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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.
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 A Different Kind Of Old Media — from the teaming-up-against-the-internet? dept — While newspapers aren't in as bad a shape as some would have you believe, they still are having trouble figuring out how to deal with this internet thing.
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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, BlogHer, Gizmodo and Download Squad
Dpreview / Digital Photography Review:
Nikon D80, 10 mp, previewed — This new camera is the natural successor to the D70/D70s with a refreshed design, user interface and a wide range of new features. Headline improvements are; 10.2 mp CCD, new image processing engine, 3D Color Matrix Metering II, 11-area AF system …
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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.
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 …, Web 2.0 Explorer, Mini-Microsoft, AccMan Pro, LiveSide, Good Morning Silicon Valley, B2Day, Sadagopan's weblog …, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, Elias Torres, Microsoft News Tracker, Ben Metcalfe Blog, Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz, Om's Daily, VC Ratings, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, PodTech Network Blog, The Blog Herald and FuzzyBlog
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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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PodTech Network Blog:
Mobile Podcasting Not There Yet - It's Starting to Happen.. — What about mobile podcating? That is podcasts on cell phones? I get this question all the time. I'm not bullish about it in the short term but it is obvious that it will happen. The question is when?
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
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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!".
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google calls click fraud estimates overblown — SAN JOSE, Calif.—Google is fighting back against what it says are exaggerations in industry estimates of click fraud in its bread-and-butter pay-per-click advertising system. — In a report released Tuesday, the search giant disputes claims …
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Inside AdWords crew / Inside AdWords:Troubling findings on how some third parties detect click fraud
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.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Palm and Yelp partner on local mobile search for Treo — Yelp, the company that provides reviews of restaurants, bars and other locales in different cities, has teamed up with Palm to offer a useful local mobile search. — We mention this because Yelp has profiled lots of San Francisco Bay Area locales …
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PalmAddicts
Cyrus Farivar / Macworld:
Video highlights from WWDC 2006 — In this special selection of video excerpts from the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference 2006, we present three selections from Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote address: — First, we show you a clip from the demo by Scott Forstall, Apple's vice president of platform experience.
Phill Ryu / The Phill Ryu Blog:
7 Apps on Leopard's Hit List — While yesterday's preview of Leopard didn't show too much (I'm talking about the "top secret" features that Steve left out this time around), it did show enough to, well, make quite a few shareware and freeware applications somewhat obsolete.
