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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Google fixes China search bugs — A day after Google's buggy censorship of sites for Chinese-users was revealed, the search giant has responded by fixing its filters so topics such as beer and jokes are no longer deleted. — An investigation published Thursday by CNET News.com showed …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
How Google Censors Itself For China & Paid Exclusion As Being Evil — Declan McCullagh posts an update to his great earlier story looking at how Google is censoring results at China. I talked with him a bit about this today and actually found myself even more upset over what Google's doing.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
THE REAL IRONY HERE... ...is that Google is, for the first time, being a content editor. I've written extensively about how Google, by its very DNA, does not like to be an editor of content. But in China, it's doing exactly that. (SEW) — Google's first big editing job?
BBC:
Why Google in China makes sense — The latest stage of Google's move into China has proved controversial, but Bill Thompson believes it has made the right decision. — So Google has fallen off its pedestal at last. — It took a while, but the company's decision to launch …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Allchin: Buy Vista for the security — If new features won't get you to upgrade to Vista, security enhancements should, Windows chief Jim Allchin has urged. — Microsoft has already touted the bells and whistles it is putting into Windows Vista, the operating system successor to XP that's due out by the end of the year.
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Mary Jo Foley / microsoft-watch.com:
Microsoft to Skip Vista Beta 2 — Redmond is planning to rely more on Community Technology Previews for Windows input, and has two new Vista test builds planned for the next two calendar quarters. — Customers and partners who've been holding their breath waiting for Beta 2 of Windows Vista …
The Doc Searls Weblog:
Rex Hammock points to Richard Edelman's Me2 Revolution, and says I am requiring all of my employees to read it. … Credit where due: Richard is channeling reality. He's listening to what Chris Locke called networked markets and he's calling for PR to participate in what David Weinberger began began calling …
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Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
My Dinner With Microsoft Exec Jim Allchin — Microsoft co-president of Platforms, Products and Services Division, Jim Allchin — Last Night Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's Platforms, Products and Services Division met with a small group of bloggers and technologists here in San Francisco for dinner.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Del.icio.us Competitors Try Paying Users — At least two Del.icio.us competitors, Simpy and RawSugar (profiles) have begun paying users to use and promote their services. While the companies have different payment models, both pay based on traffic generated at a particular users page containing the user's bookmarks.
barcamp.org:
BAR CAMP DALLAS IN PROGRESS NOW READ THIS PART IT IS IMPORTANT : HOW TO GET IN — Update: you should sign up on the wiki, then come to loading dock "c" at the informart and tell the security guard you are with barcamp. they probably won't check the list, but if they do object …
Joseph Weisenthal / The Stalwart:
Yahoo, Google, and Noise — The latest rumor gracing the gossip-rags is that Yahoo! has been in talks buy Digg, a user-generated news-site of sorts. If true (it's being denied at the moment) it would come on heals of the company buying out del.icio.us, and of course community photo page Flickr.
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Senators figure out the Broadcast Flag, curse it as an abomination! — The Senate Commerce Committee's hearings on the "Broadcast Flag" and "Audio Flag" proposals have been derailed because senators on the committee now use technologies that would be threatened by the flags.
Nick / Rough Type:
The supply-side boom — In The New Boom, a short article in the new edition of Wired, Chris Anderson makes a cogent case for why the current resurgence in internet entrepreneurship is "a healthy boom, not a fragile bubble." His case boils down to three points.
Declan McCullagh / ZDNet:
Court date set for Google lawsuit … Google's attempt to fend off the government's request for millions of search terms will move to a federal court in San Jose, Calif., on Feb. 27. — U.S. District Judge James Ware on Thursday set the date for the highly anticipated hearing …
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Pdberger / Englishman in New York:
Blogarithms: Rocketboom — My Blogarithms story for Metro this week is about the New York videoblog Rocketboom. And it comes with a little EiNY exclusive. — Over the past few months there's been some speculation about the value of an advertising slot at the end of a Rocketboom segment.
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TDavid / Things That:
Post Search Champs v4 non-NDA thoughts — Search Champs, the event itself is now over and as readers might recall I was very excited about being invited. I have many, many thoughts about the event, the interaction and what we saw, but of course to respect the NDA I must — and will — be careful about what is shared.
BBC:
Microsoft may still face EU fine — Microsoft's offer to allow rivals access to its software blueprint may not be enough to prevent European Union action, the EU has warned. — The EU has threatened to fine the group 2m euros (£1.4m; $2.4m) a day if it fails to supply adequate information about its server programs.
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Fred / A VC:
Singing for Dinner — Dave Winer gave Yahoo! execs three ideas at a Yahoo! offsite and then blogged them. — 1 - Open up Yahoo! search — 2 - embrace BitTorrent — 3 - P2P Webcasting — Go read the whole thing here. — I have been reading Dave's stuff since the early 90s …
Glyn Moody / open:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hacker — Today is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Most people know him as one of the world's greatest composers: a child prodigy, creator of over 600 works, and - if you believe the play and film Amadeus - fatally poisoned at the age of 35 by a rival composer.
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