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A few days ago, Marissa Mayer wrote a blog post about Google's homepage, and an obsession with simplicity and clean design became…
AOL's Bebo seems to be growing a little stronger in terms of personnel; although it's not stealing directly from a certain search giant, the social network's newest hire acted as an exec at Dailymotion, and some time before that, Google.
Twitter's cool, no doubt, but what enhances its coolness are the applications developing in the periphery, all of which seem to extract from Twitter's deep reservoirs of cool and redistribute along the Internet. Recently, Twellow and Summize have surfaced. Before that it was TwittEarth, which lets you be a giant fly on the wall of the world.
PayPal and eBay have long drawn the attention of criminal phishers who try to spoof the companies and steal login information from their customers.
A rumor pops its head out this morning that Twitter is negotiating to buy Summize, a search engine allowing users to dig through tweets on Twitter. Before we continue, let's take a moment to appreciate the quality snark emanating from David Fry via Twitter rival FriendFeed: One company with no revenue buys another company with no revenue and whose existence depends on the first company?
A time machine, not a deal with Yahoo, would be what Microsoft needs if it really wants to beat Google.
