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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.
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Page Creator  —  A new day, a new Google product.  Today, Google releases the Page Creator, a tool for easy website creation.  You can log-in to it using your Google account, and your site URL will then be yourname.googlepages.com.  —  The editor works very nice.
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:
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 …
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Hanging Out With Google Japan  —  Hanging Out With Google Japan  —  As many of the readers of Search Engine Journal may know, I am currently living outside of Tokyo, Japan and have been working on connecting with Japanese search engines and bloggers.  Last year at a CNet Search Technology conference …
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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Ian / isnoop.net blog:   Web Radio Boom Box
Aviran Mordo / Aviran's Place:
U.S. Grants Patent For AJAX  —  The patent-issued on Valentine's Day-covers all rich-media technology implementations, including Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax, and XAML, when the rich-media application is accessed on any device over the Internet, according to the patent holders.
John Cook / John Cook's Venture Blog:
Party time in Seattle  —  The boom is back.  At least that was the feeling after attending PaidContent.org's social mixer last night at The Palace Ballroom.  Maybe it was the free drinks and Hors D'oeuvres or the dim lighting.  But the room was buzzing with activity as entrepreneurs …
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).
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: Fractals of Change and BuzzMachine
Rex Hammock's Weblog:
Are newspaper columns about blogs dying dying?  (Or, "Top 7 recommendations about blogging — and not blogging") Irony, aside, a Chicago Tribune columnist asks, "Are blogs dying?"  —  It is always difficult for me to follow the dot-connecting that must take place to compare the dotcom bust …
Yahoo! Search blog:
Going deeper into the Wikipedia  —  We've been a big fan of Wikipedia for a while now, and we've been working together with the Wikimedia folks to make the Wikipedia even more accessible and easy to use.  Now, as part of our larger effort to get people more answers in fewer clicks …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
EarthLink, Google team in S.F. Wi-Fi bid  —  EarthLink has teamed up with Google on a bid to offer free wireless Internet access throughout the city of San Francisco and premium service for a fee, a Google spokeswoman said on Wednesday.  —  The Google-EarthLink bid was among six presented …
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.
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.
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.
Jgovernor / James Governor's MonkChips:
Why Open Source Analysis Will Grow: Learning from The Sumerians  —  I have been surprised that some of the people I expected to agree with ideas I put forward in a recent blog about open source analysis, On Open Source, Declarative Living and Making Better Platform Decisions, have been fairly dismissive.
Discussion: Between the Lines and Open Gardens
Evan Blass / Engadget:
KFC leverages DVR time-shifting to its advantage  —  We assumed that theTiVo revolution would eventually convince the entire advertising industry to just close up shop and find a new outletfor its scary powers of persuasion, yet time-shifted TV has actually caused the wily advertisers to evolve …
Discussion: PVR Wire

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