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Hi Matt - yes, enter the land of Scobleizer and FF goodness :) This truly is an amazing community of smart, funny, genuinely good-hearted intelligent folks! like my extended Family!!! :) Glad you are here! Oh, and thanks for WP! - Susan Beebe

Excellent! - Mark VandenBerg

Cool. Now we'll see even mo' better FF integrations with WP, right? I'm kidding. Welcome to the party Matt! - Kevin C. Tofel

Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter

“Linux and Mac versions of Google Chrome will be released in the first half of 09 http://ping.fm/Kf3E3”

Friday at 6:48 pm - Link

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Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader

OMG! Gmail Just Got Themes

Wednesday at 3:46 pm - Link

Matt Cutts, Dan Liebke, david beckwith and 11 other people liked this

Don't have mine yet....I'll keep checking - Tom Mack

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Still waiting for mine - Jay

I don't have mine yet - Kevin Tunis

Maybe you should search Google ;) - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)

I just got mine....I like Ninja! - Tom Mack

I still don't have mine. They must know I secretly rarely use GMail at all. - Louis Gray

Still nothing here! - Mark Martinez

I chose planets. - Vera Hannaford

Nada here yet... - Dennis Bjørn Petersen via twhirl

Just checked Gmail - still no themes... - Kevin Tunis

Sorry, but am I the only person that doesn't really care about themes for GMail? I tried it on Google Reader. Meh. - Rolf Schewe

I don't tend to care about themes, but in this case, the GMail themes appeared quite legible and subtle. I wouldn't have cared if I hadn't seen the screenshots. - Scott from Canada

got the theme about a hour ago using desktop... - Kevin Tunis

Marshall Kirkpatrick posted a message on Twitter

“huge story imho - Google to Put Wiki On Top of Search http://bit.ly/t94j seriously, for all logged in users, wow”

Thursday at 6:40 pm - Link

David Erickson, Chris Nixon, Susan Beebe and 26 other people liked this

Yes! I love wikis. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Marshall. - Daniel J. Pritchett

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That is a big move! - Jay

It happened randomly for me yesterday: http://friendfeed.com/e/2000e8... - Benjamin Golub

This is definitely interesting, but unless they start using the up/down votes for general rankings and not just your own the term 'wiki' is a bit of a misnomer. Yeah, so I can read peoples' comments about the search results...but how often are you going to click the little bubble to see what others have written instead of just clicking on the link to see what the page is? - Louis Simoneau

pretty big deal, also GREAT way for them to build sites quality scores for standard search - sean percival

I can't help but think this data could or will be used to augment the algorithm and placement. maybe they'll just sell ads contextual to your notes though! - Marshall Kirkpatrick via IM

This is an important and probably influential move by Google, though in person I look for a bigger step by Google. ;-) Anyway, great post for an important new action. Yihong - Yihong Ding via FriendFeed MT Plugin

I wish rankings could be affected by your GMail Contacts / GReader Friends. Would be FF-like. - Dave Gilbert

Google SearchWiki will probably be fed back into the algorithm. Human feedback mechanism makes the algo smarter. No Digg needed. - AJ Kohn

This has started showing up for me. - David Potts via twhirl

I have it too. Thought it was some unknown Firefox add-on at first. - Gus

I haven't tried this yet...and I'm not sure I want to. It seems like this is only useful to those who repeatedly run the same search (unless I misunderstand). - Scott from Canada

michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

Google Makes Major Interface Change To Search: SearchWiki

Thursday at 9:28 pm - Link

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Bradley Horowitz posted a message on Twitter

“@vielmetti As currently implemented, you're only mucking with your own results. You can only game yourself... ;-)”

Thursday at 11:54 pm - Link

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Evan Williams posted a message on Twitter

“Email: "Your domain name (twitter.com) has been found online. Please let us know your price." (And people say we can't make money!)”

Thursday at 7:53 am - Link

Stuart Woodward, Glen Campbell, Wally Punsapy and 12 other people liked this

oh wow...so many ideas for this @current. - mario anima

10^9 - Igor Poltavskiy

Has been found. Did it go missing and their holding it ransom?! - Simon Wicks

Kara posted a message on Twitter

“UPDATE: Sean Suchter, Yahoo's Search VP, will be working for MSFT's Satya Nadella and starting in late December: http://twurl.nl/6kmmlz”

Wednesday at 9:01 pm - Link

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Kevin Fox posted a link

Oh my god. It finally happened: Gmail Themes

Wednesday at 1:31 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Tanath, Joe Dawson (beta), Kol Tregaskes and 66 other people liked this

My eyes! They burn... - Bill Sodeman

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Quite surprised they would mess with the logo like that. - Andrew Smith

ditto Andrew - Shey

Wait, as in I don't need a Firefox add-on? Sweet!! - zoblue (Zulema)

Shark? Jumping? - Mark VandenBerg

'Bout time! Sadly it's not on my account yet -- I guess I'm no longer on scary-canary :( - Paul Buchheit

I really wish they would get the problems of adding features to Google Domain Apps accounts fixed before working on new features. I love my Domain Apps account, except for the fact that I don't get the Labs features, even though I've followed the steps to enable them. :-( - Joey Gibson

can we now bitch and moan publicly about how long it took to launch? :) and it's not on my account either. - Tudor Bosman

It's not on mine either. I am sad. :( - Jason Shultz via twhirl

@Joey I'm not sure why you don't. Mine works. Did you email support? - Jason Shultz via twhirl

Not here yet either :( Hopefully it'll be there in an hour or two. - Brandon Titus

It's rolling out over time, so not everyone's going to get it simultaneously. If you don't see it on your account yet, hang on -- it'll be there soon. - Paul Wilcox

Can people create their own themes? I see this as being really nice for companies that use Google For Domains to customize the look/feel. I assume the themes just change the look, not functionality. For that, I'm not really a "Themes" kind of guy. Default is just fine. - Cyrus Lendvay

One of my accts has it now. Planets is my favorite theme so far... - Ray Metzen

It'll be harder to spot Gmail in coffee shops now. Also: hooray for green on black! - seth

The new default is bad. Why was is changed? I like the mountains theme though. - Paul Buchheit

Am I the only one who thinks most of those themes are FUGLY? I wish the themes allowed UI customizations instead of just generic colors/buttons/backgrounds. - Pras Sarkar

Darn, I don't have yet either :( - Sally Church

Themes can't help make Gmail's awful UI better. But I use it for it's functionality not its looks. - Peter Simard

Paul can you confirm is this http://blogoscoped.com/files/g... and this http://blogoscoped.com/files/g... the new default theme? (Ignoring the right-hand side labels position, which might be a labs thing.) - Philipp Lenssen

Excellent! Both teal and cyan are represented. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)

I got it.. Hey but i think the classic theme is the best :-) - Karthick R

LIKE LIKE LIKE LIKE!! Not on my personal account yes but I seriously LOVE the themes. Too much white on my screen at once makes my eyes start burning. /me makes pointed looks at FriendFeed. - Erica Baker

The pink flowered one is my favorite but I'm highly biased. ;-) - Erica Baker

@Phillip -- yes, those look like the new defaults. Disclosure: I work for Google, but I don't work on Gmail. - Paul Wilcox

So what did everyone pick? I picked Desk... we'll see how long it lasts before I get tired of gimmickry. - Rebecca Sun

Yay! I gotted my themes, too! I'm using Tree. It's soft and blue and pretty. - Ladybug Heather

I used Ninja for a few hours for sentimental reasons, but an using Mountain now. I'll probably rotate around a bit and see what I really like most. - Kevin Fox

Themes tab showed up for me at some point in the last few hours, but I'm sticking with Gmail Redesigned v2 for now... - abacab

"We'll be rolling out themes to everyone over the next couple of days, so if you don't see them yet, check back soon." Ugh :) - Mike Reynolds

looking forward to the RTM add-on playing nice with these themes...using pebble right now, but will switch it up every now and then i'm sure... - Trent Olson

My personal favorites are Mountains and Planets. Planets also happens to be one of my favorite iGoogle themes. - Paul Wilcox

hax! I don't see 'Themes' under Settings yet - nouhad

"Minimalist", baby. I'm all about the Minimalist. :) - Matt Cutts

Andy Baio posted an entry on Waxy.org Links

LIFE Magazine photo archive hosted by Google

Tuesday at 10:25 am - Link

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Why does Google disallow other search engines to crawl these images (via their robots.txt directive, which says Disallow: /hosted/images/ and Disallow: /hosted/life/)? - Philipp Lenssen

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Philipp, ohhh :-( - Timo Heuer

Philipp good question. Is it "the world's information" or google's information? - Chris Lamprecht

Epoch is coming back. - Igor Poltavskiy

"© Time Inc" Or perhaps not if the images passed into the public domain (like perhaps those prior to 1923)... [edit: added an update at http://blogoscoped.com/archive...] - Philipp Lenssen

I guess you didn't hear, congress thought the public domain was just too important and too vulnerable to abuse and missuse, so they included a rider in the financial stabilization act. There is now a small, excessive fee for use of public domain information. The fee is intended to cover 90% of the administive costs of the program, which is being generously administered by the Disney company as a public service at very reasonable rates when compared to other government contracts awarded over the last 7 years. - Erik S

Robert Scoble posted a message

“I love Google. They keep bringing out cool things. Yahoo? It has been a while.”

November 17 at 8:52 pm - Link

Paul Wilcox, Matt Hilton, Dani Radu and 57 other people liked this

Typing is for suckers...Long live voice. - Zee.

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The difference is that Google keeps their products around, Yahoo axes them shortly after releasing them in most cases. I don't even know why they bother anymore. - Javier Altman

I can't remember the last time I used a Yahoo service really. - Bhavishya Kanjhan

Google has kept its focus on developing the coolest cutting-edge Internet software possible. Yahoo got distracted by some Old Media people, and, in some respects, tried to become a traditional mainstream media company. Brin and Page exercised better judgment than Yang and Filo. Perhaps they are simply smarter. - Sean McBride

@Bhavishya Kanjhan - Flickr?? - thomasrdotorg

Yahoo! brings cool stuff too, eg: searchmonkey, pipes, open strategy. But somehow it's not as viral as when it comes from Google. I love Yahoo!. Hopefully they won't disappear anytime soon. Come on Yahoo! Let's grow in Asia. - Akhmad Fathonih

They havent done anything useful with Flickr & delicious! Meanwhile google has innovated with picasa with facial recognition & integration with contacts. Yahoo has all the components, its about tying them together and coming out with useful services. Unfortunately either they dont know how to do it or dont have the back bone to execute on it. Yahoo shows flashes of brilliance but thats where it ends.. Case in point fire eagle. Might as well acquire Brightkite! Yahoo get back innovating! - Arjun Ram

I love that in the announcement, he said that they're the world leader technology and product... have they heard of Google? - Simon T Small

The only Yahoo service I use? Flickr. And that's a old product. - Leon Ho

an oldy but a goody - Simon T Small

there is delicious of course...flickr like leon said...pipes is pretty damn cool. They're huge in China i believe...i reckon they'll come back. - Zee.

Google brings cool products - Yes. Yahoo for me as bought in some cool products like Flickr and Delicious which I love. - Tejas Patel

Brin and Page have a grand vision of how to best organize all the information in the world. They see how all the pieces fit together. I'm not sure Yang and Filo ever quite reached that level of consciousness. Google has unlimited potential if they stay on track -- they've barely scratched the surface of what is possible. - Sean McBride

Well said, Sean. - Steve Isaacs

I give Yahoo money for Flickr and fantasy sports. I have yet to give Google a cent but use all their services. I know it's different for businesses. - Andrew Smith

yea, they have a very clear vision, to digitize and make available all the information in the world... and credit to them, they've stayed on track! Yahoo!? just trying to sell advertising. - Simon T Small

Although I have an affection for how Flickr has aged, ie. fairly well, I'm also getting tired of the many lil' pesky UI gaffes and the chug. Gotta treat a lady right, Yahoo. - Marko Bon

Yahoo voice chat was the awesomest thing I had ever used in the world as far as social interaction at one point in time. Yahoo chat period was awesome. Sure, there was IRC, but this was different. Now, it's like Yahoo has let all those services, even the newer video stuff, get overrun by....crazies - ♫ Rahsheen™

I don't know, they may end up naming a cool new CEO shortly :-) - Duncan Riley

Google does nothing but KILL cool things. Their search engine is great. Earth and Maps are good, everything else? Meh. I wish Yahoo would have kept Live! going. It was a really nice and robust personal broadcast service. Their MyYahoo page is pretty nice too and so many people still use Yahoo! Groups. And lets not forget they own Flickr and Delicious. - Adam Turetzky

Adam - you didn't mention Google Reader, Gmail, Google Docs, Google News, Google Blog Search, Google Book Search and Google Voice Local Search, all of which I use heavily. I practically live out of Google Reader. - Sean McBride

Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo News, Yahoo Pipes, YUI, MyBlogLog, Flickr, Yahoo Finance.... yeah, if Yahoo were to disappear tomorrow, I'd definitely notice. BrowserPlus was just released and it was covered. Yahoo is much bigger than the drama we make about them. - Bwana

I have to say, though, I am hoping Yahoo can pull through this current slump. I am a big believer in what they are doing with Y!OS. - John McCrea

Agreed, its just relative to Google. - Simon T Small

YUI is really the only innovative thing I've seen in quite some time. - Hal via twhirl

My favorite source for good product info used to be a Yahoo Labs search engine (Mindset). They axed it about a year ago though, sadly. - Dan Byler

I think Yahoo Pipes is pretty innovative, not sure how many use it though. I can't even scratch the surface of all the features - Rick Bucich via twhirl

Yahoo Buzz is nicely done - Michael McGimpsey via twhirl

Yahoo seems to be good at wringing out their CEOs. - Cathleen Rittereiser

I use Yahoo Fantasy Sports. That's about it though. I suspect it's the same for many others. - Nathan Johns

Jerry's done inovating. I think that portion of our brain fossilizes at a certain point. He'll probably be better off, and weathier in the end - but would have done much better to have realized it 8 months ago. - Hal via twhirl

no way! yahoo location database api, yahoo query language, search monkey, semantic indexing, have you seen the stuff mybloglog is still coming up with? wordpress recommendation widget, blogjuice reader demographics. i think yahoo comes out with more cool stuff than google by a long shot - Marshall Kirkpatrick

Yahoo was my default e-mail and messenger client... untill Gmail and Gtalk happened... Love Google, - Devakishor

Yeah not sure how Google can pump up innovation so quickly! - Alvin

We had something unusual go out today; oh, wait, that was the CEO.... - Glen Campbell

Did Google learn from Yahoo's mistakes? Or did the just got so big and so diversified that a (potential) fall from grace will be even worse? - Sofia Gkiousou

"Yahoo! brings cool stuff too, eg: searchmonkey, pipes, open strategy. But somehow it's not as viral as when it comes from Google." Akhmad, not sure about that -- do more people know about the Google Mashup Editor than about Yahoo Pipes? - Philipp Lenssen

"The difference is that Google keeps their products around, Yahoo axes them shortly after releasing them in most cases." What do you make of Yahoo Answers vs Google Answers then? Google Answers was deserted by Google and then stopped, whereas Yahoo Answers had promotions with people like Oprah Winfrey or Stephen Hawking asking questions. - Philipp Lenssen

hey guys, why don't you try yahoo services ? http://developer.yahoo.com/eve... - TiTi

Google develop with the user in mind and take on board and incorporate the users feedback. Can't think of a "net" life without the big G now. - Rob Brammeld

Flickr is fine as it is ... it just grows. Yahoo has other good, homegrown properties that actually need something doing to, but not Flickr necessarily. - Robert Denton

michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

Google’s Voice Search Finally Hits The iPhone

November 17 at 7:55 pm - Link

Joe Perrin, Sameer, Matt Cutts and 5 other people liked this

How is this better than google 411 for use within the US? I guess i'll try it anyway:) - EcoAussie via twhirl

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trying it out now. I had to delete it and then reinstall it to get it to work. - Brian Bufalo

I just installed and gave it a try, http://friendfeed.com/e/8fbc0d... I think there are still some kinks to be worked out. - Kevin D. White

when I first installed it, phone was crashing but after restoring the phone it works great. - Kim Landwehr

Just installed - works fine but need to check it with more words - especially combination of multiple words. Nice how they use gesture to understand you want to speak - which disables the horizontal screen view. Voice recognition was not enabled by default - carlo de marchis

Is there a video of this? It seems the one on YouTube posted on CrunchGear (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t...) no longer exists and I can't seem to Google it. I'm sure one of you have bookmarked this. - Alvin

Rafe Needleman posted a message on Twitter

“To get Google Voice Search for iPhone: Search for Google Mobile App in app store. Description is out of date but the app is the new one.”

November 17 at 8:40 pm - Link

Brad, Igor Poltavskiy, Mike Thompson and 7 other people liked this

Works. I deleted the old Google Mobile App from the iPhone then did an over-the-air install from the App Store. Bingo. Voice search! - Leo Laporte

yes I tried it too. The voice app works approx 80% of the time. Which is pretty good. It does have a tough time with foreign names. - Farhan Memon

Rafe Needleman posted a message on Twitter

“Google voice app on iphone is so awesome it made me giggle.”

November 17 at 8:32 pm - Link

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Lol, same :) - Zee.

Erica Baker shared an item on Google Reader

Android Garage Door Opener

November 16 at 5:36 pm - Link

Matt Cutts, Will Higgins and Robert Scoble liked this

HAWT. - Erica Baker

Orli Yakuel posted a message

“Twistory launched http://cli.gs/8mP1Q4 Now you can save all your Twitter history on your favorite calendar application: http://cli.gs/TyvWe4”

November 15 at 1:28 am - Link

patrick, Tom Stocky, MG Siegler and 10 other people liked this

I'm scared to try this. I think both my calendar and Twitter would die. - Robert Scoble

@DavidFeng This has your name written all over it. - Paul Denlinger

Robert, for sure! I tried it to see if it's really keeping all my tweets. I need a backup. - Orli Yakuel

Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader

Man Writes Software, Blogs About it, Makes $100k in 5 Months

November 15 at 2:47 am - Link

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Cool guy. - Matt Cutts

Marshall Kirkpatrick posted a message on Twitter

“@digiphile thanks, I actually think Obama on YouTube ever week is going to be a reall big deal”

November 14 at 3:09 pm - Link

Matt Cutts, Derrick Burns, Justin Davey and 7 other people liked this

Me too. - Robert Scoble

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agreed I don't think people understand the importance of it yet. - Kipp Bodnar

though I also agree with one of the commenters on our post that it's really important to keep doing the radio and talking to older folks too - Marshall Kirkpatrick via IM

This is awesome. I have been hoping someone would bring back the fireside chat idea. I hope Obama really delivers to the nature of this new platform and not just the same old "presidential radio address" repackaged for video. - David Jacobs

Like all Internet media, after the novelity wears off it will depend on content. - Robert Hafer

Wonder what's going to happen around accessiblity/508 on this point. Hopefully there will be a nice way to get transcripts. - Wade Dorrell

I just want a podcast (audio preferred, but video would work) so I can stick them on my iPod and listen to them in my car. The lack of ability to placeshift is STILL the biggest drawback to streaming-only platforms like YouTube. - Josh Bancroft

Loving that idea a lot right now!! Yeah for a savvy Pres!! finally!! - Susan Beebe

The Presidential weekly addresses are already available as podcasts (have been for 2 years, IIRC) The website is something like whitehouse.gov/podcasts. EDITED TO ADD: The audio files have been on the website for almost 10 years, and the transcripts have been available since whitehouse.gov went live. - Anika Malone

But Youtube works on iPhones. Can't download podcasts (yet) regularly on iPhones. Besides, I never wanted to listen to Bush. :) - Karoli

The question is what will the comments be like, or will there be any? - Andrew Wilson

Anika - thanks, I didn't know that the president already podcasts. I haven't wanted to listen before now. :-) Hope Obama continues to make things available that way. - Josh Bancroft

It's not significantly different from the radio address, so it's clearly the hype (not pejorative) or rather the importance the candidate gave to feedback, that makes the difference. Unless they use the (poor) comment feature, YouTube really is nothing but a (heavily compressed) video host, or a nod to Google's profit line. - Bertil Hatt

Kevin Fox posted a link

Have you cleaned the BBQ lately?

November 14 at 4:28 pm - Link

Mike Kogelman, Paul Buchheit, Pete Barry and 8 other people liked this

something is wrong with the link... - Georgia Diehl

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The like might only work with ffox (it handles spaces differently) Try: http://fury.com/mirror/have%20... - Kevin Fox

link works for me! - Brian Johns

Too bad about using the bomb though. There are other solutions, but they probably cost more than "kill 'em all!" - Brian Johns

This actually makes me very sad. I know people who would have been happy to adopt that hive. The bee population has been suffering drastic losses over the last couple of years and that has serious consequences for crops. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... - Ragani Harris

Crikey! I think I may have just let the bees have it. - Jason Shellen

Jason: would it then be a BBB? - Kevin Fox

Most disturbing thing of the week, holy crap! - Roshan Vyas

Wow. - Louis Gray

Ashwin Bharambe posted a link

Nice reflection

November 10 at 1:25 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Phil Glockner posted a link

Cartoon: Partial Text RSS Feeds - ReadWriteWeb

November 9 at 11:44 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Google CEO on Obama tech czar job: No thanks | Technology | Internet | Reuters

November 7 at 9:50 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Friday he would not serve as technology czar in Barack Obama's administration if he was asked." - hunter walk via Bookmarklet

We like Eric staying. - Dror Shimshowitz

+1 @dror. While it would be cool to have actually met someone in the president's cabinet (assuming this is a cabinet-level position), I'd definitely prefer to have him keep running Google :) - Joel Webber

I was asked to give an interview on this subject by a well-known magazine. As much as I think it would be a big loss to Google, I do believe Eric would be an amazing CTO for the country. - Christopher Sacca

Andy Baio posted an entry on Waxy.org Links

Tetris recreated in LittleBigPlanet

November 8 at 9:28 am - Link

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Damn, that's kinda impressive that you can do that, I'm not a gamer though. Maybe this is normal :) - ♫ Rahsheen™

Ionut shared an item on Google Reader

The Platforms: Google, Microsoft, Facebook And MySpace

November 7 at 3:10 pm - Link

Matt Cutts liked this

Gundotra says it’s a recipe for disaster to have a single company control the platform. Innovation slows to a release every five years (referring to Windows). Using the open web allows fast innovation, and no one controls the platform. Gundotra says “It’s Windows v. the web. And the web has won.” - Ionut

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