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Facebook is now offering its users the ability to receive their friends' status updates via text message on their phones. If you…
Update: Google has mysteriously added a little promotion to its homepage for "new" gmail voice and video chat. This original article is from November, so unless I'm missing something, it's not exactly a new featue. I guess they just want to give it some attention. I haven't seen any new Google blog posts about it or anything:
A new dictionary site called Wordnik was launched today, although even the creators had to settle for the "dictionary" description for lack of a better word. I would call it some kind of a definition search engine. It was founded by lexicographer Erin McKean.
Research reported by StatCounter says that Microsoft's new Bing search engine has taken over Yahoo for the second place slot in search market share. Clearly, it's getting a lot of attention since it just launched, so let's keep this in context.
ESPN The Magazine has begun charging for access to its online content. The magazine announced on its website that its online version, ESPNTheMag.com was merging with the ESPN Insider service, which is available for $6.95 a month, or $39.95 a year for premium sports content.
Update: Google has posted more about Rajeev on the Google Research Blog. Original Article: Rajeev Motwani, an angel investor and Stanford professor, who served as something of a mentor to the Google co-founders as they were getting Google off the ground, was found dead in a swimming pool on Friday from an apparent drowning.
