While you were sleeping 3/2/2010

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Things were pretty quiet in the internet biz yesterday, but this one acquisition did catch my eye…

“Google today announced that they’ve acquired Picnik, a great web-based image editor that we’ve highlighted in the past. They’re not doing any significant changing up to the service just yet, but it’s a safe bet they’ll integrate some of its features into their photo-sharing app Picasa sometime in the near future. [Official Google Blog]” Source: Google Buys Online Image Editing Tool Picnik – Picnik – Lifehacker

btw, I’m betting that Google’s next acquisition is Feedly! Business Hacks posts their top 7 posts of the week…

“Admit it: You spent the better part of last week glued to your TV watching the Olympics. Thats okay, so did we. (USA! USA!) And yet we still found time to put together some gold-medal hacks. Here are the ones wed put on the podium” Source: The Top 7 Posts of the Week (March 1, 2010) | Business Hacks | BNET

Opera 10.5 dubs itself the fastest browser on earth…

“As expected, Opera made version 10.5 of its browser official this morning, calling it “the fastest browser on Earth” and also touting its Windows 7 integration, HTML5 video support, better private browsing, and more.

In terms of HTML5 and video, Opera has gone the way of Firefox, supporting native, Flash-free streams of the Ogg Theora format, but not H.264. Apple’s Safari supports only H.264, and Google Chrome supports both. Opera has also added in extensive Windows 7 graphical look and taskbar support, as we’ve detailed, and also added the seemingly requisite “private browsing” option.” Source: Opera 10.5 Final for Windows Brings the Speed – Opera – Lifehacker

And Google fights back with live translation…

“Those of you running Google Chrome’s half-stable, half-dev-channel beta version now have access to two features which cropped up a while back on the developer and Chromium nightly builds.

Auto-translate has landed in Google Chrome Beta 4.1 for Windows, as has the improved content control panel in Chrome’s wrench menu. If you’re a grizzled Firefox vet and have been missing NoScript (or you’ve put off trying Chrome because of its absence), the new controls will be a welcome addition.” Source: Google Chrome 4.1 Beta adds auto-translate, basic NoScript, improved content controls

Rock on!