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Google Print and the Authors Guild — Today we learned that the Authors Guild filed a lawsuit to try to stop Google Print. We regret that this group chose to sue us over a program that will make millions of books more discoverable to the world — especially since any copyright holder can exclude their books from the program.
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Things That, Copyfight, PaidContent.org, Search Engine Roundtable, Venture Chronicles … and Wendy's Blog
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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Author's Guild Sues Google — As many have reported, the Author's Guild has filed a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit [PDF] against Google in the Southern District of New York. The dispute, as we've mentioned before, involves Google Print. — I believe Google has a strong fair use defense here.
Seth Jayson / Motley Fool:
Why I Fear Google WiFi — Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) got tongues wagging again. Today, speculation's buzzing that the firm is going to roll out its own wireless Internet service, possibly called "Google WiFi." This is an old rumor, actually, but it's gained new fuel with the discovery …
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microsoft.com:
Microsoft Realigns for Next Wave of Innovation and Growth — CEO Ballmer appoints presidents of three core divisions; Allchin announces retirement plan. — REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 20, 2005 — In order to drive greater agility in the execution of its software and services strategy …
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Guardian Unlimited, Download Squad, Between the Lines, The Unofficial Microsoft …, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, PaidContent.org, MobHappy, Scobleizer, Om Malik's Broadband Blog, Flashpoint, brainwagon, CNET.com, Venture Chronicles …, Channel 9, technology filter, Microsoft Watch and BetaNews
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Rhymes With Ditty — See news item that Dell had released a new flash-memory-based music player to compete against the iPod Shuffle: the Dell DJ Ditty. — Note that no picture of said Ditty accompanies news item. … Note that no picture of said Ditty appears on front page of dell.com …
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Reuters:
Dell launches new music player — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc., the world's biggest personal computer maker, announced out six new products on Tuesday including two printers and a digital music player aimed at the iPod Shuffle. — The DJ Ditty weighs 1.29 ounces and its 512 megabytes …
mozillaZine.org / mozillaZine:
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 Released — Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7, a security and stability update to the flagship Mozilla browser, is now available for download. Fixes are included for the international domain name (IDN) link buffer overflow vulnerability and the Linux command line URL parsing flaw.
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Dick / Burning Questions:
FeedBurner Aggregate Statistics — It's been a while since we've discussed any broad metrics here, and nature abhors a lack of charts and graphs, so as the leaves begin to turn and the kids have head back to school, we thought we'd take a moment to reflect on a couple of interesting statistics.
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TechCrunch, Read/Write Web, Infectious Greed, Online News Squared and Venture Chronicles …
Yahoo! Search blog:
Fewer clicks, more answers... These days, search has become such a fact of life, that everybody I talk to takes it completely for granted. — But it seems like every week I'm reminded why its so much fun working on a search engine that is used daily by millions of people …
Quinn Norton / Wired News:
Squid Labs: Suckers for Novelty — EMERYVILLE, California — It's a classic scenario: Five friends with a mutual passion, disillusioned with their choices after their East Coast college, pile into a van and head to California to break into the big time. — But don't think rock 'n' roll fantasy.
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Lifehacker:
Special: Lifehacker's guide to weblog comments — Leaving a comment on someone's weblog is like walking into their living room and joining in on a conversation. As in real life, online there are some people who are a pleasure to converse with, and some who are not.
Duncan / The Blog Herald:
List of Blog Networks v3 (September) — My second effort back in June to put together a list of blogging networks got a strong response, but three months is a long time in the blogopshere so its time for a new list. — It would be fair to say the blog networks are breading like rabbits at the moment …
Jacob Ogles / Wired News:
Fraud Sinks Subway's Sub Club — For years, Subway regular Brandy Littleton kept business-size cards with tiny stamps on them in her purse. She loved the Sub Club, a reward system that allowed studious customers to earn free meals every time a card filled up with stamps. — "I eat here all the time," she said.
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