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* Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies - "Whenever I see a brilliant kid decide to join Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, or Google, I think to myself: a startup just died, and as

* All die neuen Sachen * Shock: When You Raise iTunes Prices, People Buy Less Stuff [ITunes] - "A shocking revelation from the Warner Bros. earnings call this morning: Since they bumped prices on a bunch

* Google Buzz re-invents Gmail * If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present * Google's Open Tools and APIs Make Buzz Hum * Banish Google Buzz Updates from Your Gmail Inbox [Distractions] * FriendFeed

* Google Rebuilds the Tower of Babel with Real-Time Language Translation - "The Times UK spoke with Franz Och, head of Google's translation services, who said that this new service should be up

* “selling by giving”, or, “gift economics” - "They put stuff out there, as gifts. Great content, great ideas, great insights, great personal connection. By giving so much of themselves, for free, every day, they

* Book Publishing Industry Just Now Realizing That Change Is Turbulent? - "While markets have their flaws, over the long run they are good at executing these technological transformations.... Reports of the death of book

* Feedtrace: Personalized Link Aggregation for Twitter - "You can also restrict Feedtrace to look just at a single website, to see what people are talking about the most. This can be a great tool,

* Why I’m Slowly Starting to Love My Google Nexus One - " It’s not so much a phone as it is a portable cloud client. The one nice thing about the deep integration

* W&V: Facebook mit deutscher Niederlassung - "Die Adresse gehört zweifellos zu den guten in Hamburg, direkt im Zentrum der Hansestadt gelegen: Am Rathausmarkt 5 hat sich laut Handelsregister Hamburg die Facebook Germany

* The Nikkei Newspaper To Begin Paid Online News In March, Multiple Sources Say * MyHeritage Buys Germany’s OSN, Now 540 Million Profiles Strong - "Israeli genealogy site MyHeritage has completed its third acquisition,  buying

* Chrome 4 Supports Greasemonkey Userscripts Without an Extension  [Userscripts] - "In fact, when you install a userscript in Chrome, it actually installs as though it's a regular old extension. That means, as

* Das offene Web und seine Feinde - "wer an die offenheit glaubt, der muss auch an ihre konkurrenzfähigkeit in einem milieu glauben, in dem es auch geschlossene systeme gibt." Die 'Offenheit'