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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
TITANS COLUMN: OMID KORDESTANI — I interviewed Omid a couple of months ago for my B2.0 column, here it is in full. — TITANS OF TECH — The Wizard of Ads — Google's Omid Kordestani conjured a formula that took its sales to $3 billion. Now he's rethinking the world of advertising again.
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Sounds great. Where do I upload eBay's business plan? — So how did Google become the world's single largest marketplace? Paul Ford posed that question back in 2002 in a seminal essay entitled "August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web," and answered …
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Mena / About Six Apart:
The Ups & Downs of a Successful Service — As many of you have noticed, during the last couple of weeks TypePad performance has not been what we aspire to and you pay for. While I am as displeased as you, at the current time I can do nothing more than apologize — a weak sentiment without action to back it up.
BBC:
Microsoft joins book search plan — Microsoft has joined a Yahoo-backed effort to digitise the world's books and other works to make them searchable and accessible to anyone online. — The software giant said it would work with the Open Content Alliance (OCA), set up by the Internet Archive, to initially put 150,000 works online.
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Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
The Whole Kit & Kaboodle — It is only October, but you hear the jingle bells. This is expected to be a break out year for the online retailers. US online retails sales for this holiday season are predicted to top $26.2 billion, up nearly 21.9% from last year.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
First Screen Shots of Riya — Riya (formerly Ojos) will be opening its doors to 10 or so lucky alpha testers tomorrow morning. — Riya leverages potent facial and text recognition technology with an intelligent interface to help people make sense of the thousands of untitled and untagged photos …
Yahoo! Search blog:
Plan a Trip in a Single Search with Yahoo! Travel Trip Planner — For most people, trip planning begins with a search box. But a single search is just the start of what often becomes hours, even months of intensive online searching, sharing with friends, planning, and logistical details.
creativepro.com:
Terri Stone: Will Aperture replace Photoshop? — Joe Schorr: Depending on your workflow, there may be a need to use tools that go beyond Aperture. One of the things pros do is launch Photoshop, so we integrate with Photoshop. — Aperture was developed with photographers looking over our shoulders, literally.
Twl / Open Source Applications Foundation Blog:
Producing Open Source Software — Open Source Software is more than just software that has an Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved license. It's a whole development style and culture. Karl Fogel is one of the developers of the Subversion project, and has been involved with a number of open source projects.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Rip and Burn and Download on a Stereo — JUST because a bunch of individual ingredients are delicious doesn't mean they'll taste good when they're all cooked up together. Ask anyone who's ever sampled a 5-year-old chef's rendition of chocolate chip spaghetti with meat sauce and grape jelly.
Forbes:
US Supreme Court denies RIM request to postpone action in Blackberry patent case — WASHINGTON (AFX) - The US Supreme Court has refused a request by Canadian firm Research in Motion to suspend a potentially devastating injunction in a patent dispute over its Blackberry handheld computer.
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Red Hat CEO decries open source pretenders — Red Hat is shying away from taking "control" of its relationship with customers and instead hopes to become a thought leader that champions innovation through freedom of the community. — Matthew Szulik, Red Hat chief executive, chairman and president …
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David Cohn / Wired News:
Will Pajamas Media Wake Up Blogs? — Big-name political bloggers are banding together to try to bring order to the sometimes-chaotic blogosphere. — Pajamas Media has signed up 70 bloggers including Instapundit.com's Glenn Reynolds, CNBC's Lawrence Kudlow and Pamela from Atlas Shrugs.
Ramit Plushnick-Masti / Associated Press:
Gates Welcomes Competition With Google — JERUSALEM - Google Inc. is fierce competition for Microsoft Corp., but the software giant does not fear the race and plans to upgrade his search technology in the next six months, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates said in remarks published Wednesday.
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Jo Best / silicon.com:
Mobile & Wireless — BBC shuts down BlackBerry service due to flaw — Emails appearing in wrong inboxes... The BBC has stopped its staff from using BlackBerrys after a flaw in BlackBerry Enterprise Server meant workers at the Beeb received portions of emails intended for colleagues.
Matt / Peer Pressure:
Spreading the Flickr Wealth — Anil Dash points out a potentially unfair aspect of Flickr's (i.e. Yahoo's) business model. Flickr makes the traditional website's bargain with its users, trading free hosting of their content for the right to splatter it with ads.
