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kottke.org:
Blogs versus the NY Times in Google — In 2002, Dave Winer of Scripting News and Martin Nisenholtz of the New York Times made a Long Bet about the authority of weblogs versus that of NY Times in Google: … I decided to see how well each side is doing by checking the results for the top news stories of 2005.
BBC:
Countdown for nasty Windows virus — PC users have been urged to scan their computers before 3 February to avoid falling victim to a destructive virus. — On that date the Nyxem virus is set to delete Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Acrobat files on infected machines.
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
MacIntel Dual Boot? Fer Real? — Looks like an intrepid haxor has dumped Vista on a MacBook by fooling Vista into thinking that the MacBook has a BIOS in there somewhere. The instructions are kind of convoluted but we encourage you to try this at home and confirm that it works.
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
The Resurgence of E-Cards — THE online greeting card industry is starting to make some noise again. Just ask the screaming banshee. — The highly freaked-out woman, known by millions from an animated Halloween e-card from Hallmark.com, is back, this time in a Valentine's Day revival of her hair-raising neuroses.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Is TiVo next on Cisco's push into homes? — news analysis If its history of acquisitiveness is a guide, computer networking king Cisco Systems will likely buy a number of companies as it expands into the consumer electronics market. — Already Cisco has announced plans to spend $6.9 billion on cable set-top maker Scientific-Atlanta.
Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
Revealing China Censorship via Google Images — Danny Sullivan just posted an SEW blog entry named A Picture Says 1000 Words About Google's Censorship In China which is show true. He shows a screen capture, side by side (Google China versus Google US) of a search on "tiananmen" at Google Images China versus Google Images.
Andy Goetze / StockPhotoTalk:
Using Google Base For Selling Stock Photography — In early summer 1999 Miroslaw Malek told me that a new start up named Google, founded in September 1998, was starting to develope a new and completely different internet search engine. I thought "Heck, who cares?", because the internet …
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
MetroFi Switches to All Free — Bay Area metro-scale wireless ISP MetroFi drops charges: MetroFi offers Wi-Fi-based service across Cupertino, Sunnyvale, and Santa Clara. Its Cupertino and Santa Clara services originally required a monthly fee for mobile or fixed access.
Fred / A VC:
AOL Is Selling Access To Your Inbox — I have been an investor in a company called Return Path for almost six years. Return Path is in a number of email related businesses, but one that they basically invented is the email delivery assurance business. They work for commercial emailers …
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The Jason Calacanis Weblog
Josh McHugh / Wired News:
Would You Buy a Used Dotcom from this Man? — As a corporate lawyer, Allen Morgan wore a suit every day for 20 years. But since joining the Mayfield Fund, he's gotten used to the more casual uniform of the venture capitalist - Levi's, plaid shirt, company-logo fleece vest.
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Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Patent spat forces businesses to upgrade Office — update Microsoft has begun e-mailing its corporate customers worldwide, letting them know that they may need to start using a different version of Office as a result of a recent legal setback. — The software maker said Monday …
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Alice Hill's Real Tech News
TDavid / Things That:
Much too early to comment on Live Labs — I've been reading several comments on one of Microsoft's newest brainchilds: Live Labs. In fact, I was sitting two rows back at Search Champs when Dr. Gary Flake gave the speech about Live Labs that included Robert Scoble's infamous "edge case" outburst.
Reuters:
RIM rivals cash in as BlackBerry hearing looms — Competitors are muscling into the wireless e-mail market dominated by Research In Motion as the maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device grapples with a patent battle that could shut down its U.S. service. — While few analysts and none …
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Mark Evans
Marc Orchant / The Tablet PCs Weblog:
The winds of change are blowing — I've had this phrase set on my various instant messaging clients for the past few days and it's prompted more than a fewcurious inquiries about just what is up. — This will be my last post here at The Office Weblog. I've beeninvited to contribute …
USA Today:
Papers take a leap forward, opening up to new ideas — NEW YORK — If you made a list of today's great media innovators you'd probably fill it with people whose dazzling ideas are shaping the Internet, television and even radio. — Not newspapers, though. The industry is famously risk-averse.
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PaidContent.org
Alexbarn / Alex Barnett blog:
ATTENTION ENGINES NOT JUST FOR THE GEEKOSPHERE — The attention conversation keeps going. Latest post by Scott Karp: … Scott refers to Umair of Bubblegeneration. I love Umair's stuff. — One related post I came across yesterday by Noah Brier makes his show-stopping observation:
Brian Bergstein / Associated Press:
'Electronic Discovery' Industry Blooming — EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - Even just a few years ago, lawyers in corporate lawsuits sometimes agreed not to poke around in their opponents' e-mails. Instead they'd confine themselves to paper memos and other documents on file as they pursued evidence.
news.vzw.com:
Verizon Wireless Introduces VZ Navigator, Providing Location-Based Service For Consumers — Media Contact Info — BEDMINSTER, NJ — Beginning today, gas station attendants can breathe a little easier, thanks to a new service that gives wireless customers turn-by-turn directions in the palms of their hands.
Sandy Brown / TheStreet.com:
DirecTV, EchoStar Bundle Up — Rupert Murdoch's DirecTV (DTV:NYSE - news - research - Cramer's Take) is linking up with rival EchoStar Communications (DISH:Nasdaq - news - research - Cramer's Take) to launch a nationwide wireless broadband network, TheStreet.com has learned.
