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Google Wallet close to launch? — It's about time for that bi-weekly update that Google Wallet is about ready to launch (only half joking). This time there is news that Google's robots.txt file has been updated to reflect two new directories on Google: /gwt and /purchases.
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Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Is Google Wallet or Some Other Google Payment System Getting Closer? — Since so much of the blogosphere revolves around speculation I thought I would join in. Is Google Wallet or whatever they call their payment systems getting closer to reality? I have no idea but some recent changes …
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Search Engine Roundtable
Nullbit / webmasterbrain.com:
Exclusive: Google Purchases Sign-Up Page Discovered — Earlier in the week we pointed to some interesting unannounced Google sub-domains discovered by Ron Ruscoe. With much rumour of an upcoming Google Payment service (a.ka. Google Wallet) to rival PayPal, the most notable of the new sub-domains …
docs.yahoo.com:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — MICROSOFT AND YAHOO! ANNOUNCE LANDMARK INTEROPERABILITY AGREEMENT TO CONNECT CONSUMER INSTANT MESSAGING COMMUNITIES GLOBALLY — Consumers will be able to exchange instant messages, see presence, share emoticons and add friends from Yahoo! Messenger or MSN Messenger
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Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:Yahoo, MSN Talking IM Interoperability
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Om Malik's Broadband Blog
Burtonator / Kevin Burton's Feed Blog:
Dot Bomb All Over Again? — A lot of the recent news around Web 2.0 is starting to frighten me. There is just too much money flying around with too much hype and too little value. Take the Web 2.0 conference for example. This thing was way over hyped. It was fun and all but worth $2800?
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Richard MacManus / Read/Write Web:
Web 2.0: Land of Opportunity, or Land of Absurdity? — I'm sensing a backlash about the rising VC interest in Web 2.0. Mike Rundle takes aim at Flock in his post subtitled "The Leaning Tower of Buzz". He thinks Flock is only useful to the blog crowd and doesn't have a viable business model.
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Mashable*
Jon Burke / technologyreview.com:
Robotic Rollouts — Alarm:clock is a daily news site that evaluates privately-held technology startups in the areas of hardware, software, the Internet, and wireless communications. One industry overview and one company profile by alarm:clock's editors come to Technology Review every Wednesday by special arrangement.
Gary Krakow / MSNBC:
Palm unveils a $99 color PDA — Also new: an affordable device with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth — If you're still using a paper day-at-a-glance planner, you're running out of excuses fast. Palm has been making great $99 electronic organizers/PDAs for years now.
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Alfred Hermida / BBC:
Rocky road for Xbox 360 launch — These are testing times for the team behind one of Microsoft's most ambitious product launches ever. — In just a few weeks' time, it will unleash its great white hope of gaming, the Xbox 360, across the world. — But rolling out a next generation games console …
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Joystiq
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Official Google Blog:
About Google.org — When we told prospective shareholders about Google and how we wanted to do business, we said that we hoped our philanthropic efforts could some day have a greater impact than Google itself. We committed one percent of our profits and equity toward that vision.
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InsideGoogle, iBLOGthere4iM, PaidContent.org, Search Engine Watch Blog and Washington Post
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
"Microsoft will acquire my company" — Entrepreneurs confidently tell Venture Capitalists "Microsoft will acquire my company". VCs roll their eyes...they have heard it a million times. But, Microsoft does have a rich tradition of acquisitions. The first, and most important …
justilien.com:
Google's Testing New Dictionary Feature — In the past year I have come to depend more and more on Google as a spell checker. Yesterday I was looking up the phone number to a café with Google and a new dictionary feature appeared Google is testing.
Pete Mortensen / Wired News:
Apple Hones 'One More Thing' Hype — It's the moment every Apple Computer nut lives for. CEO Steve Jobs is working through a presentation filled with recaps, market-share updates and some minor product announcements — and then he makes everyone hold their breath.
Tom Espiner / ZDNet:
Developers 'should be liable' for security holes … Security expert Howard Schmidt wants coders to be held responsible for vulnerabilities in their code, but others say their employers should be held to account — Software developers should be held personally accountable for the security …
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Techdirt
Campbell Clark / Globe and Mail:
Ottawa demands greater wiretap access — Ottawa — The federal government is demanding that the telecommunications industry build a wiretapping capacity into their networks that would allow authorities to conduct round-the-clock surveillance on the e-mail, Internet or phone use of more than 8,000 people at a time, sources say.
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IP Democracy
Shel / a shel of my former self:
Ten guidelines for B2B podcasts — In my "Writing for the Wired World" workshops, I begin by pointing out a fundamental difference between business websites and everything else on the web. When you build a family site (birthday party pictures and the like) or a fan site (if you love your Mini Cooper …
