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Archive for December 4th, 2007

Edit your photos! On Flickr! (Flickr Blog)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Edit your photos!  On Flickr!  —  Picnik’s awesome photo editing tools are now only a click away.  If you’ve ever wanted to deal with the dreaded red eye or crop a photo just so, click on the new “edit photo” icon located above one of your photos and get started.

Source:   Flickr Blog
Link:   http://blog.flickr.com/en/2007/12/05/edit-your-photos…

Gmail + chat + AIM = crazy delicious (Robby Stein/Official Gmail Blog)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Gmail + chat + AIM = crazy delicious  —  I was pretty excited when we launched chat integration in Gmail.  Finally I could chat and email in one place—but I couldn’t chat with friends using other instant messaging services.  —  From the beginning, Google has been committed to open standards and interoperation for instant messaging.

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Treo 750 Updater 2.25 (Palm)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Treo 750 Updater 2.25  —  for AT&T smartphones  —  This update is designed for the Palm Treo 750 running on the AT&T network.  This will update the smartphone’s software to the latest release, version 2.25.  —  What does this update do?  —  This free, downloadable update adds …

Source:   Welcome to Palm - Select a […]

Cisco Appoints Padmasree Warrior as Chief Technology Officer (Elizabeth McNichols/Cisco)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Cisco Appoints Padmasree Warrior as Chief Technology Officer  —  Cisco today announced the appointment of Padmasree Warrior as chief technology officer (CTO).  Warrior comes to Cisco from Motorola where she was executive vice president and chief technology officer.

Source:   Cisco
Author:   Elizabeth McNichols
Link:   http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2007/corp_120407.html

RIP Facebook? - A lot of people say that Facebook has jumped the shark. (Josh Quittner/Techland)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

RIP Facebook?  —  A lot of people say that Facebook has jumped the shark.  That’s flat out wrong.  In fact, Facebook is now being devoured by the shark.  There’s so much blood in the water, it’s attracting other sharks.  And if Facebook’s not careful, one of them is bound to come along and finish it […]

Exclusive: Technorati Relaunches To Focus On Core Blogging Audience (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Exclusive: Technorati Relaunches To Focus On Core Blogging Audience  —  Technorati has a brand new CEO, and he’s been busy in his short time with the company.  Today Technorati is relaunching, with a new core focus on bloggers.  —  Last week I saw a demo of the new products …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Michael Arrington
Link: […]

Chat With AIM Users From Gmail (Philipp Lenssen/Google Blogoscoped)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Chat With AIM Users From Gmail  —  After introducing colored labels earlier this week, Google now seems to be rolling out a web-based client for AOL Instant Messenger chatting as part of Gmail.  You will still need an AIM account, as Google Talk and AOL are not joining forces, but Google is merely using the […]

With SP1, Microsoft plans to ditch the Vista “kill switch” (Ed Bott/Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

With SP1, Microsoft plans to ditch the Vista “kill switch”  —  The case for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 just got a lot stronger.  —  When SP1 ships sometime in early 2008, it will strip away one of Vista’s most annoying features and remove one of the most persistent objections to Vista’s adoption.

Source:   Ed […]

LA Times invests in Mixx, integrates social news site (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

LA Times invests in Mixx, integrates social news site  —  The Los Angeles Times has partnered with Mixx, a social news website, to give readers more input in the news they read.  —  The publication has also said it will start using technology from Aggregrate Knowledge, a Silicon Valley company …

Source:   VentureBeat
Author:   Matt […]

Google’s Infrastructure is its Strategic Advantage (Om Malik/GigaOM)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Google’s Infrastructure is its Strategic Advantage  —  Back in the day, when PC stocks were kings on Wall Street, a pesky college kid named Michael Dell figured out that he could do an end run around the then-established PC makers by developing a smarter way of making and selling boxes.

Source:   GigaOM
Author:   Om Malik
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