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Consumerist:
Circuit City Flouts The DMCA For A Tenner — Well, well, well! Look who's violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act! For only a couple of fins, Circuit City will take your DVD and an iPod and flagrantly breach copyright at your behest. — How does this violate the DMCA?
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Jason / Signal vs. Noise:
Don't believe BusinessWeek's bubble-math — This week's BusinessWeek cover story features a beaming Kevin Rose from Digg. Across his chest it says "How this kid made $60 million in 18 months." Wow, now that sounds like a great success story. — Too bad it's a blatent lie. BusinessWeek knows it.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Sitemaps Becomes Google Webmaster Central; Preferred Domain Tool Launched — Google Sitemaps has gained a new name along with new features. Google Webmaster Central is the new name of the former Google Sitemaps service, which now has evolved into a central place for Google …
Neologies:
Flickr working on geotagging functionality? — I noticed something interesting this morning while organizing some of my photos on Flickr. On the Organize page, I spotted an additional tab on the top labeled "ADMIN:DEV". Clicking on it opened a world map (courtesy of Yahoo! Maps/NAVTEQ) and an options panel.
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Jasonogrady / O'Grady's PowerPage:
EXCLUSIVE: Leopard Feature Set Leaked — In advance of Monday's keynote address by Steve Jobs at WWDC The PowerPage has received a alleged copy of the features (and some screenies) from Apple's next generation operating system - Mac OS 10.5 ("Leopard"). The details are unconfirmed and are being posted for informational purposes only.
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CNET News.com:
Senate ratifies controversial cybercrime treaty — The first and only international treaty designed exclusively to combat computer crime won approval late Thursday from the U.S. Senate. — The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime "will enhance our ability to cooperate with foreign governments …
Ryan / Screwedbydesign.com:
Firefox 2 Visual Refresh Progress — Last night I worked on getting the new theme changes hacked into my trunk build. After about an hour of failed attempts, I ended up having to pull a new tree to get the patch to grudgingly apply - only to run into bug 346214 and a missing close tag introduced by the patch in browser.xul.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Blog feeds may carry security risk — LAS VEGAS—Reading blogs via popular RSS or Atom feeds may expose computer users to hacker attacks, a security expert warns. — Attackers could insert malicious JavaScript in content that is transferred to subscribers of data feeds that use the popular RSS …
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / DesktopLinux.com:
Desktop Linux breakthrough: Lenovo preloads SUSE on ThinkPad — Analysis — Finally. For years, the holy grail of the Linux desktop has been to get a major computer vendor to commit to preloading a Linux desktop. It finally happened. — On August 4th, we found out that Lenovo Group …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Copyright tussles for Google — In the 1970s, an adult movie theater in Dallas claimed it had the right to show a pirated copy of "Behind the Green Door" because the movie was so lewd it could not legally be copyrighted. — The theater lost when a federal appeals court ruled that the film …
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Mac Spoofs:
Archive for the 'Spoofs: Get a Mac' Category — We think this is the first spoof of its kind: an activist group turning the "Get a Mac" ad campagin against Apple to advocate for human rights. Will be interesting to see if these become more common - I think this one is fairly effective (regardless of whether it's true or not).
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Niche Job Boards Rising — Mike Arrington is slowly expanding his empire. He launched CrunchBoard, a job board fine tuned for his community of reader. My congratulations to Mike on making the move, and putting together a good resource for his readers. He explains his reasons here.
Peter Norvig / Official Google Research Blog:
All Our N-gram are Belong to You — Posted by Alex Franz and Thorsten Brants, Google Machine Translation Team — Here at Google Research we have been using word n-gram models for a variety of R&D projects, such as statistical machine translation, speech recognition, spelling correction …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Music industry sues P2P firm LimeWire — After months of issuing warnings, the music industry finally made good on its threat to file suit against peer-to-peer software company LimeWire. — A group of music companies, including Sony BMG, Virgin Records and Warner Bros.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
AOL Video Is Live - and it's BIG! — AOL Video, AOL's massive new video portal, is now live. According to Time Warner, the site aims to be an all-in-one destination to find, watch and share videos - think of it as on-demand TV crossed with YouTube. The new stuff includes more than 45 video …
