Top Items:
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
New Microsoft Browser Raises Google's Hackles — With a $10 billion advertising market at stake, Google, the fast-rising Internet star, is raising objections to the way that it says Microsoft, the incumbent powerhouse of computing, is wielding control over Internet searching in its new Web browser.
Discussion:
Don Dodge on The Next …, GOOG, Web X.0, Guardian Unlimited, Rough Type, Clickety Clack, B2Day, Mark Evans, Niall Kennedy's Weblog, Shore Communications Inc., Investor Relations Blog, Blogging Stocks, InsideGoogle, Google Operating System, Search Engine Watch Blog, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Corante Web Hub, Channel 9, Google Blogoscoped, The Technology Liberation … and Todd Bishop's Microsoft …
RELATED ITEMS:
IEBlog:
Search in IE7 (Part 2) — I posted previously that in IE7, the user is in control of search, and that changing the default search provider (as well as modifying the list of search engines in IE7's list) is easy. In this post I'll describe some of the specifics and recap feedback we've gotten from users.
Discussion:
Rough Type
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Yahoo Introduces a Site on Consumer Technology — In one of its first major efforts to build a Web site with original material, Yahoo will introduce today a site devoted to consumer technology. — The site, called Yahoo Tech (tech.yahoo.com), will feature blogs on technology and a weekly video program.
RELATED ITEMS:
Read/WriteWeb:
Review of Yahoo Tech - by The Gen X Web 2.0 Geek — The big news of the night is Yahoo's release of a new technology portal, aimed squarely at non-geeks (see site tour). To make the point it's not for geeks, the site features 4 stereotypical "advisors" (aka bloggers): The Boomer, The Mom, The Working Guy, The Techie Diva.
Discussion:
InterMedia
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
In Lieu of 'Lucy,' Yahoo Launches Tech — Provides Model for Future Content Plays; Lines Up Verizon, H-P — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Just two months after Yahoo media and entertainment chief Lloyd Braun abandoned his grandiose quest to bring an "I Love Lucy" moment to the Web …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Guns for CNET Reviews — Yahoo Tech launched tonight, taking clear aim at the massively popular CNET Reviews property. — The best way to get a quick understanding of the site is to take the tour, also linked from the home page. Yahoo Tech is providing content about technology products …
Discussion:
CyberNet Technology News
Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 Part 2: On Language and Tagging — Late last month, I gave a high-level overview of the growth of the blogosphere, covering the overall size of the data sets that Technorati tracks, the number of new blogs created each day, the number of posts per day, and the issue of splogs or spam blogs.
Associated Press:
Viruses catch up to the Mac — Experts debate just how susceptible Apple is becoming — SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — Benjamin Daines was browsing the Web when he clicked on a series of links that promised pictures of an unreleased update to his computer's operating system.
Garrett French / Search Engine Lowdown:
Google Dumped by Amazon's Alexa for MSN Live: Google Dump #1 — From Aaron Wall at Thread Watch comes word that MSN Live is now powering Alexa's (update: AND A9's) search results instead of Google, the previous partner: Alexa Powered by Microsoft. — Alexa results were previously Google results informed …
Discussion:
GOOG, Clickety Clack, Rough Type, Google Operating System, Search Engine Watch Blog and InterMedia
RELATED ITEMS:
Sara Kehaulani Goo / Washington Post:
Five Months After Its Debut, YouTube Is a Star — Online Video Site Could Help Create Old-Media Celebs, Too — The closest Terry Turner comes to Washington politics is his job as a bureaucrat at the Pentagon — until, that is, he fires up the camcorder pointed at a makeshift TV studio in his Arlington apartment.
Discussion:
GOOG
Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG:
Voice 2.0 On A Roll — I've been offline all weekend. It was the first really nice weekend we've had since winter. Living in this part of the world, when the good weather arrives, you take advantage of it! — Anyway, having been offline, I missed the growing Voice 2.0 buzz.
drupal.org:
Drupal 4.7.0 released — After more than a year of development we are ready to release Drupal 4.7.0 to the world. More than five years, 13 major releases, 30+ servicing firms employing 100+ Drupal professionals, 300+ third party modules, and over 55,000+ Drupal powered sites later, Drupal 4.7.0 is finally here and it rocks!
Tanner Morrison / The Apple Blog:
Macbook Pros Are Hot — As many of you have seen, heard, or used a Macbook Pro, you know that they run kind of hot. This is partially because of the insane processor speed, and the small size of the casing; even though there are some other mysteries of the heat.
paulgraham.com:
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn — The startups we've funded so far are pretty quick, but they seem quicker to learn some lessons than others. I think it's because some things about startups are kind of counterintuitive. — We've now invested in enough companies that I've learned …
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Eye-Fi Builds WiFi into Flash Memory — Sure, there are digital cameras with WiFi capability, letting you send your photos directly to the mothership with no muss or fuss, but now Eye-Fi has found a way to retrofit anything using a flash memory device for WiFi goodness …
Guy Kawasaki / Signum sine tinnitu:
The Top Ten Lies of Marketers (with bonus) — By popular demand, here are the top ten lies of marketers. Actually, it was too hard to stop at ten, so this list is a dirty dozen. As my mother used to say, "How can you tell if a marketer is lying? His lips are moving."
Discussion:
Tech_Space
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
SaleGenius-no genius but useful service — With a name that's impossible to live up to, Genius Inc. launched what company CEO David Thompson called the industry's "first on-demand customer intelligence solution that turns sales professionals into sales geniuses." What does it mean to become a sales genius?
Ryan / CyberNet Technology News:
Download Music From MyBloop.com For Free — Bookmark This: del.icio.us - Digg it - Furl - reddit - Spurl - Yahoo MyWeb — A user on Digg had posted a method to get music from MyBloop.com for free. MyBloop.com allows users to have unlimited storage for their files and music.
Discussion:
gHacks
Fernando Cassia / Inquirer:
Abacus WristPDA: a watch goes where no PDA can go — First Inqpressions Time is on your side, yes it is — Web site: www.abacuswatches.com — Price: $50 to $90 Support: Fossil's web site — DO YOU keep your PDA with you all the time?. Really? How about during the early morning or late night exercise walk? -if you have one.
Sam Ruby:
POND ENVY — Michal Wallace: The other main advantage is the huge number of developers. Thanks to Microsoft's reach, .NET is a much bigger pond than python. I can hire .NET developers anywhere, or if i want, I can get a job as a .NET developer. (The Java pond is bigger still, but Java always felt clunky to me.)
RELATED ITEMS:
