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11:45 AM ET, August 24, 2006

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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Can German engineering fix Wikipedia?  —  An experimental feature planned for the German version of Wikipedia could eventually improve the quality of editing for the online encyclopedia and open its front page to public edits for the first time in years.  —  In an interview with CNET News.com …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Can the Germans fix Wikipedia?  —  How bad things have things gotten at Wikipedia?  It's common knowledge that the site suffers from hoaxsters, inaccurate information, and a vandalism problem that might be funny if it weren't so pervasive.  Even the vandalism page has now been vandalized.
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple, others working on battery standard  —  Leading notebook makers Apple, Dell, and Lenovo will hold a summit meeting in San Jose, Calif. next month to begin development of standards for the manufacture of lithium ion batteries for portable and handheld electronics.
Discussion: Engadget, The Tech Report and Gadgetell
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Gizmodo:
Qantas Airline Has New Rules For Dells
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Mark Goldberg / Telecom Trends:
Blocking content  —  The news will be breaking shortly, so you might as well read about it here first.  Late in the day on Tuesday afternoon, I helped in filing the first application requesting the CRTC to authorize Canadian carriers to block internet content.
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Jon Arnold / Jon Arnold's Blog:   The Dark Side of Net Neutrality
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Web 2.0 Economic Conundrum  —  Regulars here know that I am a huge proponent for the little guy.  Hence, the name of my blog.  I want to see everyone who's publishing a blog to try to make money achieve their wildest dreams (and ours).  However, there's a dirty little secret we should discuss …
USA Today:
Verizon, Cablevision skirmish as war nears  —  NEW YORK — Nobody would mistake the lush, trimmed lawns of suburban New York City for the OK Corral.  But you can almost hear the jingling spurs and blasting revolvers of a corporate gunfight erupting that could affect virtually all consumers.
Discussion: GigaOM and IP Democracy
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Wablet's going to rock web IM  —  I got a preview of the forthcoming web IM system Wablet yesterday.  I posted about the first rumors about Wablet three weeks ago.  It's a Flash service that can access all your accounts on the major IM services or users can get a Wablet username.
Discussion: SiliconBeat
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
YouTube could be a steal at $1 billion  —  news analysis By agreeing to pay $65 million for Grouper—a profitless video-sharing company with negligible market share—Sony has helped establish a benchmark for other companies in the space and sent industry insiders speculating wildly about what market leader YouTube may be worth.
Discussion: Techdirt
Graeme Wearden / silicon.com:
Redmond red-faced over Gervais video leak  —  How did David Brent's day at Microsoft make it onto YouTube?  —  Microsoft is investigating how two internal training videos created by UK comedy duo Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have surfaced on the internet.
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Researchers Yearn to Use AOL Logs, but They Hesitate  —  When AOL researchers released three months' worth of users' query logs to a publicly accessible Web site late last month, Jon Kleinberg, a professor of computer science at Cornell, downloaded the data right away.
evhead:
podcasting site roundup  —  Let's face it folks: There are a lot of podcast directories and services.  Is anyone using these sites?  Are they growing or shrinking?  Who's growing and shrinking?  What does it all mean?  —  I have lots of thoughts on the subject, but won't offer much analysis here.
Discussion: Cameron's Brain
Peter Rip / EarlyStageVC:
Venture 2.0 - Preamble  —  This the first in a series of posts on the idea of "Venture Capital 2.0." I thought it was appropriate to first set the stage of Venture Capital 1.0 as the point of contrast.  This first post is obvious stuff to those of us who have been in the business for a while, but less so for the casual observer.
Discussion: Dead2.0, A VC and Paul Kedrosky's …
Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer:
TyTN: Smartphone of your dreams?  —  Two years ago I started using Pocket PC Phone Edition devices with the T-Mobile MDA II device and since that time I have owned or tried the MDA III, i-mate JasJar, TORQ P100, TORQ P120, and HTC Wizard (the QTEK 9000, i-mate K-JAM, and T-Mobile MDA versions).
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and TeleRead
 
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
IBM's continues to gorge itself on acquisitions
Discussion: IBM Eye and Slashdot
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Amazon Readies Utility Computing Service
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
FreshBooks pushes the envelope in online billing
Discussion: Mathew Ingram and Mark Evans
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Friendster Mobilizes  —  Friendster might have taken some hits …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Offers More Ways to Play Games for Windows and Xbox 360 …
Discussion: Engadget and CrunchGear
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Pixsy to monetize visual metasearch
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Call users from inside your Gmail
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Mark Ramsey / Hear 2.0:
Seth Godin on Radio's Future
Evan Roberts / MarketingShift:
The Downfall of Digg is Forthcoming and Here is Why
Discussion: WebMetricsGuru
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
DivX Launches Its Own YouTube, Stage6
Reuters:
Brazilian prosecutors seek lawsuit against Google
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Free Photo DVD of All of Your Flickr Photos and Tags from Backupr.com
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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