Techmeme @ 2:15 PM ET, March 7, 2006

2:15 PM ET, March 7, 2006

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ZDNet:
Winner mocks OS X hacking contest

Discussion: vnunet.com, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, TechSpot, MacSlash and Pito's Blog

World's fastest internet will send Britannica to Shoreditch in 7 sec — A BRITISH-designed internet system promises to break the "four-minute mile" of broadband technology by delivering the fastest web service on the planet to British households. — Residents in Shoreditch, East London …

Discussion: Engadget, Guardian Unlimited, EuroTelcoblog and Digital Inspiration

biz.yahoo.com:

Who controls how you use your Internet access? Vonage Canada challenges Shaw "VoIP tax" — Internet phone service company Vonage Canada warns that cable and phone companies could restrict "network neutrality" by limiting Canadians' freedom of choice on the Internet; requests CRTC investigate "anti-competitive" action by Shaw

Discussion: IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Techdirt and IP Democracy

Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:

Ray Ozzie's clipboard for the web — Ray Ozzie's new idea is a clipboard for the web. A brief summary of the idea follows; it's fully explained on Ray's blog, with screen casts. I watched #1 and #3. — Narrative — Let's say you have two sites both of which understand calendar data.

Discussion: Random Bytes, spaces.msn.com, Todd Bishop's Microsoft … and Marc's Voice

microsoft.com:

Microsoft Lands Milestone 5,000th Patent — Multibillion-dollar research and development investment yields powerful portfolio of innovations. — REDMOND, Wash. — March 6, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. has reached a patenting milestone by logging its 5,000th patent granted in the United States.

Discussion: Kotaku, Microsoft News Tracker, InsideMicrosoft, Microsoft Watch and OpsanBlog

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Google Drive: What we know so far — We have all the ingredients for a great story: dramatic predictions of Google taking over the world, secret disclosures of a new stealth product at a Google analyst meeting, outing of the story by bloggers, and subsequent purging of the public data by Google …

Discussion: Box.net Blog, Scripting News, B2Day, Digital Inspiration, Somewhat Frank, Web Strategy by Jeremiah, Web 2.0 Explorer, ZefHemel.com, Ubergizmo and John Battelle's Searchblog

Scot Wingo / eBay Strategies:

EXCLUSIVE - oh my stars! — Ok folks, we've been learning more and more about the Google Base / wallet reputation system. Last week it was a rumor from Dirson with no screen shots/backup. Yesterday we found the link that talks about "See my seller ratings".

Discussion: TechBeat

Stephen Bryant / publish.com:

Six Apart Launches Enterprise Blogging Tools — Six Apart announced two new business-oriented blogging products on March 7, which the company said are meant to capitalize on the growing blogging trend among small and midsize businesses and large corporations.

Discussion: Changing Way

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