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11:15 AM ET, July 17, 2006

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Frank Ahrens / Washington Post: Protecting a Senator? Or Just Enforcing Copyright Law?

Battleship:GoogleEarth (a 1st Life/2nd Life mashup) … I've started working on a bit of summer laboratory experiment to see how Google Earth could become a platform for realtime mobile gaming. (Follow the link on the Flickr photo page to the URL you can load in your Google Earth client to see the game board in its current state.)

Discussion: Ogle Earth, 3pointD.com and digg

Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:

Blogspot Blogs Banned in India: Read Tricks To Access Blocked Websites — Several prominent Indian Bloggers including Neha, Amit, Dina, Mridula and DesiPundit are reporting that blogspot.com blogs hosted on Blogger.com have been blocked by some ISPs in India.

Discussion: Conversations with Dina and Sadagopan's weblog …

Reuters:

YouTube serves up 100 mln videos a day — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - YouTube, the leader in Internet video search, said on Sunday viewers have are now watching more than 100 million videos per day on its site, marking the surge in demand for its "snack-sized" video fare.

Discussion: IP Democracy, paidContent.org and Screenwerk

Maria Aspan / New York Times:

Interactive Netscape Site Gets Some Sour Responses — Netscape may be known now for losing the so-called browser war to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. But Netscape.com, the default home page for users of the fading browser, continues to have its following — so much so that when its owner …

Alex Williams / New York Times:

The Graying of the Record Store — SO this is an evening rush? — On a recent Monday, six people — soon enough four, then two — were browsing the bins of compact discs at Norman's Sound and Vision, a music store on Cooper Square in Manhattan, around 6 p.m., a time that once constituted the daily rush hour.

Discussion: Coolfer

thenewpr.com:

HomePage — Please support this campaign by adding this image to your blog or website and linking it back to this page. If you have any problems with this, please contact Paull Young. — This page has been created to provide a list of resources concerning astroturfing …

Discussion: a shel of my former self, Media Guerrilla, Trends in the Living Networks, Corporate Engagement and Web Strategy

Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:

The tech support of the crowds: Qunu — In my experience, the best technical support on any product will come from somebody who actually uses and likes the product, not a paid support rep following a script. That's why people use open message boards. Message boards have always amazed me …

Discussion: TechBlog and Slashdot

Ars Technica:

Peering inside the aluminum ball: Woodcrest, Conroe, and the "pro" Macs — The dawn of a new tower — As we draw ever closer to [Macworld Boston] the Worldwide Developers Conference, speculation is heating up as to what we'll see hardware-wise once Steve Jobs has finished unveiling the wonders of Leopard.

Discussion: Slashdot

Lifehacker:

DIY Nike+iPod shoe mod — The Podophile weblog describes how a little velcro can easily turn any running shoe into a Nike+iPod sport kit-capable shoe. … The author's solution was simple: he attached a strip of velcro to the tongue of his shoe and to the back of the sport kit transmitter …

Discussion: Engadget, Podophile and digg

The Head Lemur / raving lunacy:

Shareholder Fantasy Island — The latest group of bloggers to come to the rescue of the poor benighted Corporations are the folks I call the 'hummers' . — Hummers are those folks who have an amazing degree of positional flexibility. This is not to say that hummers are lazy. Far from it.

Discussion: Scobleizer and Listics

Stan Beer / ITWire:

Microsoft may leave Mac users out of messaging plans — An interesting piece of information to come out of the Microsoft and Yahoo messaging alliance is the news that Microsoft is still evaluating whether to include the Mac version of Windows Live Messenger in its interoperability plans.

Discussion: The Apple Core and digg

Tado / HowtoForge:

How To Install VMware Server On Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) — How To Install VMware Server On Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) — Author: Till Brehm <t [dot] brehm [at] projektfarm [dot] de > — This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install the free VMware Server …

Discussion: digg

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