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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
AOL Coaxes Google to Try Busier Ads — Users of Google's search engine will soon see something they are not used to on the notoriously spare site: advertising with logos and graphics. And the advertisers will not be limited to America Online, whose talks with Google prompted the change in policy …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
More On AOL Pushing Google Into Graphic Ads & AOL Promotion — AOL Coaxes Google to Try Busier Ads from the New York Times dives deeper into details that emerged earlier this week about how Google will help promote AOL as part of the bid to retain the company as a Google partner …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Icahn rips into AOL's $1 billion Google deal — Investor tells Time Warner board that pact could prevent more lucrative merger — Google's plans to buy a piece of AOL for $1 billion encountered opposition Monday when billionaire investor Carl Icahn called the plan potentially disastrous …
cadenhead.org:
Wikipedia Founder Looks Out for Number 1 — I spent a little time this morning expanding the Wikipedia biography of Gordon Keith, a dark-humored and hilarious radio host on the Dallas sportstalk station KTCK. — Having a biography in Wikipedia is a double-edged sword, as John Siegenthaler Sr. can attest.
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Evan Hansen / Wired News:
Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio — Sleuthing into the accuracy of the open-source web encyclopedia known as Wikipedia has led to the door of its founder, Jimmy Wales. — Public edit logs reveal that Wales has changed his own Wikipedia bio 18 times, deleting phrases describing former …
Yahoo! Search blog:
Time Saving Search Shortcuts — I'm addicted to shortcuts. Shave 5 minutes from my commute by exiting 2 streets early and cutting through the back roads? I'm there. And with the Internet I'm always looking for ways to do things faster. — Fortunately, one of our engineers, Kannan, is equally impatient.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:Yahoo Launches Open Shortcuts, Allows Creation Of Custom Search Commands
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Keith Reed / Boston Globe:
If we're Tech City, where's our WiFi? — Advocates blame delay of a key study, need for project czar — Wireless data networks are being installed free of charge in cities across the nation. But Boston, a city with a reputation for innovation and more than twice the population …
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Minneapolis Star Tribune:
An unwired Minneapolis a step closer to a reality — The city has cut the field to two bids to build a Wi-Fi network that could lower consumers' costs for high-speed Internet access. — Minneapolis is moving closer to becoming one of the nation's leading unwired cities by mid-2007 …
O'Reilly Network:
PROXY HACK — Google free proxy! — Access restricted web sites using Google language tools service as a proxy. — Contributed by: bigthistle — A little tutorial found on the italian site www.manuali.net inspired me for this hack. That tutorial suggests to translate a webpage …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Reuters video to get mass distribution — International news agency Reuters is launching a pilot program on Tuesday that will allow blogs, news organizations and other online publishers to show Reuters news video on their Web sites. — The video affiliate network program will enable Web site operators …
Ian Austen / New York Times:
U.S. Patent Office Likely to Back BlackBerry Maker — OTTAWA, Dec. 19 - The technology patents at the heart of an infringement lawsuit by NTP against Research In Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, are likely to be struck down by the United States patent office …
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Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
Making Technorati easier to use — We just rolled out a whole raft of improvements and tweaks that are built to make Technorati easier to use and easier to understand. A few things that we rolled out: — 1) Charts. Get live, updated charts on what people are saying about stuff you care about …
useit.com:
One Billion Internet Users … Some time in 2005, we quietly passed a dramatic milestone in Internet history: the one-billionth user went online. Because we have no central register of Internet users, we don't know who that user was, or when he or she first logged on.
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
MS Research: Typo-Squatters Are Gaming Google — Researchers at Microsoft Corp. have blown the lid off a large-scale, typo-squatting scheme that uses multi-layer URL redirection to game Google's AdSense for domains program. — The scheme was uncovered when Redmond lab rats decided to extend …
rexblog.com:
Public Relations lesson of the day: A long time ago, I was in the public relations business. I can't tell you how many times I advised a particular client to do exactly what Dave Winer is saying this morning: … Dave has a consistent platform, scripting.com, and he passionately writes there about his point-of-view.
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Jayson / Crazy 8 Opinions:
8 Cool Firefox Plugins You Never Knew Existed — 1. Stopwatch - This simple little extension gives you a neat stopwatch. That's it. A stopwatch. It's simple,easy, and it works. — 2. Search Status - This is one of my favorite extensions. It sits in at the bottom of Firefox …
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