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Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:
Google in China: degrees of evil — So it has happened. Google has caved in. It has agreed to actively censor a new Chinese-language search service that will be housed on computer servers inside the PRC. — Obviously this contradicts its stated desire to make information freely available …
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...My heart's in Accra, IP Democracy, Message, Blogger News Network, TailRank, New York Times, iBLOGthere4iM and Clickety Clack
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Robert / Blogger News Network:
Blogger News Network Discontinues Google Ads — In response to the decision of Google to gain access to the Chinese market by censoring its search content, Blogger News Network has reached the difficult decision to discontinue running Google's ads on our service.
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
No Tibet or Tiananmen on Google's Chinese site — GOOGLE will today cave in to pressure from the Chinese Government by launching a local website that strips out information not approved by the Communist authorities. — The company, whose motto is "Don't be evil", is launching a version …
rsf.org:Google launches censored version of its search-engine
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Google Blogoscoped, Between the Lines, THE RAW FEED, InsideGoogle, Steve Sloan … and AccMan Pro
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:Google agrees to censor results in China
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Somewhat Frank, Reuters, Newsome.Org, John Battelle's Searchblog, TailRank, B2Day and larry borsato
Burtonator / Kevin Burton's Feed Blog:
Yahoo Will Buy Digg - Announcement Early Next Week — I've now heard from two sources close to Yahoo which tell me that Yahoo is going to be buying Digg for nearly $30M. I haven't yet heard from anyone working for Yahoo that this is 100% (they obviously had 'no comment') …
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J. Botter / the j. botter weblog:
Yahoo Ain't Giving Up — For all this talk of Yahoo throwing in the towel and conceding the search market to Google, there sure is lots of talk going on that, if proven correct, could see Yahoo jump right back in the game. They've already got Flickr, Upcoming and Delicious, and from what I hear …
Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
Blog Sensationalism — You know, I totally understand sensationalist blogging. I mean, hey, I'm an old-skool blogger... I know how once in a while throwing a juicy post up on your server with some name calling, extreme opinions and a swear word or two can drive serious linkage and hits.
Peter Poffenberger / BizNicheMedia:
BizNicheMedia Link Baiting Competition: $1,000 Prize — Link baiting. It's the new link building. It's the single most important thing a blogger can do to get that large jolt of traffic (and links) to a new blog. — Scrivs is good at it. Darren is great at it. And we at BizNicheMedia SUCK at it.
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Search Engine Journal, Online Marketing Blog, The Blog Herald and Search Engine Roundtable
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Intel shows test chips made on future processes — The 45-nanometer process is right on time, according to Intel. — The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip giant has created test chips made on the 45-nanometer process and will likely begin shipping processors, flash, and other chips based …
sMoRTy71.com:
Tip for beating Netflix throttle — I think I may have figured a way to beat Netflix's throttling (or smoothing as they supposedly call it) system. — I was getting tired of the longer and longer waits for new releases (which resulted in me getting a bunch of older movies that were farther …
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny:
TiVo Readies Undelete Feature — Due in part to customer feedback, TiVo will be including an undelete feature with the upcoming Series 2 software update. When you delete a television show, it will automatically be moved to the Recently Deleted folder at the bottom of your Now Playing list.
Matthew Boyle / CNN:
Let your fingers do the paying — Wal-Mart, Costco weigh merits of allowing customers to pay by scanning fingerprints: report — NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - Buying groceries with the touch of a finger could be closer than you think, if new research touting the benefits of biometric payment …
Forbes:
'Stanford On ITunes' Is For Everybody — NEW YORK - In an unprecedented move, Stanford University is collaborating with Apple Computer to allow public access a wide range of lectures, speeches, debates and other university content through iTunes. No need to pay the $31,200 tuition.
The Head Lemur / raving lunacy:
Economic Censorship or Electronic Apartheid — Recently there have a number of statements by Telephone Conglomorates about selling both sides of the same electron. Here is the opening paragraph from what is probably the most succinct article to date: Internet Freedom or Privilege by David Isenberg;
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Bruce Stewart / O'Reilly Emerging Telephony:
ETel Conference: iotum Demo — Alec Saunders showed me iotum, his company's "relevance engine" here at ETel, and I was pretty impressed. An attempt to reverse the trend of growing complexity in our communications environments, iotum queries apps like your calendar and IM client to help determine …
