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Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
Artist's family asks Google to take down Thursday's `painted' logo — After angering authors last fall with a wide-ranging book-copying project, Google may now be alienating some visual artists as well by allegedly reproducing famous works in drawings on the search giant's home page.
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Ted's Take:
AIM — Here's where a mash-up between Web 2.0 and the MSM gets interesting, or kind of sad, depending on your perspective. In the morning, someone blogs that AOL is working on a social networking competitor to MySpace. People link to it. Others link to the links.
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Kevin Rose / Digg Blog:
Digging Fraud — Recently it was brought to our attention that several users have created accounts to mass digg and promote stories. While these accounts appear to be valid, they have in certain instances been used for automated in-order (scripted) digging.
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
The Digg Backlash (or when the wisdom of crowds turns into the madness of the masses) — Update: DIGG did the right thing and turned a bunch of spammers off. The spammers are upset—total non-issue. Rock on TeamDigg... and don't let the bastards get you down!
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SEO Consultant Esoos Bobnar, duncanriley.com, Businesspundit, BASEMENT.ORG and Publishing 2.0
Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Google in China: The Big Disconnect — The World Wide Web, Abridged: Patrons in an internet cafe in Beijing. Chatting about sports, posting entries to blogs — fine. Visiting pro-democracy sites — no way. — For many young people in China, Kai-Fu Lee is a celebrity.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Initiative — There's no other way for me to start this other than by firing away: Last week I left my full-time job at Joyent, for the sole reason so that I can write Daring Fireball as a full-time job. — Two years ago, when I made tentative steps in this direction …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Apple pushes to unmask product leaker — A California court in San Jose on Thursday is scheduled to hear a case brought by Apple Computer that eventually could answer an unsettled legal question: Should online journalists receive the same rights as traditional reporters? — Apple claims they should not.
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dailytech.com:
Seagate Leaks 750GB Barracuda 7200.10 Details … A PDF accidentally showed up on Seagate's website earlier today with the latest details on perpendicular desktop hard drives — Seagate insiders contacted us early this morning with a few snippets of information (PDF) concerning the upcoming Barracuda 7200.10 series hard drives.
Wired News:
Typo Confounds Kryptos Sleuths — For more than a decade, amateur and professional cryptographers have been trying to decipher an encrypted sculpture that sits on the grounds of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Three-fourths of the sculpture has already been solved.
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Schneier on Security
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
Think Skype traffic is easily detectable? No it's not, expert tester says — ExtremeVoIP gave Art Reisman this weighty Sherlock Holmesian assignment- try to get under the hood of Skype and see how easy it is to detect and block. Or not. — Chief Technical Officer of APConnections …
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google.com:
Google Announces First Quarter 2006 Results — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 20, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2006. — "Google had an exceptional quarter with strong growth and profitability, from both Google properties and the network …
David Weiss:
A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab — Today I'll stop my 3rd person perspective. I'm going to write a little bit more about what I do to help MacBU ship great software and provide some color around what's it's like to work on Mac software at Microsoft. Often when we have press events …
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Gizmodo, Infinite Loop, CyberNet Technology News, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and SurfBits
Bloomberg:
Google First-Quarter Net Rises 60%, Beating Analyst Estimates — April 20 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., the most-used search engine, said first-quarter profit rose 60 percent, beating analysts' estimates, as the company took market share from Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Google Posts 60% Gain in Earnings — Google returned to favor among investors yesterday as its profit for the first quarter increased 60 percent, well above expectations. — Three months ago, the company disappointed investors, even though its profit grew 82 percent, and its stock sagged.
