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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Paying the top DIGG/REDDIT/Flickr/Newsvine users (or "$1,000 a month for doing what you're already doing.") — When Brian and I started Weblogs, Inc. the idea of paying bloggers—heck, even making money from blogging—was considered offensive to many. Blogging was, as the case was stated …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Calacanis offers to buy out digg users — Netscape boss Jason Calacanis has offered to essentially buy out the top users on Digg, Delicious, Flickr, MySpace, and Reddit for $1000 per month: … This offer is open to about a dozen people initially. You've got to hand it to Calacanis …
Sony:
SONY UNVEILS FIRST BLU-RAY DISC DRIVE BURNER — Burns up to 50 GB of Data and Keeps Video in Native HDV 1080i — NEW YORK, July 18, 2006 -Sony Electronics today unveiled its first internal Blu-ray Disc™ (BD) rewritable drive for the computer aftermarket.
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Microsoft:
Nortel and Microsoft Form Strategic Alliance to Accelerate Transformation of Business Communications — Shared vision for unified communications to drive new growth opportunities for both companies. — REDMOND, WASH., and TORONTO—July 18, 2006—The convergence of the communications …
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Hans Mast / The (not so) Daily Me:
Yahoo! Music to offer unrestricted MP3s? — Everyone who has been following the tech scene knows that the first company to offer mainstream music in unrestricted MP3 format will see a huge spike in their business and may garner lasting dominance. There is widespread dissatisfaction …
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Scott Beale / Laughing Squid:
OpenDNS — Holy fast connections! Check out OpenDNS, a free client side DNS caching service that does not require any kind of external software. Not only does OpenDNS speed up your internet connection, it has anti-phishing and domain name typo correction features, both of which are opt-in by ip address.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft buys Windows utility software maker — update Microsoft on Tuesday said it has bought Winternals Software, a small maker of Windows utility programs, in a deal that the software maker hopes will add key technical talent to its operating system development team.
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Jarrett House North, TechBlog, Valleywag, Microsoft News Tracker, Randy Holloway Unfiltered and digg
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Paul R. La Monica / CNNMoney.com:
No joy for Yahoo — World's No. 2 search engine reports results and guidance that disappoint investors; stock tumbles after-hours. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — It looks like Yahoo! investors won't have any reason to yodel following the company's slightly disappointing second-quarter results …
The Consumerist:
AOL Retention Manual Revealed — In August of 2005, America Online settled with the office of NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer over complaints about how arduous AOL made it to cancel service. In addition to a $1.25 million fine, AOL agreed to streamline the cancellation process and submit all calls for third-party review.
Shel Israel / Naked Conversations:
Naked Conversations: A Long Tail Case Study? — Our book is ranked #575 on Amazon.com this morning. This is the highest it has ever been. A closer look at the publisher's retail numbers over the last 90 days, shows the book is doing what our publisher tells us— books do not usually do—come back from an oblivion trendline.
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Google exec challenges Berners-Lee — A Google executive challenged Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on his ideas for a Semantic Web during a conference in Boston on artificial intelligence. — On Tuesday, Berners-Lee, the father of the Web and the current director of the World Wide Web Consortium …
CNET News.com:
Symantec sees an Achilles' heel in Vista — Some of Microsoft's efforts to make Windows Vista its most stable and secure operating system ever could cause instability and new security flaws, according to a Symantec report. — Researchers at Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec examined …
Oliver / MobileCrunch:
MoveDigital Means Movies on Your Mobile — Marshall from Techcrunch just tipped me off to some really big news for people with mobile devices...MoveDigital, a pioneering company that specializes in the movement storage and sharing of big files has just launched with new functionality …
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John Blossom / Shore Communications Inc.:
Can't Help Myself: AFP Content Still Picked up by Google News Through Syndication Channels — Macworld covers along with other IDG publications a "secret" that's been very public for months: in spite of action by Agence France-Presse against Google to remove AFP news from the Google News service …
Fred / A VC:
Where It's At In Music Discovery — People talk about Pandora and Last.fm as if they are the holy grail of music discovery. — Bob Lefsetz moans the loss of FM radio and drives around in his car listening to XM play 20 year old music and thinks XM is where it's at in digital music.
Peggy Mihelich / CNN:
Price of virtual living: Patience, privacy — (CNN) — The virtual worlds depicted in the movies "The Matrix" and "Minority Report" can often seem far too real in today's world of computers, e-mail, instant messaging, MP3 players, cell phones, laptops, Wi-Fi and RFID.
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mobileeurope.co.uk:
"ERR, I THINK IT'S A NOKIA" — 58% of mobile users don't know make and model of handset they own; indicates hinderance to advanced data services take-up … Accurate, real-time handset details enable operators to market relevant extra services with which the user's handset is actually compatible.
Discussion:
The Mobile Technology Weblog, textually.org, Engadget Mobile, Darla Mack and MocoNews.net
Tom Espiner / ZDNet:
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals … The Home Office is pushing for sweeping powers to ban suspected hackers from using the Internet, but security experts are concerned that civil liberties could be infringed — The Home Office wants to give the police and the courts sweeping new powers …
Mark Schumann / AdAge:
Full-Year 2005 Megabrands Report — Telecommunications Giants Lead the Pack — CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Telecommunications giants pulled a trifecta in Advertising Age's ranking of the Top 200 Megabrands for 2005, not only claiming the top three spots by total media outlays but spending a heady $4 billion in doing so.
Red Herring:
ShopWiki Scores $6.2 Million — First round of funding will enable DoubleClick founders' shopping site to expand abroad. — ShopWiki received $6.2 million in its first round of funding Tuesday, enabling the shopping search engine created by three DoubleClick executives to expand internationally.
