Microsoft “Rebooted the Web”

One way you can tell how good a product launch is by waiting for the day after effect. Are people still talking about it? Still excited? Does it cause people like Steve Gillmor to change opinions?

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I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For iGoogle

I’ll start this article with a couple of disclaimers: this is not a new product, and Apple had absolutely nothing to do with it.  That said, behold iGoogle, the latest incarnation of the Google Personalized Home Page.

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Google Responds to Viacom

Google has released its official response to Viacom’s billion dollar lawsuit against its YouTube property, saying that Viacom is threatening the way everyone exchanges information on the internet. Google’s claim is that Viacom’s lawsuit completely ignores the DMCA, and as a result threatens to unravel it and introduce all sorts of chaos for websites and service providers.

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Google Has About 900 Millionaires, Some Leaving

The Guardian has an article about rich Google employees leaving, and they say a report quoted Google as having as many as 900 millionaires. Considering that Google has 12,238 employees (as of March 31), and had only 6,790 employees a year ago, that’s a pretty significant percentage.

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Google Personalized Homepage Gets A Name: iGoogle

Google has finally given its personalized homepage a name, calling it what many people had suspected the name was all along: iGoogle. Google had a whole Personalization Workshop in Mountain View yesterday, and Google Blogoscoped had someone on the scene for the whole thing. Some details:

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