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New Indie Film Site The Auteurs To Make A Splash At Cannes (TechCrunch)

Mon, 12 May 2008 08:00:53 GMT

New Indie film site The Auteurs, which is in private beta, is trying to make a big splash around the Cannes Film Festival later this week with a competition. And they've lined up some big sponsors to help them. The competition is sponosred by HP, Facebook and Flip. Users pick up one of 250 free Flip [...]

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Google Is A Malware Site (Says Yahoo) (TechCrunch)

Mon, 12 May 2008 06:48:34 GMT

I’m going to assume that the fact that some Yahoo search results that point to Google with a malware warning are a sign that their new partnership with McAfee just needs a little tuning. The alternatives are either (1) Google is serving Malware, or (2) Yahoo or McAfee are playing a little joke. Most results that [...]

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As Facebook goes corporate, Mark Zuckerberg loses an early player (Cnet)

Mon, 12 May 2008 06:18:00 GMT

It's part of the natural evolution of a fast-growing company for some early execs to jump ship when they no longer recognize the start-up they helped build. That might've been why longtime Facebook CTO Adam D'Angelo has departed.

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Powerset Launches Showcase For User Search Experience (TechCrunch)

Mon, 12 May 2008 03:59:33 GMT

Today marks another milestone for San Francisco based contextual search engine Powerset. They've launched a showcase for their user search experience - effectively the search engine minus the web crawl. For now, Powerset queries only Wikipedia and augments results with data from Freebase. The product launch comes just a day after reports that the company [...]

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Breaking: Google Testing Ads on GTalk? (WATblog)

Mon, 12 May 2008 06:31:22 GMT

I use the GTalk client everyday to communicate with fellow WATBloggers and other friends and for a few days I’ve been noticing something very queer. When I type within GTalk, I get links to other websites. I can't click on those ads – they are static text. When I continue typing, my words gobble up that static [...]

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Powerset brings the Semantic Web to Wikipedia (Cnet)

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:25:00 GMT

Amid speculation that Microsoft is looking to make an acquisition, Powerset is launching a public beta of its semantically rich Wikipedia search engine.

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Does "Query Deserves Diversity" Algorithm Exist at Google? (Daily SEO Blog)

Sun, 11 May 2008 22:14:26 GMT

Posted by randfish Most of us in the search space are familiar with the principles of the " query deserves freshness " (QDF) algorithm at Google, but this is almost certainly not the only intent detection process and algo-tweaking area the engine applies. One popular theory that gets inspires a good bit of discussion around the SEO water cooler is that Google may recognize queries with the potential...

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Technology Associates Inks Deal With Harold W. Wells & Son, Inc. (Commercial Insurance Knowledge)

Mon, 12 May 2008 06:43:00 GMT

Under this agreement, Harold W. Wells & Son, Inc. has joined the Technology Associates NetAssure Basic Service, which allows Technology Associates to proactively monitor and manage the firm's network to prevent … Bookmark To:

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Aniboom Gets More Hollywood: Making Comics from Games (Mashable)

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:01:16 GMT

Just last week we heard that Aniboom (the YouTube for animated content) would be greatly expanding its distribution channels by partnering with various mobile and web video networks. Now the animation network is teaming up with Oberon Media’s publishing division, I-play, for the creation and distribution of animated serial content across all of its [...]

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RIM gets Bold with new Blackberry (USA Today)

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:01:01 GMT

Research In Motion on Monday is introducing its first major new BlackBerry model in more than a year: the Bold, a high-end model ...

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MyItThings (Emily Chang)

Mon, 12 May 2008 08:45:22 GMT

A website and online magazine built around users' personal columns. Members publish thoughts, opinions, reviews, photos and your "it" things related to fashion, trends, style and more.

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Quake in China (Scobleizer)

Mon, 12 May 2008 08:22:19 GMT

BBC: Twitter and the China earthquake. I reported the Twitter quake to my followers before the USGS Website had a report up. How did I do that? Well, I was watching Twitter on Google Talk. Several people in China reported to me they felt the quake WHILE IT WAS GOING ON!!! Over the next two hours I pointed [...]

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Orphan Works Copyright Legislation Proposed (Webmaster World)

Mon, 12 May 2008 08:20:02 GMT

"What they are trying to accomplish is to allow usage of orphaned copyrighted material so that many potentially important materials may be included in publications and documentaries, after a good faith search fails to locate the author, to avoid massive copyright lawsuits including statutory penalties."

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Trend Micro Internet Security 16.1 (Soft32.com - Windows - New Releases)

Mon, 12 May 2008 07:51:01 GMT

updated on Mon, 12 May 2008 02:44:33 CDT - Trend Micro Internet Security 16.1 is a top notch all-in-on security suite

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Will Obama Run Like Bill Clinton … or Michael Dukakis? (Pajamas Media)

Mon, 12 May 2008 07:49:05 GMT

Democrats are hoping that 2008 will be another 1992, producing a new, young, charismatic president. But the GOP will do its best to replay 1988 instead.

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Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript (Seeking Alpha)

Mon, 12 May 2008 07:44:48 GMT

Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (NBIX) Complete Story »

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Web start-up unveils semantic Wikipedia search tool (Reuters)

Mon, 12 May 2008 07:44:36 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Powerset on Sunday unveiled tools for searching Wikipedia that use conversational phrasing instead of keywords, marking the first step of its challenge to established Web search services such as Google.

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Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript (Seeking Alpha)

Mon, 12 May 2008 07:44:08 GMT

Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. (BWLD) Complete Story »

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Intel reported getting SSD orders from Google (TechConnect Magazine)

Mon, 12 May 2008 07:30:31 GMT

While various companies are trying to get their solid state drive offers known by the general public, Intel is apparently moving stealthy but efficiently through the storage market with it being reported getting some nice orders from the one and only search and advertising heavy-weight, Google. While it hasn't yet released SSDs, Intel's promised speeds and other flashy perks apparently convinced Google...

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Amazon Unbox to go HD on TiVo (AfterDawn.com)

Mon, 12 May 2008 07:02:14 GMT

Although there have been rumors swirling for months that it was going to happen, TiVo has officially confirmed that Amazon Unbox will be going HD . "Unbox, the content-downloading service TiVo started with Internet retail leader Amazon.com last year, can't process HD content, though the companies will announce HD capabilities in the not too distant future, Mr. Denney of TiVo said. Amazon explains...

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