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Paul R. La Monica / CNNMoney.com:
Free AOL: Too little, too late? — Analysts debate whether giving away e-mail, other services will help the struggling Internet company. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — One of the worst kept secrets in the business world finally became official Wednesday: AOL is now going to offer many of its services for free to broadband customers.
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Staci / paidContent.org:Earnings: Time Warner:$1 Billion Profit For 2Q06; AOL Freed; Time Inc. Disappoints;
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Om Malik / GigaOM:Ding Dong, Dial Up Is Gone
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PaulStamatiou.com, Virtual Economics, IP Democracy, paidContent.org and Ben Metcalfe Blog
Matt Cutts / Google Blogoscoped:
Matt Cutts on Searching Homepages Only and More — Here's a partial transcript of Google employee Matt Cutt's latest video musings... edited for clarity. — Q: Is it possible to search for just homepages? I try doing -inurl:html, -inurl:htm, etc., but that doesn't filter out enough.
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Feed Access Control Standard for RSS and ATOM — As we've seen more types of information get syndicated, and as feeds are becoming used for multiple purposes, we've been growing concerned about the lack of controls on the distribution of personal data, especially through RSS.
PostBubble:
Netscape Navigators Revealed — Netscape has raised some eyebrows with their pending paid social news editors aka "Netscape Navigators"and now they've finally revealed them. Netscape just added the section on the right hand side of their main page. — Here is a list of the hired guns with pictures:
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
The first 10 Navigators: We've hired three of the top 12 DIGG users, the #1 user from Newsvine, the #1 user from Reddit, and a bunch of Weblogs, Inc. folks. — The word is getting out about the first 10 Netscape Navigators (people who took "the offer" to become paid bookmarkers).
Sony:
ORGANIZE PHOTOS BY 'WHERE' NOT 'WHEN' WITH GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM FOR SONY DIGITAL CAMERAS — Sony Electronics today announced a GPS device that puts your pictures on the map. — Using time and location recordings from Sony's GPS-CS1 GPS device and the time stamp from a Sony digital still camera …
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LATEST WALKMAN PLAYERS ADD A SPLASH OF COLOR AND STAMINA TO YOUR DIGITAL MUSIC EXPERIENCE — Sony today unveiled a line of flash-based, digital music players that combine style and exceptional battery power. The new NW-E Series of Walkman® players comes in six different colors (pink …
Chris Thompson / East Bay Express:
Publishers vs. the Censorbot — As Google becomes more crucial to the revenues of online news sites, its practice of withholding ads from edgy stories threatens Web journalism. — Google has entered that rarefied tier of corporations whose services or products are indispensable to American life.
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Timothy B. Lee / New York Times:
Entangling the Web — AFTER a decade of explosive growth, a revolutionary new technology transforms the American economy. It allows people to communicate and do business across great distances faster than ever before. Critics, however, contend that access is controlled by a few large corporations eager …
Longofest / MacRumors:
WWDC Keynote Info? XServe, Mac Pro, Displays? — MacRumors has obtained unconfirmed information that could shed light on what the community can expect next Monday during Steve Job's keynote. — Xserve — According to our source, Apple will be set to unveil Xeon-based Xserves.
Mark Wallace / 3pointD.com:
SL Business Mag Launches — The new business magazine for the virtual world of Second Life (which I blogged last week) published its first issue yesterday. Though the mag's Web site is a bit confusing to navigate and the publishers have stayed with their decision to use PDF rather …
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Voice-over-GoogleFi — GoogleFi, Google's Mountain View network, may be good for data connections, but is it good enough for making voice calls? In order to find out answers, I headed down to Mountain View to conduct some first hand tests, and well, make some VoIP calls.
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Sandy / meeblog:
meebo me — sandy posted this on August 2nd, 2006 in releases category — Since the launch of meebo, we've primarily focused on making the experience inside meebo.com a really great one. We've taken thousands of emails, hundreds of requests, and even shelled out a few dollars on real, live usability data.
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Damien Mulley, SiliconBeat, Technology Evangelist, Download Squad, Mashable! and WordPress.com Blog
David Berlind / Between the Lines:
What is Red Hat's achilles heel? No, it's not SuSE, Windows, or Solaris. Ubuntu anyone? — By way of Slashdot comes this interesting editorial at FreeSoftwareMagazine.com by Tony Mobily who makes a case for why Linux server success is connected to Linux desktop usage …
Kim Zetter / Wired News:
Hackers Clone E-Passports — LAS VEGAS — A German computer security consultant has shown that he can clone the electronic passports that the United States and other countries are beginning to distribute this year. — The controversial e-passports contain radio frequency ID, or RFID …
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Bill Tancer / Hitwise US:
Google Breaks 60% - U.S. July Search Volume Numbers — In addition to market share of visits and page impressions, one of the statistics that Hitwise compiles is the volume of searches executed on the top search engines. Given our large sample, "top" is defined as 57 search engines used …
Carlo Longino / MobHappy:
Get The Snakes On A Bleeping Plane On A Bleeping Phone — The forthcoming movie Snakes on a Plane has become a minor piece of web folklore after its makers filmed five additional days of footage nearly six months after finishing principal photography — to incorporate online criticism and suggestions into the movie.
Larry Gordon / Los Angeles Times:
UC May Join Google's Library Project — The firm would gain access to 34 million volumes in its effort to offer digitized books. — In a move with major significance for the worlds of academic research and publishing, the University of California is in talks to join Google's controversial project …
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Dan Nystedt / Macworld UK:
RealNetworks to distribute Google and Mozilla software — Developers of three popular software applications - RealPlayer, Firefox, and Google's Toolbar - have reached a multi-year agreement to distribute certain applications to users. — When users download RealNetworks' RealPlayer media software …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Watch Blog:
What Is 'Photosynth'? — The first official project/product from Microsoft's Live Labs is called "Photosynth." What is it? It's hard to describe succinctly. It appears to be kind of mashup of things: photo sharing, visual search, mapping and 3-D. — To me, at least conceptually, it's pretty exciting.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Rollyo Adds A Ton of Features — Rollyo, a San Francisco based startup that launched in September 2005, released a bevy of new features on their site tonight. I won't go into detail on all of them, but a complete list is available on their About page. — If you aren't familiar with Rollyo …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Diigo is a research tool that rocks — I just looked at the new research megatool Diigo and though several bloggers have covered it in the past and in previous incarnations (including our charming leader) I think they really missed the boat when many called it an unexciting entry into the crowded social bookmarking space.
