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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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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 …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:More On AOL Pushing Google Into Graphic Ads & AOL Promotion
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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 …
Stephen Lawson / InfoWorld:SF leaders voice concerns about Wi-Fi project
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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 …
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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 — The new Yahoo Open Shortcuts service lets anyone create their own custom search commands for use on Yahoo. Want to navigate to a particular site quickly or have Yahoo remember a particular search string?
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Om Malik on Broadband:
Need For Speed... How Real? — After years of being stuck in the slow lane, the US consumers are finally going to get a massive speed upgrade and taste the true broadband for the first time. From a 512 Kbps world to 6 Mbps, then 8 and soon 15 Mbps.... it seems the future has finally arrived.
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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