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CNET News.com:
Verbatim: Search firms surveyed on privacy — update To find out what kind of information the four major search companies retain about their users, CNET News.com surveyed America Online, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. — We asked the same seven questions of each company.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FAQ: When Google is not your friend — FAQ Google's recent legal spat with the U.S. Department of Justice highlights not only what information search engines record about us but also the shortcomings in a federal law that's supposed to protect online privacy.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Judge postpones Google subpoena hearing — Google's attempt to fend off the government's request for millions of search terms will move to a federal court in San Jose, Calif., on March 13. — U.S. District Judge James Ware on Thursday delayed the hearing, originally scheduled for Feb. 27 …
Benjamin Cohen / Times of London:
Rumours mount over Google's internet plan — Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet controlled by the search giant, according to sources who are in commercial negotiation with the company.
Stowe Boyd / Message:
The Social Scale of Social Media: The Conversational Index — I think it was Brian Ritchie, one of the inventors of Unix and C, who said "All large systems that work start as small systems that work." This is an enormously powerful thought, one that can be carried into all corners of life …
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Don Dodge on The Next …
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Zoli Erdos / Zoli's Blog:Tracking the COMPLETE CONVERSATION - Part 3
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Ian Youngs / BBC:
Libraries fear digital lockdown — Libraries have warned that the rise of digital publishing may make it harder or even impossible to access items in their collections in the future. — Many publishers put restrictions on how digital books and journals can be used.
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Boing Boing
Forbes:
Google's China portal inaccessible in Shanghai, Beijing — SHANGHAI (AFX) - Google Inc's recently launched China portal was inaccessible in the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Beijing on Friday, although the US-hosted Google.cn site could still be reached from outside China.
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Verizon & Unnecessary Roughness — Business Week article about how Verizon wants to reserve 80% of its network bandwidth for itself, caused a minor ruckus yesterday as one after another, everyone brought up the issue of network neutrality and started the finger pointing.
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InsideGoogle, IP Democracy, channelchanger.typepad.com, Moogle1 and mathewingram.com/work
S Karat / ContentSutra:
Kleiner Perkins And Ram Shriram At It Again In India; Pick Up Stake In Naukri.com — The Economic Times has lost news sense. If India's largest internet classifieds company Naukri.com gets investment from world's fat cat VCs, it can't be shrugged away as a small news brief somewhere in the page X of the newsaper.
Business Week:
James Cameron's Game Theory — Get kids hooked on a multiplayer game, then show them the movie — James Cameron has transported film audiences to worlds inhabited by carnivorous aliens, time-traveling assassins, and passengers on an ill-fated ocean liner.
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Interview with Gabe Rivera, founder of Memeorandum — Tech Memeorandum is part of my daily reading list, actually I read it several times a day. There are several other "clipper" services out there that approach the problem from a slightly different angle. Blogs have exploded in growth and popularity over the last year.
Ward / Nerd Vittles:
Newbie's Guide to Asterisk@Home 2.5: Unabridged Soup-to-Nuts Installation Guide — Want a rock-solid PBX at a rock-bottom price: free! Well, it's been two days since our tutorial on AAH 2.4 but here we go again! Asterisk@Home 2.5 has hit the street because of another serious bug-fix release of Asterisk.
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John Borland / CNET News.com:
Tomorrow's games, designed by players as they play — LOS ANGELES—Game budgets are skyrocketing. Development teams are swelling almost to film studio's proportions. The only way out of this trap is to enlist players to help create their own worlds, a pair of top game creators said Thursday.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Games that stick it to 'The Man' — Big corporations beware: Some video game developers are on a mission to skewer your reputation. — For several years, hard-core game players have complained that big consumer brands are increasingly being featured in their virtual game worlds.
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Listening and Learning Through Blogging — I've just finished my second posting, and I've realized how much there is to learn about the blogosphere. I've spent a lot of time looking at other blogs, listening to what others are saying about what we're doing, and picking up some suggestions along the way.
oxm.co.uk:
Tomb Raider: Legend — Published by Eidos and developed by Crystal Dynamics — TBC players, Autumn 2006. — The first lady of computing vaults, spins, poses and pouts her way onto the Xbox 360 — But has she learnt from recent failures? — Lara steps gingerly onto the stone walkway.
Nicholas Paphitis / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Phones of Greek, U.S., officals tapped — ATHENS, Greece — Mobile phones belonging to top Greek military and government officials - including the prime minister - and the U.S. embassy were tapped for nearly a year beginning in the weeks before the 2004 Olympic games, the government said Thursday.
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Schneier on Security
