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Om Malik / GigaOM:
SkyRider, A New P2P Start Up Emerges — Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking is once again catching the imagination of the venture capital community in Silicon Valley. RedSwoosh, BitTorrent, Pando, and dozens of others have come out with different twists on the core concept of peer-to-peer networking, and have raised millions.
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Chris Gilmer / Download Squad:
AOL to provide 5GB of online storage for free — AOL (this blog's parent company) announced today that starting next month it will offer 5GB of free online storage for all web users. The free online storage will start in September, and will be powered by Xdrive, a service acquired by AOL late last year.
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TechEffect, The Jason Calacanis Weblog, SurfBits, michael parekh on IT, the j. botter weblog and digg
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
AOL/AIM users to get 5GB free storage — The one upsmanship in giving away storage continues with an announcement today from AOL that come September the company will provide 5 GB of free storage on the company's XDrive system to anyone with as little as an AOL or AIM screen name.
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InfoWorld
Ted's Take:
the New AOL — AOL made a lot of news yesterday, and the media gobbled it up. There has been lots of speculation about our new strategy, our business model, our product plans, and the risks of such a dramatic pivot. As someone who has been at AOL through most of its incarnations …
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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.
Russ Walker / Security Fix:
Follow-up to the Macbook Post — I'd like to respond to the people who commented on yesterday's post about the video's depiction of the use of a third-party wireless card on the Macbook. I spent more than an hour with Dave Maynor watching this exploit in action and peppering him with questions about it.
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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 …
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John Carroll, The Technology Liberation …, Valleywag, Furdlog, IP Democracy and Slashdot
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 …
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 …
Assaf / Supr.c.ilio.us:
What the Web 2.0 means — To everyday American, the Web 2.0 is just a normal part of life, like SUVs and apple pie. It makes you happy, gets you laid and pays the bill. So no wonder, we rarely stop our busy daily routine to ask ourselves: what does it all mean?
Rex / rexblog:
Links and love: It has taken me a few years, but I can usually follow the esoteric, internecine debates that bubble up among the more technically inclined residents of the blogosphere. However, I've never been able to completely understand what the heck "attention" and "gesture" mean and why Steve Gillmor doesn't link to people.
Brian Oberkirch / Like It Matters:
rule #1: don't break the web — An important disaster communication project is offline right now because of a personal whim. The Slidell Hurricane Damage Blog has disappeared, resolving instead to the main Weblogs Work domain. Why? Because my former business partner & I no longer work together …
Seo Book / SEO Book.com:
The Myth of a Perfectly Optimized Page — I frequently get asked to look at a page to see if I think it is perfectly optimized. But I rarely think you can tell if a page is perfectly optimized just by looking at one page. — Most of the optimized pages I am asked to look at have no clear goal at hand.
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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.
Mihai Parparita / Official Google Reader Blog:
Namespaced Extensions in Feeds — Feeds can be used for more than just text; they can embed pictures, podcasts and video. There are even more esoteric bits of data that can be attached to feeds, like the geographic location that a post is about, the number of comments it has received and that …
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Niall Kennedy's Weblog
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.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
New tools test VoIP security — LAS VEGAS—If your VoIP phone starts ringing off the hook, it might not denote a surge in your popularity—just that someone is trying one of 13 newly released security tools. — Researchers at the Black Hat security conference here released the tools on Wednesday.
