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EFF: Breaking News:
Google's Card Catalog Should Be Left Open  —  San Francisco, CA - Yesterday, the Authors Guild filed a class-action copyright infringement suit against Google over its Google Print library project.  Working with major university libraries, Google Print aims to make thousands of books searchable via the Web …
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
AUTHOR'S GUILD FILES CLASS ACTION VS. GOOGLE
Jonathan Berr / TheStreet.com:
Diller Sacks the Butler  —  Jeeves is out of a job.  —  IAC/InterActiveCorp.  (IACI:Nasdaq - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) is dropping the butler who doubles as the mascot of its recently acquired Ask Jeeves online search business.  —  The New York-based online empire …
Discussion: InsideGoogle
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Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
THE BUTLER DIES  —  Diller Sacks the Butler: … The article also mentions China next year.  If they are smart they will talk to Shak before then, assuming they know what they want to do ;)  —  Category(s) ask jeeves  —  Posted by Aaron Wall at 12:47 PM |  Your [Evil] HAPPY Thoughts?  (2)
Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Microsoft streamlines to challenge competitors  —  You prune in the fall to have flowers in the spring, or at least that's what Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer hopes for with a massive reorganization that's intended to restore the company's agility.  —  Ballmer yesterday cut Microsoft's number …
Discussion: Rough Type and SearchViews
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Business Week:
Steve Ballmer's Memo to Staff  —  Today, we are announcing the creation of three new business divisions — Microsoft Platform Products & Services Division, which will be led by Kevin Johnson and Jim Allchin as co-Presidents; Microsoft Business Division to be led by Jeff Raikes as President …
Discussion: PaidContent.org
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 …
RELATED ITEM:
Reuters:   Dell launches new music player
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.
Discussion: Donna's SecurityFlash
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mozillaZine.org / mozillaZine:
Mozilla Linux Command Line URL Parsing Security Flaw Reported
Discussion: Neowin.net
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.
Discussion: Blog Tips and Eric Rice
Kenneth Norton / Hey Norton!:
User triangulation: how to listen to customers  —  Quite by serendipity I've come across a few articles in the past week about listening to - and ignoring - users in the product development process.  —  The first came from my friend Jonathan Alexander in a post to his blog:
Discussion: Media Guerrilla and SearchViews
Jeff Clavier / Software Only:
Truveo: the little video search engine that could  —  A few days ago, Truveo went quietly out of stealth.  It did not get noticed immediately because of two major news "sandwiching" its release: Skype/eBay and Google BlogSearch.  However the buzz has been growing since then, and the initial feedback is pretty positive.
Discussion: TechCrunch and InterAdvocacy
Business Wire:
Dell, Cingular Wireless Expand Alliance to Offer Next Generation Connectivity Choice; Collaboration Assures Mobile Users Wireless Broadband Access on Global Standard  —  ROUND ROCK, Texas & ATLANTA—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sept. 21, 2005—Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and Cingular Wireless today announced …
Discussion: Between the Lines
Staci / PaidContent.org:
WSJ Correction Acknowledges paidContent.Org's Report : It took the better part of a day but the Wall Street Journal has issued a correction and amended the story that made it seem as though the paper, not this site, broke the news that Viacom may be on the verge of acquiring iFilm.
Discussion: alarm:clock

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