Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
10:30 AM ET, April 27, 2006

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Leslie Walker / Washington Post:
How to Juice Up a Site's Rank  —  If your Web site isn't getting the attention it deserves on the Internet, it may be running low on Google juice.  —  Google juice, for the uninitiated, refers to how high a Web site ranks in Google's search results — the higher the ranking, the more juice.
RELATED ITEMS:
Randfish / SEOmoz | Daily SEO Blog:
Washington Post on the SEO Industry & Link Buying  —  Leslie Walker, who I spoke to by phone while in Toronto, has a relatively good article on the front page of the Technology section in the Washington Post - How to Juice Up a Site's Rank.  The story is also online, but you need to register (it's free, though).
Rob Hyndman / robhyndman.com:
The mesh Sessions: Can Blogs Influence Politics?  —  When we first talked about organizing mesh, one of the topics that most excited us was the role that blogs are playing in political journalism in Canada, and the broader role that blogs are beginning to assume in fostering political discussion …
RELATED ITEMS:
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:   Can blogs affect politics and society?
Stuart MacDonald:   An e-Chicken in every Pot.com
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Democrats lose House vote on Net neutrality  —  update A hotly contested Democratic bid to enshrine extensive Net neutrality regulations in the law books failed Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives.  —  By a 34-22 vote, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee rejected …
RELATED ITEMS:
CNET News.com:   Democrats pledge fight over Net neutrality
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
I'm nuts about Southwest  —  Funny, I just got off of a Southwest airline from San Jose to Seattle and found out that Southwest now has a blog.  There's more on Memeorandum.  —  It's a pretty cold blog so far.  It's the kind of blog I think most corporations will start out with.  Safe.
RELATED ITEMS:
Shel Israel / Naked Conversations:
Southwest Blogs. I've been Scobleized
Discussion: Weblogs Work
sketchup.com:
PURCHASE  —  The person who says it can't be done shouldn't interrupt the person who is doing it.  —from the wall of the Mountain Rose Cafe in Winter Park, Colorado (Google Earth file)  —  OK, so Google bought SketchUp.  We told you all about it in the last SketchUpdate, but that's old news now.
RELATED ITEMS:
Cph / Netcraft:
Apache Now the Leader in SSL Servers  —  Apache has overtaken Microsoft as the leading developer of secure web servers.  Apache now runs on 44.0% of secure web sites, compared to 43.8% for Microsoft.  —  As the original developers of the SSL protocol, Netscape started out with a lead in the SSL server market.
Discussion: inside analytics
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Microsoft Is Seen Near Ad Move  —  Microsoft is close to reaching a deal to buy Massive Incorporated, which makes technology that inserts advertisements into video games, a member of Massive's board said yesterday.  —  The board member, Douglas P. Miscoll, a partner with the venture capital …
open.bbc.co.uk:
Letting Berners-Lee do Baird a favour...  Working for the BBC has hidden benefits.  Even after working here for years, you still bump into astounding new people, ideas and content.  —  About six months ago a colleague, Julie Rowbotham, and I struck gold.  Data gold.
Discussion: hackdiary and NevilleHobson.com
Rafat / paidContent.org:
@ Milken: Chernin, Iger and Miller: The Shape Of Things And Things To Come  —  The last panel of the day at the Milken Institute conference was a heavy hitter one: Peter Chernin of News Corp, Bob Iger of Disney and Jonathan Miller of AOL (who told me today that he is a big fan of us, which made me happy).
Discussion: MocoNews.net
Microsoft:
Microsoft Spins Out a Wallop  —  Microsoft IP Ventures program teams up with Silicon Valley entrepreneur to create a new social networking company.  —  SAN JOSE, Calif. — April 25, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the spinout of a new social networking technology …
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Survey Shows the Blogosphere is Breaking Out  —  The long tail is growing appendages.  A new survey released today of over 36,000 readers of blogs shows different segments of blog readers have distinct characteristics.  Conducted by the Blogads network, the study breaks out blog audiences …
Seth Sutel / Associated Press:
MediaNews Buys 4 Papers From McClatchy  —  MediaNews Buys Four Newspapers, Including the San Jose Mercury News, From McClatchy for $1B Cash  —  NEW YORK (AP) — MediaNews Group Inc., publisher of The Denver Post and other newspapers, is acquiring four newspapers from The McClatchy Co …
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
GelaSkins Vinyl iPod Skins  —  Providing protective printed skins for iPods isn't exactly a new business model, and we've so far been immune to their charms as far as our own device is concerned, but we might just break down when it comes to these two particular skins from GelaSkins.
Discussion: Shiny Shiny and MobilitySite
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Is Google Search More Relevant Or Is There A Brand Factor?  —  The battle of which search engine is the most relevant has been going on for years.  Yesterday at SES Toronto's Searcher Behavior Research Update panel we had two presenters talk about studies they have conducted to determine which search engine is the most relevant.
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
The Season of Bad Laws, Part 3: Banning MP3 Streaming  —  The Washington Post reports that Senators Feinstein (D-Cal.) and Graham (R-S.C.) have introduced S. 2644, dubbed the PERFORM Act, that is aimed at punishing satellite radio for offering its subscribers devices capable of recording off the air.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 10:30 AM ET, April 27, 2006.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Tribe AI:
Is AI just hype?  —  Find out how top enterprises use Tribe to get real business results.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more  —  We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics.  Download reports immediately for just $100.
Zoho:
All new Zoho Workerly 2024  —  Staffing businesses around the world face a unique set of challenges when it comes to managing their temporary workforce.  With a constantly shifting job market and changing staffing needs …
Comprehensive.io:
Browse salary data from 3,000 startups for free  —  Click for FREE, immediate access to real-time compensation benchmarking data.  Paid version helps HR automate comp reviews and communicate total compensation to employees.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Mark LaPedus / EE Times:
Samsung grabs iPod design win
Discussion: Infinite Loop
Miss Rogue / HorsePigCow:
Why the small will overcome  —  Remember when Google's blogsearch came …
Discussion: Scobleizer and AccMan Pro
Tom Coates / plasticbag.org:
Is the pace of change really such a shock?
Discussion: chew shop and BuzzMachine
Will / Weblogg-ed:
Getting It at Milken  —  Surprise #1 is that about 60 people cram …
Discussion: Joho the Blog and elearnspace
Windows Live ID:
Windows Live ID deployment
Discussion: greg hughes and LiveSide
Matt Biddulph / hackdiary:
Last.fm isn't just for humans
Mark Ward / BBC:
Gamers lament top tournament loss
Discussion: Kotaku
Elizabeth Montalbano / PC World:
Firefox Backers Create 'Destroy IE' Campaign
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Goes Beyond College, High School Markets
Discussion: Minority Rapport
John Hagel / Edge Perspectives with John Hagel:
SOA Versus Web 2.0?
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog …:
Microsoft Q3 earnings: What to watch
Scott's "SiteExperts" Place:
What we learned building Live.com (or why are we slow)?
Discussion: LiveSide
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
GOOGLE PROMOTES FIRST NON GOOGLE PRODUCT ON HOMEPAGE
César A. Berardini / news.teamxbox.com:
New PlayStation 3 Details Emerge
Discussion: Kotaku, Gadgetell, Engadget and Joystiq
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
A Firefox versus IE7 smackdown
Tom Raftery / Tom Raftery's I.T. views:
China blocks Technorati