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You the Media — During Hurricane Katrina millions of people came to Yahoo! News for authoritative information. At the same time thousands of bloggers were posting first-hand accounts, photos, personal stories, and opinions. But without mainstream exposure, many important voices went unheard.
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Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Yahoo's Blog Search, Too Little Too Soon — Technorati, one of the early entrants in the blog search arena has been beaten black and blue by blogosphere's cognoscenti. Many of their complaints have been fair and justified. No one wants an arthritic search engine after all.
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo Integrates News, Blogs & Flickr Search Results — Yahoo is testing a new approach to delivering news search results, combining traditional media sources with "citizen journalism" from blogs and images from its Flickr photo sharing site. — Although not the long-anticipated blog/feed search …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Yahoo releases blog search, doesn't impress on first look — I've been waiting for Yahoo's blog search forever. I was expecting better than this. I did a few searches and like Feedster, Pubsub, Technorati, and Google better. Om Malik says it all: Yahoo's Blog Search, Too Little Too Soon.
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Alorie Gilbert / CNET News.com:
Yahoo unveils blog search tool — Yahoo has revamped its news search tool to grab material from thousands of blogs in addition to headlines from 6,500 newspapers and magazines. — The company launched a test version of the new tool on Monday, saying it aims to give consumers a more complete view of the news.
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE ADDS TAGGING — Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you've visited. If Google in the future opens this up, letting users share their bookmarks and see bookmarking data in searches, we could see something very useful and popular.
Amit Varma / India Uncut:
A question of principles — Many of you no doubt know about the latest controversy that has broken out in the blogosphere, about Arindam Chaudhuri and IIPM. In case you don't, a quick summary: A few months ago Jam Magazine, edited by Rashmi Bansal, did a story exposing some of the claims made by IIPM …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo Gains Podcast Directory — News from the Yahoo Search Blog that Yahoo's gained a new Yahoo Podcasts site, where you can search for podcasts or listen to them online. I'm looking forward to playing with it further in the near future and will likely do a longer look …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
At Newspapers, Some Clipping — When Amanda Bennett, editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, heard last month that she had to cut 75 jobs in her newsroom - 15 percent of her staff - she was sick to her stomach. — But after some reflection, she said, she realized that the depth of the cuts …
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Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
It's Gada.Be the First Metasearch Engine Powered by RSS — The first metasearch engine to be powered by the efficient fuel of RSS technology, Gada.be, went live on Monday. — Gada.be strips away the multiple layers necessary to search, which is particularly painful for those attempting to visit a Web site over a mobile device.
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Lockergnome / Chris Pirillo:gada.be — Largely, I've found it easier to tag or link …
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David Galbraith:
Verisign acquires Moreover Technologies — The company that Nick Denton, Angus Bankes and I started on my kitchen table in Shoreditch, in 1998, sells to Verisign - I can't comment, but Tom Foremski has the scoop and Rafat Ali more details, including a link to a good piece on Moreover by Jason Kottke, who use to work in my team:
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
A Game Console for the Rest of Us — Note to hard-core video game players: Microsoft says it is aiming for your mothers and wives. — In the coming weeks, Microsoft plans to introduce a marketing campaign to expand the appeal of the new Xbox 360 game console beyond the young men who are the Xbox's biggest fans.
Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
IPTV versus TV-over-IP — In the battle for video over broadband, the odds might just be stacked against IPTV, a complex and expensive technology. Instead, the fortunes might be favoring the more simplistic, television over IP. — In past few months, IPTV has gone from being an obscure acronym …
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useit.com:
R.I.P. WYSIWYG … For the last twenty-five years, one user interface style has reigned supreme: the Macintosh-style graphical user interface. It's now reached its limits, however, and will be replaced by a style that partly reverses some of its most treasured interaction principles.
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Download Squad, birdhouse.org, peterme.com, InsideMicrosoft, OpsanBlog, TeleRead and Danny Ayers, Raw Blog
Brian / brianstorms weblog:
Beer and Loathing at Web2.0: Part Two — Last year's Web2.0 conference was held at Hotel Nikko elsewhere in San Francisco. This year the organizers had moved to The Argent. The Argent is a nice hotel but when I first laid eyes on the second floor conference space I thought, this is going to be too small.
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Loyd Case / extremetech.com:
If Microsoft Never Existed... The alarm clock goes off, buzzing insistently until I reach out a hand and groggily slap at the button to silence the sound. I roll out of bed, pause for a few minutes, then head for the shower. — After breakfast, I head down to the office.
