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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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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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Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Rumor Mill: Acquisition Time? Is Google Going to the Opera? — I'm not one for spreading rumors but sometimes...? Feel like a hot one? OK, we've got one or should I say Dirson has one. What is it? Google is going to acquire Opera. That's right, the wonderful and powerful Opera browser from Norway …
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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 …
Reuters:
No action needed now on Net neutrality-FCC chief — WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - There is no immediate need for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to adopt rules protecting consumers' ability to surf anywhere on the Internet, the agency's chairman Kevin Martin said on Wednesday.
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
FCC chief backs Net phone taxes — WASHINGTON—Imposing new taxes on a wider swath of Internet phone users is likely to be one of the Federal Communications Commission's top priorities next year, Chairman Kevin Martin said Wednesday. — The policy at issue is the thorny question …
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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Om Malik on Broadband, Don Dodge on The Next …, PaidContent.org and The Voice of Online …
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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" …
Shelleyp / Burningbird:
The Meta Wars — For all that people are saying 2006 is going to be the year of this or that, I think that 2006 is going to be the year of metadata, and as such, we're about to see some of the bloodiest battles in blogging. She who controls the metadata rules the world …
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Guardian Unlimited, The Blog Herald, The Structured Blogging Blog, Get Real and VoIP Blog
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Stowe Boyd / Get Real:Structured Blogging versus Messy, Messy, Messy
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Greg Yardley's Internet Blog, Bokardo, Second p0st, The Structured Blogging Blog, vanderwal.net and Mashable*
Microsoft Team RSS Blog:
Icons: It's still orange — My last post shared some of our conceptual designs of the feed icon and expressed some of the criteria that we are using to select the right icon. Several of the comments liked icon #4 simply because it looked liked the Firefox icon, and many (like this one) …
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Labnotes, NevOn, Asa Dotzler, Guardian Unlimited, Gadgetopia, Windows Vista Weblog and Heiko Hebig
Associated Press:
GUS Buys PriceGrabber.com for $485 Million — Retail and financial services company GUS PLC said Wednesday it has bought PriceGrabber.com, a U.S. company that offers online comparison prices for shoppers, for $485 million. — GUS is purchasing PriceGrabber, which provides information …
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Jaikumar Vijayan / Techworld.com:
Port scans don't always precede hacks — Port scans may not be a pre-cursor to hacking efforts, according to conventional wisdom, reports the University of Maryland's engineering school. — An analysis of quantitative attack data gathered by the university over a two-month period showed …
members.cox.net:
Animated Singing Santa Hack — How to customize a Wal*Mart Santa (by Gemmy) with your own routines. — If you've ever gone to Wal*Mart during the Christmas season, you've seen it. I figure that at least a quarter of the US population has been exposed to it by now.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Three Technology Companies Join to Finance Research — BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 12 - With federal funds for basic computer science research at universities in decline, three of the industry's leading companies are joining to help fill the void. — University of California computer scientists plan …
Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter:
Now that we've got your attention — I was in a conversation last night where the subject turned to Office and whether it's dead or not. You know, the good old Notes is Dead micromeme that I pushed out into the world way back when Ray Ozzie was not the Prince of Redmond.
