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Nick / Rough Type:
Monster mash — The free-for-all continues. Amazon.com has opened up its Alexa search engine to all comers. Just as Amazon's affiliates can tap into the company's merchandise catalog to build their own stores, so entrepreneurs and tinkerers can now tap into Alexa's vast catalog of web content …
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Darwinian Web, Lorcan Dempsey's weblog, The Internet Stock Blog, pc4media, Ho John Lee's Weblog and RatcliffeBlog
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:Alexa Offers Fee-Based Vertical Search Services
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The Unofficial Google Weblog, Search Engine Lowdown, Web 2.0 Explorer, Things That, Marketing Pilgrim, PaidContent.org, Software Only, business2blog, rexblog.com, Blog Business Summit, ResourceShelf, The Voice of Online …, ZDNet.com, Blog Network Watch, stevenberlinjohnson.com and SearchViews
Jeff Clavier / Software Only:
Syndicate Conference: StructuredBlogging.org is officially launched — Marc Canter is on stage to announce the launch of StructuredBlogging.org, a non-profit initiative supporting the development and deployment of micro-formats in blog posts. The idea is pretty simple …
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Second p0st, Between the Lines, Read/WriteWeb, Ross Mayfield's Weblog and AttentionTrust.org
Associated Press:
Regulators warn of text message stock scam — WASHINGTON (AP) — Securities regulators are warning investors about a new twist on the "pump and dump" stock-fraud scam that uses text messaging on cell phones to tout stocks. — The National Association of Securities Dealers …
New Yorker:
CYBER CITY — Typically, video games are set in places with names like Myst, Zanarkand, and, slightly less fantastically, Vice City. True Crime: New York City, which was released last month by Activision and is being advertised on billboards around town, is set in Manhattan.
Dave Girard / Ars Technica:
Aperture — Because of the popularity of our not-so-glowing Aperture review, we've prepared an addendum to our review to address some questions, concerns and misconceptions people had. There were three main streams of feedback about our initial review of Aperture.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Reuters:
Xbox 360 sold out on some major Web sites — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp.'s new Xbox 360 video game console remained sold out at some major Web retailers on Tuesday and one analyst said he expected holiday shipments at the lower end of his previous forecast.
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Joystiq
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Technorati Kitchen: it's what's cooking — Technorati just introduced the Technorati Kitchen, an area where we can post projects we have been working on that we do not feel are ready for integration on the main site. The first project available in the Technorati Kitchen is Explore …
Joan Anderman / Boston Globe:
Study: Online music sharing can spur sales — The record industry has long considered online file sharing a serious threat to its livelihood. But a new study scheduled to be released today suggests that consumer-to-consumer music recommendations — a growing feature of online music stores and websites …
David Newberger / The Geek Guy Rants:
10 Questions with Doc Searls — It's time for another 10 questions segment and today I have a wonderful interview with Doc Searls. I have got to say the more interviews I do the more I am getting something out of each of them. And the interview with Doc Searls is no exception to this.
Stephen Bryant / publish.com:
Year in Review: AJAX Desktops and Homepages — Review: Home pages are making a comeback, thanks to AJAX and Flash-powered "desktop" applications. Inside, a look at seven desktop and homepage apps vying for your news feeds, bookmarks, and sticky notes. — The homepage is making a comeback.
Justin Nolan / 360 Insider:
Xbox 360 not designed to play games in vertical position? — I just had a revelation. The Xbox 360 "Ring of Light" logo pictured right could actually respresent the circular scratches left on Xbox 360 games across the world. When Matt's Xbox 360 stopped playing games …
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Eliot Phillips / Engadget:
How-To: Control iTunes from any web browser — For today's how-to we're going to set up a simple web server in XP so that we can control iTunes remotely. Engadget reader Jordan Parker was tired of having to walk into the other room to change tracks so he put together the PHP script we'll be using.
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Download Squad
2006.sxsw.com:
THE LATEST BITS + BYTES » — WEB AWARDS UPDATE: FINAL DEADLINE THIS FRIDAY DECEMBER 16 — The final deadline for entries in this year's SXSW Web Awards competition is this Friday, December 16 at midnight (CST). Hurry and enter your site now, as entries submitted after this deadline have no guarantee of being judged.
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Micro Persuasion
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Brooklyn Photographer Don Wiss Threatened if He Doesn't Leave the Country He Will Be Killed — PriceRitePhoto's store, photo by Brooklyn Photographer Don Wiss — I received a troubling email earlier today from Don Wiss saying that he received a phone call today from someone telling …
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Techdirt
Susan Kuchinskas / internetnews.com:
Unmediated Media — SAN FRANCISCO — Jeremy Allaire, CEO of BrightCove, said Internet syndication of video content could lead to profound changes in the broadcast industry — and to new opportunities for producers. — Allaire gave a keynote speech at the Syndicate conference, held here today through Thursday.
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PaidContent.org
David / weblog.rubyonrails.org:
Rails 1.0: Party like it's one oh oh! — 15 months after the first public release, Rails has arrived at the big 1.0. What a journey! We've gone through thousands of revisions, tickets, and patches from hundreds of contributors to get here. I'm incredibly proud at the core committer team …
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Signal vs. Noise
