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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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robhyndman.com, mathewingram.com/work, IP Democracy, The Blackfriars Blog, InsideGoogle, broadband and Slashdot
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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.
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.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
IE 7 bugs abound — update People didn't lose any time in finding bugs in the latest preview release of Internet Explorer 7. — It's been but a day since Microsoft publicly released a test version of Internet Explorer 7, but Internet news groups and blogs are already teeming with bug reports.
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Politicos attack tech firms over China — WASHINGTON—Politicians on Wednesday attacked Google, Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Yahoo for declining to appear at a briefing about China's Internet censorship and called for a new law to outlaw compliance with such requirements.
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Boing Boing, John Palfrey, ZDNet.com, Search Engine Watch Blog and Library Autonomous Zone
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Tom Zeller Jr / Technology News:Microsoft Amends Its Policy for Shutting Down Blogs
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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.
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MSNBC:
CBS to sell new 'Survivor' episodes on own site — Digital media chief says network likely to offer other shows for download — NEW YORK - New episodes of the popular "Survivor" reality television series will be made available for download directly from CBS's Web site for $1.99 per episode …
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.
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
30 Boxes, Best... Calender... EVER! — Let the ajaxification of your life continue! Yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down with a group of bloggers and technologists for a discussion about how we use calendaring as well as view a preview of 83 Degree's latest project 30 Boxes …
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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.
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:
Discussion:
Things That, The Stalwart, InsideGoogle, Center for Citizen Media and The Ponderings of Woodrow
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.
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost Publications:
Budde Outlines Yahoo News Future — YAHOO NEWS HAS ADDED THE weekly advice columnist, Margo Howard, to its short roster of writer/journalists. The news site has also undergone a mild restructuring, featuring popular video more prominently on its home page.
Evan Blass / Engadget:
British warships get iPod docks, surround sound — Here's a question for our British readers: does itbother you at all that your government is spending your tax quid on outfitting each berth in the Royal Navy's six new,£6 billion Type 45 Destroyers with iPod docks andsurround sound …
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thevoipdigest.com, Gizmodo UK, Connected Internet News, Times of London and Yannick Laclau
Om Malik / CNN:
Shrugging off Google's miss — Despite the search giant's profit disappointment, VCs and entrepreneurs are still believers. — SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0) - After its latest earnings, is Google's future in doubt? Wall Street's kneejerk reaction: Yes. Silicon Valley's response: No.
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!
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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.
IEBlog:
Windows RSS Platform — Hello, Walter from the land of IE Program Managers here. You might have seen or read about the RSS functionality in the user interface of IE7 Beta 2 Preview. There is a bit more to it then just letting users subscribe and read feeds from the IE7 user interface.
Valleywag:
Valleywag FAQ — 1. What is Valleywag? — Valleywag is a tech gossip rag, focusing mainly on the people and stories of San Francisco and Silicon Valley. — 2. But Silicon Valley's far too dull and serious for gossip. — Yes, that's been the general consensus.
Paul Loughrey / mobileindustry.biz:
Guardian Unlimited launches Sudoku puzzle league — Mobile phone puzzle scores tracked online — Guardian Unlimited and Solid State have announced the launch of a new Sudoku league which lets players solve puzzles on their mobile phones and submit scores to compete head-to-head in the online league.
Google Blogoscoped:
BMW's Doorway Pages — The German websites of car maker BMW make use of doorway pages. It's hard to tell whether or not they intentionally used this blackhat SEO technique, but someone at BMW needs to spend 2-3 hours reading up on how Google and the web works (or fire the company responsible for these doorways).
