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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google whistles a new tune — Google was set to launch on Thursday a new service intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page. — Google Music will allow a user to type in the name of a band, artist …
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Google adds music search and purchase features — SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is introducing a music search feature that details the work of certain featured artists, the company said late on Wednesday. — "In analyzing our traffic …
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Google Adds Music Search Feature — Google has introduced a new feature that provides information about music and musical artists in response to music related search queries. — The new feature works directly from any Google web search form, and results are returned as "one box" …
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Techdirt, Solution Watch, michael parekh on IT, » InsideGoogle, Search Engine Roundtable, The Kelsey Group and Metafilter
David Alpert / Official Google Blog:
Searching for music — It may come as no surprise, but I like to search for things on Google. Yep, when I'm looking for something, I always try it on Google first. And sometimes, that thing I'm looking for is music. Many of our users feel the same way, and we get a lot of search traffic …
Jim Giles / Nature:
Internet encyclopaedias go head to head — Abstract — Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds. — One of the extraordinary stories of the Internet age is that of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit.
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BBC:
Wikipedia survives research test — The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows. — The British journal Nature examined a range of scientific entries on both works of reference and found few differences in accuracy.
Stephen Cauchi / The Age:
Online encyclopedias put to the test — IT HAS proved one of the most radical yet popular ideas of the internet age: a free online encyclopedia that anybody can contribute to and edit. But is Wikipedia a reliable source of information, or is it filled with inaccuracy and hoaxes?
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Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
Structured Blogging Will Flop — Darn it all, techno utopians are so cute. Nevertheless, structured blogging — the over-ballyhooed idea that people will post to their blogs using different forms depending on what they're posting — is going to be a flop.
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Shelleyp / Burningbird:
The Meta Wars
The Meta Wars
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Guardian Unlimited, Labnotes, The Blog Herald, Get Real and The Structured Blogging Blog
Stowe Boyd / Get Real:
Structured Blogging versus Messy, Messy, Messy
Structured Blogging versus Messy, Messy, Messy
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Burningbird, Greg Yardley's Internet Blog, Bokardo, Second p0st, The Structured Blogging Blog, vanderwal.net and Mashable*
Reuters:
NTP signs license deal with Visto … Wireless e-mail firm Visto, a rival of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, has signed a licensing agreement with patent-holding company NTP, the two firms said on Wednesday. — NTP is best-known for a patent infringement ruling it won against RIM in 2002.
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Michael Rogers / MSNBC:
Let's see some ID, please — The end of anonymity on the Internet? — Michael Rogers — •Profile — •E-mail — As the joke goes, on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog. But although anonymity has been part of Internet culture since the first browser …
Om Malik on Broadband:
Google Dressing Up For Opera — Update: Google spokesperson emailed and said, no comment and that this is just a rumor. Opera spokesperson was even more blunt and said: "This is just as new to me as it is to you. We do not know of any such plans." — Pierre Chappaz, former head of Yahoo Europe …
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Suzanne Panoplos / visto.com:
Visto Files Legal Action Against Microsoft for Misuse of Visto's Proprietary Technology — (Redwood Shores, CA, December 15, 2005) - Visto Corporation has filed a legal action against Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) for misappropriating Visto's intellectual property.
Kevin C. Tofel / HD Beat:
HDTV over WiFi: tips and tricks — Well, that graph says it all, doesn't it? This is the Windows Media Center Network Performance Tuner in action and it could spell doom for HDTV over WiFi. Let me explain a little. We showed you a video where we streamed high-def content from a Media Center PC to an Xbox 360 via WiFi.
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Mr. LUA Goes to Washington — WASHINGTON, DC—The gospel according to LUA (least-privileged user account) took center stage at Microsoft Corp.'s Security Summit East here with a pair of Redmond consultants pitching the idea of a well-funded security deployment repository to help developers create applications for non-admin users.
Chris Noon / Forbes:
Late Fees Back At Some Of Antioco's Blockbuster Stores — LONDON - Even though it's pretty unlikely a wide-eyed five-year old would have rented an X-rated movie, rationality goes out of the window when you're using your youngest child as a pawn for returning overdue DVDs. Will the old classic still work?
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