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Chad Dickerson, Head of Yahoo’s Brickhouse project, is leaving Yahoo to work with Etsy as a CTO. Chad joined Yahoo as an Exec of Yahoo! Hack Program and Yahoo! Developer Network. During his three years journey, he played an active role in company’s development and was among the most important company’s pillar that has successfully pivoted Yahoo’s building. Former GM of Yahoo! Video, Mike Folgner is expected to take Dickerson’s position of Brickhouse’s head.

Etsy is an online marketplace for buying and selling all handmade things. The site works as a strong web to connect buyers and sellers to have a better collection with awesome set of choices. Maria, the new CEO of Etsy has highly appreciated Dickerson’s joining as a Chief Technology Officer and praised him as one of the talented men who is highly experienced and will be able to maintain Etsy’s creative, quirky and independent culture. She added:

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Punctuality is an important aspect of life specially when it comes to professional life. Alarms are widely used by people to maintain punctuality. Initially people used to have alarm in clocks but with the passage of time and change in trends, people started moving towards other products which had same feature. Kuku Klok is also such an example. It is an online ‘alarm clock’.

The interface of the site is very simple. You’ll find the logo at the top center of the site along with the ‘SWISS MADE’ tag at the upper right corner. Coming downwards, you’ll be able to see the digital clock at the left and the alarm sound option at the right.

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comScore Media Matrix has published a list of the top 50 U.S. Web Properties for June 2008. Although the stats show that the time spent per user has declined by 4%, which is attributed to vacations. Schools are also off, so that has counted a lot for increases in traffic to travel websites. Apart from this, leisure websites have seen a lot of gain, which again is because of vacations.

Recent blockbuster movies also drove a lot of traffic to movie sites, and since more are on the way, this trend would probably continue all summer.

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We had reported last week that TiVo is eyeing YouTube to put its videos on TV and Amazon planning to start online TV shows and videos; the demand was there with TiVo looking for a rescuer to help it lift itself from the pit it was falling in. New York Times reports of the TiVo/Amazon team.

TiVo plans at turning the remote control into a tool that lets you purchase products that are being advertised on commercials and talk shows. This feature will be introduced in the present partnership with Amazon. The owners of TiVo recorders will see links to buy various products that range from CDs to books that are being promoted by guests on different talk shows; like ‘The Oprah Winfrey show’ and the Daily Show.

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OpenID single sign-on framework will get another big add up to its support. MySpace is supposed to be ready to announce its support for the OpenID as has been reported by Michael Arrington, making it the second largest implementation following that of Yahoo.

The numbers count to over 200 million MySpace IDs, joining in with Yahoo’s 250 million accounts taking the total number to almost half a billion. This involves a similar strategy as has been adopted by various other companies over integrations o such kind.

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We reported Apple’s quarterly reports today and there was something mysterious about the low expectations for the upcoming quarter. Almost immediately after the reports banged up competitors there was a slump in stock price by about 10%, which took a clean $15 billion chump off Apple’s market share. And with the low expectations, surprising isn’t it that if a company enjoys a reputation of hitting successful quarters would deem so low and put up a weak guidance?

Of course there was an answer as always; it somehow made even more questions spring up in our minds, very intriguing answers and more shadows left to lurk. Apple’s CFO, Peter Oppenheimer along with many of the top Apple officials kept referring to a mysterious something; perhaps a transition of a product or something totally new. Not much intriguing? Well here is the add-up; the moment one of them hinted at this ‘mystery Apple’ they jumped over to saying ‘we can’t discuss it today.”

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Earlier this month, we had a word on WordPress coming to iPhone. Now it is official and the WordPress for iPhone is available on the App Store now. This was announced by Matt Thomas at WordPress for iPhone blog.

According to the blog:

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 Adobe is teaming up with Sony, and revamping its Media Player with a facelift. The deal with Sony means that users will be able to watch movies from Sony Pictures for free!* ( Ad Supported). Adobe will take an undisclosed amount fraction of the advertising revenue as reported by Webware.

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With companies putting up their quarterly reports these days and most of them not doing well enough as Wall Street had accepted (Google fell short by $0.11 on the previous per share price and Microsoft showed signs of maintaining its previous quarterly reports). Apple turned out with its report for the business in the third quarter that had profit written on every page and in every way.

There had been speculations from analysts that Apple would fall short of its expected revenue and the company could very well be heading off for a recession. Apple itself as always had kept the revenue generation low, as it had tipped in the earnings at around $1 per share, while analysts put it higher at about $1.10. Things however turned out much better given the down times in economy; Apple managed to pull another sock up its foot.

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According to a consumer survey,the search engine giant, Google, has become the ‘top consumer brand’ for the first time in the history of UK. Last year the company ranked at number 3, but this year they have jumped 2 places up beating Microsoft and Mercedes Benz at number 2 and 3 respectively. Earlier this year, Google also topped the “superbrands” which is a poll being judged by the professionals.

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