From Around the Web
Bing vs. Google vs. Yahoo: Feature Smackdown – PC World compares the top features of three major search engines -Bing, Google, and Yahoo – in the ultimate search engine battle royale. The verdict seems to be that Google wins, with Yahoo close behind.
FileTwt – FileTwt brings filesharing to twitter. With FileTwt you can now easily upload and tweet about your files for free. There’s a 20MB size limit.
iPhone 3 Rumors – The TGR Blog has a great graphical round-up of features expected in the next iPhone release. My question is, where’s the grappling hook?
Opera 10 beta – The latest version of Opera is available. Experience a surprising array of new features, a fresh look and feel, and enhanced speed and performance. Since the alpha release we’ve now turned our attention to features.
Search is too important to leave to one company – Cory Doctorow argues that it may seem as unlikely as a publicly edited encyclopedia, but the internet needs a publicly controlled search engine.
Thank you, Napster – The Globe and Mail looks back at a decade of filesharing technology, beginning with Napster.
Twitter on Xbox 360 – Announced by the charming and small Felicia Day earlier today at Microsoft’s E3 media briefing, both Twitter and Facebook integration are coming to Xbox LIVE this Fall. Visually, it’s seamlessly integrated with the existing NXE interface. Functionally, it should work that way as well — you’ll be able to view updates, photos, and add friends to your Xbox LIVE list right from the Xbox 360 Facebook/Twitter applications. [YouTube Video]
Using Google Docs to make a survey – Did you know you can make a free, and rich survey or poll using Google Docs? It’s simple to set up, and as a bonus it drops all your results into a spreadsheet where you can slice/dice/analyze/chart/graph or whatever.
Miscellaneous
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Google’s Search Business
Chinese Farmer Uses Scrap Metal to Build Working Helicopter
Map of all Google data center locations
Tech News
Acer to make first-ever Android netbooks
Google Is Top Tracker of Surfers in Study
Microsoft Windows 7 to hit market in October
Nielsen Hugely Underestimates BitTorrent Traffic
Privacy study shows Google’s eyes are everywhere
Soon, you’ll have to pay for Hulu
Study: Top 10% of Twitter users do 90% of the tweeting
The world’s new supercomputer launched
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