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9:50 AM ET, April 17, 2006

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Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth  —  Yes, another quarter has passed, and it is time to take a look at the numbers!  —  For historical perspective, you can see earlier State of the Blogosphere reports from February 2006, July 2005, from March 2005, and from October 2004.
Pamela Parker / ClickZ:
Study: 15% of Brand Searches Stray from Company's Site  —  After searchers type in a brand-name query on a search engine, only 85 percent end up at that brand's Web site, while the rest are diverted to competitor's sites, comparison shopping engines and affiliates.
Dnw / lifekludger:
Tablet PC - a Lifekludger view  —  "It's rude not to point"  —  Ok here I am typing on the onscreen keyboard of a Tablet PC*.  A first for me.  —  The good folks at Tegatech Australia kindly sent me a Tablet to loan and have a bit of a play and see how someone without the use of hands might go using a Tablet PC.
Nanko Roussev / phonearena.com:
LG CU500 - new slim global 3G clamshell for Cingular  —  The LG CU500 has been rumored for a long time, as its model number leaked in Cingular's press release together with Nokia 6282, but since then, there was no new information about it.  Just today, here are the first real images of the phone …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget Mobile
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
Harris Interactive study has plenty of VoIP marketing lessons  —  On his IT Facts blog, colleague Alex Moskalyuk posts a link to a Harris Interactive report entitled, "Awareness of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) on the Rise in Great Britain and in the United States.
Discussion: Screenwerk and VoIP Watch
Matt Marshall / Mercury News:
Buddy systems  —  There are some things Google and other search engines just aren't good at.  —  For example, have you ever spent an entire weekend planning a trip, say to Hawaii, by surfing the Web to book hotels, snorkeling outings and kite-surfing lessons?
Clinical Cases / Clinical Cases and Images:
Google Calendar for Doctors: Help Patients See Your Practice Schedule and Make Appointments  —  Google Calendar can be used to show open slots in your practice schedule to potential patients.  See the screenshots below.  —  Figure 1.  A physician's practice schedule (the master schedule) or what you can see.
Discussion: Googling Google
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Oracle considers venturing into Linux  —  Oracle is studying whether to launch its own version of the Linux operating system and has looked at buying one of the two companies currently dominating the Linux world, according to Larry Ellison, the software company's chief executive officer.
Discussion: Digital Inspiration
John Markoff / New York Times:
In Silicon Valley, a Man Without a Patent  —  GEOFF GOODFELLOW is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who came up with an idea that resulted in a $612.5 million payday.  But he will never see a penny of it.  He remains little known even in Silicon Valley and, perhaps most surprising, he doesn't really mind.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Shopify Was Worth the Wait  —  Ottawa-based Shopify launched a lot later than originally promised (last fall), but it was worth the wait.  They've launched a private beta and plan to open their doors permanently in May.  —  Shopify is a hosted ecommerce solution with integrated payments.
Discussion: blog.jadedpixel.com and Mark Evans
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
Scoble's Moderation and That Old Time Conspiracy Reward Challenge  —  Quick blog-technology-centric post for something near and dear to the Mini-Microsoft blog: comments.  —  I've said it.  Lots of other people have said it (lots... said it so much I wonder if I should just put up one word posts some time).
Tom Evslin / Fractals of Change:
The Next Huge Thing - What It Looks Like  —  If you were in one of the California cities of Santa Clara, Cupertino, or Sunnyvale using the free WiFi offered by MetroFi to read Fractals of Change, this is what your browser window (Internet Explorer version) would look like.
Discussion: ben barren and Clickety Clack
Aaron McKenna / tgdaily.com:
Half-Life vs Half-Life 2: No comparison?  —  Comparing old games to new ones is a tricky business.  On the one hand if you compare Doom to Doom III nowadays, well, there is no comparison.  Doom is fairly 2D to the modern gamer in many more ways than just the graphics.
Reuters:
China president at Gates house, not White House  —  SEATTLE—The first lavish dinner of China President Hu Jintao's historic visit to the United States next week will be in a big, secure house in Washington where the host is one of the world's most powerful men.  —  The White House?  No.
Greg Linden / Geeking with Greg:
Kill Google, Vol. 3  —  In a comment to my previous post, Anil Dharni said: … If I want to beat Google?  I would throw everything I have got at an AdSense killer.  —  AdSense is now about half of Google's revenue and their future growth.  Microsoft should strangle Google's air supply, their revenue stream.
Discussion: buygoogle.com
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Recruiters in the late 90s  — General news  —  In the summer of 2000 I became fed up enough with clueless recruiters calling me I decided to create a fake résumé to test how bad the industry had become.  The résumé was not just slightly fake, it was over-the-top and obvious to anyone in the industry.
 
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500 lb Potato Battery
Discussion: Gizmodo
Jeff Smith / Rocky Mountain News:
Sources: Level 3 poised to buy ICG
Discussion: GigaOM
John Carney / New York Times:
People Who Watch People: Lost in an Online Hall of Mirrors
Discussion: Screenwerk
Zephoria / apophenia:
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Wordpress.com Blog Network Outage
lessig.org:
Benkler's book is out  —  Yochai Benkler's book, The Weath of Networks, is out.
Associated Press:
Internet agency considers '.tel' domain name
Discussion: LiveSide and textually.org
Rob Pegoraro / Washington Post:
It Does Little, and Not Very Well  —  The Nokia 770 Internet …