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Catherine Yang / Business Week:
Is Verizon a Network Hog? — The telecommunications giant wants to devote most of its capacity to its own traffic, to Internet companies' dismay — Last November, Vinton G. Cerf wrote a letter of warning to Congress. The legendary computer scientist, now a vice-president at Google (GOOG) …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Slip-up spills beans on Dell notebooks — update Apparent specifications for Dell's future notebooks were briefly exposed by Google's search engine Tuesday, before the spreadsheet was removed from a Dell FTP site and from Google's cache. — The basic configurations for the Dell Inspiron e1405 …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
How to evade Google search — Dell apparently learned the hard way this week that companies have to be careful to ensure that information they store on the Internet that they want to keep hidden is not automatically added to a search engine index for everyone on the Web to see.
Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer:
Interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose, Part 1 — Yesterday I interviewed digg founder Kevin Rose to discuss digg's popularity, its battle with spammers, the recent issues with GroupThink and digg's upcoming personalization features. This is the first of a two-part article presenting that interview.
Tom Zeller Jr / Technology News:
Microsoft Amends Its Policy for Shutting Down Blogs — Microsoft unveiled new company guidelines yesterday intended to spell out how it will deal with government censorship demands, in China and anywhere it does business, and limit the impact of its compliance.
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Smart Mobs
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:Politicos attack tech firms over China
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Boing Boing, John Palfrey, ZDNet.com, Search Engine Watch Blog and Library Autonomous Zone
Michael Calore / hotwired.com:
BitTorrent Client Shootout — Michael Calore is Webmonkey's editor in chief and the ringleader of Snackfight. He spends his spare moments cultivating bamboo and re-organizing his iPod. His favorite film is Rockers. — Over the past year or two, I have received a small flood of e-mail from readers asking about BitTorrent.
Michael / michael parekh on IT:
ON NEWSPAPERS NOW WANTING GOOGLE TO PAY — Well, a third industry is getting in line after telcos and book publishers wanting Google (and other search companies) to cut themselves in on a piece of the business model action around online paid-search adverting. As CNET reports:
Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer:
Reviews of IE7 Beta 2 Preview - will be threat to Mozilla and RSS Aggregators — Some brave developers have downloaded the IE7 Beta 2 Preview and are beginning to report back their findings. The main new features in IE7 are tabs, RSS integration and improved security.
Courier-Mail:
New blog for high-fliers — Got your own blog yet? If not you'd better hurry up if you dont want to be beaten to it by a flock of pigeons, according to New Scientist. — Later this year 20 of the birds will take to the skies above San Jose, California, each carrying a GPS receiver …
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Mihai Parparita / Official Google Reader Blog:
Your Labels, Your Way — Reader has supported labels since the very beginning, but they haven't always been easy to get to. To make them more accessible, we've added a drop-down menu at the top of the page, allowing you to get to any of your labels with just a couple of clicks.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Craigslist's laid-back approach to success — NEW YORK—Online classified-ad site Craigslist isn't your typical Internet company, and CEO Jim Buckmaster isn't your average media mogul. — While other CEOs in the fast-paced technology market are driven by growing revenue and guard their turf …
Ben Goldacre / Guardian:
How I stalked my girlfriend — For the past week I've been tracking my girlfriend through her mobile phone. I can see exactly where she is, at any time of day or night, within 150 yards, as long as her phone is on. It has been very interesting to find out about her day. Now I'm going to tell you how I did it.
Sean Bonner / Metroblogging Los Angeles:
Open Letter to the LAPD and LASD — Sean Bonner: — OK, this isn't so much of an open letter as it is an open request. Please read the comments on this post. And please take a look at this site. Search for "LAFD" on this site and see the countless other posts praising them for their openess and communication.
Red Herring:
Mark Burnett Makes AOL Game — Online treasure hunt will provide web-based reality series across portal's sites. — America Online has teamed up with Mark Burnett, creator of the reality series Survivor and The Apprentice, to create an online treasure hunt called Gold Rush!
Robert Gavin / Boston Globe:
Subscriber credit data distributed by mistake — Globe, Worcester paper affected — Credit and bank card numbers of as many as 240,000 subscribers of The Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette were inadvertently distributed with bundles of T&G newspapers on Sunday, officials of the newspapers said yesterday.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Western Union abandons telegrams — The Internet strikes again. — First it mostly did away with brick-and-mortar auction houses. Then newspaper classifieds went the way of the Model-T Ford. — And now, thanks to the ubiquity of e-mail and instant messaging, Western Union is getting …
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Dabble Dabble — It has been a busy week already! I have been furiously reporting for my next story for the magazine. Somedays it is a challenge to switch gears from reporting for a trend piece to blogging. I have fallen behind on some of the broadband stuff, but hopefully will catch up by end of the week.
Discussion:
Connecting the Dots
Chris Taylor / CNN:
Imagining the Google Future — Top experts help us plot four scenarios that show where the company's geniuses may be leading it—and, perhaps, all of us. — (Business 2.0) - We all know that the company Sergey Brin and Larry Page founded a mere eight years ago is one of the new century's most cunning enterprises.
