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New York Times:
A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 — Buried in a list of 20 million Web search queries collected by AOL and recently released on the Internet is user No. 4417749. The number was assigned by the company to protect the searcher's anonymity, but it was not much of a shield.
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Leaving Microsoft — I am leaving Microsoft to start my own company. My last day at Microsoft is next Friday, August 18. It's uncertain whether Microsoft will continue the feed platform work I started, but it's some good stuff so I hope they do. … I joined Microsoft in April excited …
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Don Dodge on The Next …, Mini-Microsoft, Web 2.0 Explorer, AccMan Pro, LiveSide, B2Day, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, Sadagopan's weblog …, Ben Metcalfe Blog, Om's Daily, VC Ratings, Elias Torres, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz, Microsoft News Tracker, The Blog Herald, PodTech Network Blog, FuzzyBlog, Kevin Burton's Feed Blog and Photo Matt
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Inside AdWords crew / Inside AdWords:
Troubling findings on how some third parties detect click fraud — Shuman Ghosemajumder, Business Product Manager for Trust & Safety, returns today with important information regarding third party detection of click fraud:
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TechCrunch, Digital Micro-Markets, Publishing 2.0, SearchViews, ClickZ, Search Engine Watch Blog, OpsanBlog and Slashdot
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Burtonator / Kevin Burton's Feed Blog:
Technorati's Numbers are Wrong — Dave posts another state of the blogosphere with some interesting stats. The one I found shocking was the claim that there are 50 million blogs. — These numbers are overly optimistic and dangerous. There are not 50 million blogs.
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GigaOM, InterMedia, A View from the Isle, OnoTech, B.L. Ochman's weblog and MIT Advertising Lab
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
CDs Find Their Way Into Papers — A Santa Monica company is packaging movie previews, music samples, interviews and ads with Sunday editions. — Most newspapers have built their long-term growth strategies around the Internet. But a Santa Monica company is betting that an old piece of new technology …
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Mike / Techdirt:Rather Than Embrace The Internet, Newspapers Look To Embrace …
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@rgumente
Gina Trapani / Lifehacker: Top:
Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista side by side — The more things change, the more they stay the same. That's what I thought watching coverage of Apple's Worldwide Developer's conference opening yesterday, where banners that read things like "Hasta la vista, Vista" and "Redmond has a cat, too.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Gizmodo, creativebits and Download Squad
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Sprint Details Mobile WiMAX Plans — We just sat in on the Sprint's conference call, which brought together Sprint Nextel CEO Gary Forsee, Motorola's Ed Zander, Intel's Sean Maloney and Samsung's KiTae Lee. Here are the details. — Sprint confirmed it has chosen mobile WiMAX as the technology …
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Cshields / OSU Open Source Lab:
Rackathon 2006 — Greetings! We are looking for individuals to help sponsor the OSL in our new fundraising campaign. However, this is a campaign like no other. When you make a donation to the OSL, we will stick your name on one of our racks as our own way of saying "Thanks!".
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
e-learning 2.0 - how Web technologies are shaping education — Written by Steve O'Hear and edited by Richard MacManus. This is a two-part series in which Steve will explore how Web technologies are being used in education. In Part 2 he will profile Elgg, social network software for education, and interview its founders.
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Sadagopan's weblog …
Mathew Ingram / mathewingram.com/work:
Forget MySpace — move the band to Second Life — Okay, it's only Duran Duran — the classic 1980's "Hungry Like a Wolf" hair band — but it's still pretty interesting that a band is setting up a virtual island in Second Life, where the boys will put on virtual concerts for giant robots …
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Britain's digital tribes revealed — Households in Britain can be classified into 23 "e-types" depending on their access to technology, say researchers. — E-types include mobile explorers, the e-committed and rational utilitarians. — The researchers, from University College London …
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Ventures in Pixels Blog
Om Malik / GigaOM:
News Corp, Google Deal Deconstructed — The $900 million deal between News Corp. and Google might seem to be all about MySpace, but in reality its all about other Fox Interactive properties, such as IGN. It is also a tactical admission by News Corp., that when it comes to running big ad networks …
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Bill Tancer, Publishing 2.0, Mathew Ingram, Google Watch, Good Morning Silicon Valley, @rgumente and Screenwerk
John Leyden / The Register:
Mobile internet is still a turn-off — Most punters still find mobile internet usage to be a frustrating experience they'd rather avoid. — Despite investment by operators in services such as i-mode and Vodafone Live, 73 per cent of respondents to a new survey said don't access the net from their mobile.
casio.com:
Features Wide-Aspect Movie Recording and Data Storage Function — Casio, Inc. and its parent company, Casio Computer Co., Ltd., announced today the release of the EXILIM ® Card EX-S770 . This latest addition to the stylish EXILIM digital camera series is a powerful digital camera packed with advanced functions.
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Actors seek new scale for new media — As advertisers shift their television focus to include more Internet and mobile forms of video advertising, what's an actor worth? — That's exactly what actors and advertisers are trying to determine. — The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists …
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft to Pay Reparations for Vista, Office Delays — Microsoft is working on a new reparations strategy, known internally as a customer incentive program, for those customers with volume licensing programs who will be negatively affected by the delay in the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007.
PC Pro:
AMD stays hand over ATi brand axe — Custom PC discovered yesterday that a number of AMD and ATi staff had understood the ATi brand was to be dropped. However, AMD has backtracked on that position, saying no such decision has been made and that it maintains a strong commitment to the ATi brand.
