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Gary / ResourceShelf:
Google Temporarily Stops Registrations for New Google Web Page Creator — Web Search—Google — Google Launches Web Page Creator (Beta) THEN Temporarily Shuts Down Registrations to Use It — Well, here we go again. Google announces a new service and then within hours …
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Rich Miller / Netcraft:
Google Launches Free Hosting Service — Google has launched a beta version of a free hosting service, Google Page Creator. The service, which is currently limited to existing users of Google's Gmail, allows users to build a web page using a web-based interface.
Margaret Kane / CNET News.com:Google unveils Web page creator
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Jonathan Silverstein / ABCNEWS:
iTunes: One Billion Served — Apple iTunes Hits Its Billionth Download — Feb. 23, 2006 — There's been a counter on Apple's iTunes Web page since early February that's been ticking up to the music service's 1 billionth download, and sometime last night it happened.
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Peter Nowak / Globe and Mail:
What the other Steve is saying about Apple's striking resurgence — Auckland — After being all but written off by the tech industry in the mid '90s, Apple Computer Inc. has made a startling resurgence. But that doesn't mean its latest strategies sit well with Woz.
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Here Comes Open Source Telecom — My latest Business 2.0 article, The Black Box That Would Conquer Telecom, just went online over at the CNN Money website. This is a story about a stealthy startup called Vyatta, that has build the world's first commercial open-source router …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo To Ban Bidding On Competitor Trademarks To Stop Comparison Advertising — Yahoo No Longer Allow Bidding On Trademarked Terms on our SEW Forums has news that Yahoo will no longer be allowing companies to purchase ads linked to the trademarks of their competitors. From what's being sent to advertisers:
Phillip Torrone / MAKE: Blog:
Linux powered, wireless sniffing web radio boom box — Isnoop writes - "For the past few months, I've been working on a web radio boombox. I've hollowed out a perfectly good radio and made room for a tiny motherboard and power supply that are set up to run Damn Small Linux off of a USB flash drive.
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Phil Sim / Squash:
Scoble: Let me tell you a bit about journalists... You can always tell a really, strong argument when it's based on the premise "A lot of the people I talk to"... A couple of days ago, Robert Scoble posted this argument, arguing in favour of full-feeds and against a post …
Jason Snell / Macworld:
MacBook Pro: First day, first Lab tests — Latest laptop looks and feels like a PowerBook — Our first MacBook Pros arrived yesterday—three 2GHz models bought with our own coin—and the testing started immediately. Macworld Lab has been churning away on benchmark testing …
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Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's Weblog:
Thursday: Inside online advertising — The PaidContent mixer last night was loud, crowded and a lot of fun. I spent most of my time with Rafat Ali and Staci Kramer of PaidContent.org, Cory Bergman of Lost Remote, and the inimitable Chris Pirillo (of Lockergnome and Tech TV fame).
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mobile content news
Fred Wilson / Union Square Ventures:
Advisory Capital — Stowe Boyd has an interesting post on the idea of advisory capital (as opposed to venture capital). — Stowe observes correctly that many tech startups don't need nearly the amount of startup capital that they used to need to build a business. We all know the reasons for this so I won't get into them.
John Borland / CNET News.com:
Net video explosion triggers traffic jam worries — Blame Steve Jobs, or maybe YouTube.com. — The amount of video online is skyrocketing, whether it's "Lost" episodes or movie trailer mash-ups. The phenomenon is putting new stress on ISP networks, which are seeing the demands on their bandwidth burgeon.
gamesindustry.biz:
PRESS RELEASE: Turbine Grants Midway North American Rights to Distribute The Lord Of The Rings Online: Shadows Of Angmar — WESTWOOD, Mass., FEBRUARY 23, 2006 – Turbine, Inc. announced today that Midway Home Entertainment Inc. (a subsidiary of Midway Games Inc. NYSE: MWY) will co-publish …
Guardian:
What they can't teach you at game design school — Aleks Krotoski — In 1997, the University of Abertay, Dundee, launched the first masters degree in computer game technology. Abertay's pragmatic course teaches coding for console systems, 3D animation, game music composition and technical direction.
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Joystiq
Lockergnome / Chris Pirillo:
Googlefasting: Day 1 — I'm frustrated. Utterly frustrated. I don't think I'll be able to make the seven days, seriously. I thought that Yahoo! would be a great substitute, but that's turning out not being the case. Googlefasting is painful. — I had to catch myself a few times …
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Merlin / 43 Folders:
5 apps to rescue the distracted — Has your Mac turned into a shooting gallery full of distractions? Do your eyes spin like pinballs every time you sit down to work? Try a few of these apps to help discourage attention-grabbers and force your sickeningly versatile computer (and yourself) into doing just one thing at a time.
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
TV catches the Net video bug — Dirty secret or not, the Web has long been a platform for downloading and watching pirated clips of television shows like "Lost" and "The Simpsons," much to the chagrin of the television networks. — But now TV producers are turning the tables …
