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Amanda UnBoomed:
Amanda UnBoomed  —  large .mov  —  small .mov  —  .mp4  —  iPod .m4v  —  Thanks to blip.tv for the gracious hosting!
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Advice and an Offer for Amanda Congdon  —  I see it is true you've left RocketBoom.  —  You're a great talent, everyone knows that, and you're gonna get a ton of offers over the next couple of days.  I'd like to give you some unsolicited advice and make you an offer as well.
Discussion: B2Day and Geek News Central …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
What we know and don't know about Amanda, Andrew and Rocketboom  —  Nowhere in Amanda's video does she say she was fired.  —  Here's what she does say:  —  "I'm not on vacation."  —  "I have apparently been unboomed."  —  "Andrew Baron is no longer interested in being my partner."
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Amanda "unBoomed"?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:   Congdon Fired from RocketBoom
BL Ochman / B.L. Ochman's weblog:
Rocketboom Fires Amanda Congdon and Loses Its Voice
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Where will Amanda Go?  —  In Broadband Life + Web 2.0 + Online Video
Discussion: Valleywag
Mathew Ingram / mathewingram.com/work:
Andrew Baron responds to Amanda's video
Discussion: Mark Evans and Lost Remote TV Blog
San Francisco Chronicle:
Click fraud a huge problem  —  Study finds practice widespread; many cut back online ads  —  Internet advertisers paid $800 million for bogus clicks on their marketing messages last year, shaking confidence in the industry and prompting many to reduce spending with Google, Yahoo and other Web sites …
BBC:
Web perils advise switch to Macs  —  Security threats to PCs with Microsoft Windows have increased so much that computer users should consider using a Mac, says a leading security firm.  —  Sophos security said that the 10 most commonly found pieces of malicious software all targeted Windows machines.
Roger O. Crockett / Business Week:
Senate Scorecard: AT&T 1, Google 0  —  Telecom providers gained ground on June 28 when a Senate committee paved the way for them to freely set fees for delivering Net content.  But they still must clear many hurdles on Capitol Hill before winning the "Net neutrality" battle
Discussion: GigaOM, Reuters and IP Democracy
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cbronline.com:
Open source urged to remain European  —  The organizer behind the Open Source Business Conference has called on European enterprise open source companies to retain their roots and avoid the urge to relocate to the US.  —  "One of the things Europe needs to do is reassert its ownership of open source …
Discussion: Open Sources
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Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:   Does it matter where open source firms are based?
campaigns.wikia.com:
Mission Statement  —  Let's ramp up the intelligence of politics  —  An open letter to the political blogosphere  —  For more than 50 years now, we have been living in the era of television politics.  In the 1950s television first began to have a major impact on politics, and the results were overwhelming.
Kristina Shevory / New York Times:
Microsoft Is Looking for More Elbow Room  —  In the midst of its biggest expansion in nearly a decade, the world's largest software company has suddenly found itself with a major setback: not enough room to grow.  —  Microsoft — in the midst of a bitter rivalry with Google and Yahoo …
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Record industry to sue Yahoo China over pirated tunes  —  Back in February, I posted an item on BoingBoing about the abundance of pirated tunes one can find by way of Chinese-language search engines Yahoo China and Baidu.  Not news for anyone who's spent time on those sites, but as a non-Chinese-speaker, it was news to me.
Todd Wilder / Apple:
Apple Introduces $899 Education Configuration for 17-inch iMac  —  NECC, SAN DIEGO-July 5, 2006-Apple® today introduced a new $899 configuration of the 17-inch iMac® designed specifically for education customers featuring a 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, a built-in iSight™ video camera …
Chris Morris / CNNMoney.com:
Nintendo's Wii may get early launch  —  Industry observers expect company's new video game machine to launch before the PlayStation 3 - perhaps by a month or more.  —  Game Over is a weekly column by Chris Morris  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Nintendo has stated numerous times …
Discussion: Kotaku and DigitalBattle
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Make powerful online forms easily with Wufoo  —  I didn't think that a service to build your own online forms sounded very exciting, until the creators of Wufoo walked me through the system last week.  Wufoo is so flexible, usable and has such good reporting that it made me want to create some forms just so I could use it.
Discussion: PostBubble and Particletree
Dallas Star-Telegram:
Losing their jobs and even their iPods  —  National Semiconductor giveth, and it taketh away.  —  The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company gained loads of publicity last month for announcing plans to give every employee a 30-gigabyte video iPod.  —  Last week, the company laid off 35 employees at its Arlington plant.
 
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Chinese mob shopping sites score big discounts
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Howard W. French / New York Times:
Chinese plan tougher rules on cyberspace
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
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