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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).
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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Om Malik / GigaOM:Ding Dong, Dial Up Is Gone
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PaulStamatiou.com, Virtual Economics, IP Democracy, paidContent.org and Geek News Central
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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Google Blogoscoped:
Google's Matt Cutts on Duplicate Content and More — This is a partial transcript of Google's Matt Cutts' Q&A videos. The text is edited for clarity. — Q: When does Google detect duplicate content, and within which range will duplicate be duplicate? — A: Good question.
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Google Operating System
Bloglines:
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.
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 …
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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TeleRead
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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.
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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Search Engine Journal
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 …
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 …
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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Lorcan Dempsey's weblog
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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.
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Hijacking a Macbook in 60 Seconds or Less — UPDATE, 6:45 p.m. ET: Watch the video of the Ellch/Maynor presentation on a new method they discovered for remotely circumventing the security of an Apple Macbook computer to seize total control over the machine.
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 …
Sony:
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 …
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 …
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Micro Persuasion
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.
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.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google, Yahoo, others team against click fraud — After numerous class action lawsuits and criticism from advertisers, the major Web search companies finally announced on Wednesday plans to work together with two industry groups to quantify click fraud. — Click fraud occurs when online ads …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
iChat Mobile: is it the iPhone (part forty bajillion)? — Ok everybody, alright, get it all out of your systems now. WWDC's in a few days, and the predominant rumor is that the iPhone is what we're going to get from it. Apple knows we want it, and we know they're working on it.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Orange Hues, CNNMoney.com, Signal vs. Noise and theory.isthereason
