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The Age:
Microsoft 'tried to doctor Wikipedia' — Microsoft has landed in the Wikipedia doghouse today after it offered to pay an Australian blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced web encyclopedia site. — While Wikipedia is known as the encyclopedia that anyone can tweak …
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Don Dodge on The Next …, Publishing 2.0, Things That, JD on EP, Open Culture and Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Battleground Wikipedia — There's been a discussion over the last few days over a Microsoft employee offering to pay an Australian blogger named Rick Jelliffe to edit certain Wikipedia pages relating to Open Office standards, including this page. Jelliffe writes about the offer here.
Dmahugh / Slashdot:
hi, I'm the guy you're bashing today — The premise of this thread is a lie. Nobody ever contacted Rick and asked him to "make edits and corrections favorable to" Microsoft. Also, nobody from Microsoft PR contacted him. I am the person who contacted Rick, and I am a technical evangelist specializing in the Open XML file formats.
Tony / Deep Jive Interests:
Microsoft: If You're Going to Game Wikipedia? Do It Right — So, in contrast to many bloggers I know, I don't use Apple. I use Microsoft. I like it for a variety of reasons. I have even described myself as a bit of a fan. But when I heard about Microsof's latest PR astroturfing blunder …
Brian Bergstein / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:Microsoft lands in hot water for offer to pay for Wikipedia edits
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Guardian Unlimited
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Adobe and its P2P Ambitions — Adobe Systems, now the owner of Flash multimedia technology, seems to be getting pretty serious about spreading its tentacles into new product categories - from VoIP to peer-to-peer networking. But it is P2P that is at the heart of San Jose, Calif.-based company's grand design.
Chaddus Bruce / Wired News:
CIA Gets in Your Face(book) — If you're a Facebook member, a career as a government spook is only a click away. — Since December 2006, the Central Intelligence Agency has been using Facebook.com, the popular social networking site, to recruit potential employees into its National Clandestine Service.
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Image Results Redesign — I'm not sure when exactly this happened, but Google seems to have gone live with the redesigned Google Image search results they've been experimenting with for some time. Now instead of seeing the file name, dimensions, size and URL, you'll only be getting some "context-aware" snippet below the image.
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Yahoo!:
Yahoo! To Launch New Search Marketing Ranking Model in the U.S. On February 5 — New Marketplace Values Ad Quality, Rewards Relevancy — SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan 23, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:Yahoo Search Marketing To Launch New Ranking Model February 5th
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Search Engine Journal
Valleywag:
SECOND LIFE: Virtual world's supposed economy is 'a pyramid scheme' — Linden Lab's virtual world — a much-hyped online amusement arcade of cartoon porn, avatars of IBM executives and frog bands — has an annual GDP of about $220m, according to Fortune Magazine's David Kirkpatrick.
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Raph's Website, 3pointD.com, duncanriley.com, Mathew Ingram, Webomatica, BBC, digg and Slashdot
Seamusmccauley / Virtual Economics:
How the Internet has lengthened our attention span — Tim O'Reilly talks today about the web training our minds to prefer snippets or "short form" culture (HT: Nick Carr). "The web," he says, "has put a premium on short-form content, both because it's easier to read in the ADD style …
Ben Charny / MarketWatch:
Yahoo profit drops 61% on costs; sales up 13% — Stock climbs in late trading on rollout of new search ad technology — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Yahoo Inc. reported late Tuesday fourth-quarter profit plunged 61% from a year ago, when it booked a large one-time investment gain …
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Rising Dead Pool Indicates Web 2.0 Bubble is Popping — The Web 2.0 "bubble" - where a thousand ventures can bloom and thrive - is starting to pop. In the last few weeks the number of startups to go belly up or teter on the brink has increased. TechCrunch is my yardstick for all things Web 2.0.
Karen / Official Google Blog:
Let's get together — Online groups have become a great tool for managing and sharing activities and ideas for a defined group of people. Back in October we introduced a new version of Google Groups (in beta) in the hopes that it would help people work together better.
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SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks:
Yahoo! Q4 2006 Earnings Call Transcript — Executives — Terry Semel - Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer — Sue Decker - Chief Financial Officer; Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration — Analysts — Christa Quarles - Thomas Weisel Partners — Presentation
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
802.11n in all but name: draft hardware in the clear — Late last week, we reported that the IEEE's 802.11 working group signed off on Draft 2.0 and sent it out to the rest of the IEEE membership for approval. More details have emerged from the working group's meetings in London and it's …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Job Board Bubble — The world has changed since I wrote about the need for a decentralized job board service last August. Just not quite in the way I had hoped. — Job Boards are the product du jour of tech blogs. We have one, and countless others have sprung up as well.
ResourceShelf:
New Health Portal Moves into Preview Mode: Revolution Health — New online, in preview, from D.C.-based Revolution Health is a new massive health and health info portal. Steve "AOL" Case is the Founder and — HREF="http://www.revolutionhealth.com/ about/board-of-directors">Chairman of the company.
Joshua Jaffe / VC Ratings:
Sun raises $700 million but won't say why — File this in the "I don't get it Big Dan" category. KKR is investing $700 million into the computer maker for what Sun says are "strategic opportunities for growth." If a company announces plans to raise cash worth 2.8% of its entire market capitalization …
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Kotaku:
Japanese Teen Idol Tries To Destroy SNES Carts — PAL PS3 Launch Details Delayed — From Sony mouthpiece Three Speech, on why the planned announcement of PAL PS3 launch details is a no-show: … So now even the delayed launch announcements are delayed? I'll let you make your own jokes about this one.
