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Joanna Glasner / Wired News:
Writers Side With Google in Scrap  —  Google's plan to scan library book collections and make them searchable may be drawing ire from publishers and authors' advocates, but some obscure and first-time writers are lining up on the search engine's side of the dispute — arguing that the benefits …
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25hoursaday.com:
Some Thoughts on Google Print
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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C.K. Sample, Iii / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Reader video: Front Row on a Mac mini
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.
Discussion: Quoderat
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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 …
Discussion: textually.org and SearchViews
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 …
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Base Was Sort of Live  —  Several people report Google Base (as predicted yesterday) went live, or at least, its login-screen.  I can't reach it at the moment as it seems Google took it down again, but Dirson posted a screenshot to Flickr.  So what is it?  Quoting from Dirson's screenshot of the login screen:
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 …
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 …
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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 …
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited and OSNews.com
BBC:
BitTorrent user guilty of piracy  —  A Hong Kong man has been convicted of movie internet piracy in what is believed to be the first case involving BitTorrent file-sharing software.  —  Chan Nai-ming was found guilty of copyright infringement for distributing three Hollywood blockbusters using BitTorrent, said a court official.
Anton Shilov / xbitlabs.com:
Intel Produces Mainboard Powered by ATI's Chipset.  —  Intel's Desktop Board Utilizes ATI's Core-Logic  —  Intel Corp. has quietly launched its own-brand desktop mainboard based on ATI RADEON XPRESS 200-series core-logic.  This is the first time in the recent history when Intel decided …
Discussion: Neowin.net and TechSpot
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Benjamin Pimentel / San Francisco Chronicle:
Making signatures more secure IBM is developing new technology to foil forgers  —  Forging someone's signature is one of the oldest and most popular forms of identity theft.  —  But what if a forger were required to imitate not only the look of your signature but also how you went about writing it …
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.
Discussion: Techdirt

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