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Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
Dynamic Implementation of Google Co-op for Search Engine Roundtable — This morning I described what is Google Co-op, but I also promised I would try to implement an example for this site. Well, we have implemented phase one of Google Co-op subscription links for this site.
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Bambi Francisco:
Google machines vs. humans — As Google's algorithms do what humans can't — scale — community-based searches seemed like something Google would not be interested in. — After all, communities are made of people who tend to be fickle, slow and inherently lazy. They can't handle or process what Google's machines can do.
Tony Long / Wired News:
Tech Workers of the World, Unite — I was raised in a union house. My father was a passionate supporter of the labor movement and I've never forgotten that the union helped feed and clothe me when I was a kid. — Most of my professional life has been spent as a member of a union …
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Alec Saunders .LOG
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Joe / Techdirt:
Tech Workers Need More Than Sentimental Reasons To Unionize — from the workers-of-the-world,-compete! dept — Tony Long argues at Wired.com that it's time tech workers unionized. He uses the typical rhetoric about jobs being outsourced, wages stagnating, corporate profits soaring …
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Measuring PFF Against the Darknet — Today the Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF), a DC-based "market-oriented think tank that studies the digital revolution and its implications for public policy," released a report entitled "The DMCA Dialectic: Towards Constructive Criticism."
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Infothought
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Mike / Techdirt:
Why The "Copy Protection Is Necessary" Argument Doesn't Make Sense — from the breaking-it-down dept — We've noted multiple times in the past how the Progress and Freedom Foundation (a DC-based think tank) seems to keep taking positions that make no sense when you actually look at them.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Notebook Screen Shots — A Google employee named Erica Joy has posted a number of screen shots of Google Notebook, which will launch next week at google.com/notebook. — Notebook looks like it is designed to be a flat out del.icio.us competitor, allowing you to gather content from around the web …
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Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Report Claims Very Serious Diebold Voting Machine Flaws — [This entry was written by Avi Rubin and Ed Felten.] — A report by Harri Hursti, released today at BlackBoxVoting, describes some very serious security flaws in Diebold voting machines. These are easily the most serious voting machine flaws …
Walter S. Mossberg / Wall Street Journal:
In Our Post-PC Era, Apple's Device Model Beats the PC Way — For many years, there have been two models of how to make computers and other digital devices. One is the component model, championed by Microsoft. The other is the end-to-end model, championed by Apple.
nttdocomo.com:
DoCoMo to Unveil New Eight FOMA "9 Series" Phones — NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries today unveiled the new lineup of eight FOMA "9 Series" handsets. All 9 Series phones are preinstalled with i-appli™ software required to use DoCoMo's DCMX™ credit card.
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Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:
Yahoo rebuffs Microsoft offer — Terry Semel, chairman and chief executive of Yahoo, said on Wednesday he had turned down an offer from Microsoft to buy a stake in Yahoo's search business and that discussions about Bill Gates' software group acquiring the company had not taken place.
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SearchViews, Between the Lines, Bleeding Edge, Digital Inspiration and Microsoft News Tracker
Kieren McCarthy / The Register:
ICANN chokes off .xxx porn registry — Want to know why? — Plans for an area of the internet dedicated to pornography were killed last night in a vote by overseeing organisation ICANN. — In a split 9-5 board decision, the organisation acted ruthlessly, against its own previous position …
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TechSpot
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Guardian:
'We have a lot on our plate and we prioritise' — Fresh from settling an anti-trust suit with Microsoft, the chief executive of Real Networks, Rob Glaser, outlines the company's strategy for success in the digital downloading market — Interview by Kate Bulkley
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Putting the Wire Back Into Networking — Back in the Stone Age of home networking, anyone who wanted to play on a computer not hooked directly into an Internet connection had to snake phone lines or Ethernet wires across floors and up staircases. — People talked about a promising idea …
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Garrett French / Search Engine Lowdown:
THK's Leadership Resignations to Usher in Stronger THK Integrations? — I heard about the changes in THK leadership this morning in an IM from an old friend who used to work here at MarketSmart Interactive. — The meat of the situation is this: "Think Partnerships [parent company to MSI] …
Evan Blass / Engadget:
D-Link relents, agrees to halt its "NTP vandalism" — Although we never got that press release we wanted from D-Link addressing accusations that it was engaging in so-called "NTP vandalism," the company has apparently seen the error of its ways and [been shamed into] come to a settlement …
Rachel / cre8d design blog:
Google Trends — Everyone's blogging about the new Google Trends tool which enables you to see popularity of search terms over time. While you don't see the actual numbers of queries, it's helpful to see patterns, or compare search terms on a relative scale. — Two plots of specific interest to me:
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Open (finds, minds …, Orbitcast, Joseph Scott's Blog, SiliconBeat and Make Money Online …
Sascha Segan / Gearlog:
Exclusive: Interview With Cingular "Migra" Ringtone Creator — Paul Saucido has made his career with edgy, ethnic comedy celebrating his Mexican-American heritage. So he was pretty amazed when a ringtone he developed for Barrio Mobile was called racist and yanked from Cingular's deck earlier this week.
avecmobile.com:
How to upload video clips from a camera phone to YouTube — Sharing pictures on Internet photo albums has quickly become popular among camera phone and digital camera owners. And why not? It's fun to let friends and people on the other side of the world see our pictures, and maybe get feedback from them.
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This is Mobility
Julie Johnsson / Chicago Business:
AT&T, CUB propose end to residential phone regulation — Deal, which includes caps or freezes on rates, draws fire from AG — (Crain's) - AT&T Inc. and a longtime foe, consumer activist group Citizens Utility Board (CUB), today proposed that the state end its regulatory oversight of residential phone service in the Chicago area.
