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Bill Tancer / Hitwise US:
Google Properties - Understanding the Breakdown — Leveraging the custom category capability of Hitwise, I've created a category of the top 20 Google domains in order to understand the popularity of Google's varied services. The table below details the percentage market share …
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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Yahoo! unveils video sharing site, Finance redesign at analyst day — Yahoo! presented its business strategy to analysts yesterday and gave the world a sneak peek at what's to come. A new advertising system is code complete and currently undergoing some testing and, if all goes well, will be rolled out later this year.
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Record Labels Sue XM Radio — As has been widely reported, the four major record labels have filed a copyright infringement suit against XM Radio, based on the recording capabilities included in certain recently-introduced XM receivers, such as the Pioneer Inno and Samsung Helix.
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Danese Cooper / New DivaBlog:
What Sun Doesn't Want You To Know About Java and Open Source — Yes, its been dog's years since I've blogged...but I just couldn't be silent about this. — Today at JavaONE my pal Geir Magnusson is announcing that Harmony has full support for SWING/AWT. This is really big news …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
ISP snooping plans take backseat — A prominent Republican in the U.S. Congress has backed away from plans to rewrite Internet privacy rules by requiring that logs of Americans' online activities be stored. — Wisconsin Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee …
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Rick Segal / The Post Money Value:
Time to hit the road — I had just finished up a panel where one of the smarter start up guys out there (Jason Fried of 37Signals) and I had a panel discussion about VCs and Start Ups. I made the point about Canada being an amazing place to start up a company while Jason made an almost impassioned plea …
CNET News.com:
Dell opts for AMD's Opteron — update Dell has agreed to use Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chip in multiprocessor servers by the end of the year, ending a long-standing policy of sticking exclusively with Intel. — The PC maker made the move public in its first-quarter earnings press release on Thursday.
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Mike Nowak / ceci n'est pas:
E3 Crabtacular — Due to the "me too" nature of a lot of game publishers, pretty much every E3 has a very visible trend, like toon shading or World War 2 shooters. The trend that was noticeable this year, to me, was crabs. Yes, crabs. It became very obvious right from the start during Sony's press conference.
Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
Blog Usability Interview with Kim Krause Berg — A while ago I contacted Kim Krause Berg for a usability review, but I threw a curve ball in on her. I asked her how I could make this blog more usable. I believe Kim is the first person who has ever offered blog usability review services.
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Mark Fletcher presentation at Startup SIG — Mark Fletcher spoke about his experience starting ONElist and Bloglines at this month's SDForum Startup SIG in Palo Alto. Mark has given a similar presentation at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference and at Startup School …
Microsoft:
Microsoft to Acquire Whale Communications, a Leading Provider of SSL VPN and Application Security Technologies — Acquisition will broaden Microsoft's secure access solution. — REDMOND, Wash. — May 18, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement …
Karen E. Klein / Business Week:
The ABC's of Beginning Your Blog — Part Two — Once you determine blogging makes sense for your small business, here's how to get started — This is the second of my two-part series on business blogging. Today: getting started. My previous column dealt with the pros and cons of launching a blog …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Skype's Net Neutrality gamble: we'll be so big, they can't stop us — James Bilefield, head of Skype's European operations, has a plan for combating telecommunications companies eager to do away with Net Neutrality: get big. As companies such as AT&T think about cashing in on a "tiered Internet …
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Stewart Butterfield / FlickrBlog:
Help Wanted — Starting immediately, Flickr is hiring for the positions below. You'll notice there are a lot of them! All of them are newly created positions and represent the first significant expansion of the Flickr team post-acquisition. We're settled now, grown a few thousand percent …
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Washington Post:
Google's Goal: A Worldwide Web of Books — It's odd to hear Vinton Cerf, regarded as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, to gush over ink-on-paper books. — The electronic pioneer and computer scientist, who now works as Google's chief Internet evangelist, is also a bibliophile …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Symantec sues Microsoft over storage tech — update Symantec has launched a suit charging Microsoft with misappropriating its intellectual property and with violating a license related to data storage technology. — The suit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Western District …
