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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
ALEXA (MAKE THAT AMAZON) LOOKS TO CHANGE THE GAME  —  (This will be updated when the service goes live, I was briefed and the embargo was 9 pm PST...)  —  Every so often an idea comes along that has the potential to change the game.  When it does, you find yourself saying - "Sheesh, of course that was going to happen.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Alexa turned into web service - Amazon back to its innovative best  —  John Battelle has just posted that Amazon is opening up its Alexa search and statistics data to the world!  According to John, Alexa has about 5 billion documents in its index, which is about 100 terabytes of data.
Discussion: Oliver Thylmann
Om Malik on Broadband:
Amazon's Alexa Commoditizes Search  —  About a month ago Nicholas Carr suggested that Internet search was fast becoming a commodity, because there was very little differentiation between MSN, Yahoo or Google.  That's why all the action around toolbars, desktop widgets and desktop search.
Discussion: PodTech Comments …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:   Alexa Totally Gets It, Opens Up API
Brendon Connelly / Slacker Manager:
The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users  —  First things first, real quick like.  At it's core, del.icio.us is a place where you can store your bookmarks and get to them from anywhere you can find an internet connection.  Accounts are free, get yours today.
news, politics, jobs …:
Outlook: Time to Undo the Merger?  —  AOL Co-Founder/Chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC  —  Six years ago, Steve Case helped bring about what was widely hailed as the "merger of the century," combining his company, AOL, with media giant Time Warner.  Now, he thinks it's time to undo it.
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Om Malik on Broadband:
Like Yahoo, SIPphone offers Penny A Minute Calling  —  Yahoo was the first one to launch a salvo at Skype by offering a penny-a-minute calling, betting that its low price offering would help it gain market share and lure users away from Skype.  (Service will be available next year... but the press release is already out!)
Discussion: Rough Type
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
There's no Wikipedia entry for 'moral responsibility'  —  Seigenthaler libeller unmasked - thought it was a joke site  —  No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood - Despair.com  —  On Monday, in one of his now-weekly appearances on cable news defending the latest Wikipedia scandal …
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BBC:   Wikipedia joker eats humble pie
Loren / Incremental Blogger:
A Tablet search tool  —  Here's another one of those hard-hat projects I've been working on that you might want to try out.  It's a web page that contains a TIP in which you can launch a search.  I call it SearchTIP.  Here's the link.  —  If you go to the above link it'll take you to the following page:
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Blog Ads, MSNBC and the Porn Valley Advertisement  —  Blog Ads, MSNBC and the Porn Valley Advertisement  —  As I'm sure many of our readers have noticed, there is currently (as of 10:09 EST 12/12/2005) an advertisement running on the left side of the Search Engine Journal which reads "Porn Valley."
Fred / A VC:
Online Backup's Inflection Point  —  I have been a fanatic about backing up my hard disk since the mid 80s after losing a month's work on a year end paper in a hard disk crash.  Scars like that don't heal.  They stay front and center and result in an obsession about being backed up.
Discussion: clock
Susan Cheever / Newsday:
Just Google 'thou shalt not steal'  —  It's late at night, and you are in the bedroom cruising auction sites for furniture on the Internet.  You should go to sleep, but you don't.  Then you see them, the pair of chairs from your own living room.  They are for sale by someone in New Jersey, but they are your chairs.
Discussion: Threadwatch.org
Matt / Blog Network Watch:
Blog Network List launches overall Blog & Blog Network Ranks  —  We're pleased to announce the launch of new overall blog & blog network rankings over at Blog Network List!  —  We have taken each of our individual metrics for blogs and blog networks and ranked them from lowest to highest.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:   A new blog ranking takes a unique approach, it ranks networks of blogs.
oecd.org:
China overtakes U.S. as world's leading exporter of information technology goods  —  12/12/2005 - China overtook the United States in 2004 to become the world's leading exporter of information and communications technology (ICT) goods such as mobile phones, laptop computers and digital cameras, according to OECD data.
Discussion: Fast Company Now
Daniel H. Pink / New York Times:
Splogs  —  Newton's third law of motion applies on the Internet as well as in the physical world: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.  The convenience of e-mail messages triggered the annoyance of spam.  And now the democracy of Web logs has brought forth the duplicity of spam blogs, or splogs.
Discussion: Blog Maverick and Blogspotting
Scrivs / Work Boxers:
Design and Getting Links  —  If you have read me for any period of time you know the value I place on quality design.  I know that in many webmaster forums you will find people saying that it's the ugly sites that get the best CTR, and this may be true.  However, I have always been in the business of building brands.

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