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4:20 PM ET, July 5, 2006

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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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Om Malik / GigaOM:   Where will Amanda Go?  —  In Broadband Life + Web 2.0 + Online Video
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Amanda "unBoomed"?
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 and IP Democracy
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Jeff / The Jeff Pulver Blog:
A Cataract-Eyed Vision of an Internet-disabled Future:
Discussion: A Networked World
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 …
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 …
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 …
Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
Ad critic: Sony's racially charged PSP ad [update 1]  —  We've decided to run ad critic early this week after this one landed on our doorsteps.  The latest in a long line of questionable marketing decisions by Sony, this ad — gracing the streets of Amsterdam and the Dutch PSP site …
Discussion: Kotaku, AdJab and The Blogging Times
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Ellie Gibson / gamesindustry.biz:
Sony defends PSP ad following accusations of racism
Discussion: The Browser
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.
Discussion: Smart Mobs and craigblog
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.
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.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Use Red Swoosh to Serve Files For Free  —  Silicon Valley based Red Swoosh is launching a free, ad supported version of its file serving technology today (the link in this sentence is to the new site - redswoosh.net will redirect sometime overnight).  —  Prior to today Red Swoosh was available …
Discussion: Scobleizer
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
The Seed (Venture Investing) Rules  —  The following figure self-summarizes venture guy Vinod Khosla's investment returns by amount invested, and then stratified by whether he had a board seat.  The upshot: His highest returns came disproportionately from investments where he put in less than $1m, and from where he had a board seat.
Discussion: GigaOM and B2Day
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
YouTube challenger offers to pay for video  —  update A new video-sharing site is offering videographers a share of the advertising dollars that their movies generate, at a time when most video-sharing sites are just trying to eke out a profit.  —  Saturday saw the launch of eefoof.com …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Internet Knows What You'll Do Next  —  A FEW years back, a technology writer named John Battelle began talking about how the Internet had made it possible to predict the future.  When people went to the home page of Google or Yahoo and entered a few words into a search engine …
Reuters:
Nikon: Snappy success for digital SLRs  —  Japan's Nikon has boosted shipments of digital-SLR cameras by about 35 percent year-on-year in April and May, putting it on track to beat its annual estimate, the head of its camera unit said Wednesday.  —  Nikon is the world's second-largest maker …
Discussion: PC World's Techlog
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Networked journalism  —  I think a better term for what I've been calling "citizen journalism" might be "networked journalism."  —  "Networked journalism" takes into account the collaborative nature of journalism now: professionals and amateurs working together to get the real story …
 
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
Commentful Tracks Comments on Digg, YouTube, Blogs and More
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Robert Scoble on the Harm Caused by Mini-Microsoft
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Developer to raze Bell Labs Holmdel facility, birthplace of the cellphone
Discussion: Joseph Laszlo
Chris Lake / Internet Marketing News and Blog:
The 12 reasons why UK businesses don't blog
Dhiramshah / New Launches:
Axes VP8360-B/100 PMP with 100 GB hard drive
Discussion: Gizmodo
Mark Evans:
The Mysterious Lure of Municipal Wi-Fi
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
The Next Web Travel Sites
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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
AIM, London creep upward — watch out.
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BBC:
Anti-piracy tool confuses users
Tom Simonite / NewScientistTech:
Wireless sensors could protect US power grid
People's Daily Online:
Google steps up competition in China's on-line books
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Chinese mob shopping sites score big discounts
Brian Benzinger / Solution Watch:
Keep Track of Bills with BillQ
Howard W. French / New York Times:
Chinese plan tougher rules on cyberspace
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Record industry to sue Yahoo China over pirated tunes
The Register:
Rank outsider sues Google over zero score