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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Microsoft Gets Social — Redmond has big plans for tools and partnerships that will let users consult a circle of friends when conducting Web searches — Software giant Microsoft is taking its MSN Search division on a comeback tour. The next stop: Social search, a way of making Web search …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
MSN Windows Live Search Getting Answers Service; May Partner Or Acquire Eurekster — Via Threadwatch, Microsoft Gets Social from BusinessWeek has news that Microsoft may be buying or partnering with Eurekster to bring social search features to its MSN Window Live Search service.
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Reuters:
Fox will put TV reruns on the Internet: report —Text+NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp.'s Fox network has signed a six-year agreement with its 187 affiliated stations that will let it show reruns of its television programs on the Internet, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Thursday.
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
Fox, affils sync up — Net agrees to share non-linear revenue — Fox has sealed a new deal with its affiliates that will finally allow it to enter the iPod age. — The six-year pact — an extension of affils' previous agreement to contribute to Fox's costly NFL rights package …
Anthony Hanses / ps3portal.com:
| Exclusive - Inside the PS3 - Updated — This brings us to the information we have concerning the PS3. As some gamers have heard, Sony revealed at GDC this year that they will be constantly reserving 1 of the 7 available SPEs on the Cell Processor for their OS. This, we have discovered, is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Lagging Ad Sales Contribute to Earnings Decline at Newspaper Chains — THE newspaper industry continues to flag financially, with three companies — The New York Times, Tribune and McClatchy — reporting sharply lower first-quarter earnings yesterday. — Executives of all of the newspaper companies …
scripting.wordpress.com:
Dave's Wordpress Blog — The idea for an unconference came while sitting in the audience of a panel discussion at a conference, waiting for someone to say something intelligent, or not self-serving, or not mind-numbingly boring. The idea came while listening to someone drone endlessly …
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
AKISMET FOR MT: DEATH TO SPAM — If that headline means anything to you, then rejoice. It's long been known that Akismet, WordPress's remarkable anti-comment spam technology, was the best out there. Moveable Type users (like me) salivated at the thought of having Akismet-like functionality on our sites.
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Gary / ResourceShelf:
Microsoft's Camera Phone Search Project and Other Camea Phone Search Tech — Search Briefs — Cameraphone Searching — Searching With Your Camera Phone: Photo2Search, Research from Microsoft — Always searching for info online by typing a query via a keyboard might one day be considered old school for some types of searching.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Video review of Toshiba Portege M400 Tablet PC — I have created a video review of the Toshiba Portege M400 Tablet PC. This is my first ever video production, so this is more of a learning experience than anything. Also, I was using an old webcam to record to video, so the quality is pretty poor.
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Martin Geddes / Telepocalypse:
IPTV IS DEAD (PART 27) — Techdirt reminded us last year how broadcast IPTV is a dumb idea, as the future's all in faster-than-real-time downloads. (Usual nod of head to Odlyzko for being a decade ahead of us all here.) — In future you'll only want to watch stuff that's gained a strong reputation for quality.
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Elias Torres:
hCalendar + Google Calendar Reminders — Everyone is talking about Google Calendar today. I was supposed to be beta-beta testing it and have been thinking how to integrate with my Calendar+SPARQL work. However, the beta-beta time expired and I never did anything with it. The ideas were along the lines of:
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Gary / ResourceShelf:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Sits Down For TV Interview With Charlie Rose — Web Search—Google — Google CEO Eric Schmidt Sits Down For TV Interview With Charlie Rose — In a taped interview, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, sat down with Charlie Rose for a 25 minute one-on-one interview that focused …
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Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
As Google Base Builds, Local Advertisers and Vertical Sites Get on Board — Matthew Scherg used to post job ads on Monster.com, but the leads were lacking and the price became too high for SITE Staffing, his Wisconsin-based job placement firm. On Monday, the skilled staffing coordinator …
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Aswath Weblog:
Post-Disaster Communications Petition — Recently, FCC placed on public review a petition filed by Evslin Consulting and pulver.com. The petition grew out of the experiences felt during a breakdown in communications network caused by Hurricane Katrina. As you may recall …
frsirt.com:
Mozilla Products Memory Corruption and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities — CVE ID : CVE-2006-0748 - CVE-2006-0749 - CVE-2006-1045 - CVE-2006-1723 - CVE-2006-1724 - CVE-2006-1529 - CVE-2006-1725 - CVE-2006-1726 - CVE-2006-1727 - CVE-2006-1728 - CVE-2006-1729 - CVE-2006-1730 - CVE-2006-1530 …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / The Social Software Weblog:
Newsweek implements private label RSS reader — I have a strong preference for Newsgator over Bloglines so I'm very happy to read about their new partnership with Newsweek. Newsweek readers can now use a free web based RSS reader wrapped in Newsweek branding and pre-seeded with Newsweek feeds.
Gail Schiller / newsone.ca:
Brands take buzz to bank through free TV placement — LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - During the past four months, Apple iPods, Macs and other products have been featured 250 times on 38 different network primetime shows, including such hits as "CSI: NY" and "The O.C."
Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
TiVo Wins EchoStar Patent Suit — The victory could give it leverage as it seeks licensing deals with cable TV operators. — TiVo Inc. on Thursday won a pivotal patent infringement lawsuit that might allow it to pause and rewind the marketplace the way its pioneering digital video recorders do with live TV.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
"Email — Should the Sender Pay?" — EFF Fundraiser, Debate Between Esther Dyson and Danny O'Brien — In light of AOL's adopting a "certified" email system, EFF is hosting a debate on the future of email. With distinguished entrepreneur Mitch Kapor moderating, EFF Activist Coordinator Danny O'Brien …
Tom / Music thing:
The Monome MIDI controller is real — Before you read on, watch this video [QT] - without seeing the thing in action, it's just a box covered in buttons... A year ago, I wrote about the Bitbox, a wooden box covered in buttons and LEDs, which worked as a very cool sample-triggering device …
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Mozilla Plugs Firefox Code Execution Hole — Mozilla has released a new version of the Firefox Web browser with what is described as "significant security and stability improvements." — Details on the security vulnerabilities being patched were not available April 13 when Firefox 1.5.0.2 was shipped as a high-priority update.
