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Google Base Was Sort of Live — Several people report Google Base (as predicted yesterday) went live, or at least, its login-screen. I can't reach it at the moment as it seems Google took it down again, but Dirson posted a screenshot to Flickr. So what is it? Quoting from Dirson's screenshot of the login screen:
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Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Base: It's An Early-Stage Test Project from Google — UPDATE: We've postscripted (see below) with an official statement from Google about this project. — Lots and lots of talk in the blogosphere today about the new (is it?) Google Base. As always, Barry does a great job pulling it all together here.
Seweso / seweso's blog:
Google base — Google is going to launch a new service: Google-base! Funny is the fact that I predicted this here which inspired Tony Ruscoe to check the subdomains of google and really found base.google.com! — More information at blogsearch. This is not a technical post, this is not a technical post :P
Phoenix / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google Base and Google's Better Late Than Never Arrival Into Real Estate — There has been some talk this morning onto what will actually be included into Google Base, there are some nice screenshots that have come live this morning. Giving us a little glimpse of how Google thinks the world's information should be organized.
Joanna Glasner / Wired News:
Writers Side With Google in Scrap — Google's plan to scan library book collections and make them searchable may be drawing ire from publishers and authors' advocates, but some obscure and first-time writers are lining up on the search engine's side of the dispute — arguing that the benefits …
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Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
Mac OS X 10.4.3 release imminent, Australia iTunes Music Store opens — October 24, 2005 - The most substantial update to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is nearing release, multiple indications suggest. Over the weekend Apple seeded developers with build 8F45, the first seed to not specify any known issues …
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Harry McCracken / PC World's Techlog:
VideoEgg: Hassle-Free Video Blogging — As I once mentioned here, I like capturing teeny-tiny video clips with my digital camera. My only problem is that after I've viewed those clips once or twice, they tend to sit on my hard drive where nobody—including me—gets much enjoyment out of them.
John Andersen / GameSpot:
Wal-Mart pulls plug on 360 kiosks — Xbox maker acknowledges consoles interfering with Wal-Mart's internal management systems; says fix is in the works. — Gamers looking to be among the first to get their hands on an Xbox 360 controller at Wal-Mart demo kiosks can still do it, but they won't actually be controlling anything.
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Mike Shields / mediaweek.com:
Comedy Central Unveils Motherload Network — Comedy Central unveiled details on its new broadband network Motherload on Tuesday in New York. — Motherload, which goes live on Nov. 1, will consist of five video-based channels featuring a mix of clips from Comedy Central's programming …
Edward Jay Epstein / Slate:
Will Mark Cuban (Finally) Revolutionize Hollywood? — His plan to break the video window. — I recently demonstrated my high-definition projector by showing scenes from the beautifully shot Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. First, I played an HD recording made by the TiVo-style digital recorder …
Business Wire:
Google Appoints Johnny Chou as President, Sales and Business Development, Greater China; Company Strengthens Focus on China; Hires Chou To Join Dr. Kai-Fu Lee in Building Google's Chinese Operations — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oct. 25, 2005—Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) …
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Bambi Francisco:
Google's pursuit: knowledge — To answer a question recently posed to me by CNBC host Ron Insana, Google's ultimate goal is to have a wire into our brains in order to have complete knowledge of who we are. Of course, I don't believe that Google's growing stable of scientists …
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David.Fleischman / Tales of Windows Media …:
Where are we now? — With all the questions about Vista I thought it might be interesting to talk about where we are in the project and to see if there were things you were hoping to see. — Right now we're in a bug fixing phase. That means we are working on closing down as many bugs …
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Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Key MSN manager is leaving to launch startup — The highly regarded manager of Microsoft's MSN.com portal and content group, Hadi Partovi, resigned last week, a month after a large reorganization folded MSN into the larger Windows group. — Additional changes are possible as the merger of MSN and Windows is sorted out.
Jfurrier / Podtech.net:
PodTech Exclusive from IBM's World Headquarters: IBM Supports Podcasting as a New Media — Download to MP3: Exclusive PodTech & IBM Podcast - IBM Corporate Podcasting Team Speaks Out on Podcasting — The PodCast: — PodTech Exclusive from IBM's World Headquarters …
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