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Clive Thompson / nymag.com:
Blogs to Riches — The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom. — T — wo years ago, David Hauslaib was a junior at Syracuse University who was, as he confesses, "totally obsessed with who Paris Hilton was sleeping with." So he did what any college student would do these days: He blogged about it.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Can We Stop with the A,B,Cs Already? — In a cover story that will surely generate tons of conversation and alienate lots of bloggers (now there's a way to sell print mags), New York Magazine crunches the numbers that make the blogosphere tick. They analyzed both bloggers who were successful …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Tech companies brace for showdown over China — Technology companies accused of collaborating with China's Internet censorship regime are bracing for what could be a tough round of questioning from politicians this week. — Executives from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco Systems plan …
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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 …
Rick Weiss / Washington Post:
New Grant System Excludes Mac Users — Electronic Forms Compatible Only With Microsoft — What if the federal government were about to give away more than $400 billion in grants, but only people whose computers ran on Microsoft software could apply? — That is the predicament that many scientists …
Paula Berinstein / infotoday.com:
Ad-Supported Free Books Arrive — February 13, 2006 — Perhaps information really does want to be free. Citing the desire to create new revenue streams for authors, mega-publisher HarperCollins (http://www.harpercollins.com) has announced the first free Web-based, ad-supported, full-text business book.
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Technorati adds authority weighting — Technorati just turned on a new feature: if you are searching Technorati, for, say "Technology" blogs you get a choice: you can see them all, or you can see the ones that have a lot of "authority" in that space. I didn't see that feature over the weekend …
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Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:
Juicy new google feature — Maybe you've seen it, I hadn't. This is a new feature inside of Google AdWords. Do a search, in this case for the Artisan Hotel, and a string of ads pop up. But one ad has a green phone. — Click on the green phone and an ajax window opens up.
Chartreuse:
Duncan And Jeremy's Attempt To Destroy The Blogosphere — There are only 3 things which today's probloggers should be concerned about today. — Try to get the major search engines to fix the glitch which allows scraped content to be given higher priority than the original.
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Nat / O'Reilly Radar:
Yahoo! Open Sources UIs and Design Patterns — Kudos to Yahoo!, who today released two pieces of goodness into the commons. The first is their UI library, and the second is their Design Patterns Library. The UI Library is a collection of DHTML/Ajax/Javascript (pick your favourite term) controls and widgets.
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 …
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
XBox 360 Hacked - Full HD/Memory Card Read-Write — Another day, another compromised closed-source project. The XBox 360 filesystem has been cracked wide open and you can now move saved games to and from your 360 using a piece of software called xplorer360, a SATA cable, and/or a hacked USB cable.
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 …
Heather Green / Business Week:
News You Can Use — and Write — Bayosphere's grand plans may be history, but many more community Web sites have taken its lessons to heart, letting everyday citizens deliver news — When Dan Gillmor told readers last month that Bayosphere.com, his community journalism startup …
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Barron's on Google: Not "bullish" but a lot of the same letters — Barron's gave Google investors a kick in the Grape Nuts this morning, suggesting the search sovereign's share price could be cut in half over the next year as it grapples with growing competition from Microsoft and Yahoo …
Lia Miller / New York Times:
So Many Models in Bikinis, So Many Ways to See Them — This year, fans of Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue will have an abundance of choice when it comes to formats for viewing the bikini-clad supermodels. In addition to the magazine, which appears on newsstands tomorrow …
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Drew / 3bubbles:
3Bubbles - Breaking the Chains — Feels nice to finally break out of stealth mode and see all the conversations popping up around the blogosphere about 3bubbles since last Friday when /Message and TechCrunch released a sneak peak. We have already received over 1,400 emails from people interested in the 3bubbles beta!
