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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
It's the users, dummy! — TechCrunch reports that Flickr's APIs are not open to competitive sites. This means closing the APIs to Flickr users who want an easy way to use their content in another, competitive environment. — This will be on-topic in two back-to-back sessions at BloggerCon next week …
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STEP-BY-STEP: HOW TO GET BILLIONS OF PAGES INDEXED BY GOOGLE — As most SEOs know, MSN loves the subdomains. You can make hundreds of keyworded subdomains and MSN will think quite highly of the pages. Same goes for blogspot and other blogs- they do very well on MSN and sometimes on Yahoo.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The meaning of Bill … (This is a post The Guardian's Comment is Free asked me to write about Bill Gates — thus the view from that side of the world. If you'd like to comment, please do so at Comment is Free.) — In America, we, too, have our class system, though it is a perverse version …
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Mary Jo Foley / Microsoft Watch:
Bill Gates' Legacy: Microsoft's Top 10 Flops — Gates will be remembered as a visionary and PC industry leader. But even Microsoft's Chairman hasn't been right in all of his bets. — The Chairman isn't always right. — While Microsoft's outgoing Chief Software Architect Bill Gates …
Ryan Kim / San Francisco Chronicle:
AT&T offers broadband by itself Unpublicized DSL service won't save subscribers much — AT&T quietly rolled out standalone DSL broadband service for the first time this week, giving consumers the choice to drop their home phone land lines. — But before you get rid of your home phone line …
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Growing Wikipedia Revises Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy — Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia that "anyone can edit." Unless you want to edit the entries on Albert Einstein, human rights in China or Christina Aguilera. — Wikipedia's come-one, come-all invitation to write and edit articles …
Associated Press:
Rockies using video iPods to study swings, hitters — DENVER — Three hours before a start against Florida, Colorado Rockies pitcher Jason Jennings sits in front of his locker, puts on his headphones and stares at his video iPod. — He isn't watching the latest Coldplay video or catching …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Microsoft Lieutenants Look Ahead, Hoping to Avoid Other Companies' Mistakes — Microsoft's chairman, Bill Gates, right, with senior company executives Ray Ozzie, left, and Craig Mundie on Friday in Redmond, Wash. — REDMOND, Wash., June 16 — Microsoft stands astride the computing world …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Dog brain in a dish plays Quake 3: Arena — Don't get all PETA on us, we're just the messenger, but a University of Texas scientist has grown a living "brain" in a petri dish using 50,000 nerve cells from a dog. We're sure there are many noble things to be done with a brain in a dish …
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Preston Gralla / Networking Pipeline:
Skype and Vonage: Can You Hear The VoIP Bubble Bursting? — It's looking more and more as if the VoIP hype bubble is going the way of the Internet bubble. Skype, bought for up to $4.1 billion by eBay, is turning out to be a bad investment, and as for the Vonage IPO …
Warren St. John / New York Times:
And You're So Funny? Write My Script — IT is a thought that has surely raced through the mind of almost every performer who has ever been heckled, booed, mocked or made to feel unappreciated by an audience: "Let's see you do better." — Now a Brooklyn entertainer named Ze Frank is doing something about it.
Juan Carlos Perez / PC World:
Finance Sites: Yahoo Leads, Google Lags — Google's site has not yet gained the popularity to challenge other financial sites. — U.S. residents looking for financial news and information online overwhelmingly prefer Yahoo's Yahoo Finance, while Google's Google Finance has failed so far …
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Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny:
TiVo Applies For DVR PPV Patent — The USPTO has just published TiVo's Method and apparatus for secure transfer of previously broadcasted content and Method and apparatus for secure transfer and playback of multimedia content patent applications. Within the documents TiVo describes several methods …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Trademark infringement suit hits search again — A Colorado-based dating Web site has sued Yahoo and three other companies for allegedly paying to have their ads come up when its name is typed into the Google search page. — JP Enterprises, which owns the LoveCity.com site …
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