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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 …
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VoIP Watch, Reiter's Camera Phone Report, IP Democracy, Digital Inspiration, rexblog and Web Strategy
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 …
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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
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Calacanis vs. Benkler Round One — Halfway through Benkler's talk he threw a bomb at me calling my offer to pay bookmarkers crude—which I guess in some ways it was. Of course, the first person to create a market is often looked at as crude at the start and brilliant later on, but I digress.
Chris Pirillo:
Digg is Worth More than $60m — The Kevin Rose cover story in BusinessWeek magazine has been receiving a lot of attention in the blogosphere. The cover claims that "This Kid Made $60 Million In 18 Months." Pundits are largely taking umbrage, as collected by ValleyWag:
Vanessa Fox / Webmaster Central Blog:
More webmaster tools — With our latest release, we've done more than just change our name —we've listened to you and added some features and enhanced others as a result. — Telling us your preferred domain URL format — Some webmasters want their sites indexed under the www version of their domain …
Tom Evslin / Fractals of Change:
Daily Key to Success — "What is the one thing you do daily which is the key to your success as an entrepreneur?" someone asked me. Well, in my case it is past tense and I both succeeded and failed in entrepreneurship as well as most anything else I've tried.
Dave Rosenberg / Open Sources:
Lenovo to preload SUSE on Thinkpad — It seems like the never-ending Linux desktop quest is finally getting a bit closer as SVN reports that Lenovo will preload Suse on the Thinkpad T60 (a nice machine. Technically I think HP was the first OEM to ship a Linux laptop a year or so ago but it was a clunker …
Assaf / Labnotes:
Seven things you need to know about your next big startup idea — VC funding is not a liquidation event. When you're playing in an emerging market, the most you can do is speculate. VC rounds are hard numbers, but they're not market intelligence, unless you're price shopping for interest rate.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Lack of Transparency in Pay-Per-Click Ads and TV Ads: A Tale of Two Ad Councils — What does it say about an advertising format when an industry "council" has to be formed in order to arbitrate the problem of advertisers not knowing whether they are getting what they paid for?
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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 …
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 …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
New Protocol To Boost BitTorrent Speeds — BitTorrent, a San Francisco-based peer-to-peer networking start-up is working with Cachelogic of Cambridge, UK on a new protocol called the "Cache Discovery Protocol" or CDP, which supposedly will act like DHCP for peer to peer networks.
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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 …
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."
Feld Thoughts:
FeedBurner Networks - The Venture Capital Network — FeedBurner is beta testing a new set of functionality - called "Networks" that is planned for a September launch. I'm coordinating one of the beta Networks - the Venture Capital Network. — A FeedBurner Network is a collection of blogs that fit within a particular topic.
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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 …
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.
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Scripting News
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Video Layout Experiments — Google Video is experimenting with a new, more YouTube-like layout for video pages. To see this, go to a video page and enter ... javascript:setCookie('np','old');window .location.reload(); — ... into the address bar. Now hit return and click on "Try our new page layout" to the right.
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