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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 …
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Marissa Mayer / Official Google Blog:
About the AOL announcement — The recent announcement of the AOL partnership has been the source of a lot of rumors and misconceptions. We'd like to clear some of those up. — Biased results? No way. Providing great search is the core of what we do.
Brian Morrissey / Adweek:
One in Five Blogs Is Spam — NEW YORK While 80,000 blogs may be created every day, about one in five is spam, according to new research. — Umbria Communications, a Boulder, Colo.-based consumer-generated media monitor, found that 2.7 million out of 20.3 million blogs are spam, or splogs as they are sometimes known.
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 …
Jonathan Krim / Washington Post:
Microsoft Is Losing Some Of Its Elbow Room — As Software King's Growth Slows, Rivals Stake Out Their Own Territory — Rob Enderle, a longtime Silicon Valley analyst and observer of Microsoft Corp., remembers what used to happen when a tech start-up sought funding for a business …
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The Register:
Evesham/AOpen Mini PC Plus — The Intel-powered alternative to the Mac Mini — Review It's finally arrived - the first Mac Mini clone. Our review system was supplied by Evesham, but the barebone chassis is manufactured by AOpen and has been known as the 'Pandora'.
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Engadget
Alorie Gilbert / silicon.com:
Customers vent spleen at Salesforce.com outage — "We're losing sales. It's a busy time of the year" — A Salesforce.com outage lasting nearly a day cut off access to critical business data for many of the company's customers on Tuesday in what appears to be Salesforce's most severe service disruption to date.
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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Jennifer LeClaire / linuxinsider.com:
Nessus 3.0: The End of the Age of Open-Source Innocence? — "Here's the danger we are running into," said Alan Shimel, Chief Strategy Officer for StillSecure. "People contribute resources to these communities, whether it be time, money, or code. When they see everything they give converted …
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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
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:
Jews for Jesus sues Google over blog — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Christian evangelical group Jews for Jesus is suing Google Inc., saying a Web log hosted through the Internet search leader's Blogspot service infringes its trademark. — The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York on Wednesday …
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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Traffick, TechBeat, B.L. Ochman's weblog, SiliconBeat, TechCrunch, Micro Persuasion and Weblogs Work
Steve Connor / Independent:
Surveillance UK: why this revolution is only the start — The new national surveillance network for tracking car journeys, which has taken more than 25 years to develop, is only the beginning of plans to monitor the movements of all British citizens. The Home Office Scientific Development Branch …
podleaders.com:
PodLeaders - Thought Leaders podcast — The Thought Leaders show hosted by Tom Raftery — « PodLeaders.com nominated for award! — Marc Canter podcast — Marc Canter podcast — Artist: Podleaders.com — Duration: 35′46 — Location: Cork, Ireland — Producer: Tom Raftery
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