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Air is in my future
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on January 15, 2008
Did someone say “world’s thinnest laptop?” I’m ordering one.Damn you Steve Jobs. I wonder if I can get it by the weekend? If I can, I’ll take it to Davos.Lots of details are coming. Steve Jobs just pulled one out of a manila envelope on stage.The pictures are unreal. Go to MacRumorsLive.com to see the photos.
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Facebook Raises Another $100 Million
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 10, 2008
Facebook is raising $100 million in debt, reports VentureBeat and Business Week. bringing their total capital raised to nearly half a billion dollars.This most recent round will be used to scale the service via another 50,000 or so servers. Facebook now has over 70 million active users and around 109 milliion monthly visitors, and the site is at times very slow. Compare that to Google, which...
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MySpace's Data Availability is not Data Portability
via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies by David Recordon on May 09, 2008
Yesterday MySpace, Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket (also owned by News Corp), and Twitter announced the Data Availability Initiative. While I could write at length about how this shows the big companies have already realized how to diminish the DataPortability group's brand by linking anything they do "data portability," that isn't the point of this post. The crux of the announcement...
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Is Microsoft stalking Powerset's search technology? (Dan Farber/Outside the Lines)
via Techmeme by (author unknown) on May 10, 2008
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:Is Microsoft stalking Powerset's search technology? — While Powerset is preparing for the public rollout of its unique, semantic search engine, Microsoft may be interested in acquiring the startup, according to sources. — I asked Barney Pell, Powerset co-founder and CTO, whether there was any truth to a Microsoft-Powerset deal.
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Facebook Borrows $100 Million to Buy Servers
via Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog by Adam Ostrow on May 09, 2008
Facebook is about to spend big on upgrading its infrastructure. According to Business Week, the social network has closed a deal to take a $100 million loan (“venture lending”), all of which will be spent on new servers. Facebook gives up no equity as part of the deal. Business Week explains how this type of loan works:“Venture lending peaked during the dot-com bubble of the late...
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Google Reader Adds Shared Notes, Non-Feed Page Capture [Social Bookmarking]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 06, 2008
Google adds yet another social-ish function, "Notes," to its Reader feed-browsing tool. The practical use comes from a new bookmarklet that posts whatever page you're looking at to your shared Reader items, with your own notes attached. You can also post notes with no link at all to be shared with your "friends," making it a kind of Twitter clone for, well, avid feed readers. As one blogger...
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Japanese friends
via LinkRiver Popular's River » Timeline by (author unknown) on May 10, 2008
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Google Founders Would Love to Expand Partnership With Yahoo
via fav.or.it custom feed by Julie Kent on May 09, 2008
... Yahoo does well, Google is ensuring that it won’t fall into the hands of Microsoft, who is eager to take over Yahoo in an attempt to seriously compete with Google.At a press round table before Google’s annual shareholders meeting on Thursday, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said, “We were a big partner of Yahoo a few years ago. It’s great to be working with them again.” (more…)
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Hillary Clinton Rejects Latest Michigan Delegate Plan
via Feeddit by (author unknown) on May 09, 2008
Hillary on Thursday rejected a compromise plan to seat Michigan's delegates to the national convention that would give 69 delegates to her and 59 to Sen. Barack Obama. "This proposal does not honor the 600,000 votes that were cast in Michigan's January primary. Those votes must be counted," Clinton spokesman Isaac Baker said.381 Diggs and 169 Comments in US Elections 2008 - Submitted by...
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What Will It Take to Form a Cloud Computing Market?
via Service Level Automation in the Datacenter by noreply@blogger.com (James Urquhart) on May 09, 2008
A few weeks ago I joined the Google Groups Cloud Computing group as a charter member of sorts. Today there is an excellent thread going on regarding the various elements needed to make a cloud market work. It started with Reuven Cohen of Enomaly proposing the need for a new marketing term...er, technology concept...he calls a Virtual Private Cloud. The idea here is to create a logical...
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