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OpenOffice Getting Google Hires
Programmers brought on by Google will take part in the Sun/Google collaboration by helping the OpenOffice productivity suite be more like a Google product.
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Date: 2005-10-31
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SBC CEO Threatens Internet
Ed Whitacre, who is about to be the CEO of AT&T once SBC changes its name, thinks the likes of Google and Yahoo need to be paying him.
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Date: 2005-10-31
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Firefox Gets SEO Extension
The beauty of open source software is the seemingly limitless options that pop up. For search engine marketers only, a new extension for the Firefox browser has been developed that lets users browse search engine statistics with a simple mouse over.
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Date: 2005-10-31
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IBM Grabs Google’s Toolbar
IBM announced on Friday it would be adding Google Desktop for Enterprise in the form of a plug-in for its enterprise search technology. This marks a major step for Google and Google's quest to sit at the table with the adults.
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Date: 2005-10-31
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URL Hijacker Trades Black Hat For Cuffs
The conman behind the "hijacking" of sex engine Sex.com was arrested at his Tijuana home by Mexican authorities and handed over to immigration authorities in San Diego. How do you hijack a website? When nobody's looking, forge a letter.
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Date: 2005-10-31
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SEO Fun With Letters
People optimize their sites for a variety of keywords and mi[s]spellings. Some interesting tests also show who pops up for letters, articles, pronouns, and conjunctions. "A" is for Apple, says SearchGal, and "S" is for McDonald's? The apostrophe is the special sauce.
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Date: 2005-10-31
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Political Blogs Picking Up Steam
Blogs have become quite the topic for debate in recent days for a number of reasons including credibility, integrity, quality and accuracy. Political blogs are tour de force for internet political circles and some new ones are showing up on the radar after working on the recent scandals in Washington D.C.
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Date: 2005-10-31
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Blogging For Dollars; Are You Worth It?
Some say the value of a weblog is not the traffic attracted, but the buzz generated, meaning that the more a blog is linked to, the more worth it has. This is the theory behind one blogger's research into the per link value of Weblogs, Inc. after their sale to AOL, and another blogger's tool to help calculate the value of your own blog.
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Date: 2005-10-31
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Find Me, Call Me; Google Maps and Talk Mash-up?
Imagine the value of an Internet service that starts with a search, continues with a detailed map location, and ends with a phone call directly to an advertiser through a VoIP connection. This is the train of thought that leads one to an API mash-up of Google Maps and Google Talk.
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Date: 2005-10-31
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Searching For Halloween Excitement
In the spirit of the day, I've come across some websites providing some Halloween fun. Link to them and follow them where they may lead. We've even found a Halloween Search Engine
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Date: 2005-10-31
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Best Job Board: Craigslist
Craigslist wants us to know that their traffic far outstrips the leading job boards, and guess what, they also come up on top in terms of job search effectiveness, according to a Forrester Research study.
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Date: 2005-10-30
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Understanding Web 2.0
This afternoon, I was in a Skype discussion with an old friend in the UK and part of our conversation strayed into a discussion about Web 2.0.
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Date: 2005-10-29
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Flying With Google
You still don't get a meal, or even a boarding pass, but Google does give you flight and travel information access now via its search box.
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Date: 2005-10-28
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Google’s Zeitgeist Conference Buzz
I'm sitting here with Buzz Bruggeman, CEO of ActiveWords. He picked me up from the airport tonight. I have spent the last few hours telling him all about the Google Zeitgeist conference.
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Date: 2005-10-28
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Searching For Janet Jackson’s Sunbathing Video
There are lots of things to search for on the net. Video is always a great choice because there's all kinds of content, things you might never even expect. But then things that don't surprise you creep up too. It looks like Janet Jackson's got a new video making the rounds and you probably won't see it on CBS.
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Date: 2005-10-28
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WWE Drops People’s Elbow On TV Ads
The advertising/marketing world is in the midst of a giant shift as broadband/IP television becomes a reality. World Wrestling Entertainment becomes the latest illustrator of this shift, as traditional advertisers express concern over the WWE's driving viewers to its website for continual live coverage of Monday Night Raw during commercial breaks.
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Date: 2005-10-28
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Paying Up For Google Maps Mash-up
The openness of Google Maps' API has spawned a web phenomenon with slews of Google Map mash-ups. And they do make for a nifty bonus to any webmaster wishing to give visitors a better way to locate services. But, according to the New York Times, don't expect Google to let you profit from their generosity without a cut of the action.
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Date: 2005-10-28
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Kai-Fu Lee Case Goes To Microsoft
A federal judge in California issued a stay in the court battle between Google and Microsoft, which means Lee will remain a high-priced talent recruiter until at least January.
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Date: 2005-10-28
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LookSmart Expands Vertical Search
LookSmart unveiled 161 new vertical search sites in a variety of categories aimed at delivering consumers relevant search results and advertisers a more qualified customer. The company has added 13 vertical categories to its total 181 sites, which the company says makes it the largest vertical search destination.
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Date: 2005-10-28
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AIM Worm Installs Rootkit
FaceTime Security Labs reported that a variant of the Sdbot worm has been making the rounds on AIM via chats and instant messaging.
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Date: 2005-10-28
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You Handle Email Like Einstein
In a time when email was a typo and a computer meant "a person who's really good at math," one legendary genius answered some mail and let the rest languish in his inbox.
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Date: 2005-10-28
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LEDs Wash Out Movie Piracy
Infrared LEDs form the core of a product that will be very popular with film studios and movie theater chains, as it thwarts the filming of movies playing on-screen.
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Date: 2005-10-27
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Google Base Is Old News
This week's big Google news - or supposed news - is the launch of Google Base. It's a hot, fun story on Memeorandum, and it's getting the usual too much buzz and hype on Blogs.
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Date: 2005-10-27
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TiVo Goes Blogging
One of the most compelling technologies, digital video recording, finally gets a corporate voice; that voice belongs to one of its fans.
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Date: 2005-10-27
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Jagger Update2 to be Upgraded...
They say both good and bad things come in threes. Historically, Google updates have provided both good and bad things for search engine optimizers, though generally not in that order.
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Date: 2005-10-27
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Trippin’ With Google And Yahoo!
Google and Yahoo! have added some new search features for travelers. Both companies have their own style-Google with its typically minimalist functionality and Yahoo! with its "come in and stay a while" style.
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Date: 2005-10-27
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Has the Second Leg of Jagger Helped Matters?
With the drama and havoc caused by the first Jagger update, practically everyone who keeps tabs on their Google performance has been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Well, according to famed Google engineer (and fellow Kentuckian) Matt Cutts, this proverbial shoe is indeed dropping as I type.
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Date: 2005-10-27
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VeriSign, ICANN Settle Dispute
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the US Dept. of Commerce backed overseer of the Internet has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought on by VeriSign, the governor of all things .com and .net, over ICANN's interference with VeriSign's controversial Site Finder.
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Date: 2005-10-27
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Google Trusts Your Old Domain
If you've had that domain name for a long time, congratulations, because that seems to be one of the criteria for getting an advantage over the competition.
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Date: 2005-10-27
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Yahoo Video Search Feeds Media RSS
The Yahoo Search blog recently put up an entry on the availability of the video content for devices like the iPod video. Naturally, they discussed how to set up a Media RSS feed for video through Yahoo Video Search.
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Date: 2005-10-27
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Will Google Change TV Advertising?
Google is "mulling" over brokering television advertisements, according to the New York Post. Though ad execs downplay Google's ability to effectively enter this market, it may be that they are victims to an old world paradigm-discussing carburetors when Google is thinking fuel injection.
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Date: 2005-10-27
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Flickr Offers Photo Printing
Photo portal Flickr now offers printing services for the however many zillions of photos they have on their site. The service is available either through mail or for pickup at Target with one-hour printing.
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Date: 2005-10-27
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Schmidt Defends Google Print
Google is currently embroiled in a bitter battle with publishers over their Google Print entity. A lawsuit filed last week by the Author's Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) challenged Google over their Print plans. During a speech in Tokyo, Google CEO Eric Schmidt called the lawsuit a "routine part of doing business."
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Date: 2005-10-27
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MSN Travel Is Frightful
Not to be outdone by Google and Yahoo!'s new travel and map offerings, MSN has extensive Halloween coverage of all things spooky in America (no, Dick Cheney isn't on the list), whether you want to visit these "spiritually gifted" places in person or virtually.
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Date: 2005-10-27
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Google’s Rumor Mill
After visiting Google's Search Blog this afternoon, one begins to understand how the rumor mill works. It would seem the all the hubbub surrounding the possibility (pretty much a sure thing) of the Google Base seems to be attracting a slight amount of attention.
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Date: 2005-10-27
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Google Blogs About Google Base
After yesterday's "inadvertent" unveiling of base.google.com, the search engine company provided some more details about what people saw and grabbed as screenshots.
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Date: 2005-10-26
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AOL Adds RSS Feeds To Video Search Engine
AOL announced on Wednesday they're adding RSS feeds to their video search engine. Video from Blastro.com, EVTV1.com, Forbes.com, GameTrailers.com, PC World, Time4Media will show up and include Transworld Skateboarding, Transworld Snowboarding and Transworld Surf.
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Date: 2005-10-26
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AOL Adds RSS To Video Search
AOL announced the addition of new RSS feeds from partners for its video search engine. The feeds will feature "optimized" video content including humor, news, technology, music, sports, and video games, available through AOL Video, AOL Search, and AOL partner Singingfish.
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Date: 2005-10-26
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Mind The Conversation Gap
Over the past several months I have travelled around the country, meeting with senior marketers at some of the biggest global companies on the planet.
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Date: 2005-10-26
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MSN Says IM Ads Not Contextual
MSN, a division of software mogul Microsoft, recently attracted attention with their instant messaging service. Many users of said service claimed MSN was running contextual ads based on the content of the conversation but MSN has since claimed otherwise.
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Date: 2005-10-26
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Google Opens Up Tinsel Town
Are you a TV geek? The president of Sony Pictures Television is and has announced via the Official Google Blog an arrangement with Google Video to open up the Archive of American Television.
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Date: 2005-10-26
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Congressional Hearing For Google Print?
Google's list of allies in support of its massive Google Print for Libraries project is getting shorter by the day. Yesterday, the century-old National Consumers League sent a letter to Congress urging the government body to set up public hearings on the matter.
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Date: 2005-10-26
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Yahoolibaba Deal Complete
Yahoo! China (yes, the whole thing) is just the cherry on top of a deal between Yahoo! and China's largest e-commerce company, Alibaba. Completed on Monday, Yahoo! is ceding its entire Chinese leg to Alibaba and investing $1 billion in cash for 40 percent economic interest and 35 percent voting rights in the company.
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Date: 2005-10-26
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Microsoft Loses 2 Executives In One Hit
The wizards of Redmond, Microsoft, will be losing two of their best and brightest in the next few days, Don Gagne, director of development for Microsoft Office and Hadi Partovi, general manager of the MSN portal. The two individuals were major contributors to Microsoft but unlike other previous Microsoft executives, these gentlemen are departing amicably.
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Date: 2005-10-26
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Next Level SEO: Press Release Optimization
As with other areas of promotion, search engine optimization can be approached from several angles. Most SEO experts talk about optimizing your website for better search engine placement, but if that is all you're doing to increase your company's online presence, then you're missing at least one very important pat of spreading the word. Today's lesson: the power of the press release.
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Date: 2005-10-26
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Ask Espana Out of Beta
The Spanish version of Ask (Jeeves), Ask Espana, is out of beta and ready to roll. The discussing was posted bilingually at the Ask blog site with a graphic of the part of the mural designed for the event.
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Date: 2005-10-26
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Online Search To Hit $59.6 Billion in 2008
Research firm Outsell Inc forecasted an impressive $59.6 billion in revenue by 2008 for online search, aggregation and distribution. The report covers major search players including AOL, MSN, Yahoo and Google.
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Date: 2005-10-26
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Google Base Goes Live...Sort Of
After a brief appearance on the Internet and enough time offline to spawn several hundred blogposts everywhere, Google has turned on the "Open" sign for base.google.com.
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Date: 2005-10-26
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Firefox 1.5 RC1 Ready...Almost
The release candidate 1 version of the Firefox browser version 1.5 is almost but not entirely unlike a released product, except it hasn't been released yet, and may miss its originally planned date.
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Date: 2005-10-26
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UN Busted By Microsoft Word
A report on an investigation into the assassination of the former prime minister of Lebanon was meant to withhold names of suspects with ties to Syria.
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Date: 2005-10-25
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The Search That's Better Than Search?
Every so often, it dawns on you that the whole Internet environment has traveled too far from that quiet, information-oriented era that got you so interested in the medium in the first place.
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Date: 2005-10-25
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How Do You Flash A Spider?
With the growing use of broadband, more and more website developers are looking to Flash to create a more engaging visitor experience. The problem with Flash sites, as many have pointed out, is that they can be can be difficult optimize, especially since Google seems to be the only search engine that tries to crawl them-to a limited extent. But there's more than one way to skin a spider.
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Date: 2005-10-25
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Bubble 2.0, Fish, And Dirty Words
Don't say it. Don't even think it. Yes, it's a six-letter word, not four, but to dotcom entrepreneurs, is has the same effect the "C-word" has on Mom. Bubble. D'oh! Don't say that!
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Date: 2005-10-25
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AOL: You’ve Got Fat
America Online is tapping Okinawa's "fountain of youth" for daily video remotes broadcast through AOL's KOL kids service and AOL@SCHOOL. Part of a feature called KOL Expeditions, the program is aimed at educating kids about a healthier lifestyle.
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Date: 2005-10-25
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Yahoo Gaining In SEO In U.K.
London based ServiceWrap.net published new numbers suggesting portal powerhouse Yahoo is gaining ground in the perceived value of search engine rankings in specific search engine.
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Date: 2005-10-25
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AOL’s Sending AIM To College
America Online, better known as AOL started an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) ad campaign designed to resonate with that most desirable of demographics, college kids. AOL, in its campaign to revitalize, has attempted to create both a top-notch portal environment but also to become one of those habits of life.
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Date: 2005-10-25
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MS Helps Promote Internet V-Chip
Microsoft has signed a licensing agreement with ICRA, the Internet Content Rating Association, enabling the Redmond, Washington-based software company to utilize the ICRA system in a range of products such as Internet Explorer, Windows, and FrontPage. The partnership is intended to help better equip parents to create a safer computing environment for children.
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Date: 2005-10-25
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MS Gives Financial Boost To Small Biz
Microsoft announced a strategic alliance with StartupNation, a small business financial consulting medium, to provide entrepreneurs with better access to important financial and accounting information.
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Date: 2005-10-25
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Google Base Is Only A Test
The search engine company confirmed today that screenshots posted of base.google.com were legitimate, but it's not ready for prime time.
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Date: 2005-10-25
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Google Tips The Scales
Market watchers continue to eye Google with interest after raising their estimates for the optimized search engine. Morgan Stanley did warn however the Google remains overweight despite their phenomenal third quarter earnings statement.
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Date: 2005-10-24
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Google Site Targeting Drops To $0.25 CPM
Apparently, CPM rates aren't what they used to be, especially on crap sites. To recap: Google came out with the new Site Targeting content targeting option, allowing advertisers to show ads on specific sites.
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Date: 2005-10-24
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MS Puts BI In Office
Microsoft announced on Sunday new plans to make business intelligence (BI) more mainstream and available to more people using the Office platform. Microsoft significantly increased and broadened its investment in BI.
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Date: 2005-10-24
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Revolting Against Blog Spam
Call this one "How I learned to quit kvetching about spam filled blogs and actually do something about it," courtesy of one blogger's call to arms.
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Date: 2005-10-24
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MSN Ads Know What You’re Talking About
It looks like Microsoft has taken contextual ads to the next level by inserting ads in your MSN instant messenger conversations based on the content of the conversation. The new beta of Messenger 8 includes linked ads in the conversation window.
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Date: 2005-10-24
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Flock Available For Test Drive
The hotly anticipated Flock browser, developed by some of the same folks that had they're hands in Mozilla's Firefox, is now available in beta release for the eagle-eyed scrutiny of the nit-pickiest code monkeys.
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Date: 2005-10-24
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Blogging The Day Away
Blogs as a medium proliferated the internet with great speed and continue to do so. Technorati puts the number of existing blogs some where around 19 million with a new blog being created every second. The big question is who actually reads all this stuff? Chances are, it's your employees.
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Date: 2005-10-24
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Yahoo! Gains Cred Among SEO Clients
While Google is still the chief search engine targeted by SEO clients, a recent survey among search engine marketers shows that Yahoo! is gaining ground in perceived value.
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Date: 2005-10-24
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Wanted: Gamer Geek And SEO Specialist
Want a really cool job? How about job that pays you for your knowledge of both the Internet and game consoles? IGN posted a lot of positions recently and one of those positions was for an SEO specialist for their products.
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Date: 2005-10-24
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Corporate Blogging The Right Way
The buzz generated around corporate blogging has seen tremendous growth in recent times. Corporate ears perked up especially high following AOL's acquisition of Weblogs, Inc., but, warns one writer, corporate blogging is not a willy-nilly investment. There's a right way and a wrong way to blog.
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Date: 2005-10-24
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Chinese Dissident Blasts Yahoo
Like other Internet players, Yahoo insists it has to play by the local rules in China, and thinks its place there can ultimately benefit the Chinese people.
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Date: 2005-10-24
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Google Reader Gets Blogged
The team behind Google's new RSS feed reader have carved out a bit of space at Blogger to introduce themselves and discuss the Google Reader.
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Date: 2005-10-22
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Google's Gravity-Defying Financials
To be clear, Google's great Q3 result keeps them on the same track that they've been on since they designed a great search engine that the world wanted to use, and a better ad program that screamed scalability.
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Date: 2005-10-22
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A Creative 'Death By Blog'
Neil French, a legend in the advertising industry, has resigned from WPP Group after suggesting women with families aren't as equipped as men to succeed in advertising.
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Date: 2005-10-21
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Blogger Updates Captchas
The word verification system used by Blogger to help thwart spammers has been revised to address some problems encountered by users.
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Date: 2005-10-21
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Google Makes An Example of Weblogs, Inc.
E-business professionals everywhere stood up and took notice when Jason Calacanis' Weblogs, Inc., bringing in $3000 a day with Google AdSense, was swallowed up by America Online for a reported $25 million. Google noticed the success as well, releasing a case study on Weblogs, Inc.'s success. In the study, Google taps Calacanis' brain to discover the secret of his AdSense success.
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Date: 2005-10-21
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Suicide Girls Committed To iPod Video
iPod Video has caught the hearts and wallets of America but one concern was content. While Disney has provided a few bones in for download, edgy content is always appreciated. To that end, the Suicide Girls have created a stir.
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Date: 2005-10-21
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Serving Up Ads To The Javascript Disabled
Because some web surfers like to disable javascript, websites utilizing Google AdSense are unable to deliver the offering plate to those visitors. A forum thread at Search Engine Watch reveals that there are ways around this problem by adding a few simple lines of code.
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Date: 2005-10-21
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Sony Declares Victory In DVD Wars
The mighty warrior Toshiba continues to wield its katana against overwhelming odds. The allies of Sony continue to gather strength even while Toshiba tries aggressive and risky maneuvers. Sony got in a nasty stab with the announcement of Warner's support of both formats after having only supported Toshiba's HD-DVD previously.
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Date: 2005-10-21
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What Can A Weblog Lead To?
Okay, so the weblog has yet to reach its full potential, as the majority of folks outside this microcosm we've created called cyberspace have a vague, if any, recognition of the medium. But as the blogosphere grows, it will add a targeted reach heretofore never seen. AOL noticed. Publishers are noticing too.
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Date: 2005-10-21
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An SEO Don’t Plus An English Lesson
Google's Matt Cutts continues his Do's and Don'ts of SEO series utilizing an example of a website that not only uses CSS to hide text, but documents the event in the HTML code.
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Date: 2005-10-21
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AOL Scores With Disney In The Wardrobe
Movie mega mogul Walt Disney Studios and internet power portal AOL announced an exclusive content partnership for Disney's upcoming film, "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe."
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Date: 2005-10-21
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Blogging Television
Broadcast networks have learned to love the blog, and several shows have bloggers providing additional content beyond the small screen.
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Date: 2005-10-21
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MySpace Pays Off Spitzer
The new owner of MySpace parent Intermix, News Corp, has seen the adware case brought by New York AG Eliot Spitzer settled for $8.25 million.
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Date: 2005-10-21
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Office Depot Slaps Staples Over Google Ads
Earlier this month office supply giant Office Depot filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach, Florida, asking for an injunction against rival Staples over trademark infringement, unfair competition, false advertising and deceptive trade practices. All this stemmed from a Google key word ad.
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Date: 2005-10-21
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Google Tweaks AdWords Keyword Tool
Google AdWords clients are now offered a new keyword suggestion tool though their AdWords account. They've added some nice comparison tweaks to make the updated tool more user friendly and efficient.
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Date: 2005-10-21
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New York Library Opens Its Digital Gallery
The New York Public Library is offering a free digital image service where visitors can search and download a plentitude of images for research and study purchases. Commercial and promotional use requires licensing, however.
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Date: 2005-10-21
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Yahoo Drops $20
The kids at Yahoo Search Marketing dropped the $20 monthly minimum spending requirements. This was a good PR move for Yahoo and should help them pick up some smaller customers in the early stages of experimentation with the PPC program.
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Date: 2005-10-21
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Froogle Gets A Makeover
Google's shopping search engine, Froogle, has had some work done to make it more "comparison engine-eque" as one person describes. Don't bring it up to Froogle though, she had this done quietly and hopes everybody thinks it's natural.
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Date: 2005-10-20
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Stocking Up On SearchEngineInvestment.Com
A new website, Searchengineinvestment.com poked their head out of the sand on Thursday. The company provides news and information in a portal environment for all your favorite search engines. The site also provides users with a discussion forum to talk about issues concerning search engines and the future of said engines. The services are free.
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Date: 2005-10-20
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I Want My MSN (SearchBlog Updated)
Most of the big search engines have an official blog. Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves (they've still got the butler) all have their blogs where post new and interesting information about the world from their search engine eyes. All post fairly regularly except one, MSN.
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Date: 2005-10-20
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Searching For Words With Yahoo And Google
It's 4 in the morning. You've been ought all night doing things you shouldn't have and now you're hungry. At that hour, choices are limited. You know that Waffle House is around here somewhere but which end of town is it on? Trying text searching (if you can still type) with Yahoo or Google. They will give you good directions.
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Date: 2005-10-20
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Google Cranks Up 3Q Earnings 96%
The monster of Mountain View known as Google released their third quarter earnings on Thursday and, as consistent with the industry, reported record revenues. This time they hit $1.578 billion, a notch above Yahoo's reports for the same quarter. This number is up 96% from a year ago and 14% from last quarter.
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Date: 2005-10-20
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Former Intermix Chief Settles Up With Spitzer
Intermix founder and former CEO Brad Greenspan settled accounts with New York Attorney General (AG) Eliot Spitzer on Thursday. The fine came to $750,000 based on charges from Spitzer of distributing spyware and adware to millions of computer in New York and across the country.
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Date: 2005-10-20
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OpenOffice Out Of Beta
The open source revolution brought its guns around to bear on the Microsoft ship-of-the-line known as Office. Microsoft's program is by far the market leader and users pay premium prices but OpenOffice will beat them on price points. It's free and it's ready to fight.
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Date: 2005-10-20
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The Secret Of Apple's Success
Apple may be just a minor player in the computer and consumer electronics industries in terms of revenue ($14 billion in fiscal 2005) and market share (less than 5% worldwide) but...
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Date: 2005-10-19
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Blogging The Status Quo
If ever you've taken a course in media, communication, or journalism, then it was impossible to escape the phrase, "the media tells people not what to think, but what to think about." With the advent of broadband, the weblog and other citizen journalism outlets, that fundamental tenet of media theory may reverse itself.
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Date: 2005-10-19
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The Blogsphere Swells
Ever wonder how the "Big Bang" theory worked? Watch the blogosphere and you might be close. Technorati published their new state of the blogosphere numbers and it looks like blogs grow at about the same rate as the universe.
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Date: 2005-10-19
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Google Faces Second Publisher Suit
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) joins the lawsuit frenzy over Google's Print for Libraries project today after Google "flatly rejected" the association's proposal that the search engine utilize the ISBN (International Standard Book Number) to identify works in copyright.
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Date: 2005-10-19
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Giving Up The Job For The Blog
How far would you go to protect the company you work for? Gauriv Sabnis went above and beyond the call of duty. A blog post of his made a customer of his employer, IBM, uncomfortable. They threatened retaliation against IBM. Even though no one asked Sabnis to leave the company, he did so to protect the image of IBM.
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Date: 2005-10-19
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Search Blogs With Yahoo
Search Engine Journal posted some code to allow the creation of a simple Yahoo blog search form, and it really really works.
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Date: 2005-10-19
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AOL Lays Off 750
America Online, better known as AOL, announced they would lay off about 750 employees. This comes as a response to declining subscriber levels from AOL's dial-up access service.
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Date: 2005-10-19
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What’s In A Name? Everything, That’s What
Coke, Google, Xerox, Kleenex, Rollerblades. What do these companies/products have in common? Their branding was so powerful they infected the English language and became generic terms for non-branded items. Once in the vernacular, things tend to stick.
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Date: 2005-10-19
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Yahoo Flying High After Earnings Report
Yahoo released an awesome third quarter earnings report on Tuesday afternoon and investors took it to heart. Yahoo stock shot up to $35.88 a share, up $2.18 or 6.47% and down from the day's high of $35.94.
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Date: 2005-10-19
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Can I Have My Search Engine Delivered COD?
During lunchtime yesterday, bids for Jux2, a meta-search engine for sale on eBay (yes, you read that correctly), jumped from $6,105 to over $25,000. Seven days remain for the auction, and all eyes are on this spare time project selected as 2005's best meta-search engine.
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Date: 2005-10-19
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Pinging Around With Pingoat
For the 19 million blogs and the 70,000 blogs created every day, you might just need a ping. A new pinging service turned up and it's got some great stuff. Pingoat pings quickly and thoroughly, allowing users to pick through a few dozen sites.
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Date: 2005-10-19
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Nortel Sinks Owens
Former Motorola executive Mike Zafirovski will replace former Navy Admiral Bill Owens as CEO at Nortel.
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Date: 2005-10-18
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Cybermation Joins Microsoft’s Alliance
Cybermation announced on Tuesday they joined Microsoft's hip Mainframe Migration Alliance. The wizards of Redmond created this exclusive group as an initiative aimed at helping enterprises move to their .NET platform.
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Date: 2005-10-18
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India: Stop Looking At Me, Google!
When you're president of a nation whose mountainous borders are dotted with gunners out to kill you, directions to your house are the last thing you want to send them. Even though Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam spoke more on behalf of developing nations during his complaint to Google Earth, the 2001 terrorist attack on Parliament couldn't have been far from his mind.
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Date: 2005-10-18
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Google Home Pages Out of Beta
So the personalized home page offering from Google is now in "full product release," which may surprise those of you who have been using other Google products heavily for a long time without them coming out of beta.
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Date: 2005-10-18
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SBC & Lucent Working The IP
SBC and Lucent announced on Tuesday their new collaboration for an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) platform. The plan for this system is to help SBC integrate wireline and wireless services for the next generation Internet-Protocol (IP)-based services including wireline and wireless voice, high-speed Internet access and video.
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Date: 2005-10-18
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eBay May Not Accept Google Purchase
A sudden change in eBay's payment policy has many wondering if this is a preemptive move in preparation of the rumored Google Purchase, which could offer some serious competition to PayPal. Conspiracy theories and lots of between the line eyeballing are rampant, even if eBay insists the changes are to enhance protection for buyers.
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Date: 2005-10-18
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Yahoo Jumps Before Earnings Report
Yahoo saw their stock rise on Tuesday in anticipation of their quarterly earnings report late this afternoon. The Sunnyvale, California Internet media company, traded on the NASDAQ, saw its shares climb to $34.76 in morning trades, up about 1.5%.
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Date: 2005-10-18
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Splogbomb Sends Bloggers Sniffing
Something's rotten in the Blogosphere and it's not completely clear where the stench originates, or whose effluence is compounding the matter. After the recent Blogger splogbomb, the chorus can't agree on whether the smeller's the feller or if the denier's the supplier.
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Date: 2005-10-18
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Yahoo Earnings Clobbered Predictions
Sunnyvale based Yahoo! Inc. issued their third quarter earnings and they clobbered predictions in the process. With revenues topping $1.33 billion, Yahoo produced another quarter of record earnings.
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Date: 2005-10-18
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Whereonearth Is Yahoo
Yahoo announced on Tuesday they've agreed to acquire local online search and advertising technology company, Whereonearth. In an effort to build and capitalize on the local market, believed to be the prime area of growth for internet advertising, Yahoo will add to their already sizeable venture.
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Date: 2005-10-18
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EBay Pulls Drug Auction
In hopes a procuring a defense against a possible bird flu pandemic, a rash of eBayers drove up the price of Roche Holding AG's influenza drug, Tamiflu, to more than 100 pounds ($174) for a 10-capsule treatment.
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Date: 2005-10-18
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What Would Jesus Blog?
A three-day conference at Biola University in southern California discussed the role of the divine in the world of the blogger.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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AOL Building Blog Search
One site has posted how an AOL Blog Search tool will be available this week, as the blog search battle heats up between search engines.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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Google Writes To Privacy
Google updated their privacy statement on Friday. Many have had privacy concerns for Google and other search engines for a while now. This is the latest effort by Google to get privacy concerns under control.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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Macromedia Offers Alpha Sneak Peak
Macromedia is offering developers a chance to provide input on new software from its earliest stages with a new website devoted to alpha downloads of ongoing projects. The first available alphas will be Macromedia Flex Builder™ 2 and Flash Player 8.5.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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The Bite In Terabyte
The need for more storage is a necessity of life. Everyone always needs a bigger garage, a few more feet in the closet, or perhaps a few more cabinets in the kitchen. Computers are no different. As programs get bigger, more imagery is stored and people start saving episodes of "Desperate Housewives, terabytes will come and go before you know it.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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Blogger, We Have a Problem
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer isn't the only executive Google has moved to cursing. IceRocket's Mark Cuban has joined the chorus after his search engine results were clogged with spam blog (splog) returns, most of which bore the blogspot.com URL. Cuban says its time for Google to get its [expletive deleted] together, and until that time has blocked blogspot.com from his IceRocket index.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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Apple Dangles A Vingle
Apple has applied to trademark the term Vingle, with applications to grant it extremely broad protection under three categories.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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Battery Busters: HP & Apple Recalls
California computer manufacturers Hewlett-Packard and Apple issued recalls for lithium-ion batteries on certain notebook computers. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued the orders for both companies. Both companies' batteries experienced the same problems, which is overheating and possible melting due to an internal short.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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Photo Agencies Watching Bloggers
Using a copyrighted photo on one's blog could earn a blogger a message from photo agencies, offering a sales pitch or requesting the offender's presence in court.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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Bellsouth and Yahoo Riding Broadband Express
The broadband express is running from Atlanta to Sunnyvale via the internet railroad in a new strategic alliance announced on Monday. The plan will co-brand the two companies and allow the Yahoo train to run on Bellsouth DSL rails and give Bellsouth users the option to have the Yahoo platform to provide their service.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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Gartner Says IT Orgs Changing, Disbanding
In a new study by research firm Gartner, IT organizations will be facing dramatic change in the coming years. By 2011, 75% or more will have a different role entirely , 10% will be gone and 10% more will relegated to commodity status.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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Googlitarianism Born In San Fran WiFi
Who knew you could fill in that "great digital divide" and make money at the same time? Well, red light webmasters aside (that's a different divide altogether), Google's philosophical explanation provided to San Francisco's Request For Information expresses the desire to lessen the class struggles of humanity through free wireless access for all.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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AOL Buzzing With Intelliseek
America Online's interest in the blogosphere continues as the company announced an agreement with virtual blog-pressure cuff Intelliseek, accepting daily blog data and tend analysis from the popular blog search engine BlogPulse to highlight the daily buzz.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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Apple, Samsung Fall Out Of Love
Everyone knows relationships are tough, especially when one of those partners runs into legal problems. This seems to be the issue with Samsung and Apple. After a flashy and memorable courtship, it looks like the two companies are out of sync.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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Google’s Got Gaim
Last week, Gaim's lead open source instant messaging developer, Sean Egan, announced he too has been seduced by the wily ways of the Google Human Resources department.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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Skype Feels Threatened By Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo
VoIP innovator Skype called out Microsoft, MSN and AOL as threats to their future, suggesting these companies all have real potential to do Skype harm. The VoIP company was recently purchased by eBay and has been attempting to make in-roads in to the U.S. market.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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Experimental Google Search Results Page
On the one-word query [skol], typed into Google Search, the usual results appear at the top, but then below that, the user is prompted to extend their query to [skol beer] or view the first three results for that longer phrase.
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Date: 2005-10-17
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Return Of The Son Of Zotob
A security company has developed proof-of-concept code to exploit a Windows vulnerability that was detailed in Tuesday's patch update from Microsoft.
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Date: 2005-10-14
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Upstart Struggles With 2,800 lb Gorillas
When you're an upstart, it can be extraordinarily difficult to compete with the big guys. Nobody knows that better than Jerry Anders, CTO of Saratoga, Calif.-based Javeo Corporation, who claims his company has been run over not once, but twice-first by Google, and most recently by Sun Microsystems.
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Date: 2005-10-14
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Adobe/Macromedia Clears Dept. Of Justice
Adobe announced on Thursday they got the nod from the U.S. Department of Justice for their acquisition of Macromedia. The deal's not completely done because they await approval from some European jurisdictions but the companies expect the deal to close sometime in the fall.
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Date: 2005-10-14
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Wireless Charging Lightens Digital Load
Joe Digital carries a sack full of chargers for his phone, PDA, MP3 Player, his digital camera, and his electric shaver. Joe Digital hasn't heard of Splashpower's latest revelation at the Ceatec consumer electronics expo in Tokyo, which is geared to lighten his burden though a one-stop electromagnetic wireless charger.
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Date: 2005-10-14
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MTV Adds iFilms
MTV picked up online movie house iFilm. The Viacom-own MTV paid a cool $49 million for the online portal for a variety of both audio and video content.
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Date: 2005-10-14
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AAFA Launches Online Flu Shot Finder
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) has set up an online service called, "Flu Shot Finder," allowing visitors to enter a zip code into a search bar to find the flu shot nearest their homes.
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Date: 2005-10-14
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Searching For Plug-N-Pay In U.K.
The British firm, Cybernet Ventures Limited, launched their new Search Revenue UK pay per click (PPC) and affiliate program on Friday. It allows users to create co-branded search results to match their site design and pays 50% of the ad revenues earned.
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Date: 2005-10-14
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Yahoo!, Wikipedia Lead Educational Search
The Internet continues to evolve into an all-encompassing experience, as a place to shop, to entertain, to communicate, and, as Nielsen/NetRatings reports, a place to educate yourself. In September, sites like Wikipedia and Yahoo! Education enjoyed traffic surges representing nearly a third of the active Internet population.
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Date: 2005-10-14
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Microsoft/Google Suit Update
Earlier today, U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte issued a stay on the Google suit against Microsoft over the hiring of former Microsoft executive Dr. Kai Fu Lee. Whyte put the tentative decision on the web last night and met with Google and Microsoft today in court.
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Date: 2005-10-14
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Search Engines Top Consumer Choice
A new study reports that search engines are the first step in comparison shopping research for most consumers; that more travel arrangements are made online than offline; and that younger shoppers ignore sponsored links more often than the elderly.
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Date: 2005-10-14
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Miller Beer And Viral Marketing
Miller Beer launched a new game from their website promoting their Miller Lite label. The game site has been up since Monday and has had a fair amount of success. This works in conjunction with their new "Beer Runner" ad campaign.
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Date: 2005-10-14
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Microsoft Evangelizing
When most people think of an evangelical experience, Microsoft isn't the first thing that springs to mind. Having grown up in the South, seeing a tent revival for Microsoft developers brings to mind some odd visions, but Microsoft is looking for just that. They posted a job listing on their site for a "Developer Evangelist" and it looks like it would be a decent gig for someone willing to trek out to Redmond.
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Date: 2005-10-14
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Yahoo/AOL Discussion Nothing New
Reports are surfacing all over the place about Yahoo now wanting a piece of the AOL pie. AOL has been in negotiations with Microsoft for some time and recently, Google and Comcast a joint venture to go after a minority stake in AOL also. The real deal is that it's all old news.
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Date: 2005-10-14
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When In Hacker Doubt, Have A Burrito
Samy became an overnight sensation, even spawning t-shirts in his honor, after the 19-year-old natural coder (almost on whimsical impulse) created a social networking worm that added his name to 1,000,000 friend lists at MySpace.com. Worried about what he had just accomplished, he decided to grab a burrito before the Internet police showed up.
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Date: 2005-10-14
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Spielberg Playing Games With EA
Legendary directory Steven Spielberg and electronic gaming leviathan Electronic Arts announced a long-term agreement to collaborate on three new original franchise properties.
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Date: 2005-10-14
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Google’s Blogger Going To China
Google finally got the Blogger through and now the Chinese will have access to Google's Blogger. Chinese Googlites will also have access to the cached web pages from Google's search engine.
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Date: 2005-10-13
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Taiwanese Expats Visit Googleplex
Taiwanese expatriates living in the Silicon Valley area demonstrated outside the Googleplex on Tuesday for a demonstration of solidarity after Google removed a reference from Google Maps labeling Taiwan a "province of China," the Taipei Times reports.
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Date: 2005-10-13
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Fuchs Up On Google Blog
Mark Fuchs, the chief accountant for the search engine company, has posted an overview of how Google will provide more information with its earnings announcements.
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Date: 2005-10-13
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Googley-Eyed For Phoenix
Google announced on Wednesday their new engineering office in Phoenix at a press conference with the governor of Arizona, Janet Napolitano from her office.
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Date: 2005-10-13
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JibJab In Your Face Again
If you were to ask for a model for online viral marketing and utilizing user-generated content, Gregg and Evan Spiridellis of JibJab would be the guys to call. Beer maker Anheuser-Busch has already tapped the comical brothers to spearhead an online campaign, and tonight JibJab's latest feature entitled, "BIG BOX MART," will premiere on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
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Date: 2005-10-13
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US Scuttles Piracy Gang
Three California men created over 325,000 illegal copies of software and music CDs, and had enough "stampers," or molds, to create up to 160,000,000 illicit CDs.
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Date: 2005-10-13
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Fear Strikes Google
Comcast and Google will offer Time Warner $5 billion for a minority stake in AOL, which currently provides Google with 11 percent of its revenues.
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Date: 2005-10-13
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OpenDoc Slam Microsoft Funded
Jim Prendergast, executive director of Americans for Technology Leadership, wrote an op-ed piece for Fox News on the Microsoft-Massachusetts OpenDocument format argument.
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Date: 2005-10-13
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Fake Blogger Disappears In Poof Of Logic
After an emotional weblog post about reaching his estranged father after nearly 30 years, BBC Radio's Tom Coates received a heartfelt message in the comment thread from one Barry Scott. A long cyber-drive later, Coates learned that commenter Barry Scott didn't really exist, and this was a tale of bad e-marketing judgment.
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Date: 2005-10-13
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Microsoft Scores Big With Yahoo Chat
Microsoft and Yahoo broke new ground yesterday when they announced their respective instant messaging services would be compatible. The deal for interoperability shows a new and concerted effort by Microsoft to get along with its competitors.
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Date: 2005-10-13
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Bills Getting Paid Online
The percentages of electronic bill payment continue to increase. Forrester released numbers on Thursday showing 31% of online households paid bills online in 2004 and that number is expected to increase over the next few years.
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Date: 2005-10-13
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PSP TV? I’d Like To Buy A Vowel
Sony has released an update to its highly popular PlayStation Portable device that allows the gadget to receive broadband television streams. The 2.50 firmware update is only available in Japan, but is expected to be released globally soon.
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Date: 2005-10-13
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Problems With Blogs: Oklahoma’s Incident
Blogs can be great and wonderful things. They can get inside information and quality analysis out quickly, in many cases fast than any news agency. The problem with unrelenting speed is that sometimes, the information is wrong. The case in point is an apparent suicide at the University of Oklahoma and all the speculation surrounding it.
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Date: 2005-10-13
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All Your eBay And Amazon In One Basket
Is your online comparison shopping limited to checking out eBay and then Amazon.com? Then you and the creator of aytozon.com, a search engine that displays side-by-side comparison of the two sites, are on the same page.
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Date: 2005-10-13
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T-Mobile Gives Yahoo Mail Blackberry
The kids at T-Mobile and Research in Motion (RIM) got together today and unleashed their newest toy, the Blackberry 7105t. The new toy has "Blackberry Internet E-Mail," which allows users to access they're Yahoo! Mail from their Blackberry.
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Date: 2005-10-13
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Mr. Gates Goes To Madison
One stop on the Bill Gates whirlwind tour of several college campuses brought him to Wisconsin's capital, where he spoke to dozens of students.
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Date: 2005-10-13
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Google Unmasked In Phoenix
Arizona officials will announce on Wednesday the arrival of the next new thing from Google: a facility housing some of their operations to be located in the Phoenix area.
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Date: 2005-10-12
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Yahoo!, MSN Battle AOL Over IM
Instant messaging and its ability to keep users within a portal's network of sites will be the focal point as two rivals link IM systems to take on AOL's market leader AIM.
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Date: 2005-10-12
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$99 Sony PS2 Possible Soon
Once the next-generation console from Microsoft arrives on November 22nd, an analyst firm thinks Sony could respond with a price cut on its current gaming console.
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Date: 2005-10-12
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Microsoft Wants To Talk To Your Mom
The Xbox360 will be in store on November 22nd and Microsoft is looking at all the demographics. One group their aiming for is a bit non-traditional for the gaming market, women. This is part of Microsoft's plan to make the Xbox360 a family affair.
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Date: 2005-10-12
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Google Purchase Caught On Tape
The blogosphere is abuzz with speculation about the seemingly imminent release of a Google payment service, hitherto in rumor beta as "Google Wallet" and now known as "Google Purchase," as fine-tooth combers notice some curious directory and domain activity. Oh yeah, and somebody has a screen shot.
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Date: 2005-10-12
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Zend's Talks To The Oracle
Zend announced yesterday the availability of Zend Core, their commercialized version of PHP, for Oracle for IBM AIX, Linux and Sun Solaris and a beta version of Zend Core for Microsoft's Windows platform.
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Date: 2005-10-12
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Yahoo Probes Coeds On Search
A study of college students conducted by Yahoo Search Marketing amazingly found that students rated search as the best source of information.
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Date: 2005-10-12
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Parlez-Vous Yahoo?
After launching a translated search tool for the German market this summer, Yahoo! has expanded their Search Translator beta service in France, Japan, and Taiwan. Next up, a White House pressroom translation tool. On second thought, maybe that's not such a great idea.
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Date: 2005-10-12
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Yahoo Closes Door On Pedophile Chat Rooms
Yahoo agreed today to finally slam the doors on chat rooms some claim promoted pedophile behavior. In conjunction with New York state attorney general Elliot Spitzer and Nebraska attorney general Jon Bruning, Yahoo removed and barred the posting of user-created chat rooms with names that promoted sex between minors and adults.
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Date: 2005-10-12
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I Wonder Who Will Do Squidoo
Seth Godin will, that's who; he's started Squidoo and wants to share it with me and you, so click on through and on into the site he likes to call Squidoo.
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Date: 2005-10-12
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Update: Yahoo Pedophile Chat Room Closing
In an announcement earlier today, the Nebraska and New York State Attorney's General issued a statement regarding their collaboration with Yahoo in the removal of user-created chat rooms promoting pedophilia.
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Date: 2005-10-12
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The Optimist’s Guide To Online Ads
While advertising dollars spent in cyberspace is on the rise, the overall slice of the pie is smaller than what many may suspect. In fact, one source says Internet advertising is a decade of steady growth away from overtaking newspapers. For the optimistic advertiser, this means there's lots of room to grow.
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Date: 2005-10-12
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Video-iPodding "Desperate Housewives"
Steve Jobs did it again. For just a brief moment, all eyes in the tech industry swung back to Cupertino to focus on what Steve Jobs was holding in his hand. This time it was the iPod Video. Apple already lined up video content with Disney including "Desperate Housewives" and with 150 hours of video, you can watch all the episodes.
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Date: 2005-10-12
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Playgirl-TV Podcasting On Yahoo
On Tuesday, the female-oriented, adult entertainment channel Playgirl TV launched a podcast from their primary website. Playgirl's sex educator, Jamye Waxman will produce a new "Sex Pod" once a week. It will be distributed from Yahoo's newly formed podcast network.
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Date: 2005-10-12
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Carving Up AOL?
Reports surfaced of Google and Comcast looking to buy a minority share in AOL. Both companies have been in negotiations separately, but it was reported today they are making a joint effort to get a small chunk of the company.
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Date: 2005-10-12
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Microsoft Movie Brought To You By Linux
In the latest news of strange bedfellows, a New Zealand news source reports that Microsoft's Halo movie, based on the highly popular Xbox game, will be produced on servers running the Linux operating systems. Dogs and cats living together, pandemonium!
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Date: 2005-10-12
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I Survived The Congoo
A new search engine called Congoo will officially debut in November, but an early look at the site and how it retrieves subscription-only content is available.
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Date: 2005-10-12
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Kai-Fu Lee Gets A Co-Worker
In China, Google will soon announce the appointment of Johnny Chou, currently president of UTStarcom China, to the search engine company as Co-CEO.
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Date: 2005-10-11
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AT&T Has 911 VoIP Fix
The FCC has been pushing VoIP providers to ensure their customers know the limitations of 911 availability over their service, and AT&T now has one solution to a VoIP 911 issue.
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Date: 2005-10-11
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Google Blogs On Policy Issues
While most companies struggle to figure out blogs' role in the communication mix, Google has figured out that blogging is the best way to present its position on policy issues.
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Date: 2005-10-11
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Microsoft’s Internet Presence
Many constantly hail new developments by Google and Yahoo. Nearly every day, the two companies offer some sort of new development for their portal services. Some industry watchers have counted Microsoft out of the Internet market for the most part, suggesting they're choosing to bow out of the war. Here's the secret though, they've already won the Internet war.
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Date: 2005-10-11
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Microsoft May Settle RealNetworks Tiff
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Microsoft and RealNetworks are nearing a settlement of their two-year antitrust tiff, an agreement that will have Microsoft paying out $750 million in cash and promotions.
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Date: 2005-10-11
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eBay Won’t Stun New Yorkers
The sale and shipment of stun guns to New York residents via eBay will stop, now that the online auction company and New York AG Eliot Spitzer have reached an agreement.
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Date: 2005-10-11
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Icahn Blasts “AOL Disaster”
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn continues to sharpen his blade as he increases his stake at multimedia corporation Time Warner. In a fiery letter issued to the board of directors at Time Warner, Icahn blasts the board for "colossal" mistakes that started with the AOL merger, calling the merger a cardinal sin.
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Date: 2005-10-11
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New Law: Auctioneer School For Ebayers?
All around the United States, state regulators are increasingly miffed at the revenue loss due to eBay auctioneers' insistence they don't need to go to auctioneer school to peddle their (or somebody else's) wares online. Every few months, another state says enough is enough and the various Sheriffs of Nottingham want their cuts.
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Date: 2005-10-11
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Cutts Up Against The Wall
Over the weekend, Aaron Wall got a chance to talk to Google's "Mick Jagger of Search", Matt Cutts, in an in depth interview. The interview covers a variety of topics including SEO and spam, algorithms and the evil that Google does.
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Date: 2005-10-11
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AOL Emerges From Behind The Curtain
Not to be confused with "taking our head out of the sand," AOL has launched a new nationwide online and offline ad campaign portraying the web portal as "emerging from behind the curtain," signifying AOL.com is now open to everyone.
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Date: 2005-10-11
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Google And MSN Tighter Filtering Of Emails
A new study from Lyris Technologies shows Gmail and Hotmail got much tighter for on their email filters and in so doing have filtered out more legitimate emails. Even though permission-based emails are up for the third straight quarter, this could be a problem.
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Date: 2005-10-11
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Apple Punished By Wall Street
Even though profits were up for Cupertino's favorite tech company, iPod shipments fell far short of analyst expectations, and Apple's stock dropped in after-hours trading.
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Date: 2005-10-11
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Vernier Extends Network Access Management
Vernier announced today their extension of the EdgeWall product line by way of the EdgeWall Rx network. The new network extends network access management to remote users and strengthens its network security technology by adding support for VoIP phone and bolsters existing support for laptops, desktops and servers.
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Date: 2005-10-10
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FeedShot Premium: 25 Services, $3
A nominal $3 fee will get a blog submitted by FeedShot to 25 blog search engines and aggregators, as the site looks for users willing to exchange a small cost for convenience.
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Date: 2005-10-10
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MSN Launches US adCenter Pilot
MSN is set to launch a US pilot of its upcoming MSN adCenter, an invitation only program aimed at search engine marketers. News of the pilot spread via choice email invites and a series of blog entries on the news.
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Date: 2005-10-10
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Web Draws Men Away From Theaters
All the efforts at snaring the hotly coveted young male demographic at the cinema have backfired on Hollywood, as interactivity surpasses passive entertainment.
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Date: 2005-10-10
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Mark Cuban’s Few Good DVD Men
Speculation continues to surface around billionaire Mark Cuban's adventures into what may be the next direction of the movie industry. Reports are beginning to surface of wants ads that could easily be used to form a DVD label.
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Date: 2005-10-10
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Now Contextual News, It’s Topix
News aggregation site Topix recently added a new facet to their site. Contextual news links provide additional stories regarding a subject like say sports or business. While they've been building for a while, the site is really coming together.
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Date: 2005-10-10
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Searching The Sphere
A new blog search engine is in the works. The new engine, Sphere, is currently in stealth mode and will head into a beta test soon. They are claiming a much stronger emphasis on relevancy and some ability to get through the chaff of other blogs.
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Date: 2005-10-10
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Local Search: The Place To Be
According to a study by Borrell Associates, spending for local online spending will increase substantially over the coming year, taking the total to $4.78 billion.
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Date: 2005-10-10
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Dutch Zombie Kings Arrested
Three men in the Netherlands were arrested on charges of running a zombie bot network of 100,000 PCs and attempting to blackmail an organization in North America.
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Date: 2005-10-10
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Robotic Fish Swim In London
A carp-like creation, with embedded sensors and realistic movement, was three years in the making and may be the the smartest robotic fish developed to date.
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Date: 2005-10-10
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Google Adds Tagging
Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you've visited.
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Date: 2005-10-10
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Reaction To Google Reader
Whew! I was afraid that I was going to get bashed when I didn't like the Google Reader, that there had to be something wrong with me that I didn't like it.
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Date: 2005-10-09
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The Week That Was
Insane. That's probably the best word I can use to describe this week. The second annual Web 2.0 conference has reached its close and while hanging out at the conference ...
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Date: 2005-10-09
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The Local Online Threat (Google + Wi-Fi...)
The presence of localized free hotspots threatens, among other companies, newspapers, who would have to contend with online rivals who would have the ability to serve localized ads targeted even by neighbourhood.
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Date: 2005-10-08
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Publisher Group Drops Google Print
The latest rough patch in Google's problematic Print For Libraries project arises as Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group (RPLG) is reported to be withdrawing from Google's Print for Publishers program in protest of the digital library project.
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Date: 2005-10-07
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EFF Defends Former Opponent In Court
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a brief in federal court in favor of former opponent DirecTV after the operator of a website designed to aid those who had been sued by the telecom company filed suit against DirecTV for viewing his website after he explicitly told them not to.
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Date: 2005-10-07
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An Almost Scientific Test of Map Services
CNet's Elinor Mills provides an amusing account of her not entirely scientific, but revealing, test of the four major search portals' maps and driving directions. MSN, it turns out, wants her dead.
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Date: 2005-10-07
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Google Turned Loose The Reader
The kids at Google cut loose with the Google Reader beta today at the Web 2.0 conference. The new toy allows users to pick and choose from their favorite online sources to view their daily content.
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Date: 2005-10-07
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MSN Flies In AdCenter Pilot
The folks at MSN's Search Weblog posted today an invitation to readers to try out MSN's new adCenter pilot program. The MSN senior vice president, Yusuf Medhi sent out a letter to some of their bloggers and the post made it up today. Brady Forrest posted a copy of the letter on the blog.
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Date: 2005-10-07
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Research In Motion Looking To Supreme Court
Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) appears to be in a jam over a recent U.S. Court of Appeals decision against them in a patent infringement dispute. RIM tried to get the appellate court to change the ruling against RIM and they refused. The only alternative left may be a trip to visit new Chief Justice John Roberts and the rest of the Supreme Court (SCOTUS).
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Date: 2005-10-07
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It’s Official: America Online Acquires Weblogs, Inc.
America Online Inc. announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire highly successful blogging network Weblogs, Inc., for an undisclosed sum. But the $2 million per year Weblogs, Inc. was rumored earlier to be going as high as $35 million.
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Date: 2005-10-06
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The Movement to Rescue Jeeves
Ya gotta love it. Someone starts a blog on a Google property to save the logo of another search engine. A former employee of "The Butler" started a blog called Save Jeeves to rescue the beloved butler character from oblivion.
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Date: 2005-10-05
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Googlization Revisited: Is It Time To Evolve Or Die?
In the past few months, Google has made some astonishing moves (and is poised to make another one today when they announce their new partnership with Sun Microsystems), the reactions to which have been as exciting as unnerving-a polarizing force whose benefits may indeed destroy traditional businesses, or at least business models.
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Date: 2005-10-04
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Reporters Partly Cloudy About Sun Details
At the Webcast from the Computer History Museum with Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy and Google CEO Eric Schmidt, reporters waited anxiously for the bang. Alas, it ends not with a bang, but a whimper, albeit a big whimper.
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Date: 2005-10-04
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Web 2.0 To Birth New Companies
A new segment will be added to tomorrow's Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. The segment, entitled "Launch Pad Workshop," will highlight 14 promising Internet companies.
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Date: 2005-10-04
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