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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
AOL apologizes for release of user search data — AOL apologized on Monday for releasing search-log data on subscribers that had been intended for use with AOL's newly launched research site. — The randomly selected data, which focused on 658,000 subscribers and posted 10 days ago …
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Markus / The Paradigm Shift:
AOL Search Data Shows Users Planning to commit Murder. — http://research.aol.com released a list of 20 million + searches by 500,000 AOL users. Contained in this list are social security numbers, credit cards and other personal information. There are some truly scary things in this database.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
AOL: DOOOOOOH! — AOL has officially responded to the recent ruckus over data released by folks in its research group. The summary: Man, did we screw up. — I emailed my contacts there and got an early draft of the release: — "This was a screw up, and we're angry and upset about it.
Google Blogoscoped:
AOL Shared Private Search Queries — AOL released their user's search queries - around 20 million queries collected from half a million users over a period of three months*. AOL claimed the log might be useful for "personalization, query reformulation or other type of search research."
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Infothought, Valleywag, Bloggers Blog, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, SEO Book.com, Googling Google, PaulStamatiou.com, TechSpot and digg
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Live from WWDC 2006: Steve Jobs keynote — 8:23AM PST - Alright everybody, we're kicking off over here at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Be sure to book mark this URL, as even though we're doing a little pre-game coverage now, this is where it's all gonna go down when Steve takes the stage at 10:00AM.
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Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
McKinsey Study Predicts Continuing Decline in TV Selling Power — Cites 50% Drop in Viewers, 40% Hike in Prime-Time Ad Spend Over Last Decade — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — A study is about to give Madison Avenue a fresh pummeling: McKinsey & Co. is telling a host of major marketers that by 2010 …
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Reuters:
Viacom, Google aim ad-backed videos at Web sites — NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks has agreed to distribute clips from its cable networks over Google Inc.'s advertising network, in a test of what could become a new economic model for Web-based video delivery, the companies said on Sunday.
BBC:
Google signs $900m News Corp deal — Google is to provide search and advertising on MySpace.com and other websites owned by News Corporation's Fox International Media. — The deal will see Google pay Fox at least $900m (£472m) provided certain web traffic targets are met.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:Google & MySpace In $900 Million Deal On Search & Contextual Ads
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Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
State of the Blogosphere, August 2006 — Three months have passed since my last State of the Blogosphere report, so time for an update on the numbers. For those of you who just want the most interesting tidbits, I've tried something new this time sround - I've put in boldface the most significant information.
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Read/WriteWeb, Between the Lines, IP Democracy, Trends in the Living Networks, Don Dodge on The Next …, thebloggingtimes.com, ProBlogger Blog Tips, Naked Conversations, Mark Evans, UMBC eBiquity, Joseph Scott's Blog, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Earthling, Message, Guardian Unlimited, Digital Inspiration, powered, Lost Remote, The Blog Herald, unmediated, Joho the Blog, LEWIS 360° and digg
RuiCarmo / The Tao of Mac:
A Spotty Take On Leopard's Features — I'll be brief, since due to other folk's vacations I spent far too much time wading through a couple dozen million database records with the Swiss Army Knife of the Internet, had a most unfashionably late dinner, pretty much missed the WWDC online coverage …
Yahoo! Search blog:
Announcing Yahoo! Search Builder — Look Ma, My Own Search Engine! — It's always great to help a friend. A friend of mine who is a diver wanted a specialized search engine for his website focused on diving. At around the same time, an engineer at Yahoo! built a prototype that made building specialized search engines a snap.
PC Pro:
AMD to drop ATi brand — Chip guru AMD has announced that it's going to drop the ATi brand name following its takeover of the Canadian graphics underdog. Gareth Cater from AMD told Custom PC that 'the new company will be called AMD,' meaning that we could shortly be seeing AMD-branded Radeon graphics chips.
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
Business Week followup: Valuing assets — Following up on Business Week's bubble-logic cover story on Digg, Techdirt offers a good roundup, suggesting that the $60 million figure was the last-minute work of "higher-up" editors, and noting that it does not appear in the text of the print edition …
Los Angeles Times:
Underwhelmed by It All — For the 12-to-24 set, boredom is a recreational hazard. — With their vast arsenals of electronic gear, they are the most entertained generation ever. Yet the YouTubing, MySpacing, multi-tasking teens and young adults widely seen as Hollywood's most wanted audience …
J Mark Lytle / Digital World Tokyo:
Kingston K-PEX goes on sale, Kevin Spacey not involved — Kingston in Taiwan just dropped us a line to say the personal media player it had on show at Computex this year is now on sale. — The 1GB K-PEX is set to sell for US$130, while the 2GB model will be $50 more.
Business 2.0:
Why we don't get the (text) message — Texting is insanely popular overseas, but practically nonexistent in the United States - for now. That just means we'll have to import the best tech from abroad. … Consider this anomaly: Ecuador, with a per capita GDP of $4,300 …
Eric A. Taub / New York Times:
Picture Tubes Are Fading Into the Past — The bulky, squarish, heavy picture tube, the standard television technology for more than 60 years, is heading for the dustbin of history much faster than anyone expected. — This year, the number of TV models in the United States …
