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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
YouTube allows users to record directly to site — YouTube quietly added a new feature today to its popular user-generated video site today called Quick Capture, which allows users to record video directly to YouTube from webcams plugged into their computers.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Uh Oh, Gmail Just Got Perfect — Google quietly added a small feature to Gmail this week called Mail Fetcher. When that feature launched, Gmail became perfect. — Mail Fetcher allows users to access non-Gmail email accounts from within the Gmail interface.
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Looking for a Gambit to Win at Google's Game — There is a lot about the way Microsoft has run its Internet business that Steve Berkowitz wants to change. But he is finding that redirecting such a behemoth is slow going. — "I'm used to being in companies where I am in a rowboat and I stick …
Chikai Ohazama / Official Google Blog:
Opening my eyes to a whole new world — Every once in a while you come across a piece of technology that instantly grabs you and you can't stop saying "Oh my god!" When I bought my 12" Mac Powerbook, for instance, just opening the box was an experience. Each item was laid out perfectly …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
John Dvorak is wrong again — this time about "death" of FrontPage — He says blogging killed FrontPage. — The thing that really killed FrontPage? Microsoft's marketing team tested the name on a range of developers and Web designers/builders. They all derided it.
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Gerry Block / IGN:
RIAA Petitions Judges to Lower Artist Royalties — Aggressively litigious group has claimed to protect musicians in the past. Now believes musicians deserve less for "innovative" music distribution. — The RIAA rose to public prominence around the year 2000 when the growth …
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Keith Teare / edgeio:
De-portalization and Internet revenues — This post is a little more philosophical than most that you will see here. It provides a little bit of background as to why edgeio is in the business of bringing together, organizing and distributing listings to the edge of the network.
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Lifehacker:
Find a deal with WiiSeeker — Looking for a good Playstation 3 or Wii deal for the holidays? Check out PS3Seeker, a nifty map mashup that helps you locate the best game system deals not only in your local brick and mortar, but also on Amazon and eBay. — Updated about every five minutes …
Steve O'Hear / The Social Web:
Was I just censored by Digg? — After the recent discussion about companies offering bribes to Diggers, I thought it would be interesting to run a poll asking if it's time for the top users to be paid by the social news site itself. I was interested to hear the views of the wider Digg community so I 'dugg' the post too.
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
2006 Search Blogs Awards : Nominations Now Open — It's December 2006 which means like last year, Search Engine Journal will be hosting and holding our annual Search Blogs Awards. Last year was our inaugural year and the 2005 Search Blogs Awards were a grand success, with corporate …
Donna Bogatin / Digital Micro-Markets:
Google on Firefox 2.0: Get it now! — Google recommends "upgrading to the new, safer Firefox 2.0," Big time! The Firefox 2.0 "recommended," of course is "Optimized for Google," with the Google Toolbar. — I announced Google's new homepage self-promotional strategy last month in "Google defiles homepage?":
Lifehacker:
Search tags with TagBulb — Search through tags from multiple sources via TagBulb, a tag search aggregator. — You've got a lot of choices here: you can search through various categories such as Images, Jobs, Podcasts, etc., and within each of those categories, you've got …
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Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Webjam Lets Users Be Copycats — A European company called Webjam launches this weekend at the LeWeb3 conference in Paris. It is a personal Web aggregation tool with a heavy social networking component. — At first, I thought Webjam was like a fancier Spokeo in that it allows you to customize …
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Kris Graft / Next Generation:
Nintendo Sued Over Controller Patent — [Update] A leading electronic interface company this week filed a suit against Nintendo in a Delaware court claiming that the Wii's trigger-happy controller infringes on existing patents. — In a court filing snagged by gaming blog Kotaku, Camarillo …
Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Do journalists want a social media news release? — [This is from my comments section - from Kevin Murphy US Editor at Computerwire on the subject of the Social Media Press Release which I described in a late night post called Die! Press release! Die! Die! Die! Here also is the original graphic.
