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2:55 PM ET, July 14, 2006

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"Let click fraud happen"? Uh, no. — You may have seen some of the media coverage generated by a blogger's quoting Eric Schmidt about click fraud. By using select excerpts and ignoring the context of the remarks, that blog post made for an interesting read, but was unfortunately misleading.

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Nate Mook / BetaNews:

Microsoft Seeks to Stop Search Spam — Microsoft Research has embarked on a new project to automatically seek out search engine spam before it can be used to defraud advertisers on MSN, Yahoo and Google. Called Strider Search Defender, the tool combines two other projects from MSR: Strider Honey Monkey and URL Tracer.

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Robin Finn / New York Times:

A Visionary Seeking to Connect the World, Wirelessly — GEEKSTER-HOOD is powerful. And visionary. And necessary. At least it is in the worldview of Marshall Brown, the Internet impresario who is making good on a personal vision this summer by staking New Yorkers …

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Rachel Boltz / The Story of Feedster:

Feedster Announces New President, Additional Funding — San Francisco, CA — Feedster, Inc., the leader in search and syndication of dynamic content, has announced today that Tyler Goldman will join its Board of Directors and become acting president. Mr. Goldman was previously Senior VP …

Discussion: SiliconBeat, Mark Evans, GigaOM and RSS Marketing Blog

Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:

Multiply closes first funding round — Online social network Multiply has closed a Series A funding round with $5 million from Transcosmos and $1 million from the company's founders. Multiply is a service that filters all networking functions, from highlighted users to visible tag clouds, through a proximity filter with a slider.

Discussion: paidContent.org

Edo / Pink Tentacle:

Face to face with high-tech medical devices — The International Modern Hospital Show 2006 is being held from July 12 to 14 in Tokyo (Tokyo Big Sight), where nearly 400 companies have gathered to showcase the latest in healthcare-related technology. The theme of the show is "Reliable Health …

Discussion: THE RAW FEED, Gearlog and Engadget

Computer Guru / The NeoSmart Files:

ReactOS Reviewed: The Next Windows? — The idea is simple: Linux isn't always the best non-Windows operating system. Windows is excellent and unbeatable for quite a few people and tasks. But neither is perfect. Almost exactly 10 years ago, a team began to search for a fix.

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Al Scillitani / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:

Dr. Google Sends Pain Relief — Several days ago, I wrote an article titled, "Dear Google, You're Giving Me a Headache." To my surprise, they sent me the pain relief I requested. — After a meeting, where I was actually discussing Google reporting, I went to my desk and found an envelope from Google.

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Will Price:

Age and Entrepreneurship — A Silicon Valley axiom equates entrepreneurship with youth - think of Jobs, Dell, Gates, Yang, and many other founders who built industry-changing companies in their twenties. I once heard a Valley veteran remark that if you were either A) over thirty or B) …

Discussion: Zoli's Blog, Open Sources and AC/OS

Tom Evslin / Fractals of Change:

Disaster Relief Meetings at The FCC — Jeff Pulver and I went down to Washington, DC today for a series of meetings at the Federal Communication Commission on the petition Jeff and I filed last spring for better phone service in and following a Katrina-like disaster.

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Todd Woodward / symantec.com:

Mac OS X: Viruses and Security — Researchers and engineers who are working in the security field must have strong constitutions—especially when it comes to weathering negative backlash and tired conspiracy theories whenever security and Mac OS X are mentioned in the same breath.

Discussion: The Unofficial Apple Weblog and digg

Mike Langberg / Mercury News:

Plan-as-you-go `unconference' unleashes ideas — How do you plan a tech conference agenda in the Age of the Internet, when everyone learns about developments in any given field as soon as they happen? — You don't. — Instead, you give up on planning and hold an ``unconference,'' also known as an open space meeting.

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