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Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Base: It's An Early-Stage Test Project from Google — UPDATE: We've postscripted (see below) with an official statement from Google about this project. — Lots and lots of talk in the blogosphere today about the new (is it?) Google Base. As always, Barry does a great job pulling it all together here.
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Google Blogoscoped:
More Google Base Screenshots — Caleb Eggensperger sent in some more Google Base screenshots (thanks for that, as I still can't see this live): — Program policies ("Posting is not permitted for the promotion of body parts or human remains.") — Terms of service ("By submitting …
Ars Technica:
Google Base: All your base are, in fact, belong to us — I couldn't help but make a joke with the title, because it's seemingly right on the money. You see, Google is getting ready to take the wraps off of a new service called Google Base. If it can be posted online, it would appear that they would …
Frank Rose / Wired News:
Battle for the Soul of the MP3 Phone … One sign that the ROKR, the new iTunes phone from Motorola, might not live up to expectations came during its September unveiling ceremony at San Francisco's Moscone Center. In the midst of an elaborate presentation of new products, Steve Jobs …
Anil Dash:
The Interesting Economy — Like many great social software applications, Flickr began its life as something else. Flickr was built on a platform for a game called Game Neverending, which had a lot of great features including an in-game economy based on exchanging various totems that had different relative values.
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Caterina / Caterina.net:Economies of Interest — Anil wrote a post about The Interesting …
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Jenstar / JenSense:
One poorly converting site can "smart price" an entire AdSense account — Google has said very little publicly about Smart Pricing secret sauce which results in some publishers earning more money for a click while others earn less (and yes, the advertiser will also pay less accordingly).
Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
New Rules On Internet Wiretapping Challenged — New federal wiretapping rules that would make it easier for law enforcement to monitor e-mails and Internet-based phone calls were challenged by privacy, high-tech and telecommunications groups in federal court yesterday.
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Michael Bazeley / SiliconBeat:
VideoEgg: Westward ho, and a deal with Six Apart — Speculate all you want about Silicon Valley losing its status as the tech epicenter. For some companies, location still matters. The latest example of a company making the move is VideoEgg, a small start-up out of New Haven, Connecticut.
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Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Microsoft Announces MSN Book Search; Joins Open Content Alliance — Microsoft, yes good old Gates, Ballmer and crew, are getting in on the online books digitization game and more. I can't say that I'm totally surprised. When Google first announced Google Print and then expanded the program …
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Katie Hafner / New York Times:Microsoft to Offer Online Book-Content Searches
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governor.oregon.gov:
Governor Announces New Open Source Technology Initiative by Oregon Universities — Google Contributes $350,000 to JointOregonState, PortlandStateUniversityProgram to Expand Open Source Development and Education — (Salem, OR) - Governor Ted Kulongoski today announced the contribution …
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Mike Shields / mediaweek.com:
Comedy Central Unveils Motherload Network — Comedy Central unveiled details on its new broadband network Motherload on Tuesday in New York. — Motherload, which goes live on Nov. 1, will consist of five video-based channels featuring a mix of clips from Comedy Central's programming …
nclnet.org:
Consumer Group Raises Copyright, Censorship Concerns about Google Print Library, Calls for Public Hearings — Contact: 202-835-3323, media@nclnet.org — Washington, DC-In a letter to the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary subcommittees overseeing intellectual property issues …
lightreading.com:
SBC Stretches Lightspeed Timeline — LAS VEGAS — Telecom '05 — While SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC - message board) takes pains to assure Wall Street and others it is on track with its Project Lightspeed rollout, the company has quietly given itself another six months — until mid 2008 …
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Is Imitation Flattery, Theft or Just Coincidence? — A DISPUTE over the uniqueness of a popular new commercial for the Apple iPod is again raising the issue of what constitutes originality in advertising. — The commercial, featuring the rap artist Eminem, is the most recent …
Axel Dörfler / Haiku Development Blog:
Finally — I just booted into Haiku working on an SMP machine. Unfortunately, I am not really sure what change exactly triggered this - I've tried so much and all of a sudden it started to work, after I disabled setting up the APIC (the advanced programmable interrupt controller) …
