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3:40 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: Kevin Maney, 21talks, VoIP Blog and 1080eye
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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
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 …
Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Google Adjusts Hiring Process As Needs Grow  —  Google Inc.'s recruiting process is legendary in Silicon Valley.  Tales abound of job candidates who suffered through a dozen or more in-person interviews, and applicants with years of work experience who were spurned after disclosing they had so-so college grades.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Jingle gets $30M to grow its free directory assistance service  —  (Updated below with comments from chief executive George Garrick)  —  Jingle Networks, a Menlo Park start-up which provides free phone directory assistance, has raised a whopping $30 million more in venture capital — upping the ante in what is now a crowded field.
Discussion: GigaOM and Screenwerk
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, Monkey Bites and digg
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Frank Taylor / Google Earth Blog:
New US Elections 2006 Layer, Larry Page visit
Discussion: TechBlog, Ogle Earth, digg and Slashdot
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 …
Discussion: Socialtwister 2.0
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 …
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!
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.
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
 
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Kay Withers / BBC:
Mobiles have 'key role for young'
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Venture capitalists open spigot — especially for Web 2.0 & energy
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Happy birthday, iPod
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Google Links Blog Search to Google News
Carrie Johnson / Washington Post:
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David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iLounge unveils iPod Storage Calculator
Damien Mulley:
How odd - my Thinkhouse PR blog post is banned from Google
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Better Bad News takes on PayPerPost and Gillmor Gang
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Syntagma at One  —  When I started Syntagma Media one year ago …
BBC:
Goal footage warning for website
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Newsgator is not stealing our content (or "One more time …
Discussion: Open The Dialogue
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Researchers See Privacy Pitfalls in No-Swipe Credit Cards
 

 
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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

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

 
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