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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
God bless the re-inventers — Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing. — I've been hearing, off in the distance, about something called JSON, that proposes to solve a problem that was neatly solved by XML-RPC in 1998 …
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Deusx / del.icio.us:
tagometer: badges badges badges badges BOOKMARKS BOOKMARKS — Being a blogger, one of my long-standing wishlist items for del.icio.us has been to find some way to get more of what's going on here to show up out there. Instead of just simple links, I've wanted to get a bit of peek through …
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
del.icio.us API for URL top tags, bookmark count — Social bookmarking site del.icio.us has exposed a new API providing the top tags and total number of bookmarks for any URL in its system. Yahoo's Developer Network provided a short preview earlier tonight of a soon to be released del.icio.us web badge …
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Yahoo! Developer Network blog, 0xDECAFBAD, UMBC eBiquity, Tom Morris and Marshall Kirkpatrick
Phil Wainewright / Software as services:
Google retreats back to Web 1.0 — The quiet deprecation of Google's original SOAP search API earlier this month, which has just come to light this week, is a revealing admission of Google's single-minded reliance on advertising as a means of funding its continued growth and profitability.
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ProgrammableWeb, CNET News.com, John Battelle's Searchblog, Venture Chronicles and Slashdot
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Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Revver Re-organizes Executive Suite — Two Co-Founders Leave; Adds New COO, Ad Sales Chief — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — In what is perhaps a sign of the difficulty facing those looking to compete against YouTube, fledgling video-sharing site Revver.com has reshuffled its executive suite, with two of the three co-founders departing.
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Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
Record Labels Sue Web Site Operator — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Several major record labels sued the operator of the Russian music Web site AllofMP3.com on Wednesday, claiming the company has been profiting by selling copies of music without their permission. — The lawsuit was filed …
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TechCrunch
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Mike / Techdirt:
Record Labels Finally Sue Allofmp3.com — from the took-'em-long-enough dept — The only surprise here is that it's taken this long. However, after tremendous efforts to influence politicians to force Allofmp3.com to shut down, it appears that a bunch of record labels have finally filed a lawsuit against the company.
Market Wire:
Nielsen//NetRatings Announces November U.S. Search Share Rankings — Nielsen//NetRatings (NASDAQ: NTRT) reports November 2006 data for the Top U.S. Search Providers. — Top search providers, ranked by total searches. Searches represent the total number of queries conducted at the provider.
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Mathew Ingram / mathewingram.com/work:Google: Anti-trust case waiting to happen?
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Bill Tancer
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
blinkx signs Dow Jones Online — Video search site blinkx seems to announce at least one new content deal per week, so we don't even try to cover all of them. Today CTO Suranga Chandratillake called to say the company had tied up Dow Jones Online, pulling video feeds from WSJ.com …
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Gamasutra:
Gamasutra's Quantum Leap Awards: Most Important Games, 2006 — They're timeless. They're inspirational. They inspire us, make us question our standards, and provide a roadmap for the future of development. They are the games that innovate and move the industry forward …
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Vote for the 2006 Search Blogs Awards! — Voting for the Search Engine Journal's 2006 Search Blogs Awards are now open. — Please take the time to rank and vote for your favorite search engine blogs and bloggers! — Vote Now! — In most of the categories, we ask voters to rank …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why I Am Breaking Up With Netflix — I was a die-hard Netflix fan. Apart from when I lived in Canada or Europe, I've been a Netflix customer for the last five years. There is a very tanglible tingle when a Netflix movie arrives in the mail, packaged up in its red envelope.
Joey deVilla / Global Nerdy:
RSS is "The Next Big Thing" — and Has Been for the Past 3 Years — We got a sense of deja vu when we saw that the first item in Read/Write Web's Predicitions for 2007 was "RSS will go mainstream in a big way. A quick look back to their predictions for 2006 told us why …
Erick Schonfeld / The Next Net:
Google's Checkout Strategy: Give Kickbacks to Merchants — Google is trying to ramp up use of its Checkout payment system by essentially bribing Web merchants to use Checkout instead of eBay's Paypal or some other competing online payment system. For every $30 purchase through Google Checkout …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Newsmaker: Virtual magnate shares secrets of success — newsmaker Since its public launch in 2003, the virtual world Second Life has become a haven for entrepreneurs. And while the number of people making a considerable profit is still relatively small, it is growing rapidly.
Mike / CrunchNotes:
The Truth About TechCrunch UK — If you've been following the events around the Le Web conference and TechCrunch UK, this might be of interest to you. If not, it won't. I'm not filling in all the background material to keep this as short as possible. — I've thought about the TechCrunch UK issue …
Economist:
Work-life balance — Consumer technologies are invading corporate computing — IN OCTOBER, shortly after taking over as head of information technology (IT) at Arizona State University, Adrian Sannier gave the nod to his contact at Google, the internet giant known for its search engine …
Robert McMillan / PC World:
Sony Settles Rootkit Suits — $1.5 million in penalties will compensate consumers whose systems were damaged. — Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million in penalties to settle lawsuits with two U.S. states over its controversial use of copy protection software.
