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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, Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz, Niall Kennedy's Weblog, theory.isthereason, Micro Persuasion, Things That, Mashable*, The Technology Chronicles, Earthling, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, SearchViews, InterMedia, Joseph Scott's Blog, Life On the Wicked Stage, Rex Hammock's Weblog, Lost Remote TV Blog, Mathew Ingram, Video Podcasting News, The Blogging Times, Digital Micro-Markets and Web Strategy
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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.
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."
Om Malik / GigaOM:Where will Amanda Go? — In Broadband Life + Web 2.0 + Online Video
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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.
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.
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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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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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.
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 …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Internet Knows What You'll Do Next — A FEW years back, a technology writer named John Battelle began talking about how the Internet had made it possible to predict the future. When people went to the home page of Google or Yahoo and entered a few words into a search engine …
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It's Rishi, AttentionTrust.org, Digital Micro-Markets, WebMetricsGuru and Geek News Central …
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
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 …
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Record industry to sue Yahoo China over pirated tunes — Back in February, I posted an item on BoingBoing about the abundance of pirated tunes one can find by way of Chinese-language search engines Yahoo China and Baidu. Not news for anyone who's spent time on those sites, but as a non-Chinese-speaker, it was news to me.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
TxtDrop offers SMS widget for MySpace — Web based text messaging company txtDrop announced today a new widget for MySpace profiles (and other web pages of course) that creates a button to deliver an SMS message to the page owner's phone. This means that message senders don't have to pay for each text.
Dallas Star-Telegram:
Losing their jobs and even their iPods — National Semiconductor giveth, and it taketh away. — The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company gained loads of publicity last month for announcing plans to give every employee a 30-gigabyte video iPod. — Last week, the company laid off 35 employees at its Arlington plant.
