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Yahoo! Search blog:
Better Bookmarks, Better Toolbar — We're here to introduce the new beta versions of the Yahoo! Toolbar (for IE) and Yahoo! Bookmarks. — Bookmarks first appeared on the Yahoo! Toolbar in 1999. Back then, the big virtues of online bookmarks were backup and portability - Yahoo! …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Bookmarks Enters 21st Century. — Yahoo is unveiling an entirely new Bookmarks product this evening at new.bookmarks.yahoo.com - new interface, new back-end, the works. A screencast created by Yahoo developer Tom Chi is here which gives an excellent overview of the service …
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Yahoo Updates Toolbar and Bookmarks — Yahoo is releasing a new version of its toolbar with a powerful new bookmarking feature that integrates seamlessly with Yahoo web search, and features a "radical" new user interface. — The new Yahoo toolbar has an improved search function that uses …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg Does The Acquisition Dance With News Corp. — San Francisco-based startup Digg has been in recent acquisition discussions with a number of companies, including News Corp., according to multiple sources close to the negotiations. However, the company was unable to land an offer …
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Rocketboom / Dembot:
Ze Errors — After some discrepancy, Ze Frank has laid into me because he doesn't believe how he could only have a fraction of the audience size of Rocketboom. — I was pretty surprised because we have had some friendly emails recently and he has asked me about my stats but apparently didn't believe me.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
New audience metric needed: engagement — I was just reading Jeneane Sessum's post about the latest Ze Frank/Rocketboom dustup and she's right, we need to measure stuff other than just whether a download got completed or not. She says we need a "likeability" stat. I think it goes further than that.
David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
Talent Agency Is Aiming to Find Web Video Stars — Brent Weinstein, left, heads the new UTA Online. Its three agents are Jason U. Nadler, right, Barrett D. Garese, seated, and Ryan Reber, rear. — One of Hollywood's top five talent agencies has created an online unit devoted to scouting …
Robert Scoble / ScobleShow:
Microsoft Zune in depth — [...] Last time I was at Microsoft I met with the Zune team and got this in-depth look at Zune (the iPod competitor). [...] Original post by ScobleShow: Videoblog about geeks, technology, and developers and software by Elliott Back [...]
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Like Yahoo, Google Adds Customized Search Engine — Google introduced a tool Monday that allows Web sites and blogs to offer visitors a customized version of its search engine, narrowing down its vast index so the results are more relevant for users. — Called the Google Custom Search Engine …
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Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Telecom: Bulking Up to Take On Cable — Consolidation has allowed AT&T, BellSouth, and others to achieve the national scale and scope that will enable them to compete — The new AT&T has been on a tear. A year after SBC Communications completed its acquisition of AT&T, the new AT&T (T) …
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Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer:
T-Mobile launches HotSpot @ Home service in selected areas — A couple of months ago I was offered a chance to beta test the upcoming T-Mobile UMA service and was given a full kit to try for 6 weeks. The kit consisted of a T-Mobile branded Linksys router and Samsung UMA WiFi-enabled phone.
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Associated Press:
Amazon says no to Google info request — OCT. 24 4:19 P.M. ET As expected, online retailer Amazon.com Inc. has objected to providing details about its book search feature to rival Google Inc., which says it needs them to fight copyright infringement allegations from a group of authors and book publishers.
Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
Windows Defender Leaves Beta — Microsoft has released another fine piece of software, Windows Defender for Windows XP. Some new features the final release has over the most recent beta: — New option to display Windows Defender system tray icon even when there are no pending actions needed.
Associated Press:
Hacker claims to have cracked iPod restrictions — SAN JOSE, California (AP) — A hacker known for cracking the copy-protection technology in DVDs claims to have unlocked the playback restrictions of Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod and iTunes music products and plans to license his code to others.
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Benjamin Heckendorn / Engadget:
How-To: Craft an analog control stick for your Sony PSP (part 2) — Every so often, that console-modding Benjamin Heckendorn wanders away from his lair at benheck.com to share some interesting projects with Engadget. — A couple weeks ago we showed you, the teeming PSP loving masses …
VoIP & Gadgets Blog:
trixbox 2.0 released — trixbox 2.0 beta will be available for download on Wednesday. This release will be Fonality's first big contribution to the trixbox/Asterisk community after the recent Fonality acquisition of trixbox. which certainly caused a stir within the Asterisk community.
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Blatant Facebook Rip-Off Gets Acquired — It was announced today that China's leading college social networking site has been acquired for an undisclosed sum. That sounds reasonable, since the Chinese social networking space is growing fast. But I was shocked to load up the site …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
I.B.M. Sues Amazon.com Over Patents — I.B.M., the holder of the largest patent storehouse in corporate America, often finds itself defending itself against patent claims from aggressive plaintiffs, seeking a payout. — But I.B.M. became the aggressor yesterday when it filed two lawsuits …
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Jordan Running / Download Squad:
MusicForMe cracks AllOfMP3's MusicForMasses DRM — Last week I reported on MusicForMasses, a new program from questionable Russian online music retailer AllOfMP3 that lets you download and listen to every song in their expansive library for free, provide you use their very limited Windows player that requires a net connection.
