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Randall Stross / New York Times:
How Google Tamed Ads on the Wild, Wild Web — FIVE years ago, Web advertisers were engaged in an ever-escalating competition to grab our attention. Monkeys that asked to be punched, pop-ups that spawned still more pop-ups, strobe effects that imparted temporary blindness - these were legal forms of assault.
Roger Lowenstein / New York Times:
The Story of the Search, Applause Included — THOUGH "The Google Story," by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed (Delacorte Press, $26), is as adoring a business profile as I have read, there are occasional hints that the extraordinary success of this search-engine phenom has begun to go to its head …
malbela.com:
RIAA President To Stop Downloading, Save The Empire — Cary Sherman wants you to know that he isn't against you enjoying music in your own fashion. According to the RIAA president, he is deeply concerned about investing in new artists and keeping your local record store open.
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
RIAA prez: Lots of companies secretly install rootkits! It's no biggie! — RIAA President Cary Sherman gave a recent college press-conference where he addressed Sony's rootkit fiasco (among other things — the whole trascript is worth reading for a quick visit to the planet greed). His take?
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Putting the Napster Genie Back in the Bottle — SHAWN FANNING turns 25 on Tuesday, and it's been a very long seven years since he wrote a little computer program that let him trade electronic music files with his dorm mates at Northeastern University in Boston, where he was a freshman.
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
#52: Back from TechCrunch — So, my son and I helped close out the TechCrunch party. We got there at 11 and stayed until 1:15 a.m. — I, and a small group, were gathered around Riya CEO Munjal Shah. We were trying to find out if the rumors were true. He wouldn't confirm nor deny any rumors that Riya was being sold to "G."
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Riya's Launch Party @ TechCrunch — We reached a new milestone in our ongoing experiment to see how many people can fit inside my house before the police come and arrest me: over 250 last night (previous record was 200ish) at the Riya Launch Party. — The thing I liked best about this party …
Shel Israel / Naked Conversations:
Riya Party Rocked — Boy I haven't been to a launch party like that since the dotcom was still bubbling. There must have been 300 people jammed into Michael Arrington's Atherton yard, all enjoying beer and pizza at an event billed as a barbecue. Pictures are all over the place and most faces …
Andrew Brown / Guardian:
Owning ideas — The boom in the intellectual property market will not reap rewards for us all — The difference between ideas and things is obvious as soon as someone hits you over the head with an idea - so obvious that until recently it was entirely clear to the law. Things could have owners and ideas could not.
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Brian Bergstein / Associated Press:
Copy Protection Still a Work in Progress — BOSTON - It's been the better part of a decade since Napster and other free song-sharing services began scaring the daylights of the music industry. And still recording companies can't find an effective anti-piracy technology to save their hides.
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macdevcenter.com:
Getting the Video out of Your New iPod—for Cheap! — by Erica Sadun, author of Modding Mac OS X — So I buy a video iPod, figuring it would be a cool toy. (Gotta get those toys.) It arrives and I'm ready to give it a whirl. I pony up my two bucks, download the pilot episode of Desperate Housewives …
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Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Cisco's Bold New TV Bet — The Scientific-Atlanta deal pushes the networking giant deeper into consumers' home and helps it court cable and telecom providers — Until three years ago, Cisco Systems (CSCO) steered clear of cutthroat markets for high-tech consumer gear.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Ten Wikipedia Hacks — When something's working, you stick with it. My series of social media hacks (RSS, Technorati, blogging) has been such a hit, I am going to keep it going! So, with that in mind, here are 10 hacks that will help you get more out of your favorite reference site and mine - Wikipedia!
Maryamie:
The Blogging Family's Short and Sweet Conversations — Robert, Patrick and I were having lunch in Palo Alto today. "So what did you do last night Patrick?" I pat him on the back affectionately. — "I saw the Harry Potter movie. It definitely earned its PG-13 rating." He says excitedly.
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