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Wikipedia Nofollows Links — Wikipedia now adds the "nofollow" attribute to all external links. The reason given for this is to battle spam links, like those of blackhat search engine optimizers. The change is already active, as you can see by checking outgoing links on Wikipedia's articles.
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WeBreakStuff, Search Engine Roundtable, engtech, Joseph Scott's Blog, Ken Leebow's Business Card … and Slashdot
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Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:Wikipedia Must Rollback the Rel=NoFollow Change
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Guardian Unlimited, Monkey Bites, Search Marketing Gurus, kottke.org and Search Engine Land
Shelley / Just Shelley:Wikipedia and nofollow — That bastard Google warp-around …
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
Steve Hamm / Business Week:
IBM's Social Networking Push — With collaboration software called Lotus Connections, Big Blue competes with Microsoft as Web 2.0 expands into the business world — In the earlier days of computing, innovations that were created for corporations gradually seeped into consumer products.
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Matt / WordPress Development Blog:
WordPress 2.1 "Ella" — On behalf of the WordPress.org community of commiters, contributers, and volunteers, I'm very proud to announce the immediate availability of WordPress 2.1 "Ella", named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald. Here's a sampling of what's in the new version:
David Kirkpatrick / Fortune:
Windows on the Mac changes everything — The kind of software sold by the formidable Parallels is transforming computing and challenging Steve Jobs, says Fortune's David Kirkpatrick. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — The lines between the Mac OS and Windows are starting to blur.
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Download Squad, Engadget, Infinite Loop, MacUser, Blogging Stocks, Daily small biz tech news … and digg
Phillip Torrone / MAKE Magazine:
The complete guide to PDFs in iTunes — There are a small but growing number of PDFs appearing in iTunes, users can subscribe to podcasts to automatically receive audio and video - and recently - PDFs. At MAKE & CRAFT we have experimented with this from the start - we have also cataloged …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
In Raw World of Sex Movies, High Definition Could Be a View Too Real — The XXX industry has gotten too graphic, even for its own tastes. — Pornography has long helped drive the adoption of new technology, from the printing press to the videocassette. Now pornographic movie studios …
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Techdirt, Medialoper, UNEASYsilence, Reel Pop, Perceptric Forum, Good Morning Silicon Valley, CrunchGear, Is High Def Porn … and digg
Bill Slawski / Search Engine Land:
Google's OneBox Patent Application — One of my favorite search related articles is one that Danny wrote a few years back titled Searching With Invisible Tabs. It stands out because it describes one of the major difficulties involving how search engines work - making a user interface as simple as possible …
Steve Wiseman / IntelliAdmin.com:
The 5 sins of Vista — Since Vista was released to MSDN subscribers back in November I have started using it on my primary development laptop. I would love to run it in a VMWare session while I am developing, but it is still not possible to get Areo Glass to run this way …
Geraldine Fabrikant / New York Times:
Once Given Up for Dead, Comcast Defies Its Obits — THREE years ago, with the cable television industry in the doldrums, the Comcast Corporation's chairman, Brian L. Roberts, approached Mel Karmazin, then the president of Viacom, with a modest proposal: give Comcast the right to show programming …
Tom Coates / plasticbag.org:
On Space Art in Sebastopol... This is so much fun. Where to start? Okay. So in September last year a few of us went to the O'Reilly FOO Camp. It's an invitation-only event in Sebastopol in California where everyone's expected to present what they're thinking about or working on and where lots of fascinating conversations happen.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Germany Gone Kaput? — Reader Michiel Ouwerkerk just dropped an email to say that Google Germany has disappeared. Sure enough, when I go there, I get a holding page from what looks to be hosting company Goneo: — The message reads (umlauts and other German punctuation omitted, sorry!)
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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
A new crop of kids: Generation We — When Amy Jo Kim's son Gabriel says he wants to "watch videos," she knows he doesn't mean DVDs or television. He wants YouTube. — Gabriel, an intensely curious kid who's about to turn 8, has been fascinated by everything from skateboarding and basketball …
Doug Mellgren / Associated Press:
German, French groups want open iTunes — OSLO, Norway - German and French consumer groups have joined a Nordic-led drive to force Apple Inc. to make its iTunes online store compatible with digital music players made by rival companies, a Norwegian official said Monday.
Mike / Techdirt:
Indie Music Labels Team Up To Get Their Own Cut Of Money Being Thrown Around From Google & Microsoft — from the not-such-a-good-thing dept — Ethan Bauley writes in to point out that a bunch of independent music labels are teaming up to act as a single entity to secure their own licensing deals with sites like MySpace and YouTube.
Inside AdSense:
This is a test: Video content on AdSense — There are many things in life that go hand in hand — peanut butter & jelly, wine & cheese, milk & cookies — and for publishers, AdSense & great content sites. We hope that the next perfect pairing will be "great video content & your audience."
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Making a Ruckus in the Music Business — An upstart run by a former Napster executive aims to change how people get songs online—and give Apple a run for its iTunes money — Mike Bebel has a plan for inducing young people to pay for downloaded music: Give them all the songs they want for free …
Bink / Bink.nu:
Microsoft is now accepting nominations for the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 TAP — Brief Summary — Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) will be a standard service pack that will include security updates, hotfixes, as well as limited other changes focused on improving quality.
