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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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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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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
YouTube vs TV — YouTube and other online video sites are stealing viewers away from TV in the UK, according to a report by the BBC today. 43% of online video viewers said they watch less TV as a result of YouTube and similar sites, while 20% of those say they watch "a lot less".
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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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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CenterNetworks, CrunchNotes, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Micro Persuasion, Skype Journal and ALLIED
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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.
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Second Life's First Millionaire — Anshe Chung, the virtual land baroness that I highlighted in my cover story earlier this year, My Virtual Life, has apparently become the first millionaire in Second Life. That's millionaire in real U.S. dollars. Her real-world persona, Ailin Graef …
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Valleywag, theory.isthereason, B.L. Ochman's weblog, Business Filter, Terra Nova and Clickable Culture
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Dean Takahashi / AEI:
An Interview With Robbie Bach — A couple of weeks ago, Mercury News staff writer Troy Wolverton and I sat down with Robbie Bach for a one-hour joint interview in San Francisco. I finally got around to transcribing all of the game-related questions as well as some of the Zune questions.
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Web 2.0 isn't Jargon — Every once in a while I read something in a blog I find so ridiculously empty of content and contradictory that it makes me question the entire human race. Most of the time it's usually someone spouting their opinion on politics which sends me into this pit of despair.
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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
Josh Pigford / The Apple Blog:
10 OS X Apps You Might Not Know About But Should — Over the past couple of years of running The Apple Blog, I've tried out literally thousands of applications. A lot have been great apps that I still use today, but infinitely more have just been plain bad. I know I'm not the only one who's experienced this.
Chris Pirillo:
YouTube vs. Google Video vs. Revver — The idea here is that you have to press play on the following videos (in vertical order) so that they all stream to you at the same time. You may need to adjust the volume on each respective network, though. Press play on the top (YouTube) video …
UverseUsers.com:
HD Rollout Begins in San Antonio - UPDATED — UPDATE: All 30 HD channels are now fully functional! — We recently received some great pictures of U-verse HD in action here in the heart of San Antonio. As of this morning, several channels have been added to the guide …
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.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Digg Sends Cease and Desist to DiggDot.us — DiggDot.us, the site that aggregates news from the social news sites Digg, del.icio.us and Slashdot, received a cease and desist from Digg yesterday. They aren't the first to be contacted by Digg's lawyers over use of the Digg trademark …
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