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Yahoo! Search Blog:
From "To Do" to "Done" in One Search — That sums up Yahoo! Search in a nutshell; the whole point is we want to get you from "to do" to "done." Whatever it is you want to do: research a topic, find a website, plan a vacation, research a medical condition, view a funny video …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Search Just Got Smarter — Yahoo is adding some major features to its search engine today. For instance, images from Flickr and playable videos are now embedded in the main results page. A search for a major rock band like U2 brings up information from the artist's Website …
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Read/WriteWeb, CrunchGear, Silicon Alley Insider, The Technology Chronicles and Searchviews
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:Yahoo Search Launches Google Killer : Search Assist, Videos, Flickr Integration
Telegraph:
Microsoft powers up for change — Chief executive says free software, downloadable online, is on the horizon for consumers. Josephine Moulds reports — Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, yesterday signalled another step towards a dramatic change in the software giant's business model.
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Gemma Soames / Times of London:
Ballmer: Facebook risks being 'a fad' — The Microsoft chief says that Facebook's appeal could fade - after being linked to an investment that would value the site at $10 billion — Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, believes that the craze for individual social networks …
Ed Gorman / Times of London:Steve Ballmer stirs the technology pay row
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Engadget, PDA, paidContent:UK, Valleywag, The Open Road and Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally
How to of the Day:
How to Quit Facebook — Maybe your affinity for Facebook began with a simple desire to keep in touch with your friends, or make new ones online. Or perhaps you were just bored. But now Facebook is the thorn in your side, and possibly a bona fide addiction.
Live Search:
Microsoft acquires Jellyfish.com — We want to welcome some new folks to the Live Search family - we recently purchased a company called Jellyfish.com, based in Madison, Wisconsin. Jellyfish has done some really innovative work in comparative shopping engines.
Guardian:
EBay says it paid almost $1bn too much for Skype — Graeme Wearden — Dotcom giant eBay has admitted it paid far too much when it bought internet telephony company Skype for $2.6bn (£1.28bn) in 2005. — The web auction company said it was writing down the value of Skype …
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Saul Hansell / Bits:EBay's $4 Billion Lesson in the Value of Hype
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The Register, Guardian Unlimited, Mark Evans, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life and Digital Daily
Ed Foster / InfoWorld:
Amazon Makes You Lie to Log Off — Are e-commerce websites making it harder and harder for users to log off? That's certainly a trend one reader has seen evidence of, including confirmation from Amazon that the best way to sign out from your account is to lie to them about who you are.
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Smalltalk Tidbits …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Finds An Obvious Use For WOW.com: A World Of Warcraft Social Network — The wow.com domain name has laid dormant since at least 1998, when it was acquired by AOL along with other assets of Compuserve. The domain has been coveted by a number of AOL business units over the years, though.
Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
The stupidest idea ever? — VENTURE CAPITALIST WAS DISSATISFIED WORKING ON SMART IDEAS, SO HE WENT THE OTHER WAY — As managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, Guy Kawasaki funded all the really smart ideas he could find. None hit it big. — So earlier this year the guru …
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MARS Magazine
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Zune 2 leaks out in three flavors — Well, we'd heard new Zunes were coming tomorrow (or maybe October 16th) and it looks like retailers are starting to receive display units — everyone, say hello to the new Zunes. Barring some Photoshop trickeration, it looks like we're getting …
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InsideMicrosoft, Electronista, Gadget Lab, O'Grady's PowerPage, BetaNews, Anything But iPod, I4U News, hypebot, Mobility Site, Gizmodo, Today @ PC World, CrunchGear, Tech Blog and Digg
Paul Rubens / BBC:
Spam weapon helps preserve books — Typing in two words correctly results in the digitisation of one word — A weapon used to fight spammers is now helping university researchers preserve old books and manuscripts. — Many websites use an automated test to tell computers and humans apart …
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Gizmodo
Computerworld:
America's techiest cities: Silicon Valley No. 1, but who's No. 2? — Hint: It's not Boston or Seattle, according to Census Bureau stats — The highest concentration of IT professionals in the U.S. is — you guessed it — in Silicon Valley. But naming the No 2 spot isn't as easy, and the answer might surprise you.
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The Webpreneur
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Beyond Blogs: Old & New Media Converge — There's been a lot of discussion over the past 24 hours on the new Techmeme Leaderboard, which is a list of the top 100 sources for the popular tech news aggregator - calculated over the past 30 days. The Leaderboard updates daily and each site is ranked with a …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:TechMeme list heralds death of blogging?
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PDA, chartreuse, Techmeme News, odd time signatures, TechCrunch, Future Now's GrokDotCom, Publishing 2.0, Brij Singh's One More Idea, Webware.com, blognation, the Constant Observer, Scripting News, TechBizMedia, Insider Chatter, Rough Type, Between the Lines, franticindustries, How To Split An Atom, ALLIED, Smalltalk Tidbits …, WinExtra, David Dalka, ProBlogger Blog Tips and Webomatica
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Barnes & Noble.com Re-Designed: Adds Some Web 2.0 Elements, But Still Far Behind Amazon.com — Barnes & Noble.com has launched a re-design, with several new web 2. features - including "One on One" podcasts, a large tag cloud on the frontpage, a "See Inside" program that offers …
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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:Barnes & Noble.com revamps home page
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Joe Wikert's Publishing …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony's $399 PS3 confirmed by Best Buy? — Thanks to a helpful tipster, we have a couple of Best Buy documents showing a $399 Playstation 3 with 40GB disk and Spiderman 3 (yes, Blu-ray) bundle with an "In Stock Date" of October 28. However, the more important "Street Date" field is unfortunately empty at the moment.
