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Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 11:08 am EST

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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat - 18 hours, 37 minutes ago

Add color to your Gmail account with Themes - Looks like Google’s webmail service Gmail is getting a little more colorful — users can customize their accounts with themes. Not all Gmail users can see it yet, but it looks like I was one of the lucky few.
Google Operating System, ReadWriteWeb, PalmAddicts

Contentinople: - 16 hours, 38 minutes ago

Akamai Cuts 7% Of Staff - Content delivery network reduce headcount by 110 employees in what it is calling "across the board" cuts
FOXBusiness.com, Silicon Alley Insider

Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee - 17 hours, 32 minutes ago
TiVo Lays Off Some Staff - Blaming poor economic conditions, TiVo started laying off some of its staff yesterday in an effort to lower operational costs.
Silicon Alley Insider, BetaNews, Startup Meme

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM - 1 day, 11 hours, 7 minutes ago
SC08 Video: Put a Green Supercomputer on Your Desk - I'm intrigued by the idea of personal supercomputers such as the Cray CX1, which was unveiled earlier this year, as well as the Dell Workstation that was given a teraflop boost using an Nvidia Telsa card.
BetaNews, San Jose Mercury News, Wired Top Stories, DailyTech

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MediaPost - 20 hours, 23 minutes ago

Social Media Insider: Social Media And The Motrin Controversy: Or, Will Social Media Kill Advertising Creativity? - Perhaps, even if your brand preference is Advil, you spent the early part of the week mired in the Motrin controversy. If not, I'll recap, and then we can turn to my big question of the day.

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Jennifer Leggio / ZDNet Blogs - 22 hours, 12 minutes ago
Social media marketers can - and must - prove ROI - This post is a warning for folks that they need to end their debating before they are fired, or as we like to call it during these times "downsized."

Search Engine Watch Blog

Journals.ars - 19 hours, 5 minutes ago
New Opera designer looking for desktop UI feedback - Opera's new lead designer, Jon Hicks, is looking for comments from Mac, Windows, and Linux users (and everyone in between) about how the browser feels as a native app on their operating systems.

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CNNMoney.com - 21 hours, 33 minutes ago
Sirius XM at 17 cents - look out below - "Brother, can you spare a dime?" During the Great Depression, ten cents could buy a little something for those really hard up.

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs - 1 day, 2 hours, 8 minutes ago
Sun Gives MySQL A Query Analyzer - The analyzer is hoped to push MySQL query execution closer to the performance range of large commercial database systems.
PC World, eWeek

TheStreet.com: Business Wire - 1 hour, 13 minutes ago
Tim Brown: Make a Bid for eBay - This mainstay has what it takes to do well now and when the economy picks up.

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Nilay Patel / Engadget - 5 days, 17 hours, 6 minutes ago

AMD says it's "ignoring" netbooks, will focus on ultraportables - Filed under: LaptopsIt seemed earlier this week that AMD's new Conesus chips would take on Intel's dominant Atom platform in the netbook market, but it sounds like that was just wishful thinking -- according to CEO Dirk Meyer, the...
Gizmodo, Computerworld, EETimes, TheStreet.com: Business Wire, VentureBeat, TheStreet.com, Between the Lines, ZDNet Blogs, ChannelWeb

matt buchanan / Gizmodo - 5 days, 17 hours, 28 minutes ago

Get Ready for Cheap Nvidia Graphics Cards - ATI has been hitting Nvidia hard with its 4000-series big guns like the Radeon HD 4870 X2, and they're starting to feel it, with ATI successfully clawing away marketshare from Nvidia. Which has Nvidia skurred.
Electronista, DigiTimes, San Jose Mercury News

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM - 2 days, 23 hours, 27 minutes ago
Nvidia Machine Takes a Spot on the Top Supercomputer List - For the first time ever, a supercomputer using Nvidia chips has achieved a spot on the Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. The Nvidia-containing machine is ranked No.
Ars Technica

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Arnold Zafra / Search Engine Journal - 7 days, 16 hours, 12 minutes ago
Google Brings Sponsored Videos on YouTube Search - YouTube is yet again embarking on a revenue scheme in the hopes of generating income from its existence on the web, and being the number 1, video sharing site for that matter. It will soon be rolling out Sponsored Videos.
Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Watch Blog

CNET News.com - 7 days, 20 hours, 41 minutes ago
YouTube enabling advertisers to buy search terms on site - YouTube is getting serious about generating cash from all the video on its site and is now allowing users promote video as well as bid on keywords.
Yahoo! News (Wire Services), NYT > Media & Advertising

Doug Caverly / WebProNews - 8 days, 23 hours, 33 minutes ago
WSJ Points To Facebook Advertising Issues - It'll soon be what Andy Williams described as the most wonderful time of the year, and Facebook's doing its best to make the singer's words come true. It seems that the social network has a ways to go, however, at least in terms of...
ProBlogger, Inside Facebook

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Kathryn Glass / FOXBusiness.com - 9 days, 18 hours, 30 minutes ago
Starbucks Misses Earnings Estimates - Starbucks surprised no one when it missed earnings estimates on Monday, detailing declining profit and weakening same store sales in the fiscal fourth quarter.
TheStreet.com

Tameka Kee / paidContent.org - 13 days, 10 hours, 28 minutes ago

Ballmer: Yahoo Buyout Is Not Gonna Happen - Sorry, Jerry, a buyout's not gonna happen. That's the message MSFT CEO Steve Ballmer made clear at a business luncheon in Sydney, Reuters says. "We made an offer, we made another offer ... We moved on," Ballmer said.
BloggingStocks

Tameka Kee / paidContent.org - 13 days, 17 hours, 26 minutes ago
Earnings: Jupitermedia's Losses Balloon; Online, Images Revenue Down - Online media and images company Jupitermedia (NSDQ: JUPM) had a poor Q3, with revenues down 13 percent year-over-year and losses that shot up.
WebProNews

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Search Engine Watch Blog - 2 days, 11 hours, 8 minutes ago
SEW Experts: SEO Dreams are Made of This - Many major companies continue to make mistakes with their Web sites that hurt their search engine rankings. They target pages in the wrong way, or don't craft their pages in a way to prevent searchers from leaving their site after the...
WebProNews, Google Blogoscoped, SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog

InfoWorld - 6 days, 1 hour, 55 minutes ago

Is an Apple search engine in the works? - Rumors are floating around the Web this week about a possible new search engine in the works by Apple. Let me be the first to say I hope they're not true.A story published by tech blog TechCrunch Thursday cites "multiple (if thin)...
CNET News.com, ZDNet Blogs, 9 to 5 Mac

Doug Caverly / WebProNews - 5 days, 17 hours, 53 minutes ago

PubCon: Making Social Media Campaigns Effective - If you've decided to conduct a social media campaign (or are already in the middle of one), congratulations - you're more or less on the cutting edge. It's important not to either fall off or get sliced, though, and some tips to that...
Search Engine Land, Marketing Pilgrim

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Chris Crum / WebProNews - 1 hour, 29 minutes ago
Where Twitterers Go to Complain - Kvetch is a site that displays "Kvetches," or funny complaints that are sent to it via Twitter. One "Kvetch" is displayed at a time on the site's home page, and you can either give it a thumbs up or thumbs down.read...

Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee - 3 days, 21 hours, 31 minutes ago
Obama to Put Weekly Address on YouTube - There’s no question that between viral hits such as “Yes We Can” and his dramatic speech on race, YouTube helped President-Elect Barack Obama win this election.
Startup Meme, Gizmodo, InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs

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EETimes - 1 day, 23 hours, 58 minutes ago
Broadcom says Qualcomm held in contempt of injunction - A federal judge found Qualcomm in contempt of an injunction entered last December that was designed to prevent the company from infringement of two patents, according to Broadcom.
BetaNews

Silicon Alley Insider - 6 days, 3 hours, 29 minutes ago

Spam Down 75% After ISPs Shutdown Host - Maybe you've been inundated by emails from spammers like Pills-pay.com or Pay4pills.com in the past? No longer. Worldwide spam is down 75% since Tuesday, when a Washington Post investigation led Internet service-providers Global Crossing...
All Things Digital

Ryan Singel / Wired Top Stories - 6 days, 16 hours, 34 minutes ago
Net Spying Firm and ISPs Sued Over Ad System - ISP customers sue a controversial Net monitoring firm and its ISP partners, alleging that the companies violated federal wiretapping law with their ad-targeting scheme.
Inquirer

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