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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Joie De Vivre: The Europeans Are Out To Lunch — I write this from a hotel room at Newark airport in New Jersey. I'm half way home from a wonderful week in Paris at the Le Web conference where I mingled with 1,700 or so attendees. My mood: jetlagged, sated and cranky. — My week was spent in luxury.
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
MIT students build mobile applications in 13 weeks — MIT professor Hal Abelson started today's final presentation for the school's “Building Mobile Applications” class by saying, “A course like this couldn't have existed ten years ago... maybe not even a year ago.
Discussion:
Open Gardens
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple: “the iPhone is a gaming console” — According to extremely reliable and embarrassingly handsome Engadget sources, at an iPhone event held today, John Geleynse (AKA Director of Technology Evangelism at Apple) made some statements regarding the iPhone platform that should seriously raise a few eyebrows.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Ex-Yahoos Weigh in on Their Choices for New Yahoo CEO — With so many more ex-Yahoos out there now that the most recent layoffs have taken place, BoomTown put out feelers to a range of them to ask whom they would like to run the company they no longer work for. — After all, who better than to pick a new CEO than an ex?
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Google exec Marissa Mayer engaged — It's Silicon Valley's fairytale romance: Girly-girl nerd worth hundreds of millions meets fellow with a job who looks good in a tux. And now Marissa Mayer and Zack Bogue are getting married, a tipster says. — Talk at the Googleplex has it that Bogue …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Pastebud: It Seemed Like a Good Idea! — Yesterday, I waxed enthusiastic about Pastebud, a new copy-and-paste service for the iPhone that gets around Apple's lack of support for such a feature via a clever end-run that involves transferring text back and forth between Safari and Mail via an online clipboard.
Chris Heilmann / Ajaxian:
YQL - converting the web to JSON with mock SQL — I like getting data from the web and I love JSON - as it is easy to use. The issue is that not many things on the web come as JSON from the get-go. Hence we need converters. You can use cURL and beautiful soup or roll your own hell of regular expressions.
Marc Miller / Gmail Blog:
Fast PDF viewing right in your browser — When I get sent a PDF, sometimes I just want to view it — I don't always need to download and save it right then. So starting today, you'll see a new “View” link next to PDF attachments you get in Gmail: — Clicking “View” quickly opens …
Jack Davis / Bloomberg:
Tech Ticker — Google won an appeals court ruling against a closely held Kentucky company that sought to shut down Google Notebook while a patent-infringement suit was pending. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday upheld a ruling that rejected a request by iLor …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Testing Enhanced Listings, “Pagelinks” & Auto-Spelling Correction — Google is testing a number of changes to its search results, including a way for select publishers to enhance their page descriptions, a way for searchers to jump to sub-sections of a web page and automatically correcting misspelled queries, to some degree.
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Yahoo offers severance with a soft landing — A pink slip for corporate America's newly laid off typically means a severance package and a “see ya.” — But when Yahoo issued its layoff notices to 10 percent of its workforce on Wednesday, it came with a twist, according to several sources.
Discussion:
TECH.BLORGE.com
Blog of helios:
Character-Assasinations-Ain't- Us — It never was my intention to attack anyone personally.... My sights were set on correcting some obvious misconceptions. It was a focused attack on ignorance but with some unsolicited commentary on a particular group. — Whether by proxy or focused intent …
