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Derek van Vliet / Neothoughts:
Firefox Extension: Smart Digg Button — The Smart Digg Button extension for Firefox places a button in your status bar. It uses the newly released Digg API to determine if the web page you are currently viewing has been submitted to Digg. — If the page you are viewing has been submitted to Digg …
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Pronet Advertising, Startup Meme, parislemon, Lifehacker, www.josschuurmans.com, digg and Laughing Squid
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
At Mix, Microsoft's Windows Live platform group loosens up — Microsoft next week at its Mix07 conference plans to detail more generous business terms for partners to use its Live online services and to open up new application programming interfaces for Windows Live Spaces.
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Mashable!, InfoWorld Tech Watch, Vecosys, LiveSide, The Paradigm Shift and Microsoft News Tracker
David / Ironic Sans:
Idea: Uncensor the Internet with Greasemonkey — There's an article on-line from Money Magazine called "50 Bulls**t Jobs." That's right. Bulls**t. With those two asterisks in there. Come on. We know what word they mean. So why not just say it? If they think we're adult enough …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Lawmakers propose reversal of Net radio fee increases — A bill introduced in Congress Thursday aims to overturn a controversial royalty fee increase that Internet radio advocates say threatens to cripple their services. — The "Internet Radio Equality Act," introduced by Reps. Jay Inslee …
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Paul Kapustka / GigaOM:
WSJ censoring Vonage's Ads? — When we looked at the back page of Friday's Marketplace section of the Wall Street Journal, it looked like the delivery person had perhaps taken offense with the Vonage ad campaign about its patent case with Verizon, with what looked like some black-pen editing …
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David Wallace / SearchRank Blog:
10 Signs That You May Be a Blog Addict — Blogs exist on just about every variety of subject one can imagine. And more and more blogs come online each and every day. But what does it take to really have an active blog that people will subscribe to and come back again and again to read?
Nat Torkington / O'Reilly Radar:
Six Basic Truths of Free APIs — Amazon and Google have recently shattered a common misconception: that free APIs are a commons of goodies to be built on top of for fun and profit, like open source software. If you think that, then here are six things you need to know about free APIs:
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
GOOGLE - NBC: VERY DUMB IDEA — Some buzz from Wall St: Analysts are saying that there is no "synergy" between NBC, a GE Unit, and the conglomerates' other units. So the analysts suggest selling it. That is nothing new, this kind of stuff is tossed around all the time on Wall St …
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Kevin Newcomb / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Is Zunch Communications' Bankruptcy a Sign of Things to Come? — Zunch Communications has declared bankruptcy, but Zunch Worldwide lives on. The new entity bought the assets and took on some of the debts of SEM firm Zunch Communications in October 2006, and that company finally filed for bankruptcy last week.
Kotaku:
Blizzard Working on "Next-Gen MMO" — 360 Launches in the Middle East — While we were busy yesterday following the Kutaragi news, over in the United Arab Emirates they were celebrating the launch of a brand new video game console for the region, the Microsoft Xbox 360.
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Wakoopa: Last.fm For Desktop Applications — Last.fm does for music what Dutch startup Wakoopa wants to do for your desktop applications. Like Last.fm, Wakoopa uses a downloaded tracker, except if follows how often you use applications instead of listen to music.
Virtual Earth:
Virtual Earth API V5 is released — Just in time for your weekend coding pleasure, version 5 of the Virtual Earth Software Development Kit is live today. There's a boatload of new features and enhancements, among my favorites are mouse events for polygons and polylines and great layering support.
Don MacAskill / SmugBlog:
The Perfect DB Storage Array — I've long known that YouTube had a secret weapon in their datacenter by the codename 'Colin', but yesterday at the MySQL Conference, I met three more secret weapons - codename 'Paul' and his team (sorry, guys, I've forgotten your names!). — Paul and his team are incredible.
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Microsoft mulling major changes to ward off .ANI-type flaws — How did the super-critical animated cursor (.ani) vulnerability get past all the strict code review, fuzz testing and other defense-in-depth mitigations built into Windows Vista? — Michael Howard (left) has the answer …
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
How Google, Yahoo & Ask.com Treat the No Follow Link Attribute — There seems to be a common misconception in the webmaster and search engine marketing field that inbound links which use the 'no follow' attribute have no value to the site which they point towards.
Eric Savitz / BARRONS.com:
Friday Rant: Let's Make Companies Publish Their Guidance; Conference Call Aren't Enough — While most people on the Street still think of this as earnings season, another way to think of it would be outlook season: the time when corporate managements (at companies other than Google) …
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Serdar Yegulalp / InformationWeek:
Ubuntu Linux Vs. Windows Vista: The Battle For Your Desktop — Is Linux finally ready to take on Windows as a desktop OS? We tried out both Vista and Ubuntu on individual PCs to see which works better. Here's who won. — The prevailing wisdom about Linux on the desktop runs something like this …
Carol Wilson / TELEPHONY Magazine:
Moving fuels shift from wireline service — New research is showing that almost half of all households that move shift their new telecom service to a non-traditional service provider such as a wireless operator, a cable company or a VoIP provider. — Telephia's Total Communications Survey …
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
EconSM Conference: Social Media Sans Search — Yesterday's Economics of Social Media (EconSM) conference in LA, the first event from the team at PaidContent, was an impressive debut, both in terms of attendance and the range and "quality" of speakers on the stage.
CNNMoney.com:
AT&T chief's retirement package: $158.5M — Telecommunications company says Edward Whitacre, a 43-year veteran of AT&T, has helped the firm outperform its peers, newspaper reports. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Edward Whitacre will be given one of the highest …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Secretive Silicon Valley company, OptiSolar, builds largest solar farm — A secretive Hayward, Calif. company has just announced it will build the largest solar power "farm" in North America, using solar cells manufactured in Silicon Valley. — The site, near Sarnia in Ontario, Canada …
