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New York Times:
A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 — Buried in a list of 20 million Web search queries collected by AOL and recently released on the Internet is user No. 4417749. The number was assigned by the company to protect the searcher's anonymity, but it was not much of a shield.
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Threat Chaos, Between the Lines, rexblog, Google Blogoscoped, Mathew Ingram, Guardian Unlimited, TechBlog, John Battelle's Searchblog, IP Democracy, I4U News, robhyndman.com, Search Engine Watch Blog, Infothought, SEO Book.com, Bloggers Blog, Michael Geist Law, V7N Search Marketing News, Computerworld Blogs blogs, Buzzworthy, APM's Future Tense, TechCrunch, Lost Remote, Screenwerk, BuzzMachine, Kevin Maney, Rough Type, Slashdot and Valleywag
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
CDs Find Their Way Into Papers — A Santa Monica company is packaging movie previews, music samples, interviews and ads with Sunday editions. — Most newspapers have built their long-term growth strategies around the Internet. But a Santa Monica company is betting that an old piece of new technology …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Rather Than Embrace The Internet, Newspapers Look To Embrace A Different Kind Of Old Media — from the teaming-up-against-the-internet? dept — While newspapers aren't in as bad a shape as some would have you believe, they still are having trouble figuring out how to deal with this internet thing.
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Dpreview / Digital Photography Review:
Nikon D80, 10 mp, previewed — This new camera is the natural successor to the D70/D70s with a refreshed design, user interface and a wide range of new features. Headline improvements are; 10.2 mp CCD, new image processing engine, 3D Color Matrix Metering II, 11-area AF system …
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
AMD not eliminating ATI brand, reports false — One of the unforeseen ramifications of the AMD-ATI hookup is the new hyper-rumor-transport bus, a new technology whereby unsubstantiated rumors become fact at an alarming rate. I lamented this sad state of affairs a few weeks ago …
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Gina Trapani / Lifehacker: Top:
Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista side by side — The more things change, the more they stay the same. That's what I thought watching coverage of Apple's Worldwide Developer's conference opening yesterday, where banners that read things like "Hasta la vista, Vista" and "Redmond has a cat, too.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, creativebits, Gizmodo and Download Squad
Mary Himinkool / Google Talkabout:
Google Talk on the mylo — For the past several months we've been working with partners who are leveraging the tools of Google Talk's open platform. Sony has just announced that its new WiFi device will feature Google Talk. The mylo communicator will be hitting stores in September.
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MobileWhack.com, GigaOM, InsideGoogle, PSFK Trend: PSFK, Search Engine Watch Blog, Shop Talk and Gadgetell
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Britain's digital tribes revealed — Households in Britain can be classified into 23 "e-types" depending on their access to technology, say researchers. — E-types include mobile explorers, the e-committed and rational utilitarians. — The researchers, from University College London …
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Ventures in Pixels Blog
Chartreuse / BETA:
The Big Difference Between Old And New — Pay Attention Please. — Nothing is on. — Except you. — Old media has to grab your attention. — New media is already there. — You have to find old media (what channel? What time? What theatre? What station?) — New media finds you.
Nat / O'Reilly Radar:
The Value of Web Standards — While at OSCON, Mark Lucovsky of Google sent us a bit of HTML that'd embed a slender map search widget into our conferences web site. It's an easy way for attendees to find restaurants, hotels, parks, bars, etc. near the conference venue.
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JD on EP
PodTech Network Blog:
Mobile Podcasting Not There Yet - It's Starting to Happen.. — What about mobile podcating? That is podcasts on cell phones? I get this question all the time. I'm not bullish about it in the short term but it is obvious that it will happen. The question is when?
John Leyden / The Register:
Mobile internet is still a turn-off — Most punters still find mobile internet usage to be a frustrating experience they'd rather avoid. — Despite investment by operators in services such as i-mode and Vodafone Live, 73 per cent of respondents to a new survey said don't access the net from their mobile.
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
Niall Sez Microsoft is Too Big and Paralyzed — Well, allow me to be the last blog to shout into the echo chamber about Niall Kennedy... doing what? Oh yeah: Leaving Microsoft. Lots of high profile folks have been leaving Microsoft lately and I haven't been making a big show out of many of them …
Burtonator / Kevin Burton's Feed Blog:
Technorati's Numbers are Wrong — Dave posts another state of the blogosphere with some interesting stats. The one I found shocking was the claim that there are 50 million blogs. — These numbers are overly optimistic and dangerous. There are not 50 million blogs.
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GigaOM, Raw, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, The Bb Gun, OnoTech, 1000 Flowers Bloom, Andrew Lark, Jeff Barr's Blog and digg
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Interview with Sun's Tim Bray and Radia Perlman - Part 1: Web history and future, P2P — To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the World Wide Web, today I interviewed two distinguished people from Sun Microsystems - Tim Bray (Director of Web Technologies) and Radia Perlman (Distinguished Engineer).
Phone Scoop:
Sprint To Launch 4G in 2007 — Today, 12:47 PM source: Sprint Nextel — Sprint today announced they will roll out their 4G wireless broadband network beginning in the fourth quarter of 2007. Though it tested many options, the carrier chose to use the 802.16e mobile WiMax standard.
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GigaOM, Mark Evans, Pocket PC Thoughts, dailywireless.org, Joseph Laszlo, The Mobile Gadgeteer and PaulStamatiou.com
Cyrus Farivar / Macworld:
Video highlights from WWDC 2006 — In this special selection of video excerpts from the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference 2006, we present three selections from Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote address: — First, we show you a clip from the demo by Scott Forstall, Apple's vice president of platform experience.
