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Kevin Maney:
Google Health: Probably coming next week — Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of search products and user experience, came to USA TODAY on Tuesday. She mentioned that there would be a couple of big announcements next Wednesday at the annual Google Press Day — which I will attend, along with my colleague Jefferson Graham.
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Google Blogoscoped, InsideGoogle, Search Engine Watch Blog, Screenwerk and Googling Google
Jason / Q Daily News:
The dishonor of Blue Security — There was quite a bit of teeth gnashing across the web throughout the evening yesterday as TypePad, LiveJournal, and all the other hosted Six Apart websites went dark; we learned late in the night that the cause was a "sophisticated distributed denial of service attack" against the sites.
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Michael Sippey / Six Apart:
TypePad Update — Since approximately 4:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time, Six Apart has been the victim of a sophisticated distributed denial of service attack. This has affected all of Six Apart's sites, causing intermittent and limited availability for TypePad, LiveJournal, TypeKey, sixapart.com, movabletype.org and movabletype.com.
Jessie Seyfer / Mercury News:
Skype putting town-hall idea on the Internet — NEW SERVICE LETS UP TO 100 HOLD AUDIO DISCUSSIONS — Internet phone-calling software maker Skype has created a way to transform blogs from soapboxes into live, town-hall meetings. — Starting today, people who have installed the free Skype software …
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PR Newswire:
Seventh Annual MSN Strategic Account Summit Celebrates Advertisers' Role in Microsoft Media Network Vision — CEO Steve Ballmer Announces the Launch of Microsoft adCenter in the U.S. — REDMOND, Wash., May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — At the seventh annual MSN® Strategic Account Summit …
Dan Ilett / silicon.com:
Apple online store hacked — Korean website defaced... Apple's Korean online store has been defaced by a hacker. — The attack, carried out by someone working under the name 'Dinam', who claimed in his post to be Turkish, was brought to the attention of silicon.com last Thursday.
Discussion:
Mac Rumors
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Christopher Price / sprintpcsinfo.com:
Now The MacBook Pro Batteries... (Updated) — (Why is this on Sprint PCS Info? You wonder why we don't have another PCS Intel Podcast out yet... don't you?) — It seems that the whine of bad inverter and logic boards aren't the only thing affecting MacBook Pros (not to mention thermal grease in mountains).
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John Battelle / Federated Media Publishing Inc.:
FM's Advertising Platform Launch! — The beta of FM's advertising platform is now live! — As I just wrote to the authors who have made all this possible: — Nearly two years ago, while researching my book, I came up with an idea about online media, based on an author-driven world …
CNET News.com:
FCC approves Net-wiretapping taxes — update WASHINGTON—Broadband providers and Internet phone companies will have to pick up the tab for the cost of building in mandatory wiretap access for police surveillance, federal regulators ruled Wednesday. — The Federal Communications Commission …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Suing Bloggers is an Invitation for Bad PR — Late last week Warren Kremer Paino Advertising sued Maine blogger Lance Dutson for copyright infringement, defamation and trade libel and injurious falsehood. They charged he caused damage to their client, the Maine Office of Tourism, because he critiqued their marketing strategy.
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Communication Overtones
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Kevin Poulsen / Wired News:
Microsoft Is Pushing for Privacy? — WASHINGTON — When it comes to protecting customers' privacy, Microsoft doesn't have the best record. So when the software giant backs new federal privacy legislation, onlookers suspect the company is probably protecting itself.
Katherine Meyer / Wall Street Journal:
The Best of the Worst — What were they thinking? — The Internet spawned so many weird gizmos and bad business ideas that mocking dot-com duds became something of a sport in the post-bubble era. But some ideas still stand out for pure silliness. These are products and services …
Kathy Matheson / Associated Press:
More Professors Ban Laptops in Class — PHILADELPHIA - As the professor lectured on the law, the student wore a poker face. But that was probably because, under the guise of taking notes on his laptop, the student actually was playing poker — online, using the school's wireless Internet connection.
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Business 2.0:
YouTube sees user rebellion — Recent changes in the website are turning longtime fans against the video service. Plus: French abandon attack on iTunes. — SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Hypergrowth comes with hyper-growing pains — just ask YouTube.
Washington Post:
McNealy Discusses "Network Neutrality" — Following are excerpts from Washington Post Staff Writer Arshad Mohammed's interview with Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman Scott G. McNealy on Tuesday. — McNealy, who last week announced his decision to give up the title of chief executive …
Robert Young / Between the Lines:
Mark Cuban is Wrong — A few weeks ago, Mark Cuban blogged his thoughts on the challenges that broadcast TV networks face as they move towards the on-demand programming format of the Internet. It's a provocative piece with a dire message, particularly as he concludes... "On demand video.
Johntunger / TypePad Hacks:
Ban Spam URLS with TypePad's New Word Banning Feature — Not long ago I posted about a hack that allowed TypePad users to ban specific words in comments or trackbacks by entering them in the field for banning IP addresses. I cautioned against using it at the time because it had an unresolved issue …
