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CNET News.com:
Verbatim: Search firms surveyed on privacy — update To find out what kind of information the four major search companies retain about their users, CNET News.com surveyed America Online, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. — We asked the same seven questions of each company.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FAQ: When Google is not your friend — FAQ Google's recent legal spat with the U.S. Department of Justice highlights not only what information search engines record about us but also the shortcomings in a federal law that's supposed to protect online privacy.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Judge postpones Google subpoena hearing — Google's attempt to fend off the government's request for millions of search terms will move to a federal court in San Jose, Calif., on March 13. — U.S. District Judge James Ware on Thursday delayed the hearing, originally scheduled for Feb. 27 …
Benjamin Cohen / Times of London:
Rumours mount over Google's internet plan — Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet controlled by the search giant, according to sources who are in commercial negotiation with the company.
Stowe Boyd / Message:
The Social Scale of Social Media: The Conversational Index — I think it was Brian Ritchie, one of the inventors of Unix and C, who said "All large systems that work start as small systems that work." This is an enormously powerful thought, one that can be carried into all corners of life …
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Zoli Erdos / Zoli's Blog:
Tracking the COMPLETE CONVERSATION - Part 3 — Stowe Boyd introduces the concept of the Conversational Index: … I'm fully with him on this, the CI would be a really useful indicator of the interest level a blog enjoys - but we need to step further than just having another nice badge to be displayed on our blogs.
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Ian Youngs / BBC:
Libraries fear digital lockdown — Libraries have warned that the rise of digital publishing may make it harder or even impossible to access items in their collections in the future. — Many publishers put restrictions on how digital books and journals can be used.
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Interview with Gabe Rivera, founder of Memeorandum — Tech Memeorandum is part of my daily reading list, actually I read it several times a day. There are several other "clipper" services out there that approach the problem from a slightly different angle. Blogs have exploded in growth and popularity over the last year.
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Verizon & Unnecessary Roughness — Business Week article about how Verizon wants to reserve 80% of its network bandwidth for itself, caused a minor ruckus yesterday as one after another, everyone brought up the issue of network neutrality and started the finger pointing.
Business Week:
James Cameron's Game Theory — Get kids hooked on a multiplayer game, then show them the movie — James Cameron has transported film audiences to worlds inhabited by carnivorous aliens, time-traveling assassins, and passengers on an ill-fated ocean liner.
Forbes:
Google's China portal inaccessible in Shanghai, Beijing — SHANGHAI (AFX) - Google Inc's recently launched China portal was inaccessible in the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Beijing on Friday, although the US-hosted Google.cn site could still be reached from outside China.
John Borland / CNET News.com:
Tomorrow's games, designed by players as they play — LOS ANGELES—Game budgets are skyrocketing. Development teams are swelling almost to film studio's proportions. The only way out of this trap is to enlist players to help create their own worlds, a pair of top game creators said Thursday.
Harry McCracken / PC World's Techlog:
iPod Accessories, iPod Accessories Everywhere — Good story at NYTimes.com on the iPod accessory economy—which is now a $1 billion business. It provides some clarifying background on how so many companies are able to turn out so many add-ons so quickly when Apple gives them little or no warning about new iPods.
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Virus Naming Still a Mess — Each time a new or uniquely dangerous virus or worm surfaces online, the major anti-virus companies trip over themselves to come up with their own pet names for the bugs. — In some ways, this is a quaint holdover from an earlier, more innocent age …
Jason McCabe Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Building a business based on copyright infringement (or, "Bad business idea #487") — YouTube.com gets some ink in the New York Times today. The piece spends a decent amount of time explaining the success of the site: it's makes money off other people's IP. — How do you build a business by stealing other people's content?
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
PayPal to rival TextPayMe for SMS payments? — We ran TextPayMe by you lastyear, a service that allows you to make PayPal-like payments over SMS. Well now it looks like PayPal is hoping to makethose SMS payments a little more PayPal-like, since they're advertising for a business manager …
Business Week:
Fiat and Microsoft Launch Blue&Me — The voice-activated in-car communication system, based on Windows Mobile for Automotive, will debut at the 2006 Geneva Motorshow — Fiat and Microsoft will launch Blue&Me based on Windows Mobile for Automotive at the 2006 Geneva Motorshow later this month …
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Listening and Learning Through Blogging — I've just finished my second posting, and I've realized how much there is to learn about the blogosphere. I've spent a lot of time looking at other blogs, listening to what others are saying about what we're doing, and picking up some suggestions along the way.
Nick / Rough Type:
Free fake computers! — If there's anything better than being able to turn one computer into a bunch of computers, it's being able to do it for free. So companies should welcome VMware's decision to distribute a free version of its industry-leading server virtualization software.
Wall Street Journal:
The Type-A Bathroom — For workaholics, it's the new home office. Jon Weinbach and Peggy Edersheim Kalb on showerproof computers, mirrors with stock quotes and the latest water hazard: 'BlackBerry dunk.' — With a BlackBerry, two mobile phones, three office computers and wireless Internet for his car …
