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Google Blogoscoped:
New Ask Blog Search — The new Ask blog search has launched, Gary tells me, and it's also rolled out for Bloglines (disclosure: an Ask ad campaign is in the talks for this blog for some time now, I dunno yet if it'll come). It looks interesting and obviously tries to mine whatever RSS …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Other Blog Search Engine That Launched Yesterday — Bloglines wasn't the only company to push out a new blog search engine yesterday - Gnoos launched as well. And though their launch timing could not have been more unfortunate, there is a lot about this Australia-focused blog search engine to like.
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:Gnoos Blog Search Launches
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Digital Inspiration, Clique Communications, Cameron's Brain and Kevin Burton's Feed Blog
Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Coming soon: the Wi-Fi MP3 player — I love my iPod, but I do not love that it's basically a PC accessory. No PC (or Mac) nearby means no content on the iPod, and no updates. There's got to be a better way. — I've previously covered a company, Music Gremlin, that's building a Wi-Fi-enabled music player.
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Ryan Saghir / Orbitcast:
SIRIUS Wearable Unveiled? Zing's new device (PHOTO) — Looks like CNET has given us a photo of the upcoming Zing Wi-Fi MP3 Player - this very well could be the first actual glimpse we get at the new SIRIUS Wearable device - or at least something close to it.
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21talks
Ronald Grover / Business Week:
Movielink On the Block — The download site owned by some of Hollywood's biggest studios is searching for a buyer, but would-be acquirers have balked at film-usage terms — It's become the hottest thing to do in Hollywood, right after getting a choice table at the upscale Chinese eatery Mr. Chow.
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Why I think ClickFraud is far greater than imagined. — This is an opinion piece. So take it as such. To all those who have asked me. This is why I think clickfraud FAR exceeds what is being published by search companies. — 1. Hackers exist. — 2. Hackers exist for profit.
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Smalltalk Tidbits …, F**kedGoogle, Geek News Central …, Digital Micro-Markets and Besting Adwords
USA Today:
U.S. asks Internet firms to save data — Top law enforcement officials have asked leading Internet companies to keep histories of the activities of Web users for up to two years to assist in criminal investigations of child pornography and terrorism, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
David Berlind / Between the Lines:
Massive, under-reported online banking breach raises serious disclosure and remedy questions — It was just last week that I wrote about a scary list that you can only hope doesn't include you....a public list of all of the recent compromises to personal data that's being stored by banks …
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Phil Windley / Between the Lines:
Integrating blogs with the news — A recent c|net news article discusses the uneasy relationship between bloggers and the news media. While decrying the lack of blogger objectivity and their second tier status in the news food chain, newspapers have been quietly wooing bloggers to augment their online presence.
Thomas Mennecke / slyck.com:
ThePirateBay Strikes Back — Great cheers of jubilee echoed in the entertainment Halls of Justice yesterday, confident of their victory against the great Satan, ThePirateBay.org. ThePirateBay.org, as many are aware, was perhaps the largest BitTorrent tracker in history.
miamibeachpersonaltrainer.com:
NES Super Mario Brothers playable in 3D — Update: We got digged, as in they're digging our little roboserver into the ground. Sw33t!!!!! — From the I-s**t-you-not-dept: "Super Mario Bros 2.5D is a remake of the classic, Super Mario Bros... in 3D. How can you remake a 2D game in 3D?
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Opposable Thumbs
news.sel.sony.com:
SONY UNVEILS FIRST A V RECEIVER DESIGNED TO OPTIMIZE BLU-RAY DISC, OTHER HD SOURCES — LOS ANGELES, June 1, 2006 - Blu-ray Disc™ (BD) players now have a new companion with Sony's latest A/V receiver. — Whether it's 1080p pass-through, eight channels of uncompressed audio …
Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
Russian Download Site Is Popular and Possibly Illegal — PARIS, June 1 — Rising consumer popularity is turning AllofMP3.com, a music downloading service based in Moscow, into a global Internet success story, except for one important detail: The site may well be illegal.
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Barnako.com
Andrew Donoghue / ZDNet:
Red Hat: Microsoft still 'aggressive as hell' — Three or four years ago, open-source providers enjoyed plenty of attention. Just ask Novell, which more or less reinvented itself thanks to the open-source fairy dust provided by its acquistion of the Suse Linux distribution.
Chip Chick:
Sonic Impact K1 Adds 7 inches to your 5G iPod Display — Fancy a bigger display for your ipod? The tentatively named Sonic Impact K1 transforms your 5G ipod into a portable media player with a 7 inch widescreen display, intergated speakers, and a swanky touch sensitive interface.
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Gizmodo
AC/OS:
Open source and RFP time sinks — If you're an open source vendor, you already know this. If you're an aspiring or new vendor, let me save you some time: — Don't bother with RFPs. Bother even less with RFIs. — RFIs (Request for Information) and RFPs (Request for Proposal) are …
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The Silent Penguin
