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Kim Hart / Washington Post:
Barging Into the Bloggers' Circle — Web Logs Are Fertile New Territory for Introducing Products, Welcome or Not — When Nokia Corp. released its camera smartphone last fall, the marketing campaign cut back on news releases and flashy ads. Instead, the company sent sample products …
IEBlog:
Revised IE7 Naming in Windows Vista — I had mentioned a while back that we planned to call the version of IE7 in Windows Vista "Internet Explorer 7+". Well, the feedback we got on the blog was overwhelming - many of you didn't like it. So, as we've said on our website, we heard you.
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Lifehacker, Microsoft News Tracker, Ed Bott's Windows Expertise, Web 2.0 Explorer and Bink.nu
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Vista hacked at Black Hat — update LAS VEGAS—While Microsoft talked up Windows Vista security at Black Hat, a researcher in another room demonstrated how to hack the operating system. — Joanna Rutkowska, a Polish researcher at Singapore-based Coseinc, showed that it is possible …
Ryan / Screwedbydesign.com:
Firefox 2 Visual Refresh Progress — Last night I worked on getting the new theme changes hacked into my trunk build. After about an hour of failed attempts, I ended up having to pull a new tree to get the patch to grudgingly apply - only to run into bug 346214 and a missing close tag introduced by the patch in browser.xul.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Copyright tussles for Google — In the 1970s, an adult movie theater in Dallas claimed it had the right to show a pirated copy of "Behind the Green Door" because the movie was so lewd it could not legally be copyrighted. — The theater lost when a federal appeals court ruled that the film …
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Don Dodge on The Next …
Gizmodo:
Touchscreen iPod Due This November Says Our Secret Source — Apple's upcoming iPod will make its debut this November and will definitely feature a touchscreen, Gizmodo has learned. Let's just say that we have a couple of people fairly high up the Apple food chain who have made it known …
CNET News.com:
Senate ratifies controversial cybercrime treaty — The first and only international treaty designed exclusively to combat computer crime won approval late Thursday from the U.S. Senate. — The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime "will enhance our ability to cooperate with foreign governments …
Acarvin / Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth:
Notes From Jimmy Wales' Wikimania Talk — Jimmy Wales notes from the Wikimania conference: — Shows a Stephen Colbert clip: "Any website that has a longer entry on truthiness than Lutheranism has got its priorities straight." Colbert then logged in, saying "Idaho is Oregon's Portugal."
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Roundup: The elitist Facebook copycat, NEA climbs wave to Bangalore, InFreeDA belly up? — An elitist Facebook look-alike launches — Hmmm, this new company, called Top20Network.com is only for Harvard, Princeton, Yale, U. of Pennsylvania, Duke, MIT, Stanford, Cal. Tech., Columbia, Dartmouth …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Google reveals payment deal with AP — Google has agreed to pay the Associated Press for use of its news stories and pictures, according to a statement released by the two companies on Wednesday. — The deal settles a dispute between Google and the AP and has implications for a lawsuit Google …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
China Blocks FeedBurner RSS Feeds — FeedBurner, which powers hundreds of thousands of blog, podcast and mainstream news feeds (including this one), is apparently being blocked by Chinese authorities. Here is a Yoda-esque loose English language translation of William Long's original post.
Discussion:
Scripting News
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Sitemaps Becomes Google Webmaster Central; Preferred Domain Tool Launched — Google Sitemaps has gained a new name along with new features. Google Webmaster Central is the new name of the former Google Sitemaps service, which now has evolved into a central place for Google …
Ted's Take:
Advantages of New Media — Here is some further perspective on AOL's plans: — Most traditional media companies generate multiple revenue streams to support their business models. For example - cable networks are paid a monthly fee by a cable MSO, and they also sell national advertising spots.
Discussion:
The Jason Calacanis Weblog
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise UK:
Search Engine Brand Association Differs in UK and US — Bill's excellent post yesterday on brand association of MSN, Yahoo! and Google in the US prompted me to do the same analysis for the UK. I was surprised by some of the similarities and differences. — The striking similarity between …
Mac Spoofs:
Archive for the 'Spoofs: Get a Mac' Category — We think this is the first spoof of its kind: an activist group turning the "Get a Mac" ad campagin against Apple to advocate for human rights. Will be interesting to see if these become more common - I think this one is fairly effective (regardless of whether it's true or not).
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Guardian Unlimited
