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Amanda UnBoomed:
Amanda UnBoomed — large .mov — small .mov — .mp4 — iPod .m4v — Thanks to blip.tv for the gracious hosting!
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the j. botter weblog, GigaOM, Mathew Ingram, TechCrunch, theory.isthereason, Micro Persuasion, Things That, Valleywag, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Earthling, Niall Kennedy's Weblog, B.L. Ochman's weblog, Mark Evans, InterMedia, Mashable*, Life On the Wicked Stage, Joseph Scott's Blog, Lost Remote TV Blog, The Blogging Times, Video Podcasting News, Digital Micro-Markets, Web Strategy, The Technology Chronicles and Rex Hammock's Weblog
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Advice and an Offer for Amanda Congdon — I see it is true you've left RocketBoom. — You're a great talent, everyone knows that, and you're gonna get a ton of offers over the next couple of days. I'd like to give you some unsolicited advice and make you an offer as well.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Click fraud a huge problem — Study finds practice widespread; many cut back online ads — Internet advertisers paid $800 million for bogus clicks on their marketing messages last year, shaking confidence in the industry and prompting many to reduce spending with Google, Yahoo and other Web sites …
BBC:
Web perils advise switch to Macs — Security threats to PCs with Microsoft Windows have increased so much that computer users should consider using a Mac, says a leading security firm. — Sophos security said that the 10 most commonly found pieces of malicious software all targeted Windows machines.
Roger O. Crockett / Business Week:
Senate Scorecard: AT&T 1, Google 0 — Telecom providers gained ground on June 28 when a Senate committee paved the way for them to freely set fees for delivering Net content. But they still must clear many hurdles on Capitol Hill before winning the "Net neutrality" battle
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campaigns.wikia.com:
Mission Statement — Let's ramp up the intelligence of politics — An open letter to the political blogosphere — For more than 50 years now, we have been living in the era of television politics. In the 1950s television first began to have a major impact on politics, and the results were overwhelming.
Kristina Shevory / New York Times:
Microsoft Is Looking for More Elbow Room — In the midst of its biggest expansion in nearly a decade, the world's largest software company has suddenly found itself with a major setback: not enough room to grow. — Microsoft — in the midst of a bitter rivalry with Google and Yahoo …
Todd Wilder / Apple:
Apple Introduces $899 Education Configuration for 17-inch iMac — NECC, SAN DIEGO-July 5, 2006-Apple® today introduced a new $899 configuration of the 17-inch iMac® designed specifically for education customers featuring a 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, a built-in iSight™ video camera …
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Engadget, Infinite Loop, MacsimumNews, TechEffect, The Technology Chronicles, Gizmodo and Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Make powerful online forms easily with Wufoo — I didn't think that a service to build your own online forms sounded very exciting, until the creators of Wufoo walked me through the system last week. Wufoo is so flexible, usable and has such good reporting that it made me want to create some forms just so I could use it.
Chris Morris / CNNMoney.com:
Nintendo's Wii may get early launch — Industry observers expect company's new video game machine to launch before the PlayStation 3 - perhaps by a month or more. — Game Over is a weekly column by Chris Morris — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Nintendo has stated numerous times …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Chinese mob shopping sites score big discounts — The Economist ran a funny story last week on "team buying" web sites in China. The sites, 51tuanguo.com and teambuy.com.cn were highlighted, co-ordinate large numbers of consumers interested in buying the same products.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Developer to raze Bell Labs Holmdel facility, birthplace of the cellphone — It's not very often that we here at Engadget adopt an issue and stand behind it; one of the only notable examples includes the Broadcast Flag, which in 2004 — very early on in its life — we made our feelings pretty well known.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Use Red Swoosh to Serve Files For Free — Silicon Valley based Red Swoosh is launching a free, ad supported version of its file serving technology today (the link in this sentence is to the new site - redswoosh.net will redirect sometime overnight). — Prior to today Red Swoosh was available …
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Dan Milmo / Guardian:
Universal prices CDs to match downloads — Universal Music, the world's largest record group, has acknowledged the growing power of iTunes by pricing back-catalogue CDs in line with their download versions. — Universal is to split its CDs into three price and product ranges in Europe …