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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail — Companies will soon have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain that their e-mail will be delivered to many of their customers. — America Online and Yahoo, two of the world's largest providers of e-mail accounts …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Increasingly, Internet's Data Trail Leads to Court — Who is sending threatening e-mail to a teenager? Who is saying disparaging things about a company on an Internet message board? Who is communicating online with a suspected drug dealer? — These questions, and many more like them …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
The Conversational Index for blogs — Microsoft Emerging Business Team — The Conversational Index for blogs — Stowe Boyd has introduced the notion of a Conversational Index to measure the effectiveness of blogs. I agree completely with Stowe on this.
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Peter Caputa / pc4media:
What's Your Post to Comment/Trackback Ratio? — Awhile ago, (Before Stowe started begging for links to his new blog. Click that. It's too funny.) I posted about my blog to comment ratio. It was 0.9. — Now, it is: — Posts: 1694 | Comments: 2245 | TrackBacks: 339
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Google Blogoscoped:
German BMW Banned From Google — BMW.de as seen from Google: — PageRank zero and a "sorry" page. — From what it looks like, the German websites of car maker BMW have been kicked out of the Google index. BMW.de at this time has a PageRank of 0. A search for BMW Germany …
biosmagazine.co.uk:
Samsonite Laptop Pillow — Not quite the pillow we were expecting, but then why would luggage specialist Samsonite make a bedtime accessory? — By applying memory foam to computer protection, Samsonite says it's paving the way for a new era of laptop carriers and messenger bags designed …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Memeorandum Hunters — I've written about two new real-time news aggregators today, Megite and Newroo. — The space is clearly hot, with both funded and unfunded companies rushing to release products. The goal? Leverage all of the great edge blog content out there …
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
The Rise of the Memetrackers — Has Memeorandum got competition? Over the last few months, a number of services have sprung up to help us find the most talked-about news of the moment. Time for a check-up on the state of the memeosphere... Memeorandum - If you're into tech or US politics, Memeorandum is unbeatable.
Sramana Mitra / Sramana Mitra on Strategy:
Internet VC Activity in India — InfoEdge, which owns some of India's hottest Internet properties including the largest job portal Naukri.com, Real Estate search engine 99acres.com, and matrimonial site Jeevan Sathi has got funding from KPCB and Ram Shriram of Sherpalo Ventures.
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Duncan Riley / The Blog Herald:
Introducing Weblog Empire v2 — Just a quick introduction and an invite to all Blog Herald readers to the reincarnation of Weblog Empire, this time as a blog link exchange forum. — The forum can be visited here: — http://www.weblogempire.com — The idea is simple.
Rachel Rosmarin / Forbes:
Inventions Inc. — BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Last summer, Bill Gates announced he wanted his Microsoft employees to increase the patents the company receives per year by 50%. That has yet to pan out: By the end of 2005, the company had increased patent output by only 18%.
Gaming Steve:
Rumor: Diablo III On the Way? You Better Believe It! — It looks like the Diablo III rumor mill has started up once again with a seemingly innocent post on the jobs section of the Blizzard web site. A few days ago they posted a job for an art director and various leads to join …
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Kent / Newsome.Org:
Google to Acquire World — At least according to this article in the Times of London (which presumably is read by the Werewolves of London). — I don't even know where to start, so let's take this story paragraph by paragraph. — Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network...
Nick Bradbury:
Feedback on IE7 Beta 2 from the Developer of FeedDemon — As most readers probably know by now, the second beta of Internet Explorer 7 is out, and it offers some nice improvements such as tabbed browsing and feed reading. I'm far too biased to comment on the actual feed reading experience in IE7 …
Steven Noels / blog.outerthought.org:
Daisy 1.4 released — Outerthought proudly announces the immediate release of version 1.4 of its flagship open source CMS Daisy, which now has become the only open source CMS to support book-quality publishing, making Daisy a supreme choice for software manual production and knowledge management applications …
Guy Kawasaki / Let the Good Times Roll:
The Effective Emailer — Because of my recent post about schmoozing, you might think I'm a warm, fuzzy, and kumbaya kind of Guy. Most of the time I am, but I have strong feelings about email etiquette and what it takes to get your email read—and answered.
Dan Gillmor / Center for Citizen Media:
Our Internet, Up for Grabs … The modest hyperbole in this commentary should not distract you from its essential truth: The cable and phone companies are truly out to turn the Net into their own collection of walled gardens. They have purchased a compliant Congress, and the more centralized …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Hey bloggers — MSFT doesn't care about you — Many of the reviews and comments about the new beta of Microsoft's Internet [Exploder] Explorer, IE7, have focused on the RSS implementation. Adam Green at Darwinianweb.com got everybody's attention when he said that he thought the browser …
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
VMware moves to free with Server product — As anticipated, VMware has created a free version of its server partitioning software in the hopes of drawing new customers to its technology. In addition, the move counters open source rival XenSource, which gives away core server virtualization technology known as a hypervisor.
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Track your comments, no matter where you make them — Let's say you track 10 blogs and you regularly post comments on all 10 blogs. Isn't it a pain in the behind that you have to go around to each of the 10 blogs to participate in the comments? — Well, minutes ago Laurent Haug showed us a service …
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Anil Dash:
Alt Weeklies, San Francisco, Curiosity, and Bulls**t — I was startled by this phenomenally wrong-headed editorial in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Tim Redmond exposes his insecurities by arguing that Craig Newmark's work in Craigslist doesn't build communities because it threatens the business models of alt weeklies.
