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Music Streamed Its Billionth Song “A Few Days” After Launch — It took iTunes nearly three years to get to 1 billion song downloads. MySpace Music streamed a billion songs in just a few days after it launched on September 25. And while this isn't a fair comparison …
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TECH.BLORGE.com
randomwalker's journal:
Lessons from the failure of Livejournal: when NOT to listen to your users — facebook, livejournal, social networks, web2.0 … In the last couple of months, there have been multiple developments that seem to indicate that the combination of a blogging platform/commenting system …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google Chrome: One Month Later — Earlier this week, Profy.com's Svetlana Gladkova sent an email reminding me that Google's Chrome Browser was one month old. How time flies, and how quickly we forget: or at least I did. After my initial few posts and thoughts, Google Chrome has fallen off …
Associated Press:
Verizon says $28.1B buyout of Alltel on track — LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Verizon Wireless says it is moving forward with plans to acquire Alltel Corp. for $28.1 billion, although the country's financial climate has worsened since the companies reached an agreement four months ago.
David Smith / Guardian:
‘Intelligent’ computers put to the test' — Programmers try to fool human interrogators — Can machines think? That was the question posed by the great mathematician Alan Turing. Half a century later six computers are about to converse with human interrogators in an experiment that will attempt to prove that the answer is yes.
Jon Gertner / New York Times:
Capitalism to the Rescue — How Green Was the Valley — One afternoon last May in Menlo Park, Calif., a venture capitalist named Ray Lane led me from his office to the parking lot, where an automobile had been delivered a few hours earlier by flatbed truck.
