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John Markoff / New York Times:
Software to Look for Experts Among Your Friends — PALO ALTO, Calif., May 27 — For anyone who has hesitated before making a purchase on a Web site, uncertain which brand is preferable, Tacit Software is preparing to introduce an online service that will make it simple to pick the brains …
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End — The World Wide Web is the most democratic mass medium there has ever been. Freedom of the press, as the saying goes, belongs only to those who own one. Radio and television are controlled by those rich enough to buy a broadcast license.
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Publishing 2.0, mathewingram.com/work, A View from the Isle, IP Democracy and Policy Blog
Mike / CrunchNotes:
On Conflicts of Interest and TechCrunch — On a recent Gillmor Gang, at around minute 21:30, Jason Calacanis innocently says something like "I heard you could buy a review at TechCrunch". A discussion begins about conflicts of interest, at one point Jason says "just the appearance of impropriety is impropriety."
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
All Good Things... All good things come to an end. Or to a long pause, or to a ride off into the sunset, or to at least a substantial hibernation (preferably on a holiday weekend, to make the least amount of noise). — I don't often talk or write to other people about what I do here.
Nick / Rough Type:
The neck of Beck's guitar — Beautiful day today. Summer arrived in our neck of the woods right on schedule this year, unfolding her tent on Memorial Day weekend. After a month of rain, it felt good to be out in the heat under a blue sky, worshipping the old sun god.
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Digital Micro-Markets
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Dan Fost / The Technology Chronicles:
Survivor: Winecamp — Chris Messina has been hosting barcamps for nearly a year now, but the facilities usually just involve bringing a sleeping bag to some cubicle farm and crashing for the night. — Winecamp, however, was real camping. — About 30 people pitched tents on Coyote Ridge above …
Read/WriteWeb:
Mini apps - Bitty Browser and Wampad — I've come across two nifty apps recently that demonstrate a couple of neat things: 1) mobile web utility, and 2) integration with other web services. Both of those things are becoming increasingly important on the Web.
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Download Squad
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
CNET's AllYouCanUpload Is Disruptive — CNET very quietly launched a simple new photo uploading site called AllYouCanUpload last week. At first glance it doesn't appear to be very special or disruptive. But it is. — By launching AllYouCanUpload, CNET just pulled the rug out from under …
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CyberNet Technology News
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE PURCHASES ADDING "HIGH QUALITY" MERCHANTS — Another scoop from a quality tipster: Google sent out a notice to testers recently that they are holding a confidential beta of a system to make purchases from "high-quality merchants" using their Google Accounts.
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Google Checkout - Answer to Yahoo Paypal? — Google Checkout - Answer to Yahoo Paypal? — On the same day that Yahoo & eBay announced their PayPal and Yahoo Search Marketing oriented partnership, Google registered the domain GoogleCheckout.com, according to ZDNet's Garett Rogers.
Martin Fackler / New York Times:
Cutting Sony, a Corporate Octopus, Back to a Rational Size — WAKO, Japan — When Kumiko Ishioka bought car insurance last year, she chose the company that offered the cheapest rate. It also helped that the company bore the same brand name as that on her life insurance policy, her favorite skin lotion and her television set — Sony.
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Big Web Site Gives Lift to a Littler One — A reader who trolls around on The New York Observer Web site for a while may spot something unusual: a green-and-white box of headlines with links to news and opinion articles, all crowded under the title "Huff Post."
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
Online Memorials Bring Strangers and Friends Together in Community of Grief — Days after his wife's death from inflammatory breast cancer in 2004, Michael Bloomer set up a Web page memorial. An old co-worker from Florida signed Kim Bloomer's online guest book. So did a high school classmate in Michigan.
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IP Democracy
Chris Pirillo:
65 More Windows Vista Mistakes — I just couldn't leave well enough alone. Even after my problems with Outlook 2007, and my original feedback on Windows Vista, I went deeper into Windows Vista's second beta. This time, I didn't concentrate so much on the font issues (so that I couldn't be accused of being such a nitpicker).
Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
Quick Indications of Low Quality Search Spam — As more and more of the web becomes spam (as a total % of the web) engines are going to get more selective about what they let in their indexes and people are going to be more selective about what they are willing to link at.
Tony Glover / thebusinessonline.com:
Threat to traditional broadcasters — GOOGLE is planning a new version of its search engine - designed for TV screens - that the company's co-founder and its chief executive believe will rival traditional broadcasting. — Chief executive Eric Schmidt told The Business …
