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1:45 PM ET, August 9, 2006

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New York Times:
A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749  —  Buried in a list of 20 million Web search queries collected by AOL and recently released on the Internet is user No. 4417749.  The number was assigned by the company to protect the searcher's anonymity, but it was not much of a shield.
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
CDs Find Their Way Into Papers  —  A Santa Monica company is packaging movie previews, music samples, interviews and ads with Sunday editions.  —  Most newspapers have built their long-term growth strategies around the Internet.  But a Santa Monica company is betting that an old piece of new technology …
Discussion: Rough Type and Web Strategy
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Mike / Techdirt:
Rather Than Embrace The Internet, Newspapers Look To Embrace A Different Kind Of Old Media  —  from the teaming-up-against-the-internet?  dept  —  While newspapers aren't in as bad a shape as some would have you believe, they still are having trouble figuring out how to deal with this internet thing.
Discussion: @rgumente
Dpreview / Digital Photography Review:
Nikon D80, 10 mp, previewed  —  This new camera is the natural successor to the D70/D70s with a refreshed design, user interface and a wide range of new features.  Headline improvements are; 10.2 mp CCD, new image processing engine, 3D Color Matrix Metering II, 11-area AF system …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Nikon's D80 finally official
Discussion: MobileWhack.com
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
AMD not eliminating ATI brand, reports false  —  One of the unforeseen ramifications of the AMD-ATI hookup is the new hyper-rumor-transport bus, a new technology whereby unsubstantiated rumors become fact at an alarming rate.  I lamented this sad state of affairs a few weeks ago …
Discussion: Neowin.net
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PC Pro:
AMD stays hand over ATi brand axe
Discussion: Joystiq
Gina Trapani / Lifehacker: Top:
Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista side by side  —  The more things change, the more they stay the same.  That's what I thought watching coverage of Apple's Worldwide Developer's conference opening yesterday, where banners that read things like "Hasta la vista, Vista" and "Redmond has a cat, too.
Harrison Hoffman / LiveSide:
RSS Wizard, Niall Kennedy, Leaves Windows Live  —  Back in April when word came down that Niall Kennedy, of Technorati, would be joining Windows Live, I don't think there was a person that wasn't excited at the big news.  Niall was a great asset to Microsoft and it will be a big loss for him to go.
Mary Himinkool / Google Talkabout:
Google Talk on the mylo  —  For the past several months we've been working with partners who are leveraging the tools of Google Talk's open platform.  Sony has just announced that its new WiFi device will feature Google Talk.  The mylo communicator will be hitting stores in September.
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Britain's digital tribes revealed  —  Households in Britain can be classified into 23 "e-types" depending on their access to technology, say researchers.  —  E-types include mobile explorers, the e-committed and rational utilitarians.  —  The researchers, from University College London …
PodTech Network Blog:
Mobile Podcasting Not There Yet - It's Starting to Happen..  —  What about mobile podcating?  That is podcasts on cell phones?  I get this question all the time.  I'm not bullish about it in the short term but it is obvious that it will happen.  The question is when?
Chartreuse / BETA:
The Big Difference Between Old And New  —  Pay Attention Please.  —  Nothing is on.  —  Except you.  —  Old media has to grab your attention.  —  New media is already there.  —  You have to find old media (what channel?  What time?  What theatre?  What station?)  —  New media finds you.
Nat / O'Reilly Radar:
The Value of Web Standards  —  While at OSCON, Mark Lucovsky of Google sent us a bit of HTML that'd embed a slender map search widget into our conferences web site.  It's an easy way for attendees to find restaurants, hotels, parks, bars, etc. near the conference venue.
Discussion: JD on EP
Burtonator / Kevin Burton's Feed Blog:
Technorati's Numbers are Wrong  —  Dave posts another state of the blogosphere with some interesting stats.  The one I found shocking was the claim that there are 50 million blogs.  —  These numbers are overly optimistic and dangerous.  There are not 50 million blogs.
John Leyden / The Register:
Mobile internet is still a turn-off  —  Most punters still find mobile internet usage to be a frustrating experience they'd rather avoid.  —  Despite investment by operators in services such as i-mode and Vodafone Live, 73 per cent of respondents to a new survey said don't access the net from their mobile.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Interview with Sun's Tim Bray and Radia Perlman - Part 1: Web history and future, P2P  —  To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the World Wide Web, today I interviewed two distinguished people from Sun Microsystems - Tim Bray (Director of Web Technologies) and Radia Perlman (Distinguished Engineer).
Discussion: digg and Slashdot
Cyrus Farivar / Macworld:
Video highlights from WWDC 2006  —  In this special selection of video excerpts from the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference 2006, we present three selections from Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote address:  —  First, we show you a clip from the demo by Scott Forstall, Apple's vice president of platform experience.
Discussion: Valleywag and InfoWorld
Phill Ryu / The Phill Ryu Blog:
7 Apps on Leopard's Hit List  —  While yesterday's preview of Leopard didn't show too much (I'm talking about the "top secret" features that Steve left out this time around), it did show enough to, well, make quite a few shareware and freeware applications somewhat obsolete.
Phone Scoop:
Sprint To Launch 4G in 2007  —  Today, 12:47 PM source: Sprint Nextel  —  Sprint today announced they will roll out their 4G wireless broadband network beginning in the fourth quarter of 2007.  Though it tested many options, the carrier chose to use the 802.16e mobile WiMax standard.
 
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Ed Batista:
Killing Your Persona  —  Jason Calacanis is an Internet entrepreneur …
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Open source vs. traditional enterprise software, part II
Ellie Gibson / Eurogamer:
Xbox modder on lockdown
Discussion: Joystiq, Kotaku and I4U News
Matt Casamassina / IGN:
Rumor: Wii Release Date, Price
Discussion: Engadget, Kotaku, I4U News and Joystiq
kottke.org:
How I Blog  —  Seth Godin, who ruminates for a living …
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Palm and Yelp partner on local mobile search for Treo
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Gizmodo:
First Pics of Levi's iPod Jeans
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Microsoft shows off HD DVD drive for Xbox
Discussion: HDBlog.net and Joystiq
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
TripHub: Your Mom's Trip Planner
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft to Pay Reparations for Vista, Office Delays
Discussion: M-Dollar and Teching It Easy
casio.com:
Features Wide-Aspect Movie Recording and Data Storage Function
Discussion: Ubergizmo, I4U News and Neowin.net
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Topix.net Launches Massive News Search Engine
Mark Wallace / 3pointD.com:
A Futuristic Utopia For Duran Duran
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Actors seek new scale for new media
Cshields / OSU Open Source Lab:
Rackathon 2006  —  Greetings!  We are looking for individuals …
 

 
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Steven Waldman / @stevenwaldman:
The California Senate Appropriations Committee approves a bill imposing fees on Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon to pay for local news through employment tax credits

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Memo: Gannett is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of some stories, with a disclaimer at the bottom; some USA Today stories already show the summaries

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: many NPR employees expressed anger or concern over the Backstop, a new layer of editors who will review all of NPR's journalism before it is released

 
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