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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype, All Talk, Just Not Facts — Every quarter, one hopes EBay will provide some clarity on Skype, and what kind of success the company is having with its $2.6 billion purchase. And every quarter, one is left scratching his head, pondering over meaningless metrics.
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Google Accessible Search — Google released a new product called Accessible Search, a "web search for the visually challenged." Though result pages are somewhat less cluttered compared to normal Google results, the point here is not so much to create accessible results formatting, but to rank accessible results higher.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Principles to Guide Future Development of Windows — Twelve tenets to continue to apply after major parts of U.S. antitrust ruling expire. — WASHINGTON — July 19, 2006 — Recognizing the important role the Windows® operating system plays in the global information economy …
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Web 2.0 Explorer, Geek News Central …, Datamation IT News Blog and Don Dodge on The Next …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Gizmo Project makes all VoIP to landline calls free. Forever. — Skype ruffled some feathers in the internet telephony world earlier this year when they announced they'd be offering free SkypeOut calls to the US and Canada for the rest of 2006. We weren't too interested since it came off …
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VoIP & Gadgets Blog, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, eHomeUpgrade, theory.isthereason and Kevin Maney
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Steve Boxer / Business Week:
Spore Lives Up to the Hype — When Will Wright invited us over to play his latest masterpiece, we couldn't refuse — Will Wright does not do things by halves. That's just as well, since with Spore, he will attempt to outdo The Sims, now officially the biggest-selling game of all time …
linuxdevices.com:
Linux-powered robots from France? Oui! — A French start-up created to build autonomous, easily programmable, affordable humanoid robots has emerged from stealth mode. Aldebaran Robotics, of Paris, expects to ship its first product — a humanoid household service robot running Linux — in early 2007.
Google Video team / Official Google Video Blog:
New Feature: Link within a Video — Has this ever happened to you? — You're watching this documentary on monkeys and then halfway through, this monkey does the funniest thing ever. So of course, you want nothing more than to share this hilarious monkey moment with your friends.
Jon's Radio:
News about Google News — InfoWorld's online folks have long complained about the absence of InfoWorld news stories from Google News. Here is the most striking illustration of the problem: — 1. WWW.google.com/search?q=site:WWW.infowo rld.com — Results 1 - 10 of about 2,040,000
The Ask.com Blog:
Introducing RSS Smart Answers — Great news, our Smart Answers program is expanding and we're excited about it. We think you will be too. — Today, we're formally introducing RSS Smart Answers. — What are they? — Now, when you conduct a web search for many of your favorite blogs …
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Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
YouTube's new policy says "we own your content." — The newly revised Terms and Conditions page at YouTube raises important questions for anyone who uploads videos there. Eliot Van Buskirk at the Wired News music blog "Listening Post" writes: … Read the rest of the post here: Link.
Paul Mutton / Netcraft:
PayPal XSS Exploit available for two years? — The cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, which was harnessed by fraudsters to execute a convincing phishing attack against PayPal users, may have been exploitable for two years previously. — Despite the prompt action taken by PayPal …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search — Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus. Ebrahim is lead developer and co-founder of Qelix Technologies, the company behind a search 2.0 contender called Qube. This 2-part series of posts is adapted from Ebrahim's research material in developing Qube.
Wilson Rothman / Time:
Nike + iPod Sport Kit — Apple and the sports giant team up to create a new running system — For a field already glutted with gadgets, the Nike + iPod kit is the most elegant of high-tech runner's aids. An instrument the size of a pebble measures your pace from a pocket inside one of Nike's specially designed shoes.
sandisk.com:
SanDisk Introduces SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash - World's Fastest Cards For Professional Photographers — New Cards Result In Faster Capture of High-Resolution Images and Quicker Card-to-Computer Transfers — NEW YORK, NY, July 19, 2006 - SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
CoComment upgrades, now worth using — CoComent is a popular browser tool for tracking conversations in the comments sections of blogs. It catches the comments you've made around the web and comments made after yours. It was initially launched in February.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Apple Earnings Bolstered by iPod and Notebook Sales — SAN FRANCISCO, July 19 — Confounding Wall Street skeptics, Apple Computer released quarterly financial results Wednesday that showed strong growth in both its iPod music player and its MacBook portable computer businesses.
Charles Ar / Guardian:
What is the 1% rule? — It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it. — It's a meme that emerges strongly …
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
Portrait of a Blogger: Under 30 and Sociable — Survey Finds Need to Connect With Family and Friends and to Meet New People — They consider themselves digital natives. — They're young. They're addicted to instant messaging and social networks. And they're more apt to dish …
