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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Snap.com Blurs Lines Between Ads, Content — Snap.com Blurs the Lines Between Advertising and Listings Retrieved by Objective Formulas — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Internet search engine Snap.com is hoping to expand its sparse audience by making Web surfing more like channel surfing on a TV …
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
SNAP RETHINKS SEARCH — As I've pointed out many times, Bill Gross, the man behind Snap (and Goto/Overture and about 25 other search related companies) is not one to take lightly. When Snap launched, I watched closely, and while many of its features were admirable (the transparency …
Pamela Parker / ClickZ:
Snap.com Relaunch Mixes Ads and Organic Results — The Snap.com search engine is expected to relaunch today with a variety of user interface changes — chief among them a page preview and the interspersing of sponsored results with organic listings. — The left side of the search results …
Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
New search engine's ads pay-per-action — PAY-PER-CLICK INVENTOR HAS HIGH HOPES FOR NEW MODEL — Bill Gross, the entrepreneur who first showed Google how to spin cyberspace searches into real-world gold, hopes his new search engine will teach Silicon Valley a new lesson in Internet advertising.
Jaanus / Skype Blogs:
Free calls to all landlines and mobile phones within the US and Canada — We just announced that SkypeOut is now free within the US and Canada to all landlines and mobiles, until at least the end of 2006. — How does this work? — If you're in the US or Canada, you can use SkypeOut …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:SkypeOut Now Free in U.S. and Canada
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MobileCrunch, Skype Journal, Alec Saunders .LOG, O'Reilly Emerging Telephony and Oliver Thylmann
onfiber.com:
Qwest to Acquire OnFiber Communications, Inc. — DENVER, May 15, 2006 — Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) announced today that it will acquire privately held OnFiber Communications, Inc., an Austin-based provider of custom-built and managed metropolitan Ethernet and wide-area network solutions.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Is Web 2.0 a bubble? — That's really what we've been debating the last few days. — Are we onto something here, are the ideas behind Web 2.0 real, powerful, going somewhere, or is this another bubble like the one that grew in the 90s and then popped in Y2K? — I think the answer to both is Yes.
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
High-Definition Video Could Choke Internet — NEW YORK - Every day, it seems, a new service pops up offering to send you video over the Internet. "Desperate Housewives," Stephen Colbert heckling the president, clips of bad dancers at wedding parties: It's all there. — You may be up for it, but is the Internet?
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John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:Oh, Uncle Ed, not the story about the clogged pipes and the brave plumber again
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Paul Kapustka's Blog
Guy J Kewney / newswireless.net:
That BBC video: the cab driver who edits Newswireless and lectures on iPods... Believe me, I have spent some effort trying to get the video of "Guy Kewney" the cab driver [left] lecturing on the BBC's news 24. Until today, the closest I could get, was to listen to the audio only …
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Times of London, Tom Raftery's I.T. views, The Test Bed, Ben Metcalfe Blog and the LOOSE wire blog
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Alex Halperin / Business Week:
A Virtual World Targets Teens — Startup Doppelganger has a business model meant to keep out inappropriate material but keep the cash flowing in — In the beginning there was a nightclub. On May 15 a San Francisco startup, Doppelganger, is launching the PCD Music Lounge, a spot where teenagers can dance, hang out, and look cool.
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Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Introducing tabblo — Well it wouldn't be a Monday if there weren't yet another Flickr clone coming out for public purview and, well it's Monday. — The latest venture is a site called tabblo and it seems to hold a bit of promise. tabblo works like flickr or most of the other photo sharing site …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AllofMP3 Down - For Good? — The extremely popular, quasi-legal AllofMP3 site went down over the weekend and is not yet back up. The site currently says "We are sorry but the server is closed for maintainance." — We've written about AllofMP3 a number of times, including a review …
Jessica Mintz / Wall Street Journal:
Me, Me, Me — The personalized newspaper was dreamed up two decades ago. We're getting closer and closer. — The Web has made accessing far-flung news outlets, from tiny local papers to major foreign presses and every Web log and magazine in between, as simple as a couple of mouse clicks.
Tricia Duryee / Seattle Times:
The phone of the future: wired to run your life — ESPOO, Finland — Harry Santamäki vows to take a sip of cod liver oil from the bottle on his desk if he ever utters the word phone. — That's odd, considering Santamäki works at Nokia, the largest mobile phone maker in the world.
Discussion:
Alec Saunders .LOG, Gizmodo, Engadget Mobile, Message, Digital Inspiration, blackrimglasses.com and PalmAddicts
Yahoo! Search blog:
Yahoo! Answers: 10 million strong and growing — At around 5:30 am on Sunday, May 7th, almost precisely five months since we launched, a user posted the 10 millionth answer on the service. This is a big day for us, and we've decided to celebrate by coming out of beta …
Mark Golden / Wall Street Journal:
Out the Window — Are Linux operating systems as easy as promised? We test them out. — Can the ordinary computer user ditch Windows for Linux? — The question came up when I decided that my six-year-old version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system had to be replaced.
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Smalltalk Tidbits …
Shiny Media / Tech Digest:
Nimzy Vibro Blaster turns flat surface into speaker — Described as no bigger than a tub of Vaseline (perhaps a little unfortunate for something that's called the Nimzy Vibro Blaster), this is the latest gadget for turning any flat surface - wood, plastic, glass etc. - into a loudspeaker.
Sharon Waxman / New York Times:
At an Industry Media Lab, Close Views of Multitasking — LOS ANGELES, May 14 — In a sleek media lab hidden in a Los Angeles high-rise, some of the country's biggest media companies and their prominent clients are seeking to understand the state of the divided American attention span.
