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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Troubles in Diggville — The incredibly successful news site Digg has hit a few speed bumbs recently. Digg is a news site that promotes news stories, submitted by users, to its home page based on votes by other Digg users. If a story is "dugg" by enough users, it goes to the home page …
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:digg top users protest (or, "one user, one vote—that's the rule)
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Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog
Derek van Vliet / Neothoughts:Digg's Top User Says Goodbye
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Search Engine Watch Blog, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Rough Type, robhyndman.com, Mathew Ingram, Traffick and digg
Donna Bogatin / Digital Micro-Markets:Why Digg fraud, Google bombing, Wikipedia vandalism will not be stopped
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JD on EP
Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
Quickest Patch Ever — If you really want to see Microsoft scramble to patch a hole in its software, don't look to vulnerabilities that impact countless Internet Explorer users or give intruders control of thousands of Windows machines. Just crack Redmond's DRM. — Security patches used to be rare.
Fred / A VC:
YouTube's Potential Revenue — I heard last week from a pretty good source that YouTube is serving 100 million videos per day. Say what you will about YouTube's content (unlicensed, kids falling of skateboards, etc), that's a huge number. And it got me thinking about how much revenue could be extracted from such an audience.
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Blogspotting, BETA, This is going to be BIG., Digital Micro-Markets, Mark Evans and Web Strategy
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
YouTube yearly revenue potential: Fred says $150M a year, I say $20M. — Fred does a great post on YouTube's revenue potential. He takes the premise that if you put a 10 second pre-roll video on every video at a $15 CPM and split the earnings in a Google Adsense way you would wind up with a $150M a year business.
Jim Kerstetter / CNET News.com:
Reporter's records hacked in HP probe — update A CNET News.com reporter's personal telephone records were accessed by a contractor hired by Hewlett-Packard to uncover the source of boardroom leaks to the media, according to the California attorney general's office.
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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Leak, Inquiry and Resignation Rock a Boardroom — As corporate intrigue goes, it is hard to beat this: an uproar over news leaks from the boardroom, a cloak-and-dagger investigation, allegations of spying and double-dealing, and a clash involving some of Silicon Valley's best-known names …
David Lawsky / Reuters:
Microsoft hints at delay of Vista in Europe — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft raised the possibility on Thursday that it might delay the introduction of its new Vista Windows operating system in Europe, saying it depended on the European Commission's antitrust requirements.
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Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Veni, Vidi, Wiki — Wikipedia has edited its way into the big time. — The massive user-driven site is now the biggest encyclopedia in the world. The mainstream media covers it extensively. It was recently lampooned by The Onion and Comedy Central. Soon, Wikipedia may also become familiar …
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Ryan Singel / Wired News:The Wiki That Edited Me — Journalists love to complain …
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rexblog
Wall Street Journal:
New Facebook Features Have Members in an Uproar — Facebook.com, the popular social-networking Web site for students, is suddenly getting the cold shoulder on campus. — On Tuesday, in an effort to make it easier for users to keep track of their friends, the fast-growing site rolled out two new features …
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shahine.com/omar:
Inline Search for Internet Explorer — This is simply a must have add-in for IE. For those of us that used the FireFox Find feature and were like "OMG", you can now have the same thing in IE. — You can see in the screen shot below how this works: — [Source: Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus]
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Jeff / The Jeff Pulver Blog:
AOL's AIM Phone Line Developer Program: An example of the VON Community@Work — Since 1996 the evolving IP Communications industry has gathered at pulver.com events to gain industry insight and answer the questions: "what is now?, what is new?, where are we going? and who's making it happen?"
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Realtime-VoIP, VoIP Watch, Alec Saunders .LOG, O'Reilly Emerging Telephony and Mark Evans
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MacNN:
Apple files Multi-functional hand-held device patent application — On September 7, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's patent application titled "Multi-functional hand-held device" originally filed in March 2006. — In light of Apple's September 12th "Showtime" media event …
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Gizmodo, Good Morning Silicon Valley, CrunchGear, VoIP & Gadgets Blog and The Digital Music Weblog
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Magazines Going to the Web to Get Students to Read — COLLEGE students are famous for their transient ways, moving frequently and rarely leaving a permanent mailing address for magazine publishers to send subscription solicitations to. — For now, some magazine publishers are settling for their e-mail address.
BBC:
Fastest supercomputer to be built — Computer giant IBM will build the world's most powerful supercomputer at a US government laboratory. — The machine, codenamed Roadrunner, could be four times more potent than the current fastest machine, BlueGene/L, also built by IBM.
Carlo / Techdirt:
Theatergoers Want Mobile Phones Jammed — A new survey says that 72 percent of British theatergoers want mobile phone signals to be blocked in theaters. Of course, like in the US, there's the small matter of such jamming being illegal in the UK, so new legislation would be required …
Mark Walsh / MediaPost Publications:
Borrell: Local Search Spending To Double — LOCAL ONLINE ADVERTISING WILL ENJOY another year of strong growth in 2007, increasing by 32 percent to $7.7 billion, according to a new report by research firm Borrell Associates Inc. — Paid local search is expected to remain the fastest-growing ad category …
