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Making Google Reader More Like Gmail
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on January 19, 2008
Google Reader could add a lot of features from Gmail that would improve the way it organizes information. A filtering mechanism would allow you to automatically star, share, email, label or mark as read the posts that match a certain pattern. For example, you could receive an email for each post that contains GDrive in the title or automatically label
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Microsoft + Yahoo != Microhoo, Yahoosoft, Mahoo, Etc...
via ParisLemon by MG Siegler on February 01, 2008
... foolish to drop the Yahoo! name from that company's services.What is still the #1 website in terms of worldwide usage? Yahoo.com. Are people going to stop typing that in and start typing in Microhoo.com, Yahoosoft.com, Mihoo.com, etc? No. That's just silly.When and if Microsoft buys Yahoo they will be known as: Microsoft and Yahoo. Sure maybe a few services will be branded as being...
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Hello and goodbye to Dan "the Intern" Hsiao
via FriendFeed Blog by Bret Taylor on February 01, 2008
We have a great intern at FriendFeed. Too bad we never got around to introducing him on this blog, and now, today's his last day. Luckily, Dan Hsiao, our intern extraordinaire isn't bent out of shape over our procrastination. He's seen our organized chaos first-hand.Dan is currently on winter break from his first year of business school at MIT Sloan (that is, until Monday). Before...
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SimpleBits joins The Deck
via Signal vs. Noise by Jason on February 01, 2008
We’re happy to have added web-designer and author Dan Cederholm’s freshly redesigned and popular SimpleBits to the list of places carrying ads from The Deck, our advertising network targeting web, design and creative professionals.Dan is a perfect edition to the group. His territory is the area between practical, technical design issues and those defined more often by talent and taste. As far...
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Can a Lightsaber Cut Through Superman?
via Digg by (author unknown) on January 31, 2008
Can a gadget defeat a superhero? Here's a question our sister site io9 posed: can a lightsaber cut through Superman? We put both our nerdy gadget knowledge and our nerdy superhero knowledge to the test.
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MacBook Air 1.6Ghz HDD vs 1.8Ghz SSD Benchmarks
via MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors by (author unknown) on January 31, 2008
Many readers are reporting shipments and delivery in our MacBook Air forum. First impressions and notes of the MacBook Air are being compiled in this thread. Few head to head comparisons between the Solid State Drive (SSD) and Hard Disk Drive (HD...
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Google Releases the Social Graph API
via Mashable! by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins on January 31, 2008
Leave it to Google, the likely impetus behind the story of the day, to release something to give us a reprieve from the Microsoft-Yahoo merger discussions. Today they released a new API for graphing social connections in the wilds of the web. It’s called, aptly, the Social Graph API, and it’s used by social app developers to let their users grab information on their social connections...
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Microsoft to Yahoo: Join Us, Join Us or Die (and here's $44.6 billion to help you decide)
via ParisLemon by MG Siegler on January 31, 2008
And here we go. Marketwatch and Reuters are now reporting that Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo in a cash and stock deal worth $44.6 billion dollars.Yes, you read that right. They are offering to pay $31-a-share for the company which would make it a large 62% increase over the stock's current price (right around $19). Obviously Microsoft does not want to be turned down, this is a very...
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Microsoft offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo
via Engadget by Thomas Ricker on January 31, 2008
Microsoft just announced what has been rumored forever: a formal offer for Yahoo. Microsoft's proposal to Yahoo's board of directors represents $31 per share or about $44.6 Billion. Steve Ballmer, CEO and big fan of developers, says, "We have great respect for Yahoo!, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while...
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Yahoo! Board of Directors to Evaluate Unsolicited Proposal From Microsoft (Yahoo!)
via Techmeme by (author unknown) on January 31, 2008
Yahoo! Board of Directors to Evaluate Unsolicited Proposal From Microsoft — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today said that it has received an unsolicited proposal from Microsoft to acquire the Company. The Company said that its Board of Directors will evaluate … Source: Yahoo!Link: http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press…Techmeme permalink
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