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Gary / ResourceShelf:
Google Temporarily Stops Registrations for New Google Web Page Creator — Web Search—Google — Google Launches Web Page Creator (Beta) THEN Temporarily Shuts Down Registrations to Use It — Well, here we go again. Google announces a new service and then within hours …
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Rich Miller / Netcraft:
Google Launches Free Hosting Service — Google has launched a beta version of a free hosting service, Google Page Creator. The service, which is currently limited to existing users of Google's Gmail, allows users to build a web page using a web-based interface.
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Page Creator — A new day, a new Google product. Today, Google releases the Page Creator, a tool for easy website creation. You can log-in to it using your Google account, and your site URL will then be yourname.googlepages.com. — The editor works very nice.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
Google's New Strategy: Spray and Pray — I wonder if Google has patented its spray and pray technology? Froogle, Google Catalogs, Google Base, Google Blog Search and the new Google Pages...it just feels like Google is throwing everything out there to see what sticks.
Margaret Kane / CNET News.com:Google unveils Web page creator
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Search Engine Lowdown, PC World's Techlog, The Pondering Primate and Online News Squared
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo To Ban Bidding On Competitor Trademarks To Stop Comparison Advertising — Yahoo No Longer Allow Bidding On Trademarked Terms on our SEW Forums has news that Yahoo will no longer be allowing companies to purchase ads linked to the trademarks of their competitors. From what's being sent to advertisers:
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Search Engine Roundtable, Techdirt, Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com and The Unofficial Yahoo Weblog
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
EarthLink, Google team in S.F. Wi-Fi bid — EarthLink has teamed up with Google on a bid to offer free wireless Internet access throughout the city of San Francisco and premium service for a fee, a Google spokeswoman said on Wednesday. — The Google-EarthLink bid was among six presented …
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IP Democracy, SearchViews, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Metamend's Search …, Earthling and MuniWireless
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Hanging Out With Google Japan — Hanging Out With Google Japan — As many of the readers of Search Engine Journal may know, I am currently living outside of Tokyo, Japan and have been working on connecting with Japanese search engines and bloggers. Last year at a CNet Search Technology conference …
Peter Nowak / Globe and Mail:
What the other Steve is saying about Apple's striking resurgence — Auckland — After being all but written off by the tech industry in the mid '90s, Apple Computer Inc. has made a startling resurgence. But that doesn't mean its latest strategies sit well with Woz.
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Answers Adds New Features — Yahoo Answers Adds New Features — Yahoo Answers has been live and running for 2 months now and has added several features to the popular information exchange service which may serve to become a strong foundation of Social Media and the future of search.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Wi-Fi to Go: The Hot Spot in a Box — YOU know what would be so cool? A portable Wi-Fi hot spot. Whenever you wanted Internet access, you wouldn't have to hunt for a wireless coffee shop or pay $24 a night to your hotel. — Instead, you'd travel with a little box.
Aviran Mordo / Aviran's Place:
U.S. Grants Patent For AJAX — The patent-issued on Valentine's Day-covers all rich-media technology implementations, including Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax, and XAML, when the rich-media application is accessed on any device over the Internet, according to the patent holders.
John Cook / John Cook's Venture Blog:
Party time in Seattle — The boom is back. At least that was the feeling after attending PaidContent.org's social mixer last night at The Palace Ballroom. Maybe it was the free drinks and Hors D'oeuvres or the dim lighting. But the room was buzzing with activity as entrepreneurs …
Alice Hill / Alice Hill's Real Tech News:
Google Admits Porn Turning Out to be the Killer App for Cell Phones — When you think of internet porn (and I know you do!) the desktop PC or the laptop in a hotel room far far away springs to mind. This is why many cell phone providers doubted that cell phone porn would catch on.
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's Weblog:
Thursday: Inside online advertising — The PaidContent mixer last night was loud, crowded and a lot of fun. I spent most of my time with Rafat Ali and Staci Kramer of PaidContent.org, Cory Bergman of Lost Remote, and the inimitable Chris Pirillo (of Lockergnome and Tech TV fame).
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mobile content news
Fred Wilson / Union Square Ventures:
Advisory Capital — Stowe Boyd has an interesting post on the idea of advisory capital (as opposed to venture capital). — Stowe observes correctly that many tech startups don't need nearly the amount of startup capital that they used to need to build a business. We all know the reasons for this so I won't get into them.
Yahoo! Search blog:
Going deeper into the Wikipedia — We've been a big fan of Wikipedia for a while now, and we've been working together with the Wikimedia folks to make the Wikipedia even more accessible and easy to use. Now, as part of our larger effort to get people more answers in fewer clicks …
Evan Blass / Engadget:
KFC leverages DVR time-shifting to its advantage — We assumed that theTiVo revolution would eventually convince the entire advertising industry to just close up shop and find a new outletfor its scary powers of persuasion, yet time-shifted TV has actually caused the wily advertisers to evolve …
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Jgovernor / James Governor's MonkChips:
Why Open Source Analysis Will Grow: Learning from The Sumerians — I have been surprised that some of the people I expected to agree with ideas I put forward in a recent blog about open source analysis, On Open Source, Declarative Living and Making Better Platform Decisions, have been fairly dismissive.
