LookSmart (LOOK) Bombs: Bad News for GOOG/YHOO?  —  LookSmart had a terrible quarter, with advertising revenue growing only 4% year over year (this is Internet, remember, not TV).  It also stopped providing guidance (presumably because it doesn’t have anything good to say).

Source:   Silicon Alley Insider
Author:   Henry Blodget
Link:   http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/11/looksmart-look…

‘Internet van’ helped drive evolution of the Web  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—If not for this nondescript, gray van with the letters “SRI” painted on the side, you might not be reading this article right now.  —  Parked feet from the entrance of the Computer History Museum here in the heart of Silicon Valley …

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TiVo temporarily reinstates $400 lifetime subscription for Series3, HD  —  Call it a quick holiday cash-in targeted at current TiVo owners if you must, but you’re not about to kill our buzz about the fact that TiVo’s resurrecting the greatly missed Product Lifetime Service (aka lifetime subscription) …

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Ryan Block
Link:   http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/08/tivo-temporarily…

Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds  —  Hushmail, a longtime provider of encrypted web-based email, markets itself by saying that “not even a Hushmail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted e-mail, since each message is uniquely encoded before it leaves your computer.”

Source:   Threat Level
Author:   Ryan Singel
Link:   http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/encrypted-e…

Research Note: Evil is in the DNA, Special Facebook Edition  —  “…”There are these small bands of people who are trying to take over the world,” Yu said. “  This is so much more fun than working at a hedge fund or an investment bank.  ie, Gideon Yu, Facebook’s CFO.  —  That’s a really (really) […]

Screenshots of first Googlephone app [Exclusive]  —  Screenshots of first Googlephone app  —  Remember WhatsOpen.com, the stealth search startup that piqued Google cofounder Sergey Brin’s interest last month?  Brin was so intrigued he told the founders to keep the company hush-hush.

Source:   Valleywag
Author:   Owen Thomas
Link:   http://valleywag.com/tech/exclusive/screenshots-of…

Fear Among Facebook Developers  —  LOS ANGELES -  —  Travel back in time six months to Facebook’s last big event, at a warehouse in an artsy part of San Francisco, where scrappy independent developers were the apple of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s eye.  —  How things have changed.

Source:   Forbes
Author:   Rachel Rosmarin
Link:   http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/11/06/facebook…

Microsoft CEO plays down Google threat in online business  —  TOKYO: Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, in Tokyo to launch the new Windows Live services, played down the threat of Google Thursday, denying the rival was ahead in any way but in online searches.

Source:   Associated Press
Link:   http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/08/business/AS…

Apple confirms international 1.1.2 iPhone update to Pocket-lint  —  In a meeting this morning with the UK Apple press team, it was confirmed to Pocket-lint that version 1.1.2 will be an international update on Friday 9th November for iPhone owners.  —  Although the time could not be confirmed …

Source:   Pocket-lint.co.uk : Latest News
Author:   […]

Two updates to site targeting  —  We’d like to announce two changes to site targeting in Google’s content network.  First, because site targeting now offers more precise targeting options, we’ve given it a more appropriate name: placement targeting.  Second, we’re introducing …

Source:   Inside AdWords
Author:   Feng
Link:   http://adwords.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-updates-to…