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Google Launches Virtual World Called Lively
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on July 08, 2008
Shared by Matt Interesting. I wouldn't have guessed Google would get into this game.Well, this sucks for Second Life. Google is launching a new service today called Lively, a browser based virtual world add-on that lets users create and customize avatars and worlds, interact with other users, and generally have a richer social interaction than is offered by GTalk today.Worlds can be...
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Yahoo’s Helpful Shortcut To Pictures Of Underage Girls
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on July 05, 2008
Yahoo Shortcuts automatically finds and underlines interesting items in articles and provides additional information via a pop up window (Yahoo Shortcuts also refers to shortcuts in Yahoo Search for common things like travel search). “People, places, organizations, and other things of interest are underlined,” says the FAQ.One blogger is pointing out, though, that the tool may be going a...
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Follow Animal Migrations On Google Earth
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on July 04, 2008
Google Earth is turning out to be a great resource for scientists to visualize and communicate the phenomena they study. You can see the migration patterns of endangered and other threatened animals, based on data collected by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. (The image above shows the range of both the Northern spotted owl and the Mexican spotted owl).Anybody can take geographical...
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Judge Protects YouTube’s Source Code, Throws Users To The Wolves
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on July 03, 2008
The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom. If the data is actually released, the consequences could be far more serious than the 2006 AOL Search debacle. Louis L. Stanton, the senior judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York,...
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How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000 (Say Hello To Matt)
via TechCrunch by Guest Author on July 03, 2008
In this post, guest author Ryan Carson goes through some of the lessons learned from building a Web app in four days. Carson is the co-founder of Carsonified, a web shop in Bath, UK. They’ve built four web apps, created ThinkVitamin.com and run events like Future of Web Apps. If you’re bored you can follow Ryan on Twitter.The time it takes to design, build and deploy web applications has...
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Department of Civil Disobedience: Google Should Deliver Its YouTube Data to Viacom in Paper Form
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on July 03, 2008
The recent court order directing Google to hand over data to Viacom about every YouTube video ever watched strikes many people as an absurd overreach of the law into the privacy of anyone who has ever used YouTube (i.e., almost everyone on the Internet). Google should definitely keep fighting the ruling if it can. But if it can’t, perhaps it should comply with it in a creative way. The data...
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Apple Confirms: No Online iPhone 3G Sales, In-Store Activation Only
via TechCrunch by John Biggs on July 02, 2008
Reader Steve has been chatting with Apple.com CSRs today - he’s already talked to two - and they’ve both confirmed my worst fears: you will not be able to order the IP3G online and it will only be available in stores and it will be activated in-store, provided you wish to purchase it at contract prices (i.e. $199). What does this mean? It means getting an unlocked iPhone will be incrementally...
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Ballmer on Yahoo Deal: The Bankers “screwed everything up.”
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on July 02, 2008
Interesting and surprisingly detailed story in the Wall Street Journal tonight about the ongoing (never ending) Microsoft/Yahoo deal. The headline is that Microsoft, apparently not happy with simply destroying Yahoo’s credibility, is now hoping to rip it apart and divide up the pieces.Microsoft Corp., positioning itself for a new run for Yahoo Inc.’s search business, has approached other...
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Y Combinator’s Anyvite Takes On Evite, Keeps Things Simple
via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on July 02, 2008
It’s no secret that Evite sucks. It’s cluttered, it unnecessarily withholds information from email messages in order to drive page hits, and it looks like it hasn’t seen a facelift in about a decade.The latest company to take on the much-maligned site is Anyvite, a Y Combinator-funded startup that launches today. Anyvite has taken a very streamlined approach to the invite process,...
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Blogged Tries To Make A Human-Powered Techmeme For Everything
via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on July 02, 2008
Blogged, the blog directory that we introduced last February, has launched a news portal that aspires to hand-pick the most interesting stories from across the blogosphere. The company has employed a team of editors to identify trends and popular stories from around the web, which are presented in categories that include technology, entertainment, politics, and sports.Unfortunately, Blogged will...
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