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9:15 AM ET, March 2, 2006

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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple researching iTunes feature film movie service?  —  Exclusive: Apple Computer may be in the intermediate stages of developing an iTunes movie download service that would serve up full length feature films to iTunes customers with a broadband Internet connection, AppleInsider has learned.
Brent / Frozen Vomit Sculpture:
Mac Mini inside a NES!  —  There have been many pc's placed inside Nintendo's but this is the first time I've seen a Mac Mini done.  I can't take credit for this though, it was actualy a friend of mine who did it.  Read on to see more photos and learn a little more about his project.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
TiVo to Offer Tighter Rein on Children's Viewing  —  In a new twist on helping parents control what children watch on television, TiVo will announce today a service that lets its video recorders limit children to watching shows approved by one of two groups promoting family programming.
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David Lawsky / Reuters:
Microsoft says better than Google soon  —  PARIS (Reuters) - Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) will introduce a search engine better than Google (Nasdaq:GOOG - news) in six months in the United States and Britain followed by Europe, its European president said on Wednesday.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Yahoo Says It Is Backing Away From TV-Style Web Shows  —  After proclaiming grand plans to bring elaborately produced sitcoms, talk shows and other television-style programs to the Internet, the head of Yahoo's Media Group said yesterday that he was sharply scaling back those efforts.
Discussion: PaidContent.org
Nick / Rough Type:
A requiem (beta) for Edgeio  —  Edgeio, the much-hyped Web 2.0 tag-sale site, has only been live for a few hours, but it's already wearing a corpselike look.  —  Cofounded by Michael Arrington, the madam of the great Web 2. brothel TechCrunch, Edgeio gathers specially tagged classified ads …
Paul McIntyre / Sydney Morning Herald:
Telstra to launch the BigBlog  —  TELSTRA is about to unveil its latest foray as a content developer with the launch next week of a public blogging initiative, Telstra BigBlog, which allows mobile phone users to update their blogs with text, movies and pictures from their mobile phones.
Mitch Ratcliffe / Rational rants:
Profit's calling in the Ether  —  Ether, a project launched by Ingenio (formerly Keen.com, an answers network that has become a call processing service), is up and running an invitation-only beta as of a few hours ago.  Michael Arrington has the step-by-step look at the sign-up and call experience …
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David Shabelman / CNET News.com:
The driving force behind Yahoo Research  —  Q&A Prabhakar Raghavan is modest for a man changing the world.  —  As head of technology research at Yahoo, the 45-year-old is a key figure in leading the development of the Internet, arguably the most important technology of our time.
wikimediafoundation.org:
English Wikipedia Publishes Millionth Article  —  The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the 1,000,000th article in the English language edition of Wikipedia.  The article is about the Jordanhill railway station in Scotland, and it was started by Wikipedia contributor Ewan Macdonald.
CNN:
The Next Net 25  —  A new Web revolution is picking up steam, and the next Google or Microsoft could emerge from the companies that are in the vanguard.  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Things are really crackling in Silicon Valley these days.  There's the frenzied startup action …
DMN Newswire:
TEN Technology Unveils naviPlay Bluetooth Stereo Headset  —  Plays Stereo Quality Music and Takes Calls  —  TEN Technology today announced its naviPlay(TM) Bluetooth(R) Stereo Headset, capable of streaming high-fidelity stereo music from Bluetooth stereo enabled MP3 players or mobile phones …
Discussion: Engadget and I4U News
Howard Parnell / Washington Post:
Downloading Empathy to Your iPod  —  Online Playlist Creators Search for Catharsis, Discover a Marketplace  —  Justine Saylors is an accidental DJ on a mission.  —  Six months ago, she was a grieving mom spending hour after hour on Apple's iTunes online music service, downloading songs to match her sorrow.
Discussion: Smart Mobs
Inside Google Sitemaps:
More new features  —  We've just released a few new features.  —  Query stats: average top position  —  We already show you the top search queries that both returned your site in the results and those that searchers clicked on.  Now you can see the top position for your site in the search results for both sets of queries.
Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
Web 'Original Content' But Is in for a Surprise  —  There is a new and insidious threat to the World Wide Web: a slowly rising tide of "original content" on Internet sites that is at best worthless, and at worst possibly even dangerously inaccurate.  —  I should know; I've been writing some of the stuff myself.
 
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Stephen / Patent Baristas:
WSJ: Rise in Patents Due to Innovative Lawyers, Not Genuine Innovation
Brian 'ColdForged' Dupuis / Gamers With Jobs Press Pass:
Interview with "Geometry Wars" Creator, Stephen Cakebread
Discussion: Joystiq
Mark Evans:
Navel-Gazing Within the Blogosphere
Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Google moving search records out of China
Discussion: Techdirt
Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
SEM Via Communities, Wikipedia & Tagging
David Weinberger / Joho the Blog:
Blogging in Germany  —  I'm writing this on the early morning plane …
Discussion: raving lunacy and PR Thoughts
Adam Pasick / Reuters:
Napster rues Microsoft, player glitches
Alex Halperin / Business Week:
Social Networks: More Bubble Than Profit?
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Revenge of the M-listers? Sign me up
Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Dignity is Deadly, Part Two
Discussion: Scobleizer
tribstar.com:
Indiana State adds ThinkPad to list of essential school supplies
The Doc Searls Weblog:
Ever since I invested a pile in Sonos' remarkable audio system …
Inside AdSense Team / Inside AdSense:
AdSense gets a facelift
Kevin Dugan / Strategic Public Relations:
Tom Foremski is Wrong
Russell Buckley / MobHappy:
Generation M  —  I noticed a quote on Susan Mernit's blog …
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Publicis Acts to Surf the Marketing Waves of the Future