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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Technorati Top 100 Is Changing Radically — Have you checked out the Technorati Top 100 (by unique links) lately? It's starting to change in very interesting ways. — First, Dave Winer is gone. That's right — Scripting News is no longer a top 100 blog. — So what knocked him off?
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Chris / Hacking Cough:
Get on MSN Spaces in Asia and watch the link-love pile up. Sort of — Scott Karp of Publishing 2.0 took a look at the Technorati 100 yesterday and found that, even before he had quit blogging there, Dave Winer's Scripting News was out of the top 100. Steadily replacing the old A-list …
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Chief of Ask Jeeves to Lead Microsoft's Internet Unit — Microsoft has hired Steven Berkowitz, the chief executive of Ask Jeeves, to run its floundering Internet division, Microsoft said yesterday. — Mr. Berkowitz became president of Ask Jeeves in 2001 and chief executive in 2003.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
NEWS: BERKOWITZ TO MICROSOFT — (image credit) Rumors have been flying for some time, and I was not posting them. But now I have confirmation. Steve Berkowitz, head of Ask and someone I've worked with indirectly in the past (he was at IDG Books when I was at The Standard, an IDG property), is going to run MSFT's online MSN.
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Mure Dickie / MSNBC:
Warner tackles Chinese piracy with cut-price DVD — Warner Home Video has begun trial sales in China of a movie DVD priced at just Rmb12 ($1.50), a move likely to anger consumers in developed markets such as Europe and the US, who typically pay $20-$30 for a recently released film on DVD.
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google Calendar task list feature — I decided to spend a little time today digging through the Google Calendar javascript source and I found a couple of things I thought were interesting. Sometimes pieces of code get put into the javascript that are simply not called from anywhere …
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Mark Glaser / pbs.org:
Wales Discusses Political Bias on Wikipedia — Conservative blogger Robert Cox, who writes the National Debate blog, told me he was amazed at the quality of Wikipedia and thought it was a great resource. But there was something about the free online community-generated encyclopedia …
Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
Sites Goes Online to Tell Smaller Stories — NEW YORK - Former television journalist Kevin Sites is mindful that his online dispatches from the world's war zones won't attract anywhere near the audience he's used to getting on the evening news. But that's just fine, he said.
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Marc Perton / Engadget:
It's Earth Day — so don't just toss your old computer! — It's Earth Day today, and the consumer electronics industry isn't above a little shameless self-promotion to show off their green cred. And, we have to admit, recycling your old gear is a lot better than just tossing it into the basement — or worse, a landfill.
James Orry / pro-g.co.uk:
Xbox Live Arcade to get MAME and SEGA games — The Buzz: A Microsoft staffer, wishing to remain anonymous, has revealed that MAME and games from SEGA are heading to Xbox Live Arcade. — Speaking to SPOnG, a Microsoft source close to the Xbox Live Arcade project has spilled the beans …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Motorola's RAZR 2 / Canary pics! — Remember The Boy Genius, the dude who scored those CDMA Q shots way back in the year 2005? He's back, and hooked us up with some shots of Motorola's Canary, what we understand to be the true successor to the RAZR. Contrary to prior reports that this thing …
Paul Roberts / InfoWorld Tech Watch:
$5B spent on bounced e-mails? — Spam is a nuisance, we all know that. No more so than for the poor suckers who find their name and reputation marred by some spam or phishing attack. But a $5 billion problem? That's the contention of (surprise surprise) e-mail security and antispam vendor IronPort.
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft to Reissue Problem Patch to Fix Lockup Glitches — For some Windows users, there will be two Patch Tuesdays in April. — The Redmond, Wash. software maker plans to rerelease the problematic MS06-015 update on April 25 to correct an issue that has caused system hangs …
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Richard Stiennon / Threat Chaos:
Super-Glue: Best practice for countering key stroke loggers — This wonderful little gadget is for sale over at Thinkgeek. It is colored an innocuous IBM grey so no one will notice when you attach it to their keyboard. It fits between the back of the PC and the keyboard cable.
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Fred / A VC:
Google - Oh My — Google posted the following numbers yesterday: — Quarterly revenues - $2.25bn, up 79% year over year — Quarterly EBITDA - $1bn - up 86% year over year — Now let's just take a second to comprehend those numbers. — We are witnessing a business that is approaching $10bn …
