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Om Malik on Broadband:
People Power Vs Google — Will a people's collective be able to beat Google at the search game? — That's the proverbial $64,000 question, and venture investors are trying to answer that by funding start-ups such as Wink, that plans to go live perhaps as soon as Thursday, according to Silicon Valley sources.
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Michael Tanne / Wink Blog:
Open Beta One (OB1) — We've been working away for the last few months, getting feedback from our beta users (thank you so much!) and refining the Wink experience. As we got closer to a public beta we gave accounts to the rest of the people who'd requested them so they could try it out.
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Guardian Unlimited
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flock Says "Enough" — Flock has gotten a lot of flack lately. — The reason for this particular round of naysaying is the launch of the impressive Performancing Firefox plugin that allows extremely easy blogging, from Firefox, for Wordpress, MovableType or Blogger.
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
It's not Flock vs. Performancing — It's too bad that the popularity of Performancing.com's blogging extension for Firefox seems to have turned into an anti-Flock thing, because I don't think it has to be that way. I know people tend to see things in a kind of binary way — Performancing is great …
Reuters:
Disney site lets customers design products — Disney's online shopping site on Wednesday launched its first "You design it" feature in a move aimed at riding the fast-growing trend toward giving choosy Internet shoppers exactly what they want. — Disney partnered with online customization site Zazzle.com …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Busted, explained — How many noodles can fit on the head of an angel? We're still talking about it, believe it or not. Fred has an opinion about Web 2.0. It turns out so do I. Read on. — There's two schools on "Web 2.0." — 1. Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle and their VC friends.
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The Jason Calacanis Weblog, WeBreakStuff, ALLIED by Jeneane Sessum, Marc's Voice and Read/WriteWeb
Reuters:
New spyware claim against Sony BMG — The Texas attorney general said on Wednesday that he added a new claim to a lawsuit charging Sony BMG Music Entertainment with violating the state's laws on deceptive trade practices by hiding "spyware" on its compact discs.
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The Blackfriars Blog
Elizabeth Biddlecombe / BBC:
Women tempted by gadget gifts — When it comes to gadgets, American women are most likely to get a digital camera or an iPod for Christmas this year. — So expects Jeremy Clay, a personal shopping assistant at a Best Buy store in Walnut Creek, California. — He is in a position to know.
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Popgadget
searchenginejournal.com:
2005 Search Engine Blogs Awards : Blog Search, Search Marketing Blogs — 2005 Search Engine Blogs Awards : Blog Search, Search Marketing Blogs — The Search Engine Journal 2005 Search Blog Awards votes have been tallied and I'd like to thank our readers who nominated their favorite search blogs …
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JenSense
Rob Bushway / Tablet PC MVP:
Results of M200 vs X41 comparison — I just love technology. I especially love getting my hands on gadgets, playing with them, figuring out what works / doesn't work - especially for my customers. — I've been putting the Thinkpad X41 Table PC through its paces since last Friday …
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Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage:Rob Bushway Reports On His Tablet PC Comparison
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michael parekh on IT
Jed Brown / Performancing.com:
HOW TO: Using Performancing for Firefox — Nick keeps bugging me to blog, so here it is, direct from the PFF extension. — Keeping track of all the support posts in the forums, comments made on other blogs and emails regarding PPF is not an easy task. — Fortunately for me …
BBC:
Microsoft may face daily EU fine — The European Commission has threatened to fine Microsoft up to 2m euros (£1.36m; $2.4m) a day until it gives rivals more access to its systems. — Brussels said the software giant had failed to supply adequate information about its server programs.
Tracy Staedter / dsc.discovery.com:
Robot Demonstrates Self Awareness — Dec. 21, 2005— A new robot can recognize the difference between a mirror image of itself and another robot that looks just like it. — This so-called mirror image cognition is based on artificial nerve cell groups built into the robot's computer brain …
David Cowan / Who Has Time For This?:
The Truth Behind Visto's Lawsuit Against Microsoft — Many press reports and blogs in the last week have implied errors in their coverage of Visto's legal action, including the notion that Visto is suing Microsoft for patent infringement using the intellectual property that Visto had licensed the day before from RIM antagonist NTP.
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The Ponderings of Woodrow
Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
The Men Who Came To Dinner, and What They Said About Email — The three programmers spend their days developing what each hopes will be the world's best email program — and trying to beat the pants off each other. They spent an evening last week at my dinner table, talking about it all.
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InsideGoogle
