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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Microsoft tests classifieds service — Microsoft is developing a free online service that will let people list items for sale, events and other classifieds-type of information that can be shared either with groups of friends or anyone over the Internet, the company said Tuesday.
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Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Microsoft tries classifieds — An upcoming online classified service from Microsoft Corp. may sound like Craigslist or the new Google Base, but the team behind the project says it found inspiration closer to home. — Microsoft employees have long used an internal listing service to sell …
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
THINKING ABOUT GOOGLE AND THE TURNING POINT — Has the worm turned? That's the question a lot of folks are asking about Google these days, not the least of which is John Heilemann, whose piece has opened up a great discussion in the comments area of my post about it.
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CrunchNotes, IP Democracy, Venture Chronicles, A VC, Blogspotting, RatcliffeBlog, SearchViews and PodTech Comments …
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Matthew Fordahl / Associated Press:
Intel to Partner With TiVo on PC Platform — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Looking to boost the number of computers whirring away in living rooms, Intel Corp. on Wednesday unveiled its first list of companies whose products are expected to work with the chip maker's upcoming Viiv entertainment PC platform.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Judge to RIM: We're not delaying this any longer — update Research In Motion on Wednesday lost two rounds in the long-running patent lawsuit that threatens to imperil the company's BlackBerry service in the United States. — U.S. District Judge James Spencer denied RIM's request to halt …
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Scott Gatz / Scott Gatz's Blog:
Yahoo Mail's full post RSS reader — As you can probably guess, I'm a big fan of My Yahoo! And use it as the primary way I keep up with RSS feeds and all sorts of other content. I love it because I can quickly see all my news at a glance in a format of my own choosing.
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Read/WriteWeb, TechCrunch, Web 2.0 Explorer, Flashpoint, Micro Persuasion, ben barren, michael parekh on IT, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, PodTech Comments …, Charlene Li's Blog, Paul Kedrosky's …, Susan Mernit's Blog, Software Only, Podtech.net, Om Malik on Broadband, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, SiliconBeat and Scripting News
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Kim Zetter / Wired News:
Podcast Chaos Be Gone — Two new search engines offer to do for podcasting what Technorati does for blogs by letting users search podcasts by keyword to single out audio that suits their interests. — Podzinger and blinkx scour audio content for keywords by translating the audio into text and creating an index for quick searching.
WSJ Personal Technology:
A New Gold Standard for PCs — When Apple Computer launched its video iPod last month, the hype was so great that another important Apple product announcement was lost in the shuffle. The company also released that day a new, improved, and yet cheaper, version of the already excellent iMac G5, its flagship consumer desktop computer.
Mark Glaser / Online Journalism Review:
Will NPR's podcasts birth a new business model for public radio? — How the public radio giant has become a leading podcaster in just two months. Plus, a fond farewell from this columnist. — Last summer, the folks running National Public Radio started to get a clear message …
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New York Times:
Security Flaw Allows Wiretaps to Be Evaded, Study Finds — The technology used for decades by law enforcement agents to wiretap telephones has a security flaw that allows the person being wiretapped to stop the recorder remotely, according to research by computer security experts who studied the system.
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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Deadheads Outraged Over Web Crackdown — The Grateful Dead, the business, is testing the loyalty of longtime fans of the Grateful Dead, the pioneering jam band, by cracking down on an independently run Web site that made thousands of recordings of its live concerts available for free downloading.
Colette Vogele:
RSS Hijacking? A threat to podcast and blogging infrastructure? — I received an email from Erik Marcus, the podcaster responsible for Vegan.com and the "Erik's Diner" podcasts. Erik informed me that his podcast's RSS feed was "hijacked". I was at first unclear on how this really happens …
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Stowe Boyd / Get Real:
Corante 2.0: Hubs In A Network Of Stars — Today, after years (literally) of discussion and planning, we are opening the kimono on Corante 2.0. The most obvious manifestation of the new Corante — leaving aside the first of our Corante events, the Symposium on Social Architecture …
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Full Circle Online …, The Community Engine, Emily Chang, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Oliver Thylmann and Mashable*
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Daniel J. Solove / Concurring Opinions:
Google's Empire, Privacy, and Government Access to Personal Data — A New York Times editorial observes: … This is an interesting fact — Google keeps records of every search in a way that can be traceable to individuals. The op-ed goes on to say: … This is an important point.
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Associated Press:
High-tech 'repo man' keeps car payments coming — NORFOLK, Va. — NOTE TO REPO MAN: Might want to look into another line of work. — A new gizmo is upping the odds that even the most hard-knock customer will come up with the car payment. Hooked into the ignition system …
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Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
PriceRitePhoto: Abusive Bait and Switch Camera Store — "I will make sure you will never be able to place an order on the internet again." "I'm an attorney, I will sue you." "I will call the CEO of your company and play him the tape of this phone call."
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