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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
It's Like Lending to a Friend, Except You'll Get Interest — THE Internet has become a great place to track down friends — or friends of friends — for advice or for a date. Now you can ask them for money, too. Prosper.com, a start-up company based in San Francisco, started operations last week …
USA Today:
Bill would keep servers out of China — SAN FRANCISCO — Free-speech advocates have blasted Google and other Internet companies for bowing to China's demands that they censor or fork over information the communist government deemed objectionable. — Now, Congress is stepping …
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Reuters:
Google shares may fall another 50 pct-Barron's — Feb 12, 2006 — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of Web search leader Google Inc. <GOOG.O> — off 24 percent from highs set last month — could face a further 50 percent decline, Barron's said in the financial weekly's February 13 edition.
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Jacqueline Doherty / Barron's Online:In the Drink — INVESTORS HAVE BEEN FIXATED on Google …
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microsoft.com:
Microsoft Acquires Mobile Search Technology Provider MotionBridge — Deal enhances Windows Live services with innovative search solutions for mobile operators and their customers spanning work and play. — BARCELONA, Spain — Feb. 13, 2006 — Today, at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 …
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Mark Evans:
Web 2.0: The So What Factor — I had to laugh when reading Mathew Ingram's dismissal of 3Bubbles.com, which is offering a real-time beta chat service. Mathew think it's cool but doesn't see why anyone should get excited about it. Truth be told, you could say the same thing about a vast majority …
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
3bubbles is cool — but so what? — I hate to be a curmudgeon, but I just don't see the point of something like 3bubbles.com, which Mike Arrington at TechCrunch profiled recently. I mean, my first response as a geek was hey, this is cool. Click on a link and see a little window pop up where you can chat in real time?
Alan / firingsquad.com:
The Great HDCP Fiasco — You want to know a secret? None of the current ATI or NVIDIA graphics cards will support the full capabilities of Windows Vista. — But let's start from the beginning. This story starts with my upcoming LCD Monitor Round-Up. As you know, a good monitor …
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
How to Value Ratings With DVR Delay? — WOULD the opening greeting on "Saturday Night Live" sound as compelling if it began "Live plus 24 hours from New York" or "Live plus seven days from New York?" — That is the multibillion-dollar question being asked on Madison Avenue as agencies …
Phone Scoop:
Sony Ericsson Launches Two New Candybars — Today, 3:38 AM source: Sony Ericsson — Sony Ericsson at 3GSM this morning launched two new handsets, one at the low end of the spectrum and the other a higher end 3G model. It is likely they will announce additional handsets and initiatives later in the show.
Tom Coates / a weblog:
My 'Future of Web Apps' slides... Right then. My slides. I've been trying to work out the best way to put these up in public and it's been more confusing than I thought it would be. Basically, the slides are so Keynote-dependent and full of transitions and weird fonts that it would translate …
Game Politics:
Commentary: Is It Time to Change the Name of the Game? — Video game ratings, video game violence, video game sex, Hot Coffee - their political and cultural impact are debated endlessly by politicians, gamers, parents, media pundits, activists and the video game industry itself.
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
Edgeio - Mike's Little eBay Killer — I gotta say that I love Edgeio. Mike Arrington called me today and gave me a demo of the new classifieds service he has worked on with Keith Teare. I really can't fault it. It ties in with so much of the stuff that I've been thinking about recently …
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Dennis Hissink / letsgodigital.org:
Olympus E-330 Evolt SLR Camera preview — Introduction — Olympus has a long history in the digital imaging world. They also have a long history in developing film cameras, and already for quite some years now they have been active in developing the digital compact and d-SLR cameras.
Dave Rosenberg / Open Resource:
"Get the Truth on Linux Management" Report (Spoiler: It's easier and cheaper than Windows) — Anyone who has read a tech publication or visited a major tech news site has invariably seen Microsoft ads touting random "facts" which are questionable at best. Finally, there is a new study proving …
Matt Marshall / Mercury News:
VCs backing `magic' of youth — AFTER POST-BUST LULL, TWENTYSOMETHINGS BACK IN DEMAND — When Jim Breyer, venture capitalist at Accel Partners, courted Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg last year to make an investment in his start-up, he couldn't buy Zuckerberg a drink because he hadn't turned 21.
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Microsoft Anti-Spyware Deleting Norton Anti-Virus — Microsoft's Anti-Spyware program is causing troubles for people who also use Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus software; apparently, a recent update to Microsoft's anti-spyware application flags Norton as a password-stealing program and prompts users to remove it.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
CoComment is The Best Web 2.0 Service Launched This Year — I love, love, LOVE CoComment! The idea is a good one: bring together your widely scattered blog comments and help you track the replies from around the...err...commentosphere. But not only is the idea good - the execution is excellent.
Shelleyp / Burningbird:
Some of my best friends are z-listers — Adam Green has a suggestion for Doc Searls and his quandry about being a gatekeeper: … Doc is one of the most loyal webloggers I know. As such, he will rarely, if ever, criticize one of his friends. I don't necessarily agree with this, but I can admire his consistency in his support.
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Shelleyp / Burningbird:No, I own the New Gatekeepers
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