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Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer:
Ajax homepages market review — Over the past year many new AJAX homepages, aka personalized start pages, have been introduced to the market. Microsoft and Google have offerings, as do a host of small startups. First I'll define what an AJAX homepage is, then I'll do a feature comparison between the leading services.
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Read/WriteWeb:
AJAX homepages - Portals 2.0? — I've been tracking the development of all the personalized start pages that have flowered up over the past year. Live.com, Google Personalized Homepage, Netvibes, PageFlakes, et al. These are services that don't just offer a place to store all your content and links …
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Marc's Voice
Ed Sutherland / internetnews.com:
DoJ: Google Search Request Not a Privacy Threat — UPDATED: The Department of Justice (DoJ) has rejected Google's assertion that a government subpoena for search data threatens the privacy of Internet users. — "The government has not asked Google to produce any information …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Feds: Google's privacy concerns unfounded — The U.S. Justice Department has denied requesting anything from Google that could threaten the privacy of the search engine's users, as the company recently contended. — And by trying to block the government's efforts to review a week's worth of search terms …
Dion Hinchcliffe / Enterprise Web 2.0:
Balkanizing RSS and the risks to the information ecosystem — I've been following Dave Winer's various work for years now but none of it has been quite as interesting as watching the political imbroglios surrounding RSS 2.0. The RSS format itself is something that is still creeping onto …
John Borland / CNET News.com:
Yahoo claims start-up stole trade secrets — Yahoo has filed a lawsuit against wireless content company MForma, charging the San Francisco-based company and a group of ex-Yahoo employees there with theft of trade secrets. — According to the lawsuit, which was filed Monday …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Details unfolding on Microsoft's 'Origami' — As rumors unfurl about a new gadget upcoming from Microsoft, the company's Origami Project is starting to take shape as a very small tablet computer, one perhaps affordable enough to appeal to mainstream consumers.
Carlo / Techdirt:
Just Like It Now Gets The Internet, News Corp. Now Gets Mobile, Too — A lot of people said that News Corporation's purchase of MySpace was a sign that the company now "gets" the internet — although that's far from certain. The company is today on the receiving end of a glowing story …
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Graeme Wearden / CNET News.com:
Distributed computing cracks Enigma code — More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine. — The M4 Project began in early January, as an attempt …
The Doc Searls Weblog:
Required reading: Kevin Marks' Internet regeneration. — Kevin and his sources — Douglas Adams, Susan Crawford, Suw Charman (from this audio) and Danah Boyd — come at the Net this time from a generational angle. — Read the whole thing, which concludes, … An additional note.
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Bill Snyder / TheStreet.com:
Microsoft Nears Xbox Equilibrium — PHOENIX — With Xbox 360s as scarce as truffles, Microsoft (MSFT:Nadsaq - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) CFO Christopher Liddell has good news for game fans — and the software giant's legions of investors: Supply and demand should be in balance in the next few months.
Mike Rundle / Business Logs:
Getting Real, Web 2.0 "Businesses", Edgeio Secrets, Upcoming 9rules Plans — Sometimes I wish I had a linklog where I could post links and small bits of commentary, but because I don't my 3 readers will have to suffer through this mishmash of the latest tech news in a regular blog entry :)
Burt Helm / Business Week:
Click Fraud Gets Smarter — Internet ad-traffic scams could be ripping off as much as $1 billion annually. Are Web companies like Google doing enough to foil them? — Web consultant Greg Boser has an ingenious method for sending loads of traffic to clients' Internet sites.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Cable VoIP, Hotter Than Ever — What a whopper of a year for cable telephony! — Cablevision, the last MSO to report its fourth quarter earnings added 130,000 new VoIP customers, up just 7,000 from the previous quarter. The company also added, 94,000 new broadband customers, up from 81,000 adds in the previous quarter.
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
New York, New York! (Danny wants better RSS in his SPOT watch) — I'm writing to you from a bus heading toward Manhattan. I love my Verizon card. It's like having wifi EVERYWHERE! — Anyway, I'm up for a midnight snack tonight. Anyone game? Call my cell phone at 425-205-1921.
Chris Pratley / Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog:
One percent for art: Napkin Math a.k.a. The Calculator in OneNote 2007 — I like to love the software I use. I gather many of you do too. In the process of designing a new release of OneNote its important to keep this in mind, since it is easy to make a product that meets a lot of business criteria but has no soul.
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Life On the Wicked Stage
Chris / LiveSide:
Windows Live Local Preview: StreetSide edition — In yet another Windows Live update coming this week, the Live Local team (formerly VirtualEarth) will release a technical preview at http://preview.local.live.com that demonstrates the new StreetSide feature for two cities: Seattle and San Fransisco.
David Downs / Wired News:
Dragnet, Reinvented … Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! I'm riding in the backseat of an LAPD cruiser, and it sounds like the inside of a giant slot machine. As officer Christine Labriola speeds down the side streets of LA's notorious Rampart district, a Dell laptop mounted on the Crown Victoria's dashboard chimes intermittently.
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Pick Up the Phone, Your Search Term Is Calling — GOOGLE is going 20th century. — The company, whose empire is based on its ability to connect people and businesses through computers, is now connecting them the old-fashioned way — over the phone. — Starting late last year …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
MPAA exec can't sell A-hole proposal to tech companies — Brad Hunt, the CTO of the MPAA, got an angry reception from a bunch of Hollywood tech-providers when he presented the MPAA's "A-hole" filtering plan. — For a couple years now, the MPAA has been promising to "plug the Analog Hole" …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Is Mac OS as safe as ever? — Apple Computer fans have long loved to point out the safety of using Mac OS X, which has mostly been left alone by hackers. But the recent arrival of three threats has some asking: Is the software's charmed security life over?
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