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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
There goes Scoble again talking about search — The dinner tonight was really fun. Renee and Paul Mooney put together quite a great group of more than 30 geeks. I can't tell you everyone who was there, but Jason Calacanis was sitting next to me most of the night and everyone sitting at the table was interesting.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google ETA? 300 years to index the world's info — It could take 300 years to index all the world's information and make it searchable, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt predicted on Saturday at the Association of National Advertisers annual conference in Phoenix.
Rob Pegoraro / Washington Post:
Security Suites Are Rife With Problems — If security software is so necessary in Windows — as it is — why are we supposed to pay extra for it? — For years, that's been a paradox Windows users have been able to mull over as they sat through installations of other companies' security software on their computers.
Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Sphere, the Relevant Blog Search — Blogs are big. There are 19 million blogs, and a few thousand will go online by the time you get done reading this. To paraphrase a popular disco ditty - so many blogs, so little time. Technorati, Feedster and Icerocket do a good job of searching the blogs …
Ravi / All about Linux:
Using TCP Wrappers to secure Linux — TCP Wrappers can be used to GRANT or DENY access to various services on your machine to the outside network or other machines on the same network. It does this by using simple Access List Rules which are included in the two files /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny .
Matt / Photo Matt:
Weblogs.com Sold, Ping Outlook Bleak — Verisign, which does not have a particularly good history in the blogosphere, has purchased Weblogs.com. This leaves Ping-O-Matic as the only large-scale and independent ping relay service left. (Blo.gs was sold to Yahoo earlier in the year.)
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
No Office suite from us - Google — "See, we start with the toolbar, then we do the Talking Paperclip..." — Google co-founder Sergey Brin has quashed speculation that the giant ad broker is to introduce a web-based Office suite. — "We don't have any plans," he told Web 2.0 conference organizer John Battelle (pictured below).
chinadaily.com.cn:
Internet becoming part of life for Chinese — Lu Li, a 23-year-old working with a foreign firm in East China's Shanghai, has found surfing online indispensable in her daily life since she first accessed to the Internet seven years ago. — "It has unfolded a new chapter in my life," …
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linuxdevices.com:
Palm Linux mobile phones coming this year? — Palm will ship Linux-powered mobile phones this year, say sources claiming to be close to the company. The devices will be powered by Wind River Linux, and pending carrier reaction, may well be the first Linux-powered handsets distributed widely within the US.
Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
First Fast Impressions of Google Reader — I haven't had much time to "play" with the new Google Reader from Google Labs (beta) but here are a few VERY fast impressions, things I'm suprised not to see from the outset, and other things I would love to see in future releases.
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InsideGoogle, Tom Raftery's I.T. views, Solution Watch, 0xDECAFBAD, Coolz0r and Google Blogoscoped
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washingtonian.com:
U.S. News Makes Big Bet on Internet to Try to Save Fading Magazine — U.S. News & World Report, the perennial third among the newsmagazines, is trying to become the first to exploit the Internet. It's also trying to be among the first of the mainstream media outlets to hitch its fortunes to the shaky engine of Web economics.
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Blogspotting
Drew Cullen / The Register:
Dutch smash 100,000-strong zombie army — Dutch police have arrested three people for building a worldwide zombie network of more than 100,000 PCs used to launch internet attacks on companies and to hack into bank and Paypal accounts. — The main suspect, a 19 year-old man …
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Infectious Greed
Bink / Bink.nu:
Microsoft warns, don't use "Windows XP Service Pack 3 Preview" — This is not the first time that Windows fanatics create their own "Service Pack" by collecting all available hotfixes in to one installable pack. I have posted articles about these packs over the years because I find …
