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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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Roeder-Johnson Current:
SKYRIDER'S SMART NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTS THE CREATION, LOCATION, AND MONETIZATION OF CONTENT ON P2P NETWORKS — Skyrider, developer of a new peer-to-peer (P2P) networking platform, today formally launched the company. After two years of development, the company is disclosing its vision …
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, michael parekh on IT, SurfBits, 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
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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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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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 …
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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 …
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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The Technology Liberation …, John Carroll, 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 …
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?
Business Week:
Valley Boys — Digg.com's Kevin Rose leads a new brat pack of young entrepreneurs — It was June 26, 4:45 a.m., and Digg founder Kevin Rose was slugging back tea and trying to keep his eyes open as he drove his Volkswagen Golf to Digg's headquarters above the grungy offices of the SF Bay Guardian in Potrero Hill.
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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 …
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
Ian Austen / New York Times:
Was It Done With a Lens, or a Brush? — Like many amateur photographers, Joe Dejesus posts his photos online and compares them to the work of others on the photo-sharing site Flickr. At some point last year, a number of landscape photos caught his eye with their vibrant tones and colors.
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Thomas Hawk's Digital …
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.
