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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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Reuters:
Google acquires stake in AOL — Internet search giant to pay $1 billion for 5 percent stake in AOL; Microsoft shut out of deal. — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc. and America Online Inc. Tuesday expanded their search and advertising alliance to include video and instant messaging …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:More On AOL Pushing Google Into Graphic Ads & AOL Promotion
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Nick Wilson / Performancing.com:
Performancing for Firefox is Here! — Well, despite falling asleep on the job last night, Performancing for Firefox is finally here! Jed and I worked all night on this, and we're finally happy to put our new blogging firefox extension out in beta for your feedback.
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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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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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Laurie Sullivan / techweb.com:
Trio Charged With Modifying Xboxes To Pirate Video Games — Two store owners and a third man were charged on Monday in a federal copyright infringement case for allegedly selling modified Microsoft Corp. Xbox consoles that allowed them to play pirated video games copied onto a multi-gigabyte hard drive.
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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.
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 …
Paperghost / Vitalsecurity.org:
BitTorrent Reloaded: Unauthorised installs lead to pirated movie files on victim's PCs — Yep, the title is a mouthful but you heard it correctly: those crazy guys behind the Middle-East connected Rootkit-powered Botnet (phew! mouthful alert) experimented with something I haven't seen before …
Bill Burnham / Burnham's Beat:
Google Base + Vertical Search + RSS = Death of Walled Gardens — A few weeks ago, I promised to write a follow-up on my post about Google Base that detailed how the launch of Google Base might affect the Internet's so-called "Walled Gardens" (content sites that charge users and/or suppliers for access to their databases).
Poynter Online:
Pegasus Partly Debuts 'CitJ'-Based Operation in Dallas — For those of us watching the "citizen journalism"/"grassroots media" space, the wait to see what Pegasus News is up to is almost over. The Dallas-based start-up, which first announced its intention to build a "new" …
Conrad Quilty-Harper / Joystiq:
Pictures and opinions from the "Reggie event" — On Monday, Reggie (of Nintendo USA) hosted a meet-up at a McDonalds in Bellevue, Washington with the aim of kicking back and playing some Mario Kart DS with the fans. He also happened to reveal a couple of interesting facts regarding the Nintendo Revolution …
Greg Blonder / Business Week:
Cutting Through the Patent Thicket — The current U.S. system is harming innovation. A simplified process with stronger patents would encourage economic growth — For over 200 years, the U.S. patent system has catalyzed economic growth and protected the national interest.
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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.
