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12:30 PM ET, August 15, 2006

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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Private Blogger Blogs Not So Secret  —  Google's Blogger, the grand daddy of the modern weblog publishing platform, today unveiled a new beta version that among other things touts enhanced privacy settings.  For the first time on Blogger you can specify if a blog is public, private or by invitation only.
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Business Wire:
MindTouch Powers Wiki.com  —  Accelerates Mainstream Wiki Adoption  —  MindTouch today announced it has partnered with Entrepreneur John Gotts to launch Wiki.com, the premier online destination for consumers to learn about, create and share wiki sites.  MindTouch is the only vendor …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Wiki.com partners with MindTouch, says $3 mill domain is a deal
Discussion: Dead2.0 and The Blog Herald
Valleywag:
Gotts Milks: An interview with the man who bought Wiki.com
Discussion: ben barren
Michael Kanellos / ZDNet:
Terabyte drive to debut later this year  —  If there's a storage fanatic in your family, a perfect gift could be coming for her or him toward the end of the year: 1-terabyte hard drives.  —  Desktop hard drives holding 1 terabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes, of storage will likely debut in 2006 …
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Google Maps offers discount coupons for US stores  —  Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) will offer printable discount coupons to local shoppers, in a promotional bid that aims to drive U.S. online shoppers using its Google Maps service to visit stores, the company said on Monday.
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Ben / Links:
Identity Isn't Just Identity Management, Anonymity Isn't Privacy  —  There's been more comment on identity management and anonymity.  It seems there's two points that are commonly being overlooked or ignored.  —  Firstly, when I say anonymity should be the substrate I am not just talking …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Advertisers Trace Paths Users Leave on Internet  —  If you use Yahoo's Web search engine to learn about hybrid cars, the site will quietly note that you fit into a group of users it calls "Consciously Cruising."  —  If you click on ads for moving van companies, you will join the "Home Hopping" group.
Louise Lee / Business Week:
Dell's Untimely Recall  —  The computer maker's efforts to improve customer service will be put to the test with a recall of 4 million laptop batteries  —  As if Dell (DELL) didn't have enough customer satisfaction issues to worry about.  Now, the leading PC maker has disclosed that it will recall …
Discussion: Techdirt and Direct2Dell
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MSNBC:   Dell to recall 4.1 million laptop batteries
Josh / Bokardo:
Apple Making Huge Social Software Push?  —  Update Added several points about upcoming Leopard features.  —  Several recent Apple developments suggest that the company is ramping up for a huge push of social features in its software:  —  Wiki Server  —  A wiki server?  Yes, a wiki server.
BBC:
UK bank details sold in Nigeria  —  Bank account details belonging to thousands of Britons are being sold in West Africa for less than £20 each, the BBC's Real Story programme has found.  —  It discovered that fraudsters in Nigeria were able to find internet banking data stored on recycled PCs sent from the UK to Africa.
Anything But iPod:
Mysterious Samsung YP-K5 DAP  —  There's no evidence of it now, but a press release about the IFA 2006 (a huge consumer electronics show in Berlin) on Samsung's German site used to include pictures and information about the company's new YP-K5 digital audio player.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, CrunchGear and Engadget
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Three Years On, Google's Trademark Usage Letters Become News Again  —  How long does it take the wheel to spin full circle on the internet?  Apparently three years, judging from the outcry over Google's "new" move to send out trademark protection letters asking people to be careful about how they use the word Google.
Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
Yahoo vs. Google, round two  —  The company took a beating last month, but CEO Terry Semel tells Fortune's Adam Lashinsky that he likes its chances against Google, YouTube, and MySpace.  —  (Fortune Magazine) — The year since Yahoo topped Fortune's list of the 100 Fastest-Growing companies has been a rough one for CEO Terry Semel.
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
T-Mobile's Trial Balloon  —  The wireless provider is testing routers that will allow users to make calls from home via cell phone for a flat monthly rate  —  On Aug. 10, T-Mobile USA started a hush-hush trial of a service that could turn telecom on its head.
useit.com:
Data Visualization of Web Stats: Logarithmic Charts and the Drooping Tail … Whenever I show double-logarithmic charts in my usability seminars, I see the audience members' eyes glaze over.  People don't like anything but the simplest data visualizations, and I've certainly learned my lessons …
Ryan Saghir / Orbitcast:
Sirius Stiletto 100 - FOUND  —  The eagle eyes over at Sirius Backstage spotted the Sirius Stiletto 100 in Crutchfield's catalog.  —  This is the first time that we get an actual look into what Sirius' first fully-portable satellite radio receiver form-factor will be (as well as debunk some of the rumors out there).
Discussion: Gizmodo, Engadget and CrunchGear
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Who Will Really Make Money in VoIP?  —  In the early days of WiFi, it was common wisdom to bet on service providers and aggregators to make money as the technology became popular.  Somehow that did not work out as planned.  Who even remembers names like Cometa that burnt through millions …
Mary Jo Foley / Microsoft Watch:
Just How Many Windows Live Services Are There?  —  Microsoft officials say there are 20 Windows Live services available in beta and/or final versions.  But it looks like the real count is in excess of 40.  And that's not including a number of Live services which Microsoft has yet to acknowledge, but sources say are in the pipeline.
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
"Witch Hunt" in the Silicon Valley  —  Network Appliance CEO Daniel Warmenhoven says the government's search for backdated options among tech companies is going too far  —  At the start of this year, word began to spread around Silicon Valley that the Securities & Exchange Commission …
Discussion: DealBook
Dean Takahashi / Mercury News:
Up next: 'YouTube' of video games?  —  MICROSOFT RELEASES TOOLS TO ENCOURAGE HOME CREATORS OF GAMES FOR XBOX 360 CONSOLE  —  Microsoft hopes to recruit future video game developers by making it possible for just about anybody, working from their home PC, to create games for the Xbox 360 video game console.
Discussion: TechCrunch, CrunchGear and SiliconBeat
 
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Oliver / MobileCrunch:
Sharpcast is Synchronization 2.0
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Chris Marlowe / Reuters:
Casual gaming taking places of daily activities
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Finally (Almost): AllPeers
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evhead:
New Blogger Embarking
Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Google Sees Content Deals As Key to Long-Term Growth
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Scarlett Susi / Shiny Shiny:
Review: Oregon Scientific Smart Globe: not just for geographers.
Discussion: Tech Digest and CrunchGear
 Earlier Items: 
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Verizon to offer "Home Media DVR" to FiOS customers
Michael Ingram / Slyck:
Pirate Party Backs Speedy, Anonymizing Internet Service
Discussion: Techdirt and eHomeUpgrade
Dan Frakes / Macworld:
Leopard first looks: Spaces
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BOSS: FX57 by TechDaddy
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