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Maria Aspan / New York Times:
Interactive Netscape Site Gets Some Sour Responses — Netscape may be known now for losing the so-called browser war to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. But Netscape.com, the default home page for users of the fading browser, continues to have its following — so much so that when its owner …
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Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Netscape Has Attention, If Nothing Else — Netscape has gotten mixed reviews for its recent Digg-style remake. The New York Times adds a story this morning about a petition from Netscape users to bring back the old site. We did a quick check and got traffic data update from Hitwise.
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Robert McMillan / pcadvisor.co.uk:
McAfee spots 'bot' danger — Hackers are using techniques popularised by developers of open-source software like Linux to improve their malicious code, a researcher at McAfee has said. — Nowhere is this more apparent than within the growing families of 'bot' software, which allow hackers to remotely control infected computers.
Steve / Burning Questions:
FeedBurner acquires Blogbeat — In the syndicated content solar system in which the FeedBurner orb spins, it helps to occasionally venture out of our galaxy in search of intelligent life and integrated product offerings. Long story short, we have acquired Blogbeat.
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Reuters:
FeedBurner buys BlogBeat, expanding blog analysis — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - FeedBurner.com, which syndicates Web postings for 200,000 publishers, said it has acquired blog analytics company BlogBeat.net for undisclosed terms. — FeedBurner manages managing headline syndication services …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Yahoo Home Page Goes Live Today — Lots of Yahoo news today. In addition to the new Yahoo Finance site that launches later today, Yahoo is finally taking its new home page, previously in beta at yahoo.com/preview, live on the main yahoo.com site. The launch is U.S. only, other markets will follow shortly.
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Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Blogspot Blogs Banned in India: Read Tricks To Access Blocked Websites — Several prominent Indian Bloggers including Neha, Amit, Dina, Mridula and DesiPundit are reporting that blogspot.com blogs hosted on Blogger.com have been blocked by some ISPs in India.
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Mridula / gonomad.com:What is Up with Blogspot (Blogger) Sites in India?
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Neha Viswanathan / Within / Without:Blogger blocked by some ISPs in India?
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Digital Inspiration, India, ...My heart's in Accra, Center for Citizen Media and Slashdot
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
YouTube serves 100m videos each day — The big news of the morning is that YouTube has announced it's hit 100 million videos served per day. Founded in early 2005, the company has announced $11.5 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital and is rumored to have received another $25 million from Sequoia in April.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
But wait, there's more... Zune deets — For a product that Microsoft hasn't even officially confirmed, there sure is a whole lot of Zune info to be getting on with. The latest leaks are from Digital Music News, who has been reviewing some of the presentation material that Microsoft shared with top-level execs of partner companies.
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Yahoo Finance revises charts, chat, other features — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO - News) on Monday will unveil an upgraded version of its top-ranked financial information site that features new stock charting tools, improved investor chat rooms and financial video news.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:Yahoo Finance gets a facelift
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gregword, rev2.org, TechCrunch, Virtual Economics, Digital Backcountry, Search Engine Journal and GigaOM
Business Wire:
HP Unveils Revolutionary Wireless Chip That Links the Digital and Physical Worlds; Grain-Sized Chip Could Be Attached to Almost Any Object, Making Information More Ubiquitous — PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 17, 2006—HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) today announced that its researchers …
Ken Belson / New York Times:
Senator's Slip of the Tongue Keeps on Truckin' Over the Web — The word is spreading: The Internet is not a big truck. It's "a series of tubes." — Two weeks ago Senator Ted Stevens, a Republican from Alaska, shared this information at a Senate committee hearing to explain why he voted …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Jangl This — Hello, this Is Wildfire... how can I help you... It was a bubble ago, when I was first introduced to Wildfire, a follow-me, find-me telephone service, that tracked me down by serial dialing all my phone numbers: office, home or mobile phone.
Skeptic / Dead2.0:
11 Suggestions For Not Being a Dot-Bomb 2.0 — With all the 2.0 hype, I think it's unfair to unanimously declare all new Internet startups as 100% junk. It can't be much more than 95%. So I thought it would be an interesting diversion to switch the tone of my writing for a change.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The age of customerism and producerism — Forget consumerism. We're not just consumers anymore, as Doc Searls has taught me well. We are customers with our money in our fists, spending it wisely and joining together to spend it more wisely. And we are producers who can compete …
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Publishing 2.0, B.L. Ochman's weblog, cgm, Escapable Logic, Rough Type and Smalltalk Tidbits …
Julian / research.techkwondo.com:
Battleship:GoogleEarth (a 1st Life/2nd Life mashup) … I've started working on a bit of summer laboratory experiment to see how Google Earth could become a platform for realtime mobile gaming. (Follow the link on the Flickr photo page to the URL you can load in your Google Earth client to see the game board in its current state.)
Johnny / Popgadget:
Dance dance iPod karaoke party — The CAVS IPS-11G has an iPod dock, but it is not an accessory for the iPod. In this scenario the iPod is only an accessory for the world's greatest portable karaoke station. This rocking out machine is able to access data from 8 different iPod models, USB memory sticks, and external USB hard rives.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Movielink to allow movies transferred to DVDs — Movielink, which distributes movies over the Internet, is close to fixing one of the main drawbacks to downloading films over the Web. — Santa Monica, Calif.-based Movielink has purchased technology from software company Sonic Solutions …
Gizmodo, The Gadget Guide:
USB Rota-Rota Hub — Size and convenience is the name of the game with this Rota-Rota USB Hub from Brando. It has one male USB port to plug into a PC or laptop and four female USB ports that can slide out to fit any kind of USB gadget. USB plug girth will no longer be a problem in your life thanks to this hub.
