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seclists.org:
Seclists.Org shut down by Myspace and GoDaddy — Many of you reported that our SecLists.Org security mailing list — archive was down most of yesterday (Wed), and all you really need to — know is that we're back up and running! But I'm going into rant mode — anyway in case you care for the details.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
GoDaddy pulls security site after MySpace complaints — update A popular computer security Web site was abruptly yanked offline this week by MySpace.com and GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name registrar, raising questions about free speech and Internet governance.
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Domain Name Wire, Jeremy's Blog, theWHIR.com Blogs, Vitalsecurity.org, The Trademark Blog, 27B Stroke 6 and digg
Rachel Sanderson / Reuters:
YouTube and Wikipedia storm to top brand ranking — LONDON (Reuters) - Internet firm Google has again pipped Apple to the top spot in a global brand ranking that also sees YouTube and Wikipedia debut in the top five, a survey showed on Friday. — The annual survey by online branding …
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Anthony Zumpano / brandchannel.com:
Similar Search Results: Google Wins — Global: Bow to Your Google — Google hogged technology headlines and spread its ubiquity (which is a nice way of saying "world dominance") throughout 2006. The dust barely cleared on its US$ 900 million deal with News Corporation to provide service …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
This Web site can name that tune — Do you ever find yourself humming a song whose title, to your frustration, you don't know or can't remember? New search Web site Midomi is designed to actually identify that song for you in as little as 10 seconds. — Launching in beta mode on Friday …
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Matt Cutts / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
A quick word about Googlebombs — Co-written with Ryan Moulton and Kendra Carattini — We wanted to give a quick update about "Googlebombs." By improving our analysis of the link structure of the web, Google has begun minimizing the impact of many Googlebombs.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Google Kills Miserable Failure & Other Google Bombs
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Rough Type, Vancouver Law Librarian Blog, Blogging Stocks, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Infothought and digg
Rcade / Workbench:
Amapedia: The Conspicuous Consumption Community Wiki — While browsing Amazon.Com this evening I noticed a reference to Amapedia, a collaborative wiki the company describes as a "community for sharing information about the products you like the most." — The site's newly launched …
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Reuters:
AACS confirms hacks on high-definition DVD players — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A consortium of movie studios and technology companies backing the encryption system for high-definition DVDs on Thursday confirmed that hackers have stolen "title keys" and used them to decrypt high-definition DVDs through flaws in DVD player software.
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Ars Technica:
After the honeymoon: the Nintendo Wii — Do Wii still love it? — When I look back on my review of the Nintendo Wii and a few other comments I have made about the system since then, one thing jumps out at me: I said multiple times how great it was that Nintendo would have ample supplies …
Sam Sethi / Vecosys:
Is Google building the Attention Economy? — For the last two years I have been tracking a terminology called attention metadata. About 12 months ago some friends and I became really excited about the possibilities of creating a new discovery engine based on sharing our attention.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Ex-Yahoo Exec now Pageflakes CEO — Dan Cohen, till very recently Head of My Yahoo business for Sunnyvale, California-based web media and search company, has joined personalized web page start-up Pageflakes as its chief executive officer, according to our sources.
Inside Google Book Search:
Books: Mapped — One of the first things I did upon moving to New York City was to buy some books about this great metropolis: guide books, historical accounts, collections of stories from famous reporters. My excitement grew with each word I read. However, being unfamiliar with the streets …
Gord Hotchkiss / Search Engine Land:
Q&A With Marissa Mayer, Google VP, Search Products & User Experience — Marissa Mayer has been the driving force behind Google's Spartan look and feel from the very earliest days. In this wide-ranging interview, I talked with Marissa about everything from interface design to user behavior …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Windows Vista vs. Mac OSX, the two-hour definitive word — I remember having great discussions about Microsoft vs. Apple back in the 1980s and 1990s. We all survived those years without too many hurt feelings. — So, I thought it'd be fun to do it again in 2007 now that Microsoft is shipping Windows Vista.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Explay's nanoprojector gets a little face time — While we were able to get a little hands-on time with Microvision's own minuscule projector earlier this month at CES, the folks over at TFOT were able to snag some face time with Explay's ridiculously small nanoprojector.
Dominic Gates / Seattle Times:
Boeing cuts 787 wireless system — Boeing has abandoned its plan to install a wireless inflight-entertainment system on the 787 Dreamliner, one it had touted earlier as saving weight and complexity by eliminating wires. — Boeing will substitute a wired system with cables running to each seat row …
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Pocket PC Thoughts, dailywireless.org, Wi-Fi Networking News, FierceWireless and Slashdot
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Zennstrom, Euro Angels fall for wunderLOOP — Panama, Yahoo's new advertising platform, and its super abilities, is not the only online advertising technology that is going to be making waves in 2007. — wunderLOOP, a Luxembourg-based behavioral advertising and content targeting company …
Scott McNulty / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Copilot 2.0 supports Macs — I love my mother, which is why I gave her my old G5 iMac (the last of the G5 iMacs) but she isn't really all that tech savvy. To her credit she has gotten much better with surfing the web, and doing email but if a problem crops up on her iMac (which is rare …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Will The Gross Margin On The iPhone Be 50%? Or Half That? — Very interesting debate developing about what kind of gross margins Apple (AAPL) can expect to produce from the iPhone. The issue boils down to this: What will it cost Apple to make one?
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