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Waxy.org:
Yahoo and Upcoming, Sitting In A Tree — Two years ago, I launched Upcoming.org and announced it to the world. Today, along with my partners Gordon Luk and Leonard Lin, I'm unbelievably proud to announce that Upcoming.org is now a member of the Yahoo! family. — I've always had a warm and fuzzy feeling about Yahoo.
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Yahoo! Search blog:
What's Upcoming at Yahoo! Local — As readers of the Yahoo! Search blog know, our vision is a far-reaching one — to enable people to find, use, share, and expand all human knowledge. — Events are a particularly exciting area of human knowledge — chock full of rich local, social, and temporal data.
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¿Y! Tu? (aka Holy Schmoly, aka Leeerrooooy Jeeenkinns) — (links filled as they come, check out the upcoming update, refresh css) — It seems like the cool thing for all my friends to do these days is to announce that they're now working for Yahoo! I think you know where this is heading …
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Getluky / getluky.net:
Yahoo! Acquires Upcoming.org — Today marks the day that Yahoo! has officially acquired Upcoming.org. Here's the official announcement, which covers the basics: … Tackling the tricky problems behind events is a worthy challenge. Many sites make an attempt to be a calendar on the Internet …
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Andreessen's Ning unveiled — We woke up this morning to the buzz of Ning, the start-up co-founded by Marc Andreessen, the guy who co-founded Netscape. — We were alerted by a tipster in the wee hours this morning, but we see it is already No. 7 on words searched at Technorati — at least as of this writing.
Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
Philadelphia to Be City of Wireless Web — Philadelphia yesterday announced a plan to build the biggest municipal wireless Internet system in the nation, the latest of a growing number of cities to treat high-speed Web access as a basic municipal service like water, electricity and trash collection.
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Phoenix / Search Engine Roundtable:
Save Jeeves! Pask Ask Employee Speaks Out — Save Jeeves, so says a very concerned blogger! It appears one of the past employees of Ask are getting up in arms about the decision from Ask/IAC to sack the butler. He apparently has a following that is voicing their dismay at loosing him eventually.
eWEEK.com:
Microsoft FAT Patents Get Thumbs Down — Updated: The USPTO has rejected two key patent applications around FAT, but Microsoft still believes it has a good chance of triumphing. Open-source vendors are holding their breath. — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected …
Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Why WiMax Could Hit the Hotspot — The technology for delivering fast Web access over large areas could help upstart communications outfits nab share from established players — Wi-Fi has changed the way people navigate the Internet, and in record time. The technology, which is used …
Fred / A VC:
Point Solutions vs End to End Solutions — I wrote this on the flight out to the Web 2.0 conference. I hope it stimulates some interesting conversations. — One of the central tenets of Web 2. thinking is that lightweight "point solutions" that can be stitched together by the consumer …
linuxdevices.com:
Wind River flows into mobile Linux maelstrom — Wind River Systems Inc. today launched a version of its commercial embedded Linux distribution targeting mobile phones, set-top boxes, PVRs (personal video recorders), and other small-footprint consumer electronics devices.
Evan Ratliff / New Yorker:
THE ZOMBIE HUNTERS — On the trail of cyberextortionists. — One afternoon this spring, a half-dozen young computer engineers sat in the headquarters of Prolexic, an Internet-security company in Hollywood, Florida, puzzling over an attack on one of the company's clients, a penileenhancement business called MensNiche.com.
