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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Advice and an Offer for Amanda Congdon — Update: Funny... someone DUGG this story. — Update2: Yes, going indie is also a great choice for Amanda. If she has the bank she could just hire a writer or two part time, as well as one or two tech people, and just rock this out on her own.
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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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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
What we know and don't know about Amanda, Andrew and Rocketboom — Nowhere in Amanda's video does she say she was fired. — Here's what she does say: — "I'm not on vacation." — "I have apparently been unboomed." — "Andrew Baron is no longer interested in being my partner."
Mathew Ingram / mathewingram.com/work:
Andrew Baron responds — and so does Amanda — An update to my previous post about Amanda Congdon, the popular star of the video-blog Rocketboom: As I mentioned, I sent an email to Andrew Baron, co-founder of Rocketboom, after the news broke that Amanda was leaving the show …
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Amanda UnBoomed, Mark Evans, loadedpun, John Tokash's Blog, Lost Remote TV Blog and The Jeff Pulver Blog
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 …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog:Report: Advertisers Lost $800 Million To Click Fraud Last Year
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cbronline.com:
Open source urged to remain European — The organizer behind the Open Source Business Conference has called on European enterprise open source companies to retain their roots and avoid the urge to relocate to the US. — "One of the things Europe needs to do is reassert its ownership of open source …
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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 …
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 …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
Commentful Tracks Comments on Digg, YouTube, Blogs and More — Commentful is a new service that helps you track comments on Digg stories, YouTube videos, blog entries, MySpace pages and Flickr photos - in fact, virtually anywhere with a comments field. You just create an account and add the URLs you want to track to your watchlist.
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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.
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.
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.
Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
Nintendo Gifts DS Lite to President Bush — Nintendo of America sent President Bush an early baby boomer gift pack today. The bag of presidential goodies includes a DS Lite and a copy of Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day. Bush turns 60 tomorrow.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Perspective: Congressional confusion on Internet privacy — When it comes to Internet privacy, Rep. Joe Barton embodies contradictions. — The Texas Republican, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, claims to be a steadfast supporter of online privacy.
RSnake / ha.ckers.org web application security lab:
Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability in Google — Google is vulnerable to cross site scripting. While surfing around the personalization section of Google I ran accross the RSS feed addition tool which is vulnerable to XSS. The employees at Google were aware of XSS as they protected …
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Google Blogoscoped
CNET News.com:
WiMax firm raises $900 million — Clearwire, which hopes to install WiMax networks that will cover continents, announced Wednesday that it has received $900 million in financing from Intel and Motorola and will work with the two giants to popularize the wireless broadband technology.
Jennifer DeLeo / Gearlog:
Vtech's New, Stylish Cordless Phones — I've always been pretty impressed with Vtech's cordless phones-right down to their features, quality, and design. Except for that one time in college when my mom bought me the VTech 9111 900MHz Cordless Phone in red. It was the hippest phone to have in the years 1999-2000.
