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Michael Olivier / Yodel Anecdotal:
It takes two to Tango — When you find something broken on the Web, product folks at small web sites are usually easy to connect with. But visitors to sites with significant traffic usually have a tougher time lobbing input directly to site development teams about the good, the bad, and the screwed up.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Launches Digg-Like Suggestion Site — Yahoo is taking some criticism for launching a site that includes a Digg-like voting feature earlier today. The main criticism is coming from Digg users, who can sometimes stop fighting long enough to band together into a very angry mob.
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Did Not Rip Off Digg — Yahoo has launched a new public voting system on their Suggestion Boards which lets users contribute, comment and vote on feedback given by Yahoo users on different Yahoo Channels. — Yahoo Suggestion Boards is a smart way for Yahoo to gather and prioritize user feedback …
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
Yahoo copies Digg, suffers the consequences — Speaking of Yahoo, the portal has launched suggestion boards that look... hmm... exactly like Digg. In fact, Yahoo explains on its own blog that the board has "Digg-like voting." Well, that didn't sit so well with the Digg kids …
BBC:
Music execs criticise DRM systems — Almost two-thirds of music industry executives think removing digital locks from downloadable music would make more people buy the tracks, finds a survey. — The Jupiter Research study looked at attitudes to Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems in Europe music firms.
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Preston Gralla / Computerworld Blogs:
U.S. senator: It's time to ban Wikipedia in schools, libraries — Here's the newest from Sen. Ted Stevens, the man who described the Internet as a series of tubes: It's time for the federal government to ban access to Wikipedia, MySpace, and social networking sites from schools and libraries.
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Ruby Huang / DigiTimes:
15.4-inch MacBooks to begin shipping in 2Q, say sources — Apple is planning to introduce 15.4-inch MacBooks in the second quarter of 2007, according to industry sources in Taiwan. The new model will fill the gap between the company's 13.3-inch MacBooks and the 15.4- and 17-inch MacBook Pros …
Benjamin Pimentel / San Francisco Chronicle:
Demand grows, but data centers don't hog power — Net uses barely over 1 percent of U.S. electricity, study says — Data centers are sucking up more electricity as more people and organizations log on to the Internet. But there's been some disagreement over how power-hungry the servers running the nation's network are.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:U.S. servers slurp more power than Mississippi
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Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
Yahoo Lays Out Details Of Its New Advertiser & Publisher Group; Schneider To Lead YPN — Susan Decker, CFO of Yahoo, sent out an e-mail to all Yahoo employees detailing the newly formed "Advertiser & Publisher Group" within the company, whose mission is to "to lead the transformation …
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Scott Kirsner / New York Times:
All the World's a Stage (That Includes the Internet) — AT lunchtime, or when he is walking the halls of his workplace, Roy Raphaeli's colleagues often beseech him to do a magic trick. Usually, he obliges. "I take the opportunity to show people my new stuff and see how they react," …
Fred Aun / ClickZ:
Omniture to Acquire Site-Side Behavioral Targeting Firm — In what it described as an effort to reduce "human interaction — a limiting factor" in online consumer interactions, Web analytics vendor Omniture yesterday said it is acquiring Touch Clarity, a site personalization firm, for more than $50 million.
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Patricia Hursh / ClickZ:
Yahoo Local Advertising Options, Post-Panama, Part 2 — › › › Local Search — Last time, I provided an overview of Yahoo's local search advertising options, post-Panama. I covered the long-awaited geotargeting option now available in Sponsored Search …
Ed Oswald / BetaNews:
MS: IBM Standards Position Hypocritical — Microsoft is calling IBM out over its opposition to Office Open XML, saying it is attempting to create a movement to prevent ISO standardization of the format. — In an open letter posted to its Web site, Microsoft claims IBM is trying to limit choice …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
EFF takes Viacom to task over YouTube takedown — A watchdog group is encouraging those wrongly accused of posting pirated Viacom material on YouTube to stand up to the giant conglomerate—even if it means a court fight. — Two weeks ago, when Viacom demanded that YouTube remove 100,000 …
GamePro.com:
Feature: 14 Gaming Myths Exposed — We've all heard them, and many of us believe them. But we're here to set the record straight: consider these gaming myths officially busted! … MYTH: Third-party controllers are just as good. — Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Saska / Fiendish Glee Club:
Customer service gone shockingly right — (I have to throw in a little plug for Vox here, even though I just use their services for free. This entry survived being #1 on digg.com and reddit.com in the same day, and one person claimed they couldn't get to it, but I personally never saw Vox go down.
David Kaplan / PaidContent:
Yahoo Defends Digital Ad Dollars At Its First Infront Presentation — As we reported last week, Yahoo hosted its first "Infront" before the upfront on Tuesday evening, during which the web portal sought to "educate" roughly 1,000 marketers and media buyers on the merits of shifting more ad dollars …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Gizmodo emeritus rips all gadget-sites a new one — Former Gizmodo editor Joel Johnson has a new column — on Gizmodo — in which he excoriates gadget bloggers and their readers for buying "chromed turds" that are broken, DRMed, overhyped, and useless. The rant is nothing short of breathtaking …
