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blog.flickr.com:
Your Photos - not on Flickr! — Over the last year, we've been asked 15,381 times, "How about printing? When are we going to get printing!?" Today we are happy to answer: "Today!" For now it is U.S. only (we know! we're working hard on rolling it out everywhere!).
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.
Kurt Kleiner / newscientist.com:
Email and letter writing share fundamental pattern — Both Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein relied on pen, paper, and the postal service to communicate with correspondents around the world. But researchers have now found the pattern of their replies is the same as that of computer users …
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Robert Roy Britt / MSNBC:
How Einstein managed his inbox — Study suggests modern e-mail habits similar to older, letter-writing ones — If you're like Einstein, you respond to some e-mails immediately and let others wait. And, of course, some you never answer. — And every now and then …
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Anil wants Flickr to pay — Interesting little debate going on the blogs this morning. Anil Dash wants Flickr to pay its users, particularly the ones who put the most popular content onto the service. Caterina, co-founder of Flickr, answers back, says more to life than money.
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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.
BBC:
Microsoft aims to trounce Google — People are underestimating what Microsoft is doing with search technology, says Bill Gates. — The head of the software giant told the BBC that its ambition is to be bigger than Google in search. — He said that competition had ultimately …
Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:
Time Warner board to discuss AOL future — Time Warner's board of directors will hold crucial discussions about AOL's future at a meeting on Thursday, focusing on whether to partner with Microsoft or Google, although a final decision is not expected immediately.
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press.nokia.com:80:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Nokia establish joint laboratory for high-impact research — Cambridge, MA, USA and Espoo, Finland - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Nokia Research Center today announced …
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Timothy Williams / New York Times:
AT&T Brand Lives On as Buyer Adopts Name — SBC Communications, which is awaiting regulatory approval to buy AT&T, announced today that it will adopt the AT&T name once the acquisition is approved. — The announcement means that AT&T, formed in 1885 - just nine years after the invention …
Xeni Jardin / Wired News:
Web 2.0 Cracks Start to Show — Spam, scams and scatterbrains — the same problems that plagued the old internet are cropping up again in a new wave of technologies known collectively as Web 2.0. — But this time around, proponents say Web 2. has been better engineered to withstand …
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
GOOGLEBASE: STRUCTURED/VERTICAL/DOMAIN SEARCH AIN'T THE FREEWEB — I recently spoke to a reputable person who is a senior exec in a major structured database company ( I promised not to name this person or the company/industry.) I can't go into specifics, but the company owns a very large repository …
Jeff Clavier / Software Only:
The Facebook unplugged at Stanford ETL — I have attended last night's session of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL) program featuring Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder and CEO of the Facebook, and Jim Breyer, the Managing Partner of Accel Partners who is sitting on the board of the company.
Osman Ratib / CNN:
'I use my iPod to store medical images' — GENEVA, Switzerland (CNN) — Osman Ratib, professor and chief of nuclear medicine at the University Hospital of Geneva, has co-created a computer software program called Osirix. It enables medical professionals to view medical images on their iPods …
Patrick Gavin / Link Building Blog:
Google Loves Seniors — It seems Google has intensified the ranking factor of one key data point that is very tough to manipulate: the age of your domain name. I have been keeping an eye on trends with Google's search results and it seems that there is an increasing trend towards "trusted sites" owning page one.
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.