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8:00 PM ET, July 28, 2006

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Tony Ruscoe / Tony Ruscoe's Blog:
What's in Google's Sandbox?  —  It's been a while since I've done any digging around Google's servers to try and find some new services, so I thought I'd have a quick go tonight.  —  I started by looking at one of the subdomains I found when I first ran my Google subdomains sniffing script last year:
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Google Blogoscoped:   Lots of New Secret Google Services Uncovered
Wired News:
Make Your Blog Popular  —  David L. Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, keeps tabs on more than 45 million weblogs.  Here's his advice for cracking his site's Top 100 list.  —  1) React quickly.  Commentators like Andrew Sullivan and Michelle Malkin draw megatraffic with immediate rebuttals …
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Ina Fried / ZDNet:
Microsoft shows off mobile phone-PC prototype … The software maker is looking at whether it can build a cheap PC for emerging markets by building it into a mobile phone  —  Microsoft on Thursday showed a prototype of a mobile phone-based computer that could one day find a use as a cheap PC for emerging markets.
Discussion: jkOnTheRun, 21talks and MocoNews.net
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Launches Messenger 8 With 180 Plugins  —  Yahoo Messenger Version 8 for Windows, which can be downloaded here, launched out of beta today.  Our previous writeup of the beta launch is here.  —  The key new feature of Messenger 8 is that it is open to third party developers to create widgets that work within the client.
Discussion: Read/WriteWeb and GigaOM
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Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
Ad clicks add up to real money  —  Web site required, but not much work  —  For hundreds of thousands of people, the dream of making an Internet fortune works like this: Earn pennies at a time in exchange for allowing Google Inc. or Yahoo Inc. to place advertisements on a personal or small-business Web page.
Paperghost / Vitalsecurity.org:
Zango was targetting Myspace: The Proof  —  An anonymous tipoff (who claims they were an affiliate of Zango, but got fed up with them emailing him all the time) recently saw the whole "Zango on Myspace" thing and was surprised to see Zango claiming they have a "hands off" policy towards Myspace.
Robert A. Guth / Wall Street Journal:
An Imprint All His Own  —  Now a Solo Act at Microsoft,  —  Ballmer Stresses Innovation,  —  On June 16, Steve Ballmer woke up and knew his life had radically changed.  —  For 26 years, the chief executive of Microsoft Corp. had worked hand in hand with Bill Gates to guide …
BBC:
Stolen mobiles 'will be blocked'  —  Around 80% of mobile phones will be blocked on all five UK networks within 48 hours of being reported stolen in future, industry leaders have pledged.  —  That pledge is part of a charter to reduce phone crime launched by the Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Light Blue Touchpaper
Jbat / Federated Media Publishing Inc.:
FM Launches Parenting Federation, Site  —  FM/Parenting, a "metaweblog" representing FM's dozen or so parenting sites, is launching today.  It's edited by Asha Dornfest and features excerpts from the best voices in parenting, including Amalah, Celebrity Baby Blog, Dooce, Finslippy, and Parent Hacks, among many others.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Torvalds critical of new GPL draft  —  The second draft of a revised General Public License has been released, but Linus Torvalds—founder and leader of the best-known software project governed by the GPL—remains unconvinced of its merits.  —  Torvalds' concern is with the clause …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
US House: Schools must block MySpace, many other sites  —  US House Resolution 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), was passed by a 410 to 15 vote tonight.  If the Resolution becomes law social networking sites and chat rooms must be blocked by schools and libraries or those institutions …
Microsoft:
Q&A  —  Co-President, Platforms & Services Division  —  President, Entertainment & Devices Division  —  COLLEEN HEALY: We're going to set up for our first Q&A session of the day.  We're going to keep that a little bit on the shorter side to get back on track here for lunch.
Discussion: paidContent.org
Steve Gelsi / MarketWatch:
YouTube CEO: IPO would be 'exciting'  —  NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — As red-hot YouTube's profile rises its CEO isn't ruling out an initial public offering in the future.  —  The buzz around the new brand has built in recent days as YouTube founder Chad Hurley, 29, emerged as the latest Internet whiz kid …
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
A GoogleFi Speed Test & More Testers  —  Google is about to open up its Mountain View WiFi network to more than 500 more trusted testers, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.  The expanded test indicates that the service is inching closer to its public debut.
Discussion: Valleywag
Kim Zetter / Wired News:
Confessions of a Cybermule  —  John Dillinger was a bank robber whose tool of trade was a machine gun.  But in today's cybercrime era, the weapon of choice for "John Dillinger" is an MSR206, a card-writing machine used for encoding bank account numbers and other data onto the magnetic stripe of bank credit and debit cards.
Discussion: Mary's Blog
 
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Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
Warner Bros. To Cut Link With Adware Firm Zango
Ryan / CyberNet Technology News:
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1 Released
Discussion: TechSpot, Slashdot and digg
Yahoo! Search blog:
Weather Report - The New Yahoo! Search Crawler (Slurp) Is Here!
Paul Kelly / irishexaminer.com:
Ryanair plans to allow mobile calls on flights
Chowdaaa / Lifehacker:
DIY MacBook Pro laptop case
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
MySpace Screws Up Again: Accounts Being Deleted?
Discussion: Publishing 2.0, GigaOM and digg
Craig Harris / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Tully's coffee, with side of free Wi-Fi
Carlo Longino / MobHappy:
Well, That's Certainly One Way To Do Mobile Music
 Earlier Items: 
dharmesh Shah / onstartups.com:
17 Pithy Insights For Startup Founders
Discussion: Okdork.com and ben barren
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Ballmer: Windows releases must come more quickly
Peter Rip / EarlyStageVC:
Business Model, Schmizness Model
Discussion: Venture Chronicles
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
In Microsoft Plan for Future, All Roads Lead to Internet
Rafat / paidContent.org:
BitTorrent Client Azureus Raises Funding; Goes Commercial; Developing HD Platform
Discussion: open
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Monitor:
MICROSOFT'S "EXPERIENCE HUB"
Jan Chipchase:
Mobility Is Relative II
Discussion: textually.org and 21talks
Steve Bryant / Google Watch:
Feds Retrieve Google Records after Gmail Used for Hate Speech