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Frank Watson / Search Engine Watch:
Duplicated Confusion: The Canonical Edict From The Big Three — So virtually everyone has weighed in on the new instructions from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Apparently there should be joy in the cesspool today - the search gods have shown us the way to clean up part of the confusion with canonical pages in our industry.
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Google Webmaster Central Blog:Specify your canonical — Carpe diem on any duplicate content worries …
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Google Blogoscoped, SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog, Bits, AdMoolah, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog and Search Engine Journal
Yahoo! Search Blog:Fighting Duplication: Adding more arrows to your quiver
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Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Unite On “Canonical Tag” …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Appoints David Porter as Corporate Vice President of Retail Stores — Twenty-seven-year retail veteran will focus on transforming the PC and device-buying experience for retail consumers and developing and rolling out new Microsoft-branded stores.
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Between the Lines, paidContent.org, Guardian, Reuters, CrunchGear, Wall Street Journal, TECH.BLORGE.com, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Microsoft Watch, VentureBeat, Financial Times, Obsessable, I4U News, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Forever Geek, eWeek, OSNews, Tech Trader Daily, Neowin.net, TechFlash, Microsoft Pri0 and Xconomy
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail stores
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Technologizer, Electronista, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, Between the Lines and The Microsoft Blog
Arn / MacRumors:
Leaked Photos of Next Generation iPhone? — Images claiming to depict the back cover of an upcoming iPhone have started circulating on the internet. iPodObserver first posted a version of the above photo that allegedly depicts an unreleased 16GB iPhone with the model number A1303.
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Electronista, techeblog.com, CNET News, I4U News, Gizmodo, Edible Apple, iLounge, Engadget, The Apple Core, GPS Obsessed and AppleInsider
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iPod Observer:
New 16GB iPhone 3G May Be On the Way — Apple may be preparing to roll out an updated version of its 16GB iPhone 3G. An image showing a new case back seems to back up rumors that an iPhone update is on the way thanks to its model number, A1303, which previously hasn't appeared on any iPhone model.
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Boing Boing Gadgets, TUAW, Gizmodo, MacBlogz, 9 to 5 Mac, The iPhone Blog, VentureBeat and MobileCrunch
Apple:
About the security content of Security Update 2009-001 — This document describes Security Update 2009-001, which can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences, or from Apple Downloads. — For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss …
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CNET News, PC World, Security Watch, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, InformationWeek, The Register, Pocket-lint.co.uk, Neowin.net, Ars Technica, jkOnTheRun and Zero Day
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Coder's Half-Million-Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush Is Still On — Apple's iPhone application store is as crowded as a Beyonce concert, with more than 20,000 apps available. But one independent developer still managed to rake in $600,000 in a single month with a single iPhone game.
Pew Internet:
Twitter and status updating — In the past three years, developments in social networking and internet applications have begun providing internet users with more opportunities for sharing short updates about themselves, their lives, and their whereabouts online.
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Ars Technica, Twitterrati, textually.org, blogs.ft.com and confused of calcutta, Thanks:atul
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Ben / Mozilla Labs:
Introducing Bespin — As we strive to evolve the Open Web as a robust platform for application development, we believe in the potential for web-based code editors to increase developer productivity, enable compelling user experiences, and promote the use of open standards.
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Dion Almaer / Ajaxian:Bespin: A new Mozilla Labs experimental extensible code editor using Canvas
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Exchange / You Had Me At EHLO:
Introducing Outlook Live for schools - and cool new features for everyone — We've put together a new video, sharing some of the cool new stuff you can expect to see with the next version of Exchange, code-named Exchange 14. Please take a few minutes to go watch it because, hey …
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Bloomberg:
Record Labels Turn ISPs Into ‘Copyright Cops’ to Deter Global Music Piracy — Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) — The world's biggest record companies sued college students, a 12-year-old girl and a dead woman and still failed to stamp out music piracy. Now they're turning to Internet service providers.
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Inside Windows Live Messenger:
Windows Live Messenger update notice — The latest version of Windows Live Messenger (14.0.8064.0206) is now available for free download here. — Over the next month, if you're still running versions 8.1 or 8.5, you'll get a prompt encouraging you to upgrade to the latest version of Windows Live Messenger.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
The Worst Response To A Reasonable Response To A DMCA Takedown I've Seen — Forgive the hyperbole in the headline. It's mostly a reaction to the headline of this post, sent in by JJ, from the site “Plagiarism Today” declaring: The Worst DMCA Response I've Seen.
Apple MobileMe News:
Sharing Large Files with iDisk — We're pleased to announce that you can now use your MobileMe iDisk to share files with others simply and easily. Instead of attaching a large document to an email and hoping it's not too big to be received, you can place the file in your iDisk and use the new Share File command in the iDisk web app.
Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
“Google Devalues Everything It Touches” - Wall Street Journal Chief — Charlie Rose today started a series on the future of journalism. … It was a fascinating discussion about micropayments, subscription models, and how newspapers can adapt to the challenge of low online ad revenues.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FTC warns of “day of reckoning” for online advertisers — The Federal Trade Commission today backed the idea of self-regulation for online behavioral advertisers, but two commissioners expressed strong discomfort with the idea. One went so far as to warn of a “day of reckoning” if the industry doesn't get its house in order soon.
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Rodeo group to pay $25,000 for YouTube takedown requests — A rodeo association has agreed to pay $25,000 to an animal welfare group to settle a lawsuit over the improper removal of videos from YouTube that showed roped calves being dragged off to die and tasers being used on tame horses to get them to buck.
Scott Gilbertson / Epicenter:
Worried New Features Will Mean Firefox Bloat? Relax — One person's exciting new feature is another's stupid software bloat. So how do you keep both camps happy? — That's the dilemma Mozilla faces as it begins to map out plans for the next big release of Firefox, the free …
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
HBS Study Finds VCs Need Successful Serial Entrepreneurs Way More than Vice Versa — Entrepreneurs with one success in the rear view mirror are more likely to succeed in subsequent ventures than either first-time entrepreneurs, or those who failed in a past endeavor.
Zach Spear / AppleInsider:
MacBook owners frustrated by new audio jacks — A few owners of Apple's new unibody notebooks are experiencing backwards compatibility issues with the units' redesigned audio jacks, which offer a snug connection for the company's latest headphones with integrated microphones at the expense …
Chris Wilson / Slate:
The evolutionary roots of Facebook's “25 Things” craze. — Last week, I enlisted Slate readers to help divine how Facebook's “25 Random Things About Me” trend got started. More than 3,000 of you responded, answering queries on when you first saw a “25 Things” note, when you were first tagged …
Paul Taylor / Financial Times:
Motorola not yet ready to fall on its Razr — The precipitous decline of Motorola's mobile phone business, once ranked second in the world to Nokia, has meant that the group's less glamorous non-handset operations have increasingly had to prop up the US telecoms company.
Amy-Mae Elliott / Pocket-lint.co.uk:
Samsung unveils Blue Earth solar powered phone … Samsung Electronics has unveiled a solar-powered full touchscreen phone called “Blue Earth”. — No eco launch is complete without earthy PR speak, so the Blue Eartch is apparently designed to “symbolise a flat and well rounded shiny pebble”.
