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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 …
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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Enid Burns / ClickZ:
Report: Quantifying Search's Offline Impact is Crucial — Sixty-two percent of Internet users who researched products online during the holiday season used a search engine to do so, and nearly half (47 percent) of researchers ended up buying offline. That's according to a report released …
Reuters:
TiVo may give away set-top boxes-CEO — NEW YORK (Reuters) - TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq:TIVO - news), the television recording technology company that is facing increasing competition, on Monday said it is considering giving away TiVo set-top boxes as part of plans to win subscribers.
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Montreal airport denies electricity to laptop users — Alec Saunders reports that Montreal airport has put covers over its electrical outlets, presumably to stop people from charging their laptops and phones while travelling. Which is, you know, really dumb: frequent travellers need juice between flights …
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Staci / PaidContent.org:
Networks Grapple With YouTube; CBS's Turn : Updated: The response when CBS News told the story of an autistic teen's triumph on the basketball court was so extraordinary, the network ran the story again the next night. Not surprising, then, that a YouTube user would feel driven to share the experince via the video site.
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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 …
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
New Microsoft Maps Combine Photos, Directions — At noon PDT on Tuesday, Microsoft will unveil a preview version of its Windows Live Local Technology, which will allow users to view a "street-side" perspective of local neighborhoods. — Microsoft's preview site is but one of several …
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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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 :)
developer.apple.com:
Apple Developer Connection — The Ruby on Rails web application framework has built up a tremendous head of steam over the last year. Fueled by some significant benefits and an impressive portfolio of real-world applications already in production, Rails is destined to continue making significant inroads in 2006.
Stuart Miles / pocket-lint.co.uk:
Sony Ericsson and Google bundle Blogger.com software on new phones — 28 February 2006 - Sony Ericsson has signed a deal with Google that will mean owners of the Sony Ericsson mobile phones will be able to file to a personal blog on the move as soon as they turn on their new phone.
USA Today:
Google eyes new ad venues: Old media — LOS ANGELES — Internet search giant Google (GOOG) ushered in the biggest revolution in advertising since the dawn of television when it popularized online ads that run near Web search results. For the first time, advertisers had to pay only if someone viewed an ad.
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.
Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
Google CFO Said What, Exactly? — Not to get caught up in intra-day controversies, but there is a problem here. CNBC has apparently reported that George Reyes said that organic search growth is slowing and that the company will have to find other ways to boost revenue …
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.
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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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 …
