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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Google Introduces Web Page Creator — Want to create your own web page, but don't know how to begin? The new Google Page Creator is a simple, free tool that allows you to publish to the web with ease. — Google Page Creator is a web based application that uses a basic …
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PC World's Techlog, Connecting the Dots, michael parekh on IT, InsideGoogle, Microsoft News Tracker, Googling Google, Make Money Online …, Lifehacker, TechBlog, Conversion Rater, BASEMENT.ORG, SEOmoz, Search Engine Roundtable, The Blog Herald, Seth's Blog, Online News Squared, Ben Metcalfe Blog and NevilleHobson.com
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Google Pages Released — Although there has been no official announcement yet Google have released the long awaited and long-rumored Google Pages (which has nothing to do with cloning Larry Page). Pages allows users to create a webpage using an AJAX interface that removes a lot …
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Mashable*, J. LeRoy, Nik Cubrilovic, Tom Raftery's I.T. views, Somewhat Frank, Duct Tape Marketing Blog, VoIP Blog and Andrew Allen
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Will Earthlink Spinoff Muni WiFi Biz? — Earthlink is playing a high stakes game of poker. At stake - beleaguered Atlanta-based ISP's future. Its two big bets - cellular MVNO and muni wireless networks. Both are costly mega-million dollar investments.
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Chicago Tribune:
Bloggy, we hardly knew ye — No sooner had Al Gore invented the Internet than early adopters discovered a liberating opportunity: Anybody with a modem and an ego could share his or her thoughts with the world. — Remember what happened next? By the mid-1990s, a few self-publishers …
Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
An Industry Off Its Game — Product Delays and Prices Hurt the Business of Video Play — The video game industry ought to be riding high. Public interest has never been greater, overall sales are up, and blockbuster movies such as "King Kong" and "Star Wars" routinely look to video games to extend their reach into popular culture.
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Releases Enterprise Windows Vista CTP — Microsoft made the February CTP (Community Technology Preview) for Windows Vista available to testers on Feb. 22, saying this is an enterprise release that was also feature-complete for the first time. — The Redmond, Wash. software maker …
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Wi-Fi to Go: The Hot Spot in a Box — YOU know what would be so cool? A portable Wi-Fi hot spot. Whenever you wanted Internet access, you wouldn't have to hunt for a wireless coffee shop or pay $24 a night to your hotel. — Instead, you'd travel with a little box.
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Graeme Wearden / ZDNet:
IBM issues subpoenas for tech giants' SCO dealings … The long-running legal battle over claims that IBM's version of Linux violates SCO Group's intellectual property took another twist on Tuesday when IBM sent subpoenas to four other tech players. — Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard …
Mutantfrog / Mutant Frog Travelogue:
2nd hand electronics sales will NOT soon be illegal in Japan — Akihabara News, Engadget, and probably a number of other blogs have posted a completely misinformed and alarmist claim that Japanese law will soon make it illegal to sell used electronics. First the alarmist claim …
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Analyst sees new Macs, Pro apps, full-length video at special event — Analysts for American Technology Research have started to weigh in with their product predictions for Apple's recently announced special media event, which is set to take place during the last day of February.
Wired News:
Mac Attack a Load of Crap — Is the sky falling in on our smug little Mac universe? — On Tuesday, there was news of a security hole in Apple's Safari web browser that allows a system to be compromised by merely visiting a website. And last week, the first worm to pose a serious threat to Mac OS X …
Yahoo! Search blog:
What's been going on with Yahoo! Answers? — It's hard for us on the core product team to believe that it's only been 2 months since we launched the beta of Yahoo! Answers. Since then, we've added many features to the site in a steady stream of improvements. So it seems like a good time to catch you up!
Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
How much has been invested in RSS? — In yesterday's piece I wrote of the RSS 2.0 roadmap: "There's a huge community that has invested billions of dollars around its assumptions." — Sounds good, but while I was riding on the BART yesterday for a lunch appointment in San Francisco I wondered if it's true …
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Major League Gaming Gains Edge — Host of Videogame Matches — Gets $10 Million in Funding — To Help Craft Sports League — A company seeking to elevate competitive videogame playing into a professional sport said it has raised $10 million in financing and appointed a former Time Warner Inc., executive as president.
Kevin Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Google Names Head of Philanthropy — Physician Larry Brilliant, — A Former Tech Executive, — Will Lead Google.org Arm — Google Inc. named Larry Brilliant, a former high-tech executive and doctor specialized in global health issues, to head its Google.org philanthropic arm.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Convicted data thief gets eight years — A bulk e-mailer who looted more than a billion records with personal information from a data warehouse has been sentenced to eight years in prison, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. — Scott Levine, 46, was sentenced by a federal judge in Little Rock …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
An open note to Rogers Cadenhead — Rogers, I need to get out of the RSS morass, and back to work on new stuff. Could you make your group less of a threat to harmony in RSS-land? Be a sport and listen a little, give a little. You can make a contribution without being Lord Master God of RSS.
