More on Yahoo Reorg: Sue Decker’s Memo  —  We got the full internal memo Sue Decker sent this afternoon to the team, on Yahoo’s (Nsdq: YHOO) reorg..the full memo is here.  See our earlier post on the reorg.  Salient points from the memo:  — Jerry and I and the rest of the management team …

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Hulu Translates To “Cease” and “Desist” in Swahili.  Oops.  —  Congratulations are in order to YouTube-competitor Hulu, which took just five months to come up with a name after announcing itself in March.  CEO Jason Kilar says the name “captures the spirit of the service we’re building” in an open letter published today.

Source:   TechCrunch
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Hulu Translates To “Cease” and “Desist” in Swahili.  Oops.  —  Congratulations are in order to YouTube-competitor Hulu, which took just five months to come up with a name after announcing itself in March.  CEO Jason Kilar says the name “captures the spirit of the service we’re building” in an open letter published today.

Source:   TechCrunch
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Worm In The Apple  —  Apple Chief Steve Jobs’ not-so-secret plan to take over the world is going well.  On the desktop, Apple’s Macs are chewing away at Dell and Gateway’s market share.  The iPod has squashed Microsoft’s Zune beneath its tank treads.  Now the iPhone threatens to roll through …

Source:   Forbes
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A Shift to Engagement.  —  As we indicated earlier, today we are introducing new guidelines that will change how applications are ranked in the application directory.  Currently, the focus is on total number of users, but going forward it will be based on user engagement.

Source:   Facebook Developers News Feed
Link:   http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story…

Identity Verification Comes to Second Life  —  Trust is the foundation of any community.  And one cornerstone of trust is identity.  You’ve got to know something about the person you are dealing with before you can trust them.  Knowing who to trust in an online environment presents unique challenges.

Source:   Official Linden Blog
Author:   Robin […]

The Next iPod  —  Don’t even think about buying an iPod between now and Sept. 5.  Apple has invited the press to a “special event” next week in San Francisco.  And as usual, Apple won’t say what it plans to announce.  Or much of anything.  —  But it doesn’t take one of Hewlett-Packard’s …

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Nokia’s iPhone — no, seriously  —  Oh come on, what the hell is that?  A Nokia branded iPhone?  It was presented during Nokia’s GoPlay event this morning as a glimpse of what’s coming with Nokia interface design.  Oh, and it’s due out next year.  When pressed during the Q …

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Thomas Ricker
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News Corp and NBC Universal name video site Hulu  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp. and NBC Universal said on Wednesday they have named their new online video joint venture Hulu, taking a page from the Internet company tradition of creating meaningless corporate monikers.

Source:   Reuters
Link:   http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070829/media_nm…

WINDOWS SERVER 2008 TIMING UPDATE  —  With over 300,000 downloads of Beta 3 already under our belt, there is a lot of excitement here in Redmond as we get closer to our release candidate milestone for Windows Server 2008.  Customers and partners are very impressed with what they see …

Source:   Windows Server Division WebLog
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