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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
THE AAP/GOOGLE LAWSUIT: MUCH MORE AT STAKE — I spent some time yesterday and this morning speaking with Allan Alder, counsel for the AAP (see my initial post on this here). I came away convinced of what I initially suspected but so far had not stated: this is a far bigger issue …
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Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
Publishers battle Google book index — Suit joins action filed by authors over copyright — Five major publishing firms filed suit against Internet search giant Google Inc. yesterday to stop the company from creating a digital index of millions of copyrighted books.
Rob Hof / TechBeat:
No Head-Scratching at eBay About Skype's Potential — If up to $4.1 billion wasn't enough to prove eBay's serious about just-acquired Skype, executive comments Wednesday sure did. And executive moves: eBay Chief Financial Officer Rajiv Dutta soon will become the London-based president …
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Reuters:
Voice phone calls to be free within years: eBay CEO — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In a few short years, users can expect to make telephone calls for free, with no per-minute charges, as part of a package of services through which carriers make money on advertising or transaction fees, eBay's chief executive said on Wednesday.
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Clint Ecker / Ars Technica:
Video iPod — Introduction — iPod (30 GB) — System requirements: PC with USB port running Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP SP2; Mac with USB port running Mac OS X 10.3.9 — The new iPod was announced by Steve Jobs last week at a highly anticipated "special event" in San Jose, California.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flock is Launching Publicly Today — I just heard from Geoffrey Arone at Flock that they will be launching it to the general public within 3 hours (by 5 pm PST). — Feedback to their recent beta expansion has been so positive, Geoffrey tells me, that there is no reason to delay any longer.
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Ed Sim / BeyondVC:
Web 2.0 Bubble — I had an enjoyable lunch with Jeff Jarvis today catching up on a number of things and brainstorming about value in the next generation web. During the conversation I vented a little frustration at the use of buzz words and bubble-like mentality with terms like Web 2.0.
swissinfo.org:
Voters go to polls armed with mobile phones — Voting by text message could become the norm (Keystone) — The first ever SMS vote is taking place in Switzerland with the residents of Bülach using mobile phone text messages to decide on speed restrictions in the town.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Sphere pass 1 — It's really hard to review a search engine if I can't point to results of queries. Hmmm. Maybe I can. — This morning I did a search on "Wilma" in the last day. It's a breaking story, twenty four hours ago it was a tropical storm, since then it has become the largest storm ever observed.
Ted Leung on the air:
Aperture - Wow. — At OSCON, I was asking James Duncan Davidson about photo processing software. He told me that he had tried most of the programs available for the Mac and that they were all inadequate. That was yesterday. Today Apple announced Aperture, which they describe as …
Blake / Infendo:
Kojima Working on Revolution — The latest issue of Game Informer (#151, November) talks about the Revolution reaction at the Tokyo Game Show. At the end of one paragraph, the writer, after showing concerns over 3rd party Revolution support states "Despite these concerns …
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Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Anti-game activist Jack Thompson under investigation — Jack Thompson, a Florida lawyer who became infamous in 1988 for accusing Janet Reno of being a closeted lesbian with a drinking problem and a strong candidate for blackmail, has recently been making waves with his crusade against the video game industry.
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Ken Yarmosh / TECHNOSIGHT:
INTERVIEW WITH SPHERE CEO TONY CONRAD — Last week, I contacted Tony Conrad for an interview about Sphere, a new blog search engine presently in private beta testing. Tony, who is the CEO of Sphere was gracious enough to agree, amidst a very busy schedule.
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
A Journey to a Thousand Maps Begins With an Open Code — A Google map is no longer just a Google map. — You can still search Google Maps to figure out how to get from here to there, but why would you, when you can use it to pinpoint kosher restaurants in Cincinnati, traffic cameras in Dublin …
