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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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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 …
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Asus Shows off Atom-based Eee PC — Asustek Computer on Monday offered a preview of the Eee PC 901, the next version of its popular ultraportable laptop that is based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor. — The Eee PC 901 was on display at the WiMax Expo, which is being held alongside Taipei's annual Computex exhibition.
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
The Planet CEO Provides Update; Will Be Days Before Full Recovery — Yesterday we were tracking a fire that occured at one of The Planet's datacenters. Check our previous coverage to read the prior updates along with many customer comments that really are quite negative. Below is an update from The Planet CEO.
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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.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Technorati Founder Dave Sifry Takes On Travel Guide Industry
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Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:Offbeat Guides: Personalized, On-demand Travel Guides
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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 …
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Veoh Blocks Some International Access — Video-sharing startup Veoh has blocked visitors from all but 33 countries from accessing its site, a spokesperson confirmed to NewTeeVee today. — Veoh's Gaude Paez told NewTeeVee, “The markets we are exiting collectively represent less than 10 percent of our viewer base.”
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 …
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.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
“me.com” is currently a placeholder page hosted by MarkMonitor, a company that specializes in brand-related DNS management. You can see that it's handled by MarkMonitor by checking the whois information for the domain. … Additional tidbits: — Via Clint Ecker, the name server for me.com changed today.
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.
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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.
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Tremor Media Adds European Founders Fund As Investor; Hires Former Tacoda Exec Pinney As Global CFO — Online video ad network, Tremor Media has hired former Tacoda exec Mark Pinney as global CFO, as the company prepares to expand overseas thanks to an unspecified investment from the European Founders Fund.
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Jack Loftus / Gizmodo:
HP Employee Slices Birthday Cake, Fanboy Hearts With MacBook Air — After viewing this pic of Rahul Sood, the CTO of HP's gaming division this afternoon, we're left to wonder here at the Weekend Gizmodo news desk whether the MacBook Air was misnamed. Perhaps MacBook Shank is more apt …
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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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