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Leslie Katz / CNET News.com:
James Kim found deceased — just in The body of missing CNET editor James Kim has been located, authorities announced Wednesday. — Arrangements are being made to transport Kim to an undisclosed location, according to police. Kim had been missing in the remote southwestern Oregon wilderness for 11 days.
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Boing Boing, Deep Jive Interests, Joe Duck, The Tech Report, Windows-Now.com, John Chow dot Com, Lost Remote, KGW-TV, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Rex Hammock's weblog, BlogHer, The Blogging Times, Podcasting News, ShoutBlog, Engadget, Gizmodo, John Furrier, Monkey Bites, Listening Post, Lifehacker, 4 color rebellion, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, Bag and Baggage, duncanriley.com and digg
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CNN:
Trail of clothing led searchers to lost father's body … MERLIN, Oregon (CNN) — The body of a man who had walked into the Oregon wilderness Saturday to summon help for his stranded family was found Wednesday in a steep ravine. — Officials confirmed that James Kim, 35, an editor at the Web site CNET, had been found dead.
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Mathew Ingram, CrunchGear, Mad Techie Woman, Windows-Now.com, Podcasting News and Listening Post
Dan Fost / San Francisco Chronicle:
Valley's 'Mr. Web 2.0' seeks next big thing — TechCrunch blog ruffles feathers on the Internet beat — Michael Arrington's influential blog TechCrunch — where startups get pimped and big news sometimes breaks first — has vaulted him into the post of "Mr. Web 2.0," …
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Reorganization Focuses on Audiences, Advertisers & Publishers — Yahoo! has reorganized its structure and management to align its operations with its key customer segments; audiences, advertisers and publishers, which the company believes will "effectively leverage Yahoo! …
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Search Engine Land, Valleywag, From Istanbul …, The Next Net, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog and The Blogging Times
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blog.centraldesktop.com:
Google's Silent Monopoly (Or How Much Does Google Pay For It's Own AdWords?) — What does the future of start-ups look like when they spend a majority of their advertising budget with one company - and its your competitor? … - Right? — The history of business is filled with examples …
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Business Wire:
Amazon Invests in Wikia Series B Financing: Amazon's Value-Added Capital Key to Wikia's Expanding Product Plans — SAN MATEO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Wikia, Inc., the leading wiki site for information on thousands of topics written by a community of contributors, today announced …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:Amazon takes major stake in Wikia
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Dawn Patrol, Good Morning Silicon Valley, PaidContent, Somewhat Frank, TechCrunch, 901am, Scobleizer and John Cook's Venture Blog
Matt Haughey / PVRblog:
Wild rumor: Apple & TiVo partner for iTV — I'm going to disclaim this upfront as a wild rumor that just landed in my inbox. I'd wager it's got about a 25% chance of being true but hey, I'd love to be wrong on it and see what launches next month at Macworld SF. Here's the rumor:
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Michele Gershberg / Reuters:
Oz to bring social networking to mobile phones — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Privately-held Oz Communications, a maker of wireless messaging technologies, will announce on Wednesday a new product allowing people to access social network sites over their cellphones.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft: Zune sales to top 1 million by June — Although the Zune has fallen some in the sales ranks, Microsoft says it expects to sell more than 1 million of the music players by the end of June. — The software maker said Wednesday it was pleased with response to the device …
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Prudential: iPhone to sport click wheel; video iPod by Q2 — Apple Computer's much anticipated iPod cell phone will look like an iPod with a small screen and a click-wheel interface, according to one Wall Street analyst. — In an extensive research note released to clients earlier this week …
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CrunchGear, IP Democracy, Reiter's Camera Phone Report, Apple Gazette, I4U News and digg
WebProNews Video Blog:
SES: Google's Fox Clarifies Sitemaps, PageRank — Sitemaps.org, born of historic collaboration between Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, intends to simplify the tenuous endeavor of directing search engines to your site's relevant content. Thus, sitemaps are garnering renewed focus and while the forge …
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SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog
BBC:
Copyright pirates face crackdown — Copyright criminals must face far tougher regulation to protect the entertainment industry, a report says. — The Gowers Report was commissioned by the government to look at modernising UK copyright laws for the digital age.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
IBM plans Power6 blades for next year — Beginning with its Power6 dual-core chip, IBM will build its high-end Power processors into blade servers for the first time in 2007, marking a significant expansion of blade abilities. — Today, IBM's blade servers are available with the company's PowerPC 970 processors.
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Jeffrey M. O'Brien / Fortune:
Is Google too smart for its own good? — Google's famous for hiring the best and the brightest, but when they get bored, they're bound to create the son-of-Google, warns Fortune's Jeffrey O'Brien. — SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) — A roomful of 300-odd flaks gathered over rubber chicken on Friday …
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Ryanne / Ryan Is Hungry:
Eric Case on Blogger Beta — As we mentioned in the previous post, Eric Case works on Developer Relations at Google, he has also worked on the Blogger team for several years as well. We majorly love Blogger-it's super customizable, videobloggable and FREE!
Inside AdWords:
Advertise online - even if you don't have a website — AdWords advertisers know that online advertising is an effective way to promote their businesses. What do you do, however, if you want to advertise online, but you don't have a website? Does this sound familiar? Now we can help.
Ryan / CyberNet Technology News:
CyberNotes: 200 Firefox Extensions Installed At One Time! — Web Browser Wednesday — Earlier this year a guy installed 100 Firefox extensions without any problems. Well...I decided to try and top that. I picked the nice round number of 200 for a few different reasons.
