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Yahoo!'s New Mission: It's About the People
Written by Josh Catone / May 16, 2007 11:20 AM / 9 Comments
digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Yahoo_s_New_Mission_It_s_About_the_People'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Google's mission statement has long been "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Last night, Continue reading »


Amazon to Offer DRM-free MP3 Downloads
Written by Josh Catone / May 16, 2007 9:57 AM / 5 Comments
Amazon announced today that they will begin selling DRM-free MP3 music downloads from over 12,000 labels, the largest being EMI. EMI, of course, was the first major record label to Continue reading »


Poll Update: Mozilla, Google Favored Over Adobe, Microsoft for Web App Deployment Platforms
Written by Richard MacManus / May 15, 2007 11:33 PM / 6 Comments
We're midway through the week and this week's poll has thrown up some interesting results so far. We asked: among the big Internet companies/orgs, whose web app deployment platform do


Google's Potential Vulnerability - An Open Ad Network
Written by Sean Ammirati / May 15, 2007 4:51 PM / 24 Comments
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_s_Potential_Vulnerability_An_Open_Ad_Network'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Robert Scoble recently wrote an interesting post, about FOG - Fear of Google (an acronym coined by CEO of eMarketer Continue reading »


netsearchengine Launched - Network of Vertical Search Engines
Written by Charles Knight, AltSearchEngines editor / May 15, 2007 2:02 PM / 12 Comments
http://netsearchengine.net announced today the launch of its new search engine. netsearchengine.net is a network of twenty vertical search engines - and users can suggest new sites or vote on


Are Social Bookmarking Sites Better at Search than Google?
Written by Josh Catone / May 15, 2007 12:41 PM / 13 Comments
digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Are_Social_Bookmarking_Sites_Better_at_Search_than_Google'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; I have long thought that social bookmarking and ranking sites like del.icio.us, digg, and StumbleUpon could be used to enhance Continue reading »


Report: Paid Video Download Is A 'Dead End'
Written by Josh Catone / May 15, 2007 9:59 AM / 1 Comments
A new study from Forrester Research predicts that online video download services will see sales peak this year, as consumers move other sources of online video. Read/WriteWeb reported yesterday that Continue reading »


Meebo Rooms Launched - "like a very very rich widget"
Written by Richard MacManus / May 14, 2007 10:24 PM / 8 Comments
digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Meebo_Rooms_Launched_like_a_very_very_rich_widget'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Tonight meebo is launching Meebo Rooms, a rich media chat room product that users can put on their blogs and Continue reading »


ChaCha and blinkx Announce Partnership
Written by Charles Knight, AltSearchEngines editor / May 14, 2007 6:33 PM
digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/ChaCha_and_blinkx_Announce_Partnership'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Today, popular search engines ChaCha and blinkx announced an exciting new partnership, to add a video search feature to ChaCha's Continue reading »


Poll: Whose vision of web app deployment do you like the best?
Written by Richard MacManus / May 14, 2007 4:32 PM / 8 Comments
This week's poll is based on our current feature post, Understanding Apollo. In that post, I attempted to provide an overview of Apollo for non-developers. At the end, I looked Continue reading »


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