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Jeffrey Veen / Official Google Blog:
Here comes Measure Map — My first post to my blog was a little paragraph about my obsession with cycling, and I remember feeling a little ... let down. Sure, it was remarkably easy. Write. Click a button. Reload. Cool! But then what? It wasn't until someone left a comment that I was hooked.
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veen.com:
Measure Map sold to Google — Big news today: Measure Map has been acquired by Google, and we're down in Mountain View getting started on everything that is to come. There will be more to say in the coming weeks, but for now you can see my post on the Google Blog.
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peterme.com
Enndot / Marketing and Technology Discussed:
Exploiting MSN's Incentivized Search — I woke up this morning to a cancelled class and an interesting TW post on Microsoft's incentivized search. I had a little downtime so I thought I would try to crack the system. Thing is, I did. — If you haven't played with the search …
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Pamela Parker / ClickZ:
MSN Tempts Would-Be Searchers With Prizes — You'd think the lure of easy information and good search results would be enough to attract people to a search engine. But MSN is dangling prizes and charitable donations in front of would-be searchers, hoping that those who try its engine for the winnings might just hang around.
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Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Bink.nu, Internet Recruiting, PaidContent.org and Microsoft News Tracker
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Seeking new horizons — I am leaving Technorati to pursue new opportunities. I submitted my resignation letter this morning and I will be a free agent on March 1. I joined Technorati in February 2005 excited about changing the world of weblogs and introducing people to a new kind of search.
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Life On the Wicked Stage, Valleywag, Om Malik on Broadband, The Blog Herald and FuzzyBlog
Joseph Kahn / New York Times:
In Rare Briefing, China Defends Internet Controls — BEIJING, Feb. 14 — Chinese authorities are determined to stop "harmful information" from spreading through the Internet, but the controls it places on Web sites and Internet service providers in mainland China do not differ much from those employed …
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Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:Before Congressional Hearings, Yahoo! issues vague ethical "guidelines"
Reuters:
MovieBeam offers first HDTV online movie rentals — NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A video on demand movie service spun out of Walt Disney Co. is introducing on Tuesday the first U.S. home delivery service for high-definition films, backed by top Hollywood and Silicon Valley partners.
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apple.com:
Apple Begins Shipping MacBook Pro — MacBook Pro Features Faster Intel Core Duo Processors Up to 2.16 GHz — CUPERTINO, California—February 14, 2006—Apple® this week will begin shipping the new 15-inch MacBook™ Pro notebook computer featuring the new Intel Core Duo processor …
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Gizmodo, Guardian Unlimited, Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus, OSNews.com and The Apple Core
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Monitor:
WHAT OFFICE LIVE IS NOT — Last night, Microsoft lifted the NDA for Office Live, so I am rapidly blogging a day sooner than expected. Office Live goes live—at least in limited beta—tomorrow. — So there is to confusion about Office Live: — * Office Live absolutely is not a hosted version of Microsoft Office.
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CNET News.com:
Gates: End to passwords in sight — update SAN JOSE, Calif.—For years, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has had his sights set on the password as the weak link in the computer security chain. — Now, with Windows Vista, Gates feels he finally has the right weapons to supplant the password …
osx86project.org:
OSx86 10.4.4 Security Broken. (Guess Who Done It?) — Happy Valentines Day... from Maxxuss. — The hacking guru has announced preliminary patches for Apple's latest release of OS X for Intel, version 10.4.4. According to his website, … The significance of this event is huge.
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Ross Mayfield / Ross Mayfield's Weblog:
Learning from Wikipedia — A closing Keynote by Mitch Kapor at OSBC. — Kinda cool to see Mitch give this talk, as he has a strong interest in the community process behind Wikipedia and I joined him in Frankfurt at the Wikimania conference. — Matt Asay: Grateful to finally have Mitch here.
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Oracle snags open-source database company — Oracle said on Tuesday that it acquired open-source database company Sleepycat Software for an undisclosed sum. — The database giant said Sleepycat's open-source Berkeley DB database will complement Oracle's existing line of closed-source databases for embedding within applications.
Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter:
Hey Bulldog — Ran into Sun's most authoratative blogger at OSBC this morning: Jim Grisanzio. Although some would point at Tim Bray (too partisan around Atom to sustain deserved linkcred from pre-Sun days) or Simon Phipps (fragmented his Webmink brand into multiple feeds) …
f-secure.com:
About the Hidden Smith Family — Heise Online is reporting about yet another example of the ever-warming relationship of copy protection and rootkit technologies. The affair started with the digital rights management system Sony BMG was using to protect audio CD's.
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Bloop Bloop - How to Say I Love You in TiVo — Editor's Note: Want to find out what happens when TiVo puts 300 single women in a room with just 10 single guys? Yeah, well so do we, but unfortunately that's not what this piece is about. Still, as the resident single guy …
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