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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.
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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 …
Mark Pincus Blog:
Google Base Comments  —  google launching a classifieds aggregator and listing service is big exciting news for web 2.0. for me it just hastens the world of free data that we're inevitably headed for.  if you go back one of my posts from a few days ago (forgetting which) …
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google provides unintentional peek at classified ad service
Discussion: Susan Mernit's Blog
Rob Hof / TechBeat:
Google Base: A New Rival for eBay and Craigslist?
Mark Pincus Blog:
Should ebay become freebay?
Discussion: michael parekh on IT
siliconvalley.com:
Google tests potential online ad listings
Discussion: SiliconBeat
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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Elizabeth Montalbano / PC World:
MSN Readies Book-Searching Service
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Microsoft to offer book search
Discussion: Search Engine Journal and TeleRead
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
It will seek accords with copyright holders
Discussion: Matt Cutts
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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Leslie Miller / Associated Press:
New Passports Will Have High-Tech Features
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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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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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 …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Phone Scoop
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Yahoo! Search blog:
Plan a Trip in a Single Search with Yahoo! Travel Trip Planner  —  For most people, trip planning begins with a search box.  But a single search is just the start of what often becomes hours, even months of intensive online searching, sharing with friends, planning, and logistical details.
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Gizmodo
Darren Rowse / Blog Tips at ProBlogger:
Adsense Dumb Pricing  —  Jen has just posted information about Adsense that will be of interest to publishers using it across multiple sites.  The crux of it being that Google's 'smart pricing' can actually not only impact one of your sites but all of them.
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 …
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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