http://www.techmeme.com/080907/i13.jpghttp://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Google Chrome Receives Heavy Criticism in Germany — It doesn't get any more “official” than this here. Yesterday, Saturday at around 20:07, Germany's oldest and...

http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.pngDaniel Lyons / Newsweek: One Bad Apple — Apple is looking like what Microsoft was 10 years ago—a Bigfoot that squeezes smaller competitors. — From the magazine issue dated Sep 15, 2008 — A former lieutenant of Steve Jobs's once...

Military technology: Advances in camouflage, concealment and deception are revolutionising an age-old art of warfare. Even the most common form of camouflageâ??the coloured patterns printed onto combat fatiguesâ??is being given a high-tech twist, as designers work with new software that...

What if Babbage's Difference Engine spawned a "laptop"?It's hard to find a more desirable and satisfying (in a tactile sort of way) mechanical fetish item from the age of early computing... Go to Full Article

If a post on Facebookâ??s developer blog is accurate, you have less than a week to make your call for no change. A group of members have coalesced behind a petition, massing together â??Against the â??New Facebookâ??â?? to send Zuckerberg a message: Don't get rid of the new layout, just give...

http://www.techmeme.com/080907/i15.jpg http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog: Marissa Mayer talks about Google at 10 — and 20 — She is not nearly as famous as celebrity founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. But, in many ways, Marissa Mayer has...

I wish Google didn't make me think of tentacles. It never did before I tried avoiding it for 24 hours -- a doomed exercise that began as a challenge and morphed into a horror show. Go to Full Article

http://www.techmeme.com/080907/i3.jpghttp://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png Om Malik / GigaOM: Google at 10: Larry, Sergey & Me — It is not clear how old Google is - some argue that world's largest search engine operator is 13 - after all it operated in stealth for about 3 years before...

Web sites that welcome customer reviews have evolved significantly, producing work that increasingly approaches that of their professional forebears. Go to Full Article

http://www.techmeme.com/080907/i6.jpghttp://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Everyone Needs To Calm Down — I haven't had a lot of time to jump into the fracas this weekend emerging about TechCrunch50 because the team has been busy organizing the conference,...

I haven't had a lot of time to jump into the fracas this weekend emerging about TechCrunch50 because the team has been busy organizing the conference, working with the Expert Panelists on scheduling issues and spending hours and hours ... Go to Full Article

ChaCha used to be a ridiculous human powered web based search engine that's best use appeared to be for killing time when bored. They raised a boatload of money from Jeff Bezos and others and eventually switched to an all-mobile ... Go to Full Article

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It's been just a few days after our post on Geni's big growth numbers - and now big news from Israeli competitor MyHeritage. The site has grown from 180 million profiles a year ago to 260 million today, they say. ... Go to Full Article

Shasta Ventures, a venture fund managing $460 million and investments in startups like Mint, Flock and Turn, has promoted Jason Pressman to Managing Director and added a new associate, Evan Liang, to the team. Pressman, which we named a ... Go to Full Article