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Facebook’s Glass Jaw

Facebook finally has a real problem to deal with - an exceptionally rational and well-thought-out strategy by Google that puts the leading social media cloud in the path of a wave of angry users. The...
Blabnote: The Voice-Only Social Network. Say What?

It seems a given that mobile social networking is going to be “the next big thing”, but squinting at tiny text is still a pain on today’s phones. To deal with this issue, Blabnote,...
Friday Survey: Do You Own An iPhone?

It’s coming up on a year since the iPhone was released, and the second version appears to be just around the corner. So it’s a good time to check in with our readers and see just how many...
Battle Over Data Ownership on Gillmor Gang

Epic Gillmor Gang today. Everyone went in with guns blazing over the data portability/ownership debate that has spilled out over the Facebook/Google scuffle. DataPortability founder Chris Saad was als...
Storyblender Brings a Goofy Side to Casual Animation

Storyblender, which recently launched in private beta, is a new casual animation platform that will appeal to users who want customized movies in a hurry. The site was a presenter at TechCrunch 40.

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The F|R Interview: Turn Co-founder, Jim Barnett

Jim Barnett is co-founder and CEO of Turn, a three-year-old online advertising firm that uses an eBay-like auction to improve the way advertisers are matched to web publishers. Previously, Jim was pre...
Let’s Talk About Data Portability/Interoperability:

Weather in San Francisco Bay Area is especially nice and is likely to remain that way for a while. It makes perfect sense to sit outside and talk about the hottest topic to hit the Innerwebs: Data por...
Networking: How to Work a Twitter Party

Networking has always been a high art in business. Just ask Susan Roane, my mentor and author of the seminal tome, “How to Work a Room.” (I know a handful of VCs and startup kings on Sand...
Event: Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Road Show

Microsoft will hold its fourth Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Road Show at its campus in Mountain View, Calif., next Thursday, May 22. The event, which will showcase examples of all kinds of cool t...
MetroFi Is Dot.Gone

In what is proving to be yet another high-profile Metro Wi-Fi failure, MetroFi, a San Jose-based startup that raised over $15 million from Sevin Rosen and August Capital, is close to shutting down, ac...

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The Importance Of Being An Early Adopter

Back in the summer of 2006, a new and - to many - not that interesting service called Twttr was launched as a side project from Odeo. It was later renamed to Twitter, and it started gaining some serio...
ComScore: People Now Paying More Visits To Google Than Yahoo

While it may surprise some people it hadn’t yet happened (or perhaps that it actually did happen), Google has finally overtaken Yahoo as the most visited site on the Web. Linda Rosencrance of Co...
Yahoo Shareholders Claim Company Is Concealing Critical Documents

The shareholder lawsuit against Yahoo over the board of directors’ failure to accept the buyout from Microsoft is getting more complicated by the day. According to Michael Liedtke of the Associa...
Mozilla Debuts Firefox 3 Release Candidate

En route to an official launch next month, Mozilla put up for download its Firefox 3 Release Candidate yesterday evening. Mozilla is describing Firefox 3 RC1 as yet another milestone “focused on tes...
70 Fresh And Modern Blogger Templates

You can never have a too wide choice of templates for your blog, especially if you’re the experimenting type. Therefore, we started another round up of Blogger themes, this time focusing on fres...

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Sex And The Single Site: Turner's TheFrisky Likes The Single Life, For Now

Last month, after AOL's (NYSE: TWX) stealth work on an edgy women's lifestyle site, one of our readers pointed us to TheFrisky.com as a beta version of the site AOL was working on. Wrong Time Warner f...
More On WPP-Yahoo Exchange Deal: Walrath: 'We've Reached Scale'

Although WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell coined the term "frenemy" to describe Google's (NSDQ: GOOG) relationship to the ad industry, to a lesser degree the the word was often applied to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)...
Weekend Video: Stats Blast From eMarketer CEO Geoff Ramsey

The Online Publishers Association's Forum For The Future in London on Thursday handed the task of engaging delegates after lunch to Geoff Ramsey, founder of digital research analyzer eMarketer. He did...
As Icahn Storms The Gates, Yahoo Sends Google Ad Smoke Signals Again

Every time things heat up at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), they seem to play the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) card. In the days before it went into failed negotiations with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), the company leaked wor...
Top Headlines Of The Week From paidContent:UK, mocoNews And contentSutra

Top headlines of the week from our sister sites paidContent:UK, mocoNews and contentSutra: paidContent:UK: -- @ OPA: Guardian Mulls India Launch - But What Price A Brand Extension? -- TNS To WPP:...

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OPML Resources for ReadWriteWeb Readers

As you may have heard, we're big fans of RSS here at ReadWriteWeb. We've covered many RSS readers, aggregators, sites, and services in the past and have provided RSS tips in posts like "Seven Tips for...
MrBabyMan: Digg Users Revolt, Against the One Pure Man at the Top

Andrew Sorcini lives in Los Angeles, works as an animator for Dinsney and is the most powerful user that social news site Digg.com has ever seen. Known at Digg and elsewhere as MrBabyMan, Sorcini has...
Demand.OpenID.net: A One Click Call to Action

OpenID provider JanRain has launched an interesting project called Demand OpenID, which lets users click a bookmarklet whenever they are on a website that they want to request OpenID support on. It's...
Snackr is an RSS Addict's Dream Come True

Snackr is a new Adobe AIR app that lets you display items in your RSS feeds in a beautiful scrolling ticker on any edge of your screen. I am absolutely giddy about it after only a few minutes of use.
The Most Popular Twitter Apps According to the Blogosphere

Six weeks ago, ReadWriteWeb published their definitive list of the top Twitter clients. The methodology for that list was watching the Twitter public feed and logging tweet sources. However, how doe...

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Wired parent buys Ars Technica -- and Webmonkey, too? [Acquisitions]

TechCrunch reports that CondeNet, the online arm of Condé Nast and the parent of Wired.com, has bought Ars Technica, a rival technology news site. But if the latest issue of Wired is any... [[...
A week in which we lapped it up [Recap]

Sweet mother of mercy was it hot this week. Of course, those at the workplace rated best by Valleywag readers, Digg, can just reach into the company cooler for a cold one. I'm sure Jerry Yang could...
The real reason for Mark Zuckerberg's trip around the world: He's bad at goodbyes [Facebook]

We've never gotten a straight story on why Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took off for a trip around the world. Work or pleasure? Our latest tipster says that Zuck's travels are really about about... [...
How to avoid being a Facebook shill like VC David Sze [Silicon Valley Users Guide]

Greylock Partners VC David Sze is no doubt thrilled to have been caught endorsing Blackberry via Facebook. Such "social ads" are the very reason his firm invested in the social network. If you're...
Accused of downloading child porn? Blame Google [Crime]

William Dalgleish, charged with downloading 16,000 "indecent images of children", is trying for a Google defense. "If companies like Google did not provide access to such sites, he would not have...

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spellr.us

spellr.us (email waitinglist) spellr.us is a website tool that automatically spell checks websites and provides a monitoring service that regularly checks your website for spelling mistakes.
plantwire

plantwire information on many of the world’s most beautiful, interesting, and important plants. You can search by plant name, flower color, or by tags. PlantWire – un parque bo...
Wuapi

Wuapi your life in high definition Wuapi, nueva plataforma de contenidos audiovisuales en alta definición...
celebrity matchup

celebrity matchup Find your celebrity look alike Picitup Celebrity Match: scopri a quale celebrity assomigli...
blabnote

blabnote (Blabnote is strictly invite only and we are currently in private beta.) Vocal Social Network? Blabnote: The Voice-Only Social Network. Say What?

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The Kindle vs. The Gadget Hall Of Fame: How Will Amazon's Sales Stack Up? (AMZN)

How many Kindles will Amazon sell in its first year out? We've seen two estimates so far: An Asian screen supplier is supposedly gearing up to provide Amazon (AMZN) with parts for more than 600,000 K...
TV's Upfronts: What You Didn't Miss This Week

For the first time in a long time, we didn't see a single minute of the broadcast networks' upfronts sales pitches this year. Apparently, we didn't miss a thing. In a nod to the 100-day writers strike...
Photo Of New Treo Emerges, Proves That Palm Is Still A Year Behind The Industry

We've spent the last two years with a Palm Treo, and it's proven to be both the best and worst phone we've ever owned. In the next few months, we hope to upgrade to a 3G Apple (AAPL) iPhone. Why not a...
Best Buy (BBY) Buying Netflix (NFLX) For $44?

A reader says there was chatter to that effect this afternoon, as Netflix (NFLX) pushed 6% higher on high volume. Would this make sense? Only if Best Buy (BBY) has been persuaded that the Blockbuster...
RIM CEO: Actually, We Didn't Rip Off The iPhone

When we saw the first photos of Research in Motion's new "Bold," we assumed co-CEO Jim Balsillie had just plunked Apple's iPhone down in front of his engineers and said "Give me something like this."...

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Recent job listings on the Ars job board

Ars Technica has 18 awesome new job listings to get your creative juices flowing.Read More...
MySpace "cyber bully mom" will stand trial in LA

Lori Drew will soon go on trial, accused of fatally "cyber bullying" a young teen. But research shows that her high profile case isn't typical of adult/teen Internet encounters.Read More...
VIA talks up Isaiah dual-cores, 45nm transition

2008 isn't even halfway over, but VIA is making long-term plans around its new Isaiah architecture. By 2009, the company plans to transition Isaiah to a dual-core design on a 45nm process.Read More...
Orphan works bill clears Senate committee, may soon find home

Orphan works legislation is moving full steam ahead in both the House and Senate, but some copyright owners are convinced the bill will make it too easy for others to rip off their work.Read More...
MySpace spammers given largest fine in CAN-SPAM history

Two individuals responsible for using MySpace accounts to spam other users failed to show up in court this week to fight the CAN-SPAM charges. The result was a default judgment of $234 million against...

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As Long As We Are Rethinking Yahoo's Board

Carl Icahn has suggested a new slate of directors for Yahoo! as part of his proxy fight with the company. The International Herald Tribune has a list of the current ten directors and Icahn's proposed...
If You Are Looking For Something More Entrepreneurial

Adam Lashinsky wrote a post this past week titled "Where Does Google Go Next" in which he outlined the exodus of many well known Google engineers and business execs. Here is the line that kind of sums...
More True Today Than 2 1/2 Years Ago When I Wrote This

In the fall of 2006, Business 2.0 asked me to write a short post about how blogging can build your business. It ran in the December 2006 issue in a story called "How To Succeed In 2007". Alex Hammer s...
From Twittergram to SwitchABit

I love posting photos to my twitterstream. I do it all the time. The first service I used to do this is called twittergram and it was a proof of concept built by Dave Winer. I posted about it last...
Looking Forward

So much of the news in the tech world this morning is about old news, Yahoo!, CNET, Plaxo. I suggest you ignore all of that and focus on what went on last night in San Jose at the annual Churchill...

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Learn to Play an Instrument Online [How To]

Chances are at one point or another, you've either purchased an instrument or considered doing so with the intention of learning to play it; most of us, however, never get around the the learning...
Pit a Ripe Avocado the Easy Way [Cooking]

If there's one useful thing that I learned when I moved to California, it's how to slice and pit a ripe avocado. Forget scooping out the pit with a spoon and losing any bit of that precious green...
Connect Hobbyist Hardware to Your Mac [Weekend Project]

Macworld contributor Brian Jepson isn't content with just connecting external drives, mice, scanners, and printers to his Mac—he wants to control custom hardware. He explains how to do just...
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Released [Beta Beat]

Mozilla pushed out the first release candidate of Firefox 3 early this evening, so if you're already field testing Firefox 3, now's the time to go to Help -> Check for Updates to download the latest..
This Week's Best Posts [Highlights]

Wrap your Friday with a quick recap of our most popular posts this week: Get Vista's Best Features in XP "Despite the fact that most of you prefer XP to Vista and would rather Microsoft extended...

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A business model for Twitter: Pay up (Dan Farber/Outside the Lines)

Dan Farber / Outside the Lines: A business model for Twitter: Pay up — The Web spirit of “build an audience and figure out the business model later” is a great filter.&nb...
High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers (Martin Fackler/New York Times)

Martin Fackler / New York Times: High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers — TOKYO — Japan is running out of engineers. — After years of fretting over comi...
Spielberg pops up on Seesmic (Jemima Kiss/PDA)

Jemima Kiss / PDA: Spielberg pops up on Seesmic — Seesmic, the video discussion site, has gone wild this morning as Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, George Lucas and more big names f...
Best Buy (BBY) Buying Netflix (NFLX) For $44? (Henry Blodget/Silicon Alley Insider)

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: Best Buy (BBY) Buying Netflix (NFLX) For $44? — A reader says there was chatter to that effect this afternoon, as Netflix (NFLX) pushed 6% high...
Firefox 3 Release Candidate now available for download (Beltzner/Mozilla Developer News)

Beltzner / Mozilla Developer News: Firefox 3 Release Candidate now available for download — Please note: The Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a public preview release intended for deve...

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Gorgeous new Theme Pack for Ubuntu introduced - FutureLooks!

This theme combines elements of all 3 Desktop OSs to create a seamless, modern appearence for Ubuntu and any other Debian derivatives.
Firefox 3 RC1 Now Available

I was actually expecting to still see beta 5 when I went to the developers page, but was happily surprised.
Motherboard wars: Asus threatens to sue Gigabyte, websites

Don't spread it, or we'll sue you!
Electronic Facemask Re-skins Reality

In a troubling future, these augmented reality devices would offer a new dimension - a virtual layer that could be used to “re-skin” the troubling outside world. A boundary between the wearer and...
Dot-me, baby: Clock is ticking on .me domain names

Trademark-holders have until May 20 to register their company and product names under the new .me domain, which is being marketed as a generic top-level domain by the country of Montenegro. Applicants...

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==A Million Little Markups==

You want to accept text input from users: comments on your forum, entries in your wiki, et cetera. You want the users to be able to add formatting to their text. If they are allowed to use the full sp...
Swap Pixel Bender Filters on New Adobe Exchange Site

Adobe's new Flash Player 10 beta allows developers to build their own custom filters and effects using a new tool known as Pixel Bender. Pixel Bender is the same set of tools that powers the filters f...
Opera Mini 4.1: The Mobile Browser for Skateboarding Wookies On The Go!

Opera Software has released version 4.1 of its Mini web browser, designed for phone devices. The 4.1 beta has been available for testing for just over a month, but the official release means that the...
XP on OLPC Like Fish on Bicycle, But More Crash-Prone

According to the stated principles on the web site of the One Laptop Per Child project: "There is no inherent external dependency in being able to localize software into their language, fix the s...
Facebook, Google Square Off Over Who Controls Your Data (Hint: It's Not You)

Here's a shocker for you: Facebook doesn't want to give up its tight-knit control of your personal information. The company has officially banned Google's recently-launched Friend Connect service, whi...

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Snackr drenches your computer in a river of news

Marshall Kirkpatrick, over at ReadWriteWeb, turned me on to Snackr with a post from earlier today. Snackr describes itself as being an RSS ticker. It provides a constant river of news on your screen...
Presdo schedule helper: Clever, but not enough

I do appreciate the Google-simple start page. Of all the meeting time brokers I've seen, Presdo is the most peculiar. Which means it's worth checking out. Unlike other apps I've covered (Timebridge,...
Firefly lets everyone talk over your site

I've heard of death by a thousand cuts, but never cursors--that was until Firefly, a less-than-practical approach to letting your site visitors communicate with one another in real time. The service l...
WujWuj makes group gifting easier, at a price

WujWuj is a badly named, yet really simple to use group gifting service. The aim is to let you gift a single friend with one or more items from Amazon.com and spread out the payment over a group of fr...
Google to host 'Factory Tour' Monday morning

Google is hosting a media circus, or "Factory Tour," at its Mountain View campus on Monday morning. Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience, will be speaking. At other events I've hea...

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State of the Art: A Bean Bag That Delivers Web Widgets

Set a Chumby on your bedside table and watch the widgets go by.
Pogue's Posts: Connecting to the Internet on the Go

If you don’t want to spend your life hunting down (and paying for) little Wi-Fi hot spots everywhere you go, the closest thing you can get to online everywhere is to buy a cellular modem.
Pogue's Posts: The Return of VBA for Mac Office — Someday

Microsoft says it will bring back the ability to write macros in the next version of Office for the Macintosh — whenever that comes out.
Pogue's Posts: A Big Whoops

Longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley discovered the risks of writing about ever-changing tech companies as she hit the publishing deadline for her new book about the software giant.
Pogue's Posts: An Old Web Icon Disappears

David Pogue explains the mystery behind the Toyota Corolla mileage counter on his home page.

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TV at 140 Miles Per Hour

Digital sub-channels have not exactly been raving successes. So the broadcasters would love to find something else to do with their additional spectrum. One solution may soon appear next year in the f...
Spammers Create a Tricky Situation for Stickam

Stickam, a live webcam chat site with more than two million members, says hackers broke into a message board system and made off with users' e-mail addresses. Now those addresses are in the hands of s...
CNet: CBS Gives Us Air Cover

By selling out to CBS, CNet can put behind it questions about its stock options practices and pressure from unhappy shareholders. CBS says it will benefit from more high-priced online ad inventory it...
Dreaming of an iPhone Keyboard as Good as a BlackBerry’s

(6:45 P.M. UPDATE: Research in Motion apparently thinks Apple is on to a good thing. The company plans to introduce a BlackBerry with a touch-screen keyboard in the third quarter, according to the blo...
CNet’s Allure for CBS: Both Are Laggards

CNet is big, but growth is slow and profit margins are low. That's just like CBS, which agreed to buy CNet for $1.8 billion on Thursday.

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The Green Web

FM has partnered with Chevy to create a site that pulls together the best of sites on the web covering all things green. I've found it a nice way to stay in touch with a subject I'm increasingly inter...
Evil Is Subjective

Yet another example here....
Seems Dumb To Me

Apparently there are all sorts of unofficial brand fan pages on Facebook. This story talks about how one of them, a fan page for Ralph Lauren, was disabled and transferred from the individual who star...
Facebook and Google: True Social Networking Friends

From News.com: A post Thursday on Facebook's developer blog explains that the social network has suspended participation in Google's "Friend Connect" project, citing a violation of its internal terms...
Yahoo At AT&T

Yahoo 404 was a clever idea back when it debuted (more). I was at the game with Jason Weisberger, our COO, who is a great photographer, and after this post, he pinged me with this image: "How the Gian...

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PG: Disconnecting Distraction

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Firefox 3.0rc1 is now available for download

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Rails on Rubinius

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Ask HN: Subscription web sites: How did you get your first customer?

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Erlang is at long last getting the break it deserves.

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Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?

In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether there is too much emphasis on just one stakeholder - the shareholde...
XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?

Updated: The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux. On the surface, a little choice isn’t go...
Jerry Yang is busy…Writing email

Yahoo filed its internal communications about Carl Icahn’s proxy war plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The takeaway: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been writing a lot of emails. To se...
iPhone’s international rollout continues; 10 million units not a stretch

Apple’s iPhone will be headed to a few more countries courtesy of a new deal with French telecom carrier Orange. In a statement, Orange said: Orange today announced a new agreement with Apple to...
Facebook flap: Google’s side

Amid the Facebook move to block Google’s Friend Connect, the search giant has responded. As expected, Google had a few issues with Facebook’s privacy assessment of Google Friend Connect. T...

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Ars Technica snapped up by Conde Nast

On the heels of CBS acquiring CNET for $1.8-billion comes another deal involving “old” media and “new” media: according to TechCrunch, the folks over at Conde Nast — the...
Social networking is like oxygen

Sarah Perez at Read/Write Web (who also blogs at Sarah in Tampa) has a post up about how Generation Y is going to change the Web, and she makes some excellent points. But I would argue that the genera...
Facebook blocks Google, for your own good

The “whose data is it anyway” wars seem to have flared up again, judging by what’s going on with Google and Facebook over the data-sharing issue: Facebook has blocked Google’s...
What is Mark Mahaney smoking?

Whatever it is, I would like some. According to Henry Blodget, the Citigroup analyst seems to think that Amazon will be selling $750-million worth of its Kindle e-book readers within two years. What a...
CBS and CNET: Vision, or desperation?

So CBS — an “old” media giant that hasn’t been doing so well lately — plunks down $1.8-billion for CNET, a “new” media giant that hasn’t been doing so w...

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Startup Review: DealQue, Out For A Ride, GrowsOnYou, TrackMyPeople, LiveAutographs

Below are five of the newest startups according to Killer Startups for the period ending May 17, 2008. Check out previous Killer Startups posts. DealQue - Cheap Social Shopping Who doesn't like de...
Can Mahalo Learn from Brijit's Closure?

Yesterday we learned that Brijit has closed its doors (at least temporarily). When I interviewed Founder & CEO Jeremy Brosowsky back in December, one of the topics we discussed was my concern abou...
Startup Review: Myartplot, SubHub, XtremeNow, FuelFrog

Below are four of the newest startups according to Killer Startups for the period ending May 16, 2008. Check out previous Killer Startups posts. Myartplot - Global Arts and Crafts Community The id...
Ars Technica To Wired For $25 Million

Techcrunch's Michael Arrington is reporting that technology site Ars Technica has been acquired by Wired. Arrington notes that his sources suggest the price is around $25 million. SAI also has receiv...
Peanut Labs Offers Social Media Surveys For Peanuts

Peanut Labs is a one-year-old company that offers a survey marketplace for social media services. Peanut Labs matches companies looking for data with their user profiles and can send the survey to the...

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Set Basic HTML as Default Gmail View

If you use Gmail and you'd like a simplified interface that doesn't use AJAX, loads fast and works well in most browsers, try the basic HTML view. Gmail links to this version at the bottom of the page...
Product Images in Google Shopping OneBox

Google started to display a thumbnail in the Product Search OneBox, as you can see by searching for [usb flash]. The image illustrates the top search result, but links to the list of results. As part...
Google Doctype, an Encyclopedia for Web Developers

Google released Doctype (HTML version), an encyclopedia of the open web. "The open web is the web built on open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more. The open web is a beautiful soup of barely c...
Google Spreadsheets Can Be Edited by Anyone

Google Spreadsheets added an option in the sharing dialog that allows anyone to view or edit the spreadsheet just by knowing the URL. Until now, you had to send an invitation URL that contained a secr...
Use iGoogle and Google Reader in the Sidebar

A simple use for Google's iPhone interfaces is to add them as sidebars in Firefox or Opera. I mentioned last year some Google gadgets for Google Notebook, Google Talk, Google Docs, that could be displ...

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Blockbuster: Citi Boosts Target, Adds to Top Picks List [Voices]

Blockbuster (BBI) shares are getting a lift today from Citigroup's Tony Wible, who raised his price target on the stock to $8.50 from $8 and added the stock to the firm's "Top Picks Live" list.
What’s Purple and White and Backed Into a Corner? [Digital Daily]

Can a search advertising alliance between Yahoo and Google possibly pass regulatory muster? We may soon find out. Now that investor-tormentor Carl Icahn has filed a proxy slate to unseat Yahoo’s boa...
The Twitter Story I’ve Been Working On [Voices]

It's easy to laugh at nonsense on Twitter, the micro-blogging rage. "my nose is leaking," writes someone called Zapples. "so imma go to sleep now…" But I've heard lots of similar drivel (and even pr...
“$100 Laptop” Embraces Windows XP [Voices]

Microsoft has joined forces with the developers of the "$100 laptop" to make Windows available on the machines. The move was prompted by countries which demanded the operating system before placing an...
Iron Man and Speed Racer: The Videogame [Voices]

Ah, May! The weather gets a little warmer, high school kids nervously attend their proms and the movie studios begin to release their would-be blockbusters, eager to start the summer box-office rush e...

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Mike Arrington is Right, Facebook is Wrong

Mike Arrington and I had a sometimes violent disagreement on today’s Gillmor Gang. The reason we were arguing? Because we both were arguing different things. Mike Arrington was arguing that Face...
Facebook has a point where it comes to your privacy

My ex-boss, John Furrier, goes after Facebook after Facebook blocked Google’s Friend Connect from using its API to inport friends from Facebook into Google’s Friend Connect. I saw Dave Mor...
Twitter down

FriendFeed takes up the slack, the rest of us go back to work and say “meh.” Twitter sure knows how to grab defeat out of the jaws of success. Twitter was featured on BusinessWeek today. W...
Famous conductor compares management styles

This is my favorite thing that I filmed on my trip to Israel a few weeks back for FastCompany.tv. What is it? It’s a session at the Kinnernet event (which is Yossi Vardi’s famous annual e...
Tale of two businesses: exciting vs. boring

Yesterday I visited two businesses: one exciting, Sliderocket, and one boring, Bluepulse. First, about Sliderocket, it’s a new presentation tool. Here is a video I shot with my cell phone yester...

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Switching to SwitchABit

The SwitchABit platform was developed because we noticed that an ever more complex flow of ideas and information is being facilitated by editorial systems and aggregators such as Flickr, Facebook, Twi...
Twitter status? Yeah it's down. Again.

What are you doing now? There's no words there!!! Fill in the appropriate four letter word.
Berkman @ 10

Today I'm at the Berkman @ 10 conference in Austin Hall on the Harvard Law School campus. It's a reunion of sorts, of people who have been part of or interested in Berkman Center. I was a fellow there...
Comcast is a very strange company

They just announced that they bought rolodex company Plaxo. Price rumored to be betw $100 and $200 million. Media sharing? Comcast? You gotta be kidding. Maybe they can share the rolodex of the peop...
Edwards endorses Obama

And fucking Twitter is fucking down. Fuck!

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Firefox 3 RC1 is Out

If you’ve been living on the edge of Firefox, this won’t be news, but Firefox 3 hit another milestone last night: Release Candidate 1 is out. This release is all about stability and speed...
4 Free Digital Photography and Image Editing Resources

Many web workers are involved with digital photography, graphics and image editing. I know I am. There are a number of excellent, free resources available online for staying abreast of the latest news...
The Traveling Web Worker: What You Should Know About Your Destination

With the mobility that comes with web working, we can now afford to travel for leisure while taking our work with us. However, the nature of our work gives us very specific needs. We can’t jus...
AideRSS Helps Track the Buzz

RSS tracking and ranking service AideRss (see our previous coverage) has slowly been accumulating features that make it more useful than ever. In addition to seeing which posts in an RSS feed are gett...
Punctuality: More Than Showing Up on Time

When you think of what values you seek from co-workers, colleagues, and clients, punctuality is probably one that wouldn’t immediately come to mind. Being web workers, parents, co-workers, spous...

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Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 now available

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla, Browser Tips, BetaMozilla has pushed out the first release candidate for Firefox 3. That means this version should be more stable than any of...
Condé Nast scoops up Ars Technica for Wired

Filed under: Business, Internet, BloggingCondé Nast Publications (which owns Wired, Wired.com, and a whole bunch of major magazines) has agreed to purchase Ars Technica for an undisclosed sum.
Instan-T: Voice, video and text chat client for Google, AOL, MSN, and Yahoo!

Filed under: Internet, Features, Windows, Web services, web 2.0Your co-workers use MSN Messenger, your family is partial to AOL Instant Messenger, and your friends use Google Talk. There are plenty of...
Googleholic for May 16, 2008

Filed under: Internet, Google, Googleholic, web 2.0 Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition: A Googlepedia for web developers App Engine launcher fo...
Microsoft adds features to Live Search for Windows Mobile

Filed under: Utilities, Windows Mobile, Microsoft, Mobile MinuteMicrosoft has updates its Live Search for Windows Mobile software, adding four new features: 4 day weather forecasts Search th...

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BuzzCity is a growing new competitor in the US mobile advertising market

Mobile advertising is still a very young market in the US, as mobile web usage here has lagged after many other countries due to inferior access to quality mobile devices and services. But mobile usag...
Paylocity gets venture payroll of $10M
JellyCloud calls down $6 million for online ads
Roundup: Facebook’s latest profile changes, Jangl sells, Kindle matters, and more

More on Facebook profile changes: The feed wall — The new profile is slated for launch later this year. The latest new feature the company is previewing: A “feed” portion of the new...
Sponsored Post: PartnerUp’s Weekly Opportunities

Below you’ll find this week’s PartnerUp Opportunities of the week. PartnerUp is an online community for entrepreneurs and startups that helps them find people for their business, such as co-fo...

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 16, 2008

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search Biz: Guerilla Artists Protest Google, Search Tops On...
Search Biz: Guerilla Artists Protest Google, Search Tops Online Spending Categories, Google Potentially Moving Mini To The Cloud, Predictions About Google Consumer Marketing

Other than discussion of online advertising revenues, it's an all-Google day for Search Biz: rumors of Google Mini being replaced by a hosted solution, a "public art" protest about Google doing busine...
Creating An Enhanced Listing With Yahoo!'s SearchMonkey Application Development Platform

I've been playing around with Yahoo!'s slick new SearchMonkey Application Platform which was first introduced by Amit Kumar, Director of Product Management at Yahoo! Search, at the SMX West conference...
Search In Pictures: Disposable Cups, Google's Great Firewall, & Yahoo's Bird Problems

In this week's Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys the...
Google Adds Real Estate Pull-Down Filter To Maps

Google has offered the capacity to search real estate listings for a long time. For example, when entering queries such as "homes for sale in San Francisco," a "one box" result used to show pull-down...

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EA's acquisition bid for Take-Two expires

Electronic Arts' hostile bid for Grand Theft Auto producer Take-Two Interactive appears to have ended quietly this week. Shortly after EA failed to make an attractive-enough offer, Take-Two's Grand T...
Firefox 3 release candidate goes public

The initial release candidate of Firefox 3 is ready for download. It's a public preview of the new Firefox code, available in 45 languages, aimed at developers and early adopters to test out the new...
Yahoo tries to conceal lawsuit documents

Yahoo and shareholders suing the company don't see eye to eye about how public some documents involved in the case should be. The documents involve details of a severance plan Yahoo adopted after...
HP to launch fall line of teen PC products

PALO ALTO, Calif.--Hewlett-Packard wants to get hip to teens. At an event here this week focused on teenagers and technology, Ameer Karim, director of HP's future and innovations group for consumer P...
Hooray! Yahoo Mail ditches tagline ads

Those annoying ads the Yahoo Mail has been appending to the bottom of e-mail messages soon will be a thing of the past. Some at Yahoo apparently didn't like the taglines, either: this is the exam...

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