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Times of London:
Founder of Wikipedia plans search engine to rival Google — Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is set to launch an internet search engine with amazon.com that he hopes will become a rival to Google and Yahoo! — Mr Wales has begun working on a search engine …
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Adam Turner / ITWire:
Wikipedia founder plans search engine to rival Google — Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is working with Amazon to launch a search engine to rival Google, relying on human judgement rather than algorithms. — Wikiasari is scheduled to launch first quarter of 2007, backed by multimillion-dollar funding …
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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Wikiasari: Wikipedia success applied to social search? — Wikia will release a new search engine in partnership with Amazon.com early next year according to an interview with Jimmy Wales in today's Times of London. The new search engine project is named Wikiasari and will apply wisdom …
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Page view metrics? Bah, humbug! — (A personal, non-work mini-rant about page view metrics.) — I want to come to Yahoo's defense about something. A recent spate of reports says that Yahoo has been surpassed by various companies in terms of page views. Why is that relatively bogus?
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Explaining Steve Gillmor — Nobody I know can understand a thing Steve Gillmor is talking about, mainly because he makes so many obscure references without explaining them. I thought as a public service I would provide a detailed exposition of his latest blog post, Bad Sinatra.
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
In-depth analysis of Microsoft content syndication platform patent application — On June 21, 2005 eight Microsoft employees claimed invention rights for a "content syndication platform," exemplified by Internet Explorer 7 and its support for aggregating feed content.
Jason McMaster / GigaGamez:
PS3s Being Traded For Wiis — So, first people camp out in front of Best Buys for days at a time to get the PS3, and then they trade them for Nintendo Wiis. Seriously. Tony Conrad, CEO and Founder of Sphere, pointed this out to us and we had to see it to believe it.
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Om Malik / NewTeeVee:
Tom Leaves GUBA — Tom McInerney, one of the co-founders and chief executive officer of GUBA, a San Francisco-based online video sharing and download service, has resigned and is leaving the company. Eric Lambrecht, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of GUBA is going to take over as the CEO of the company.
Sean Cooper / Slate:
WHY YOU CAN'T GET IPODS AT A DISCOUNT. — Last week, USA Today reported that online sales in November increased 25 percent over those from 2005. If you've shopped for gadgets online this holiday season, you almost certainly found that the camcorder or DVD player you wanted was selling at a wide range of prices.
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Ryan / CyberNet Technology News:
AllofMp3.com Sued for $1.65 Trillion! — I haven't been able to find information on the largest lawsuit in history but I'm sure this one is right up at the top. The RIAA (yes, I was just as shocked as you ) is suing the website AllofMP3.com on behalf of EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music …
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Paul Thurrott / WindowsITPro:
Wow Starts January 29: Microsoft Sets Vista Consumer Launch — Microsoft will officially launch Windows Vista and Office 2007 for consumers at a special event in Times Square in New York City on January 29 called "Wow Starts Now." At the event, Microsoft and its partners will promote Vista, Office 2007, and related products
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Judge: music labels have to prove sharing — The beat goes on in the world of file-sharing litigation. Earlier this week, the case against Patti Santangelo was dismissed without prejudice and refiled, this time naming two of her children as defendants. In another closely followed case …
Variety:
Business biggies wade warily into viral video — Can conglomerates unite to take on YouTube? — To really make money from putting content like "The Colbert Report" online, Hollywood needs to follow an ad-supported model. — The creators of YouTube had a grassroots concept that turned into a viral goldmine.
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John Leyden / The Register:
CafePress wilts under DDoS assault — CafePress.com, the site which allows users to open up their own online store selling customised merchandise such as t-shirts and mugs, has been hit by a denial of service attack. — In a statement to store owners, Jill Ambrose of CafePress.com …
