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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Huge Red Flag at Netscape — A little known Digg-fact is that a relatively small group of users submit a large percentage of the stories that end up on the Digg home page. Netscape, which recently relaunched as a Digg-clone, wants to pay those top users to switch over to them.
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The Jason Calacanis Weblog, B2Day, BASEMENT.ORG, Susan Mernit's Blog, WeBreakStuff and Kevin Maney
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Paying the top DIGG/REDDIT/Flickr/Newsvine users (or "$1,000 a month for doing what you're already doing.") — When Brian and I started Weblogs, Inc. the idea of paying bloggers—heck, even making money from blogging—was considered offensive to many. Blogging was, as the case was stated …
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Things That, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Good Morning Silicon Valley, InterMedia, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, Rough Type, rev2.org, CyberNet Technology News, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Valleywag, Delicate Genius Blog, Threadwatch.org, ReveNews Online Revenue …, Blogspotting, PostBubble, Make Money Online …, Publishing 2.0 and Paul Colligan's …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:Calacanis offers to buy out digg users
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TechEffect, ReveNews Online Revenue …, robhyndman.com, Alex Barnett blog, WebMetricsGuru and digg
Mark Russinovich / sysinternals.com:
On My Way To Microsoft! — I'm very pleased to announce that Microsoft has acquired Winternals Software and Sysinternals. Bryce Cogswell and I founded both Winternals and Sysinternals (originally NTInternals) back in 1996 with the goal of developing advanced technologies for Windows.
Robert MacMillan / Reuters:
Storytelling, not journalism, spurs most blogs — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many people see Web journals or "blogs" as alternatives to the mainstream media, but most Americans who run them do so as a hobby rather than a vocation, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Four Big Ideas About Open Source — In my O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing next week at OSCON, I'm focusing on four big ideas about open source: — The architecture of participation beyond software. Software development was the canary in the coalmine, one of the first areas to show …
Ian Sager / Business Week:
iPod Accessories Gone Wild — The desire to personalize the Apple music-player experience—and make a fast buck—has resulted in some downright odd products — The early, runaway success of Apple Computer's iPod has spawned a whole ecosystem of third-party suppliers pushing accessories …
Internet Stocks on SeekingAlpha:
Yahoo! Inc. Q2 2006 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (YHOO) — Executives — Sue Decker - CFO and EVP, Finance and Administration — Marta Nichols - Director of Investor Relations — Analysts — Presentation — Operator — Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Yahoo! …
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David Kender / camcorderinfo.com:
Sony Introduces High Definition to DVD AVCHD Camcorder HDR-UX1 — Breaking News - Refresh Browser Frequently — July 18, 2006 - Today at a press conference in New York, Sony announced the release of the first camcorder to use the AVCHD format - the HDR-UX1.
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Yahoo! Search blog:
Finding Home Values in Web Search — With all the recent discussion on where home prices are heading, we saw a great opportunity to improve our home valuation product on Yahoo! Real Estate. We've integrated our product with Zillow.com to provide users with free instant home value estimates …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Comcast throws a curve in its broadband pitch — As AT&T prepares to enter the video market in the Bay Area, Comcast is attempting to get owners of local apartment buildings to agree to 10-year contracts that would grant the cable giant an exclusive right to provide tenants with all broadband services.
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New York Times:
Wall Street Journal to Run Ads on Front Page — The Wall Street Journal calls it a "jewel box," but readers of its front page will know it by its common name: advertising. — The Journal today confirmed long-time speculation that it would open its front page to advertising, probably in September …
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
AT&T launches box with Web, satellite — NEW YORK - AT&T Inc. is launching a satellite TV set-top box Wednesday that also connects to the Internet for movie downloads, reinforcing the phone company's push into video services. — The box, called AT&T Homezone, will be initially available …
Iancr / Yahoo! Music Blog:
Buy A Customized Jessica Simpson MP3 At Yahoo! Music — You can buy a personalized version of the new Jessica Simpson song "A Public Affair" from Yahoo! Music's Web Site (Music.Yahoo.com) for $1.99, and it's an MP3. Dear digital consumer, even if you're not into Jessica Simpson …
Sony:
SONY DELIVERS MUSIC WIRELESSLY THROUGHOUT THE HOME — New Streaming Audio System Plays Music Across a WiFi Home Network — NEW YORK, July 18, 2006 - Continuing to enhance the world of home audio, Sony Electronics today announced a wireless streaming music player and 2.1 channel home theater system.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
AOL launches corporate IM service — AOL is set to launch on Wednesday its new AIM Pro instant-messaging service, which features security and online meeting functions aimed at corporate users. — The service, which is free for anyone to use, integrates with Microsoft Outlook's calendar …
Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Sun CTO: Incremental open-sourcing of Java is the way — Java virtual machine, runtime environment, and Web services stack given as examples of components that could be incrementally open sourced — Expect the open-sourcing of the Java programming language to be done in incremental steps …
