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Quinn Norton / Wired News:
Covert Crawler Descends on Web — WASHINGTON DC — Websites get looked at by two different kinds of visitors: the human ones who peer around, look at the graphics, think about the links and click slowly; and the spiders, those automated scanners that come in from search engines like Google …
lessig.org:
the fiction zone that DC has become — The Washington Internet Daily (which apparently is not on the Internet) has a story predicting the Telecom Bill will pass the House this year. The only sticking point seems to be the "controversial" "net neutrality" proposal.
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Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
Why BlackBerry's Google Talk won't offer voice — When I first heard that Google Talk would be compatible with the BlackBerry OS starting sometime this spring, my first reaction was puzzlement. — I mean, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion draws its very sustenance from cellular carriers.
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Jessie Seyfer / siliconvalley.com:
BlackBerry picking partners — GOOGLE, POCKETMAC DEALS BOOST FEATURES — Even Google appears to have a bit of a BlackBerry addiction. — Research In Motion, makers of the BlackBerry e-mail and phone device, announced partnerships Thursday with Google and an Apple accessory maker …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
iLife '06 From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Interface — WEDNESDAY, 11 JANUARY 2006, THE DAY AFTER THE MACWORLD EXPO KEYNOTE ADDRESS, 8:30 AM PACIFIC … SAFARI: Hey. Brushed. What's up? — BRUSHED METAL: Ah, you know. In the neighborhood, figured I'd stop by.
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The Tao of Mac
Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Security vendors looking to define 'rootkit' — Symantec, Anti-Spyware Coalition hope to ease confusion over cloaking techniques — After being criticized for including rootkit-like cloaking software in its Norton SystemWorks product, security vendor Symantec (Profile, Products, Articles) …
Michael Coates / OpsanBlog:
MyHeritage Face Recognition — At first, I thought it was that "monkey" spoof of a few years ago; where a site told you your monitor could serve as a camera and all you had to do was start at it and click a bogus "capture" button. When it rendered your picture, it was of something simian. Ha ha.
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Randy Holloway Unfiltered 2.0
Mike / Techdirt:
How Jealousy Could Destroy The Internet — from the irrational-decision-making dept. — Jealousy is a very powerful emotion. It can make for some great stories in books or movies, but it has no place in the board room — yet, that's where it is these days.
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William Slawski / SEO by the SEA:
Google's most popular and least popular top level domains — What are the most popularly used top level domains, or at least, which are the ones that show up on pages indexed in Google? — I wondered this yesterday after seeing a news article stating that the registration of .cn (china) …
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Search Engine Journal
Michael Hopkin / Nature:
Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye — Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds. — Like the look of our website? Whatever the answer (and hopefully it was yes), the chances are you made your mind up within the first twentieth of a second.
Reuters:
600,000 Xbox 360 game units sold in US: group — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) has sold 600,000 of its new Xbox 360 video game consoles in the United States since its November launch, an analyst for market researcher NPD Group said on Friday.
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Wal-Mart employees expose terror cell's bulk phone purchase — Unfortunately, terrorists alwaysseem to be one step ahead of our defenses when it comes to weaponizing modern technology, from using airplanes asmissiles to re-purposing shoes into wearable bombs.
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Randy Holloway Unfiltered 2.0
Susan Kuchinskas / internetnews.com:
PodZinger Launches Audio Search Service — Now consumers can use the same technology used by the CIA to find podcasts. — PodZinger officially launched its audio search service on Wednesday, based on speech recognition software that parent company BBN Technologies sells to government agencies.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
A virtual catalog — The focus of the company is Delicious Library, which lets Mac users create visual on-screen representations of their personal collections of books, CDs, movies and video games. It taps into Amazon.com's system to display images of the items on virtual shelves …
