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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
GOOGLE HAS MY CREDIT CARD NUMBER NOW — Herewith the story of my attempts to buy a Dora the Explorer Mr. Face Plush Backpack from ToysRUs using Google Checkout. In short, Google now has my credit card number. (It's one I use for testing, however). It feels kind of odd, to be honest.
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Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, WebProBlog, Google Operating System, Screenwerk and Sadagopan's weblog …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Roundup: Google's offensive, and other post-Thanksgiving offers and deals & more — Here's the latest tech stuff in Silicon Valley and elsewhere: — Google keeps releasing new "gadgets" for its homepage — The latest are its NPR widget (see image), Wikipedia search and moon phases.
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BBC:
Online video 'eroding TV viewing' — The online video boom is starting to eat into TV viewing time, an ICM survey of 2,070 people for the BBC suggests. — Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a result.
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Christopher Mason / New York Times:
Web Tool Said to Offer Way Past the Government Censor — Deep in a basement lab at the University of Toronto a team of political scientists, software engineers and computer-hacking activists, or "hactivists," have created the latest, and some say most advanced tool yet in allowing Internet users …
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IP Democracy, O'Reilly Radar, CrunchGear, Mark Evans, Silicon Valley Watcher and Infothought
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BBC:
Web censorship 'bypass' unveiled — A tool has been created capable of circumventing government censorship of the web, according to researchers. — The free program has been constructed to let citizens of countries with restricted web access retrieve and display web pages from anywhere.
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Tim Arango / Fortune:
Beatles: only on iPod? — After years of refusing to make the move to MP3, the Beatles may give Steve Jobs' iTunes an exclusive, reports Fortune's Tim Arango. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Click on the iTunes music store and punch in "Beatles" under artist search.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
The Air Is Free, and Sometimes So Are the Phone Calls That Borrow It — Gary Schaffer looked out his window here last week to discover a reporter standing on his lawn, pirating his wireless Internet access to test a new mobile phone. — The phone, made by Belkin, is one of several …
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GigaOM, IP Democracy, VoIP Watch, Screenwerk, 21talks, dailywireless.org, Ben Metcalfe Blog, Realtime Community, broadbandreports.com and Lost Remote
Marshall Kirkpatrick:
Open Sourcing My TechCrunch Work Flow — Yesterday was my last day at TechCrunch. It's been a good run but I'm excited to get back into consulting for non profit organizations and startup businesses. This is a post about how I did my research while writing for TechCrunch …
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Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Why Web 2.0 is more than a buzzword — Many people hate the phrase "Web 2.0" even more than they hate what they believe it represents. No, that's not quite right... many people hate the phrase precisely because they think it represents nothing. Or they're annoyed by the idea of a web version number.
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PRWeb:
Mobile Adult Content Market to Grow to $3.3bn by 2011, Driven by a Strong European Market and New Products for Casual Users. — The mobile adult content market is forecast to grow from its 2006 level of $1.4 billion to over $3.3 billion by 2011 according to Juniper Research latest study.
Cliff Edwards / Business Week:
Time to Rename the Cell Phone? — They're not just for making calls, and they don't have a lot to do with cells. Maybe it's time to name the ubiquitous gadget something else — You see them everywhere. The minute the plane hits the tarmac, someone whips one out.
Erik Selberg:
General disarray at The Big 3 — As has been widely reported, the Big 3 search companies have been going through some organizational headaches of late. You've got Google's "focus on features" initiatives, Yahoo's "peanut butter manifesto," and some changes as the top here at Microsoft …
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InsideMicrosoft
Valleywag:
Three reasons why Digg gets its numbers wrong — Digg is by any measure, an extremely successful news site. The audience, many of whom also submit and vote upon stories, has expanded more than five-fold in a year, according to Comscore. Kevin Rose, the founder, is charmingly unassuming.
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