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Official Google Base Blog:
Buying on Google Base — While Google Base provides data structure and distribution for a wide range of content and information, a subset of items are for sale. To help users more easily purchase and sell Google Base items, we're planning to enable people to buy items on Google Base using their Google Accounts.
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Official Google Blog:
An update on payments — There's been a lot of interest and speculation about what Google is doing with payments. We thought we'd give you a quick update on what we've done so far and what we see down the road. — If you take a look at the history of Google's advertising programs and online services …
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Google Finance Launching? Google.com/Finance — Google Finance Launching? Google.com/Finance — Over the past three or four hours Search Engine Journal has noticed some interesting referrals from Google.com/finance. — After visitng the referring URL, I saw that the live Google 404 …
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Digital Inspiration …, Search Engine Roundtable, Download Squad and Search Engine Watch Blog
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Richard Drew / MSNBC:
Judge delays decision on BlackBerry cutoff — RIM's service to continue to operate, but judge urges settlement — More than 3 million Americans are BlackBerry users. — CNBC VIDEO … RICHMOND, Va. - A U.S. judge Friday stopped short of ordering an immediate shutdown of millions …
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Claudia H. Deutsch / New York Times:
A Milestone for iTunes; a Windfall for a Downloader — It may well have been the best 99 cents Alex Ostrovsky ever spent. — Early yesterday, he paid that amount to download "Speed of Sound," a song on the Coldplay album "X&Y," from the iTunes Music Store, the Internet music shop …
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Thatedeguy:
What is Origami? — JP of Designtastesgood.com seems to have scooped Scoble on this. Then it hit Digg. So what is the Origami Project? Why does Microsoft Have the domain registered? Well, if you take the time to read through the digg comments, you will find that Origami is the code-name …
Om Malik / CNN:
The Black Box That Would Conquer Telecom — An open-source project tries to break Cisco's lock on the $4 billion corporate router business. — (Business 2.) - At the San Francisco offices of Panorama Capital, two dozen engineers, venture capitalists, and academics gathered around …
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Kevin Dugan / Strategic Public Relations:
10 Flickr Hacks — What Web 2.0 service boasts more than 100 million examples of consumer-generated media? — Flickr—one of the most underutilized online pr tools in the blogosphere. Flickr makes it easy to store and share photos online, but it also empowers PR people with a powerful visual tool.
gizmag.co.uk:
The world's most advanced LCD TV - 56-inch and 3840 x 2160 pixels — February 24, 2006 Taiwanese Chi Mei Optoelectronics is a name you may not know, despite the company being the third largest LCD TV panel supplier in the world. At CEBIT in Hannover in mid-March, the company will display the world's first 56-inch LCD TV panel.
Business Wire:
National Archives and Google Launch Pilot Project to Digitize and Offer Historic Films Online — WASHINGTON & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Feb. 24, 2006—Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) Co-Founder and President of Technology Sergey Brin today announced …
Business Week:
The Future of the Blog — Six Apart's Mena Trott helped start the stampede by co-designing user-friendly software. But she thinks the blogging trend is only just beginning — It's hard to imagine the world without blogs. The publishing technology has become a cultural and political force.
Fabienne Serriere / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
MacBook Pro vs PowerBook benchmarks — If you are like me and enjoy a good cleanfight, check out these benchmarks at Geek Patrol using their ownpre-production software: Geekbench, a multi-platform benchmarkingutility. These numbers reflect benchmarking on a 1.5GHz PowerBook G4 with 1.25GB RAM vs …
John Borland / CNET News.com:
MPAA sues newsgroup, P2P search sites — The Motion Picture Association of America said Thursday that it sued a new round of popular Web sites associated with movie piracy, including several that serve as search engines but do not distribute files themselves.
Raul / Heading East:
10 Semi-Obscure Mac Programs You Shouldn't Be Without — I keep seeing lists of 10 must have Mac programs, but the lists is they are well known can't-live-without programs like Launchbar and Windowshade already installed on Machead machines. Here are some slightly more obscure programs I use every day:
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Windley / Phil Windley's Technometria:
Alan Kay: Is Computer Science as Oxymoron? — Alan Kay's title slide, up during the intro says Is the Best Way to Predict the Future to {Invent,Prevent} It? with the {Invent,Prevent} alternating between each other. He jokes that this afternoon's talk can be summed up by the fact …
Mike Evangelist / Writers Block Live:
The HD Boycott Begins Now — This is important. I really want you to understand what's going on with the video industry's push towards HD. They are engineering a complete removal of the concept of fair use. They are setting up systems that will completely control how, when and where you can use content that you buy.
