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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
A BRIEF INTERVIEW WITH GOOGLE'S MATT CUTTS — Matt is the man who the SEO/SEM world looks to for answers around most things Google related. Over the past month Melanie and I have been having a wide-ranging email exchange with him on spam, the role of humans at Google, and other things.
John Borland / CNET News.com:
Microsoft sues over source code theft — Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against an alleged hacker who broke through its copy protection technology, charging that the mystery developer somehow gained access to its copyrighted source code. — For more than a month, the Redmond …
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Cyrus Farivar / Engadget:Microsoft sues Viodentia for copyright infringement
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Carolyn Abram / Facebook Blog:
Welcome to Facebook, everyone. — Mark would have written this post himself, but is busy helping out with everything going on right now, so I've been asked to explain why we're launching this expansion. — You've heard it before, and you'll hear it again; here at Facebook, we want to help people understand their world.
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Newlaunches.com:
Sharp triple view display the best accessory for your car — Sharp amazed everyone last year by developing the the first two-way viewing-angle LCD and the switchable viewing-angle LCD. This time they have developed the Triple Directional Viewing LCD, a display that controls the viewing angle …
Official Google Blog:
Our approach to content — The Internet has broken down many of the barriers that exist between people and information — effectively democratizing access to human knowledge. By typing just a few keywords into a computer you can learn about almost any subject.
Boston Jon / Bostonist:
It's not Firefox, it's Comcastic — It appears that there is a disconnect between Google and Comcast going on right now (breaking news?). We've gotten a number of field reports from users of Comcast's cable internet service across the state who are unable to connect to Gmail, Google, and Blogspot.
investor.shareholder.com:
JPMorgan Introduces Algorithmic Trading Alert Service — JPMorgan's Electronic Client Solutions (ECS) announced today the launch of AlgoAlert, an instant messaging service that provides unique charts as well as real-time updates of algorithmic trading performance and trading conditions such as halts and oversized orders.
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Bambi Francisco / MarketWatch:
MySpace trumps YouTube in video — Commentary: Talk is cheap with videos, and cell phones — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — It didn't take long for MySpace to rule the digital video world. — The social networking juggernaut, owned by News Corp (NWS : , , ) was the No. 1 video site in July …
Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
Europe Makes Progress in iTunes Negotiations — European negotiators said they made "surprising progress" in talks today with Apple Computer over easing the restrictions it imposes on users of its iTunes service, by far the dominant seller of downloaded music.
ResearchBuzz:
Berkeley Releases Content to Google Video — The University of California, Berkeley has announced that it is making more than 250 hours of educational content free via Google Video. The collected materials have their own URL at http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html .
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
StumbleUpon Continues To Impress — We hear a lot about digg, Slashdot and del.icio.us as traffic drivers for media websites and blogs. But one site that doesn't get enough props in this regard is StumbleUpon. In our recent Social Bookmarking Faceoff, we noted that StumbleUpon has the largest user base with 1,271,345 users.
Don Woligroski / Tom's Hardware Guide:
The Best Gaming Video Cards for the Money: October 2006 — The Best Gaming Video Cards For The Money — Video card specifications and reviews that really get into the nitty-gritty are great - that is, if you have the time to digest everything. At the end of the day …
Gizmodo:
Rumor: Microsoft to Cut Premium Bundle in Anticipation for HD DVD Player — Digitimes, the premier news source in usual bulls**t rumors, has a new one today that actually seems a legitimate, kind of. They are reporting that there will be a $100 price cut on the Xbox 360 Premium bundle …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Jelbert GeoTagger adds GPS tracking to cameras — For those of you who need that oh-so-critical GPS meta-data while shooting in the field — and you're one to change cameras more frequently than clothing — Ricoh's GPS-integrated digicam doesn't do you a whole lot of good …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Location, Location, Location — The following is also my column in this week's AdAge. … Technology has transformed our world and made it really small — or, if you're a Tom Friedman fan, flat as a pancake. And if you thought things couldn't get any more intimate, they're about to …
Ernesto / Torrentfreak:
A Swarm of Angels: P2P Powered Film Model — A Swarm of Angels is a project that aims to create the first community driven film. The Film will be written, funded and distributed over the Internet. The plan is to gather a group of 50.000 people who each contribute £25 ($47.5) to join the project.
Ernesto / Torrentfreak:
BitTorrent Sites Are Slowly Taking Over the Internet — The popularity of BitTorrent is growing every day. BitTorrent sites are on the rise, and now four of them hold positions in the top 500 most popular websites on the Internet. Even more are expected to join the club in the near future.
Lucas van Grinsven / Reuters:
New technology could nip DVD format war in the bud — AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The format war around next generation DVDs may be over before it has begun, thanks to a breakthrough from a British media technology company. — Britain-based New Medium Enterprises (NME) (NMEN.OB: Quote, Profile …
Gizmodo:
Exclusive Zing WiFi Music Player Photos, Smaller than Stiletto — DEMO is a bust for hardware geeks, but we did catch a live Zing music player—you know that one that uses WiFi to download internet radio and Sirius. The nice lady showing it off told me that they weren't announcing anything right now …
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David Rothman / TeleRead:
Will the Sony Reader be the Edsel of E-Ink? — In Peggy Sue Got Married, the Kathleen Turner character ridicules her dad for driving an Edsel. — Wikipedia describes the Edsel, unveiled for the 1958 model year, as "one of the most spectacular failures in the history of the United States automobile industry."
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch for IE Flaw — Microsoft Corp. today issued a security update to fix a serious flaw in its Internet Explorer browser — a flaw that hackers have been exploiting to install spyware on vulnerable computers. — Microsoft is issuing the update outside …
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Lime Wire, squeezed, files countersuit — One of the last remaining peer-to-peer havens is fighting to stay alive. — Lime Wire, which was hit with a lawsuit in August by Warner Bros. Records, Virgin Records America, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and other music labels …
