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David / A design and usability blog:
The Google Web Accelerator is back with a vengeance David — Google has reintroduced their Google Web Accelerator with a vengeance. It was evil enough the first time around, but this time it's downright scary. — In version 1., web masters at least had a fighting chance as the GWA identified …
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Bill de hÓra:
Hey, I'm back — The GWA is back and following GET links again. No big surprise there - the web is going to be rife with this kind of automation before the decade is out. Here's the deal - if you are in the business of allowing the use of GET for something like 'logout.php', the GWA has you more or less bang to rights.
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Shapdaddy / thefifthrule.com:
Got a Mac? Want Front Row? You're In Luck! — A buddy of mine just sent me a torrent for a hack version of the new Front Row application for the new iMacs. Download the torrent file and get the contents (2.8 mb file) follow the read me and you're golden! — Installation:
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Mitch Ratcliffe / RatcliffeBlog:
How to get Google to fix BlogSpot — Niall Kennedy's Weblog: Google spam suite primer: … One answer to this problem is counter-intuitive. The solution to the problem it to click gratuitously and never make purchases on the links at blogspot sites and to keep doing so to drive down conversion rates.
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Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
A LIST BLOGGER OPENLY RECOMMENDS CLICK FRAUD...WHO'S HAT IS BLACK? — To be honest, I normally think rather highly of Mitch Ratcliffe, but this anti blogspot spam comment is off the mark: … What is the best that would come out of that? Spam blogs would quickly and easily be built elsewhere …
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Rumors of Sun-Google Hosted Desktop Suite Quashed — Sources close to the joint efforts between Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. say rampant speculation about hosted desktop productivity offerings and common operating systems is way off base. — Insiders with knowledge of the joint plans …
Joanna Glasner / Wired News:
Futurists Pick Top Tech Trends — Taking a long-term view isn't easy nowadays. — Even the recent past seems blurry at times. Google's just seven years old, but it's hard to imagine life before instant search. Broadband has been widely available for only a few years …
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
Geo-Targeted RSS Ads Surprise Advertisers — Google has quietly been running geo-targeted contextual ads in RSS feeds for several months, but many advertisers, agencies, and analysts contacted by ClickZ were surprised to learn about the placements. — "I don't think most advertisers know it's going on …
Michael Singer / CNET News.com:
Ready for a 20-inch laptop? — How big is your laptop? Fifteen inches? Seventeen inches? How about a massive 19- or 20-inch wide-screen LCD model? — With so many DVDs featuring letterboxed or wide-screen versions of films, consumers' fascination with larger screen sizes is changing …
Geraldine Geraldine / LES BLOGS 2:
Les Blogs 2.0 preliminary program — Introduction — Why have we started to organize the Les Blogs conference ? — A frustration. I have always been so sorry that there were not enough cool conferences around the Web generally in Europe. If you are European, you have to go often …
Lockergnome / Chris Pirillo:
"WEB 2.0" DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING YET — I promised myself I wasn't going to jump into this silly debate, but I just can't help it anymore. Is "Web 2.0" real or not? That argument is endless, mindless, and pointless. The name, in and of itself, is quite contrived.
Ivan Sulic / ps2.ign.com:
Bratz Rock Angelz — Let's start a band! But whatever shall we wear? — October 24, 2005 - Bratz Rock Angelz has me at an unfortunate disadvantage. It seems I'm not a young female fashionista between the age of four and 14 who might also enjoy becoming an international rock sensation.
Chris Kohler / Wired News:
Give Up, Gizmondo — You'd have to be crazy to launch another portable gaming system right now. — Sony is waging war on Nintendo's market share with its popular PSP. Nintendo is pulling out all the stops to fend them off with its Nintendo DS and Game Boy lines.
John Cook / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Dot-com lesson feared lost on venture capitalists — During the dot-com boom, venture capitalists bid up the values of consumer-Internet companies such as HomeGrocer.com, Pets.com and Kozmo.com — only to suffer the consequences when the money-losing companies imploded.
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