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John Markoff / New York Times:
Google Found to Be Testing Classified Ads — SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25 - An online classified service being tested by Google set off intense speculation on Tuesday after a Web site for the service was accidentally made public and discovered by a computer programmer on Monday.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
GoogleBase, Craigslist, Oddle, Print, Oh My — GOOGLEBASE, CRAIGSLIST, OODLE, OH MY — (Ongoing Thinking Out Loud based on the conversation spawned by this post) — So my question for Craigslist is this: Once Yahoo or Google decide to do a vertical listings engine - and they will …
Fred / A VC:
Posting, Subscribing, Tagging AND Search — I left something important out of my posting, subscribing and tagging post that I did in early August. — There is a fourth pillar of the blogging movement and that is search. — That became obvious to me last night as I slept on Google Base.
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:Google provides unintentional peek at classified ad service
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Susan Mernit's Blog
microsoft.com:
MSN Search Announces MSN Book Search — MSN is working with the Open Content Alliance to bring millions of publicly available print materials worldwide to the Web. — SAN FRANCISCO — Oct. 25, 2005 — MSN Search today announced its intention to launch MSN® Book Search …
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Shore Communications Inc., Microsoft Monitor, Paul Mooney, Neowin.net, ResourceShelf, Boing Boing and Google Blogoscoped
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Microsoft to offer book search — In the wake of lawsuits filed against Google, Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would join a competing and less controversial library book digitization project sponsored by Yahoo and Internet Archive. — "Given the copyright issues going on right now …
Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:Microsoft Announces MSN Book Search; Joins Open Content Alliance
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DigitalKoans, ResourceShelf, Bink.nu, PaidContent.org, InsideMicrosoft and The Unofficial Google Weblog
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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A design and usability blog, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Peer Pressure and michael parekh on IT
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Jeffrey Selingo / New York Times:
Why Look at the Road When There's So Much Going On Inside? — AS an engineer, Steve Elias loves gadgets. But the dashboard on his 2005 Pontiac GTO is too much for him. It "lights up like a Christmas tree," he said, providing detailed information like average speed and distance traveled, down to the one-hundredth of a mile.
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CNET News.com:
Passports to get RFID chip implants — update All U.S. passports will be implanted with remotely readable computer chips starting in October 2006, the Bush administration has announced. — Sweeping new State Department regulations issued Tuesday say that passports issued …
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SeattlePI.com Buzzworthy
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press.nokia.com:
Nokia brings Bluetooth technology to a pair of new fold-style CDMA handsets — New mid-tier Nokia 2855 and 6165 phones combine today's most wanted features with a stylish fold design — Florianopolis, Brazil - Addressing the needs of customers seeking a compact, stylish CDMA handset …
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BBC:
Gamer buys virtual space station — A virtual space resort being built in the online role-playing game, Project Entropia, has been snapped up for $100,000 (£56,200). — Jon Jacobs, aka Neverdie, won the auction for the as yet unnamed resort in the game, which lets thousands of players interact with each other.
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Daily Wireless, LiquidGeneration, collision detection, Terra Nova, business2blog and iBLOGthere4iM
Larry Buhl / Wired News:
No Porn for You, Video IPod! — There's a widespread notion that pornographers eagerly jump on new technology long before it goes mainstream, but with Apple Computer's new video-playing iPod, the adult industry is largely staying away. — With a couple of exceptions …
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Steve Mosko / Official Google Blog:
A must-see TV archive — One of the things that absolutely blew me away when I came on board last year as chairman of the Television Academy Foundation was the Archive of American Television, which is an unequaled collection of videotaped interviews with TV legends.
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Google Blogoscoped, Search Engine Watch Blog, InsideGoogle and John Battelle's Searchblog
Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
The Whole Kit & Kaboodle — It is only October, but you hear the jingle bells. This is expected to be a break out year for the online retailers. US online retails sales for this holiday season are predicted to top $26.2 billion, up nearly 21.9% from last year.
unstrung.com:
Cisco Plots Mesh — Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board) will launch its first wireless LAN mesh products next month, according to various industry and analyst sources. — As Unstrung reported back in April, Cisco has been plotting a mesh launch since it acquired wireless LAN …
Doug Young / Reuters:
China mobile airwaves hum with ghost-writing — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Move over, Cyrano. The poetic, big-nosed Frenchman, who fed lyrical lines to a friend pursuing a beautiful lass, is getting a run for his money these days in China from legions of modern-day ghost-poets working for the nation's two mobile phone companies.
