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Google Blogoscoped:
10 Web Trends That Should Die in 2006 — Here's a new years resolution for the web at large: stop doing silly things to users. Following are top trends that I just hope will not see 2007. — 1. "Our article is too long, let's split it up into many pages."
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Credit Cards With Rewards Are Worth a Look — If it seems like you are getting a lot of credit card solicitations, you are. Credit card companies sent out about six billion letters in the last year. — But if you opened any, you may have noticed a dwindling number of zero-percent balance-transfer offers …
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IT Facts
Chitika Blog:
Chitika Reporting System and Monthly Audits Update — We are working on upgrading our back-end filtering and fraud detection systems to dynamically detect and prevent fraud, improve the quality of the overall network and help minimize the difference between the daily raw click reports …
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The Blog Herald
Andrew / Changing Way:
Naked Conversations — I've read most parts of this book twice, and some parts more than that. So this post is not based on a skimming, or a hasty reading, or even a single reading. I recommend Naked Conversations very highly. (I'll refer to it as NC from this point on.)
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Scobleizer
Jeremy Wright / Ensight:
Sigh @ Netgear Support — Sometimes I wonder about companies. I really do. I got a new wireless router this month and decided to try and set it up. It's a Netgear router, which you'd think would work flawlessly. At least I did. Silly me. Here's what happened. — 1. Buy Netgear wireless router
hexblog.com:
Windows WMF Metafile Vulnerability HotFix — This week a new vulnerability was found in Windows: — Browsing the web was not safe anymore, regardless of the browser. Microsoft will certainly come up with a thouroughly tested fix for it in the future, but meanwhile I developed a temporary fix - I badly needed it.
Matt Mondok / M-Dollar:
Microsoft teams up with the sumo of Japanese VoIP — On Wednesday, Microsoft and Softbank BB reached an agreement that will bring VoIP, instant messaging, Internet access, e-mail, groupware, presence and desktop services to Japanese businesses. The suite aims to serve as an integrated …
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Download Squad
viruslist.com:
Analyst's Diary — More on WMF exploitation — It was only a matter of time, the first IM-Worm exploiting the wmf vulnerability has been spotted. — We have received multiple reports from the Netherlands about an IM-Worm which spreads via MSN using a link to "http://[snip]/xmas-2006 FUNNY.jpg".
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
What The F**k is with Dell Technical Support?! — I'm on hold waiting to speak with a Dell Tech Support representative, presumably in India. The Dell 2405FPW UltraSharp Flat Panel LCD Montior I recently purchased (using our corporate discount at work) arrived in a broken state.
New York Times:
Patents Rejected for BlackBerry — Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, said yesterday that the United States Patent and Trademark Office had issued preliminary rejections of two wireless e-mail patents owned by NTP, the holding company that had won a patent infringement lawsuit against it.
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VoIP Blog
Tim Nudd / adfreak:
The 10 most popular AdFreak stories of 2005 — Who said bloggers don't like lists? With a few hours left in the year, we are pleased to present the 10 most popular AdFreak stories of 2005, based on number of reader comments. We're not quite sure how we became a second home for Gastineau Girls fans (or rather, foes).
CNN:
Poll: Google the best of the Web — (CNN) — The search engine Google is the most significant development in the 15-year history of the World Wide Web, according to a poll of CNN.com users. — Nearly 18,000 CNN.com users voted in the three-week online survey, part of Spark's look …
jkOnTheRun Audio Edition:
jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #8- OQO video review — Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #8 here (WMV format, 640x480, 39.5 MB, 9.14 minutes) — Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #8 here (MP4 format, 320x240, 18.4 MB, 9.14 minutes) — No you're not seeing things, well I guess you are at that.
itar-tass.com:
Putin tells telecom minister Leonid Reiman he does not have mobile phone — MOSCOW, December 30 (Itar-Tass) - President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with Russian Telecommunications Minister Leonid Reiman Friday one of the things that makes him different from the vast majority …
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textually.org
