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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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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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Elizabeth Montalbano / PC World:
MSN Readies Book-Searching Service — Microsoft's project starts with non-copyrighted materials, but may expand. — Microsoft's MSN division plans to digitize and index for search copies of books and other printed material, and is joining an industry coalition to help them with this strategy, the company plans to reveal Wednesday.
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
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:It will seek accords with copyright holders
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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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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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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, business2blog, Terra Nova 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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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.
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
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.
