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2:05 AM ET, June 2, 2008

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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Webtop Watch: Adobe Launches Acrobat.com and Releases Acrobat 9 (With Flash).  —  Continuing its push to become a major provider of Webtop software, Adobe is releasing two new products on Monday: Acrobat.com and Acrobat 9.  Adobe's Webtop arsenal already includes the recently launched online version …
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Elsa Wenzel / CNET News.com:
Adobe Acrobat takes big online leap  —  Adobe unveiled an online community Monday with a word processor; file storage and sharing; and deep tie-ins to a newly Flash-enabled Acrobat 9.  —  The online push for Acrobat is a bold move for a brand perhaps best associated with the free …
Eric Lai / Computerworld:
Adobe pushes Acrobat into online office space against Microsoft, Google  —  Vendor launches beta of hosted collaboration service; Acrobat 9 update also on tap  —  Computerworld) Adobe Systems Inc.'s Acrobat software, long popular as a way to share, print and archive documents …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
The Human Hands Behind the Google Money Machine  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — If Google were the United States government, the data that streams onto Nicholas Fox's laptop every day would be classified as top secret.  —  Mr. Fox is among a small group of Google employees who keep a watchful eye …
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Even Google Has to Advertise  —  Giant Markets Maps App Using the One Medium It's Never Sold: Outdoor  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Google has built the most powerful brand in the world with nary a bit of brand advertising.  But as ads for Google Maps crop up on buses in San Francisco and trains in Chicago …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Cool Features in Firefox 3  —  If you decide to upgrade from Firefox 2 to the first release candidate of Firefox 3, you'll notice an improved performance, less memory leaks, a revamped interface and some very interesting new features:  —  * select discontinuous text - press Ctrl …
Lora Pabst / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
North Oaks tells Google Maps: Keep out - we mean it  —  The St. Paul suburb with private roads may be the first U.S. city to ask that street images be removed.  —  You can look at almost anything on Google.  Just don't try to sneak a peek of the homes in the private community of North Oaks.
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Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
Minnesota town tells Google Maps to get lost
Discussion: Gizmodo and WebGuild
Corvida / ReadWriteWeb:
RSS Reset: Dump Your Feeds for a Month  —  Are you subscribing to too many blogs?  Tired of the same old stuff flowing through your feeds?  Think there's a better way?  Well, we have just the idea for you.  Join us in the dumping of our RSS feeds for an entire month!  —  RSS Reset Month
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J. Phil / scribkin:   RSS Feed Mayhem
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Social Networks 1% rule or The Community Pyramid  —  What is the social network 1% rule?  Generally in a group of 100 people online, one will create content, 10 will “interact” with it (commenting or adding to it) and the other 89 will just view it.  But, everyone benefits from the activities of the whole group.
Discussion: Web Strategy
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Nvidia's mobile ambitions adding MIDs to the list  —  Nvidia is doubling down on its budding processor business for the next generation of mobile computers.  —  This week at Computex, Nvidia plans to show off its new Tegra brand for mobile application processors.
Discussion: Engadget and UMPCPortal
Ryan Kim / San Francisco Chronicle:
Startup to take on Bluetooth  —  A Palo Alto startup is betting it can replace Bluetooth, the wireless standard, using another popular and familiar technology: Wi-Fi.  —  Ozmo Devices is introducing a set of products and software today that allow device manufacturers to connect laptops …
Chris Kanaracus / IDG News Service:
IBM Reveals Jazz Product Launch Wave  —  Team Concert 1.0, the first commercial product derived from IBM's Jazz platform for collaborative development, will be available on June 30, with nearly 20 related offerings from IBM and partners set to ship by the end of 2008, the company announced Monday.
Discussion: My Blog Posts
Cate Doty / New York Times:
College Alumni Magazines Struggle to Compete With Facebook  —  Most people read their college alumni magazines for the class notes, immediately flipping to the back to see who was married, had a baby or was promoted to an envy-inducing job.  The columns tend to be meatiest at this time of year — class reunion season.
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Syncing vs. saving, and the case for a home storage cloud  —  This article was inspired by a post from Steve Foskett on Dell's The Future of Storage site.  In his post, Foskett tries to make the case for the “Home SAN.”  While I'm not convinced that the answer to all my home storage problems is a …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Virgin Radio Sold To Times of India Publisher For $106 Million  —  Indian media company Bennett, Coleman & Co, owner of Times of India newspaper, has made its biggest international buy: it has bought out UK's Virgin Radio for about $106 million.  SMG, the Scottish broadcaster, owner of Virgin Radio …
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Indian publisher buys Virgin Radio for £53.2m
Discussion: Mashable!
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Walking around Paris with Dave Sifry  —  I was sworn to secrecy about what we were doing in Paris last December.  You thought I was there to attend and speak at the LeWeb conference.  I was.  But we also were testing out Dave Sifry's new business idea, which he now calls Offbeat Guides.
Discussion: WebMetricsGuru and Webware.com
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Technorati Founder Dave Sifry Takes On Travel Guide Industry
 
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Like.com's Creepy, But Effective, Facebook Ads
Discussion: STARTUP CHATTER and Digg