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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.
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.
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.
Inside AdSense Team / Inside AdSense:
Blogtimize! — Blogging is near and dear to our hearts here at Inside AdSense. We know you want to get the most out of those posts - but how do you do it? — 1. Choose the right ad formats — Because the typical blog layout uses a narrow section for posts, the medium rectangle fits nicely at the end of each post.
microsoft.com:
Microsoft Prevails in Patent Case Brought by Research Corporation Technologies — Federal court rules remaining patents unenforceable. — REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 30, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. did not infringe on any of the patents asserted by Research Corporation Technologies (RCT) …
Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
GOOGLE TOOLBAR 4 LAUNCHED, FREE GOOGLE TOOLBAR BUTTONS — Google launched a new beta version of their toolbar for Internet Explorer. — There are two fundamental points to the new toolbar: — higher average CPC — user lock in — How is the average CPC raised?
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.
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.
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.
Adam / Adam Fields (weblog):
Flickr pictures, web beacons, and a modest proposal — As I noted in the comments of the previous post, I don't have ads on the site, but I do have flickr pictures directly linked from my flickr account. — It is conceivable to me that flickr pictures could qualify as "web beacons" …
Discussion:
John Battelle's Searchblog
John Leyden / The Register:
MS to omit anti-virus from Vista — Microsoft will omit anti-virus protection in Vista, the next version of Windows, which it plans to ship late this year. As with previous versions of Windows dating back to Windows 2000 at least, Redmond is promoting Vista as a landmark improvement in Windows security.
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.
Discussion:
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
Bmccoy / Bill McCoy:
Sony BBeB and eBook formats — Josh Carter commented to ask "how do you see Sony's BBeB format splintering the market? If their store is halfway successful ... the bickering over open formats may be largely irrelevant to the average consumer." Good question!
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.
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
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 …
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 …
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
