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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.
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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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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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.
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.
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
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:
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.
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Lifehacker, Publishing 2.0, IEBlog, Venture Chronicles, TechBeat, The Unofficial Yahoo Weblog and Burningbird
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.
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.
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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Matt Cutts:
Bigdaddy progress update — In case you don't want to download a 70 megabyte audio file, here's the latest on Bigdaddy. Bigdaddy continues to roll out and is now available at three data centers. In addition to 66.249.93.104 and 64.233.179.104, Bigdaddy is now up at 216.239.51.104.
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.
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).
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.
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 …
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michael parekh on IT, saschameinrath.com, Engadget, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Dvorak Uncensored and ldopa.net
