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2:00 PM ET, October 23, 2006

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Reuters:
Cisco Joins Video - Conference Foray  —  NEW YORK ( Reuters) - Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O) on Sunday unveiled a high-definition, video conferencing system that it says can grow into a billion dollar business in five to seven years.  —  Named TelePresence …
Discussion: 21talks and VoIP Blog
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Video Conferencing... Its' hot again  —  Video conferencing, after fading into the background for a while, is back in news again.  Microsoft, last week let us know about their new video conferencing system called RoundTable that is likely to debut in mid-2007.
Discussion: VoIP Watch and Web Worker Daily
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:   Gartner Analysts: Good News For 2.0 Companies
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:   VoIP's future: not just the phone call, but the applications
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
We're Google.  So Sue Us.  —  Google attracts millions of Web users every day.  And, increasingly, it's attracting the attention of plenty of lawyers, too.  —  As Google has grown into the world's most popular search engine and, arguably, the most powerful Internet company …
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Joe / Techdirt:
Lawsuits Against Google Only Make It Stronger  —  from the what-doesn't-kill-it dept  —  As Google has grown to take top billing among internet based companies, it's been the target of numerous lawsuits, many of which have been filed by small companies with weak cases.
Andrew Murray-Watson / Telegraph:
AOL chief says Time Warner demerger 'becomes interesting'  —  Time Warner, the giant US media group, is considering the sale or demerger of AOL, the internet business it merged with in 2000, at the height of the last stockmarket boom.  —  In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph …
CNET News.com:
Google to unveil election mashup  —  Google is expected to unveil on Sunday night a mashup that combines its popular Google Earth mapping program with information about the U.S. congressional races coming up in two weeks.  —  The Google Earth 2006 election resource tool indicates …
Discussion: Lifehacker and digg
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Frank Taylor / Google Earth Blog:
New US Elections 2006 Layer, Larry Page visit
Discussion: TechBlog, Ogle Earth and digg
Tom Zeller Jr / New York Times:
The Internet Black Hole That Is North Korea  —  THE tragically backward, sometimes absurdist hallmarks of North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong-il, are well known.  There is Mr. Kim's Elton John eyeglasses and strangely whipped, cotton-candy hairdo.  And there is the North Korean "No!  Yeeesssss ... No!
Nick / Rough Type:
Web 2.0lier than thou  —  Jaron Lanier recently called the Web 2.0 movement "digital maoism."  Now, as if on cue, the Cultural Revolution has begun.  —  Lawrence Lessig, in a post titled "The Ethics of Web 2.0," suggests that some Web 2.0 companies are not fit to wear the Web 2.0 label.
Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
News On My Plans For Next Year  —  I'm currently on vacation, which is a bad time to announce some of my plans for 2007.  But I reached an agreement with Incisive on Search Engine Strategies literally minutes before leaving, which I can now talk about.  In short, I'll be chairing the SES NY 2007 show …
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Putting blogs to work for Wall Street  —  Collective Intellect has a goal: Make bloggers work for The Man.  —  The company has created a service that combs through thousands of blogs, news sites, chat rooms and other Web sites every day and then surfaces rumors and news reports that might …
Damien Mulley:
How odd - my Thinkhouse PR blog post is banned from Google  —  My post about Thinkhouse PR seems to have been blacklisted or banned from Google.  Previously I was 3rd in google for the phrase "Thinkhouse pr" and now nothing.  Other bloggers who pointed to my post are still there.  Kind of odd isn't it?
BBC:
Goal footage warning for website  —  An independent website has been told to stop putting footage of FA Premiership goals on the video website YouTube.  —  NetResult - a firm monitoring the internet on behalf of the Premier League - emailed a warning to the website, 101greatgoals.blogspot.com.
Discussion: Techdirt, Mashable! and The Blog Herald
David Berlind / Between the Lines:
Found: 1 black 30 GB video iPod.  Is it yours?  —  If this isn't a test for how the blogosphere can get things done, I'm not sure what is.  As a part of this test, if you happen to read this blog entry and you have a blog, please spread the word and let's see if the viral nature of the blogosphere can help this iPod find its owner.
Discussion: Doc Searls Weblog
Peter D. Csathy / Digital Media Update:
Mobile Video Calling Part III — Uniquely Capturing the Ordinary & Extraordinary  —  For any of you who have followed the "how big will mobile video calling be?" debate — which was initiated nearly one week ago by Luca Filigheddu — you have seen many familiar and respected voices chiming in.
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Researchers See Privacy Pitfalls in No-Swipe Credit Cards  —  AMHERST, Mass. — They call it the "Johnny Carson attack," for his comic pose as a psychic divining the contents of an envelope.  —  Tom Heydt-Benjamin tapped an envelope against a black plastic box connected to his computer.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
I've now had HD for about a month now, and it's a life-changer.  I know it sounds weird, but you look at the world differently.  The Discovery channel has really jumped on HD, they have a channel called HD Theater that is at least partly a travelogue, they sent crews around the world to take pictures in all kind of exotic places.
 
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Venture capitalists open spigot — especially for Web 2.0 & energy
Mercury News:
Happy birthday, iPod
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Google Links Blog Search to Google News
Discussion: WebProNews and InsideGoogle
Carlo Longino / MobHappy:
Carnival of the Mobilists #50  —  Welcome back to MobHappy …
Discussion: Wap Review
Carrie Johnson / Washington Post:
AOL Fraud Prosecutors Stop Short Of the Top
HappyBeggar News:
Bell Sympatico and XBOX 360 Deal
Discussion: Kotaku, Engadget and digg
Kotaku:
Cliffy B Done With Gears of War
Discussion: Xbox 360 Fanboy and You NEWB
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iLounge unveils iPod Storage Calculator
 Earlier Items: 
Zonk / Slashdot:
Wikipedia's $100 Million Dream
Discussion: Techdirt
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Second Life's "Wild West" — the land of start-ups and no cops, yet
MediaPost Publications:
New to MediaPost?  —  Sign up for a free MediaPost account …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Better Bad News takes on PayPerPost and Gillmor Gang
John Evans / SYNTAGMA:
Syntagma at One  —  When I started Syntagma Media one year ago …
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Newsgator is not stealing our content (or "One more time …
ongoing:
Oh My Goodness Gracious