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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Nude photo site wins injunction against Google — update A federal judge has ruled that portions of Google's popular image search feature, which displays small thumbnail versions of images found on other Web sites, likely violate U.S. copyright law. — U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz ruled Friday …
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Susan Kuchinskas / internetnews.com:
Google and A9 May Stop Showing Perfect 10s — Adult publisher Perfect 10 won a partial victory in its efforts to stop search engines' display of its photos in image search results. — Today, Judge A. Howard Matz of the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California said Perfect 10 …
Derek Powazek / Technorati Weblog:
Got Favorites? — The number of blogs doubles every five months. As I'm writing this, Technorati is tracking 28.4 million blogs. That's a whole lot of voices. Here at Technorati, we want to make the world of weblogs accessible, searchable, and fun for everyone to explore.
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Can Yahoo do content? — Early in Lloyd Braun's tenure at the helm of Yahoo's media group, he ran a quirky idea past his colleagues: a plan to add pizzazz to the company's Internet news site by creating a show anchored by animated puppets. — Braun discussed the puppets and other new ideas …
Byrne Reese / Six Apart:
Submitting TrackBack as an Internet Standard — In 2002, Ben and Mena Trott had an idea for how blogging systems could communicate with one another more effectively about the plethora of content being created. They dubbed the idea "TrackBack" and they implemented it in Movable Type.
Anna Fifield / Financial Times:
South Korean gamers stage online massacre of Chinese — Chinese-Korean relations have their ups and downs, but it's been a long time since they resorted to violence to settle scores. — However, in cyberspace South Korean gamers are ganging up to obliterate the Chinese, whom they view as greedy and rude.
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Dirty Little Secret About RSS News — There's a dirty little secret in the newspaper industry. In fact, it's a secret that might one day cause serious damage to newspaper brands and give further rise to blogs, unless there's action. — The secret (which really isn't so hidden) …
Rob Hyndman / robhyndman.com:
New Toronto Web 2.0 Conference — I'm pleased to announce that in May we will be hosting a conference in Toronto to discuss Web 2.0 and its implications for media, communications, business and society. The "we" is Mathew Ingram, Mark Evans, Michael McDerment and yours truly, with the very considerable help of Stuart MacDonald.
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New York Times:
Running a Hatchery for Replicant Hackers — By JENNIFER 8. LEE — At 26, Phil Yuen's identity lay somewhere between Dilbert and a Microserf. His office, on the first floor of Building 16 on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash., did not have a window. Not to worry.
heise.de:
Apple Safari Browser Automatically Executes Shell Scripts — Shortly after reports of the first virus for Mac OS X, a new security flaw has surfaced. The culprit is the option "Open 'safe' files after downloading" in Apple's Safari web browser. This feature is activated by default.
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USA Today:
Double-dialers swell cellphone ranks — Now that seemingly every American has a cellphone, wireless companies have a new way to add subscribers: sell them another. — About 16% of wireless customers have two mobile phones — one for personal use and one for business, says a new online survey by research firm Compete.
Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer:
Web Office Suite: best of breed products — There's been lots of talk recently about the Web Office - and who is building it. Microsoft released Office Live in beta last week, but it was never going to be a fully functional Office suite like MS Office is.
Carlo / Techdirt:
Don't Let Something Like The Truth Get In The Way Of Fear-Mongering — from the la-la-la-i'm-not-listening-to- you dept. — All the scare stories about MySpace seem to be contagious, with a Philadelphia TV channel now labeling the Nintendo DS as the pedophile's best friend …
Colin Campbell / next-gen.biz:
Kim Talks Halo 3 and Second Wave — Microsoft Game Studios general manager Shane Kim has been talking to Next Generation about Halo 3, the second wave of Xbox 360 games and lessons learned from the recent platform launch... We caught up with Shane Kim at the recent DICE summit to talk …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Democracy: a new platform for making and seeing TV on the net — A new suite of free and open tools let you watch TV, make TV, and recommend TV in a way that's easier, cheaper and more accessible than ever before. Democracy is a new Internet TV viewer that combines RSS (so you can pull a …
Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
Apple Event Set for February 28 — February 21, 2006 - Apple has announced it will hold a special event Tuesday, February 28 — to show off some "fun new products". — The invite, sent to specially invited guests by e-mail and obtained by Think Secret includes a large graphic …
HarryF / SitePoint Blogs:
A pro-PHP Rant — OK—following on from here and a later comment from Tim (and in fact more this rant from Jonas Maurus); … So here's some pro-PHP ranting... It's the execution model — Focused on PHP as an Apache module the two big things are it works and it's scalable.
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Mike / Techdirt:
The Rebirth Of Enterprise Focused Chat? — It really does seem, these days, that all those old internet ideas that failed are suddenly coming back — sometimes making the same mistakes they did the first time around. There definitely are some improvements, but it's not clear why people keep hyping …
