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8:00 PM ET, August 31, 2006

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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
VentureBeat Launches  —  Welcome to VentureBeat -the successor to SiliconBeat! … Dear friends,  —  On Friday, I will serve my last day at the San Jose Mercury News and will no longer be blogging at SiliconBeat.  VentureBeat has become my sole occupation and focus.
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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
SiliconBeat to retire...VentureBeat has launched!  —  Folks, we've made some changes here at SiliconBeat.  —  Matt is going independent and will carry on the blogging at his new site, VentureBeat.  You can see his first post here.  —  Mike, who had stepped back anyway from blogging actively …
Om Daily:   Say Hello to VentureBeat  —  Matt Marshall is leaving San Jose …
Associated Press:
Cell phones won't keep your secrets  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The married man's girlfriend sent a text message to his cell phone: His wife was getting suspicious.  Perhaps they should cool it for a few days.  —  "So," she wrote, "I'll talk to u next week."  —  "You want a break from me?
Discussion: Lifehacker and Slashdot
Ryan Block / Engadget:
CrossOver Mac beta released: run Windows apps in OS X  —  Nope, this isn't a virtual machine a la Parallels or VMware for Mac, this is the real deal: CodeWeavers released the beta of CrossOver Mac, a WINE environment port to OS X that allows you to run Windows apps without actually running Windows.
Steve Bryant / Google Watch:
Google Sued for AdSense Fraud  —  A would-be AdSense customer is suing Google for $250,000 because it took her 100 hours to place and review AdSense advertisements on her Web site, which Google subsequently removed, Google Watch has learned.  —  In a 25-page complaint filed earlier this week …
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darkreading.com:
Wireless Piggybackers Put on Notice  —  We've all done it: You're using your laptop in a location without hotspot access.  You want onto the Internet, so you start scanning for open wireless LANs.  You find one and, regardless of who owns it, you piggyback a ride onto the Web.
Randfish / SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog:
21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic  —  A considerable portion of my consulting time has recently revolved around the optmization of corporate blogs (or the addition of blogs to revamped sites).  As usual, I find a pattern emerging in the strategies that need attention and the pitfalls that must be avoided.
Darren Straight / LiveSide:
Windows Live OneCare Family Safety beta now available!  —  Following the recent Windows Live OneCare Family Safety Invites being sent out to Windows Live Butterflies and the appearing of Windows Live OneCare Family Safety on Connect we thought that this Beta would be resticted to only those who had been approved to use it.
Nick / Rough Type:
Social software in perspective  —  Is social software a phenomenon or a passing fancy?  The reality seems to lie somewhere in between, though considerably closer to fancy than phenomenon.  "Social software," writes Phil Edwards today, "looks like very big news indeed from some perspectives …
China Martens / InfoWorld:
Web browser leaves no footprints  —  Browzar deletes Internet caches, histories, cookies to protect user privacy  —  The latest entrant to the crowded Internet browser market is the appropriately named Browzar, a tool specifically designed to protect users' privacy by not retaining details of the Web sites they've searched.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Times Reader - Exclusive Screenshots Of Yet-To-Be Released Microsoft App … Times Reader is an upcoming new application from The New York Times and Microsoft, which lets users read the NY Times electronically using advanced screen reading technology from Microsoft.
SaaS Revolution / Computerworld Blogs blogs:
Recent press: Google's office apps are all the buzz; outlets question threats various threats to SaaS model  —  The big story of the week has been Google's launch of Google Apps for Your Domain, a suite of productivity applications that it plans to market to small and medium businesses …
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise UK:
Flickr #1 Photography Site in UK  —  Flickr has taken the #1 spot in our Photography category and it seems to be down to good SEO (search engine optimisation) for soft porn searches.  I'll admit it was a bit of a surprise last week when I looked at our Photography category and noticed that Flickr had moved into the #1 spot.
The Ask.com Blog:
Search with a :-)  —  For a long time people have wanted the ability to search for terms and phrases on the web using non-letter (A-Z) characters.  Put another way, searching using non-alphanumeric characters.  —  Well the time has come here at Ask.com and we've started to roll-out some what we hope are useful and practical examples.
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Tech Support With Thomas Hawk  —  Ok, I've been thinking about doing a post like this for a while.  This is going to be the post where I bitch about technology not working right.  Except that this is going to be a living breathing post that frequently jumps to the top of my blog.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Man From Google Joins Apple's Board  —  When Eric E. Schmidt, Google's chief executive, was named to Apple Computer's board this week, it did more than signal a potential alliance between powerful companies.  It touched off a wave of speculation about the motives of the man behind the move: Apple's co-founder, Steven P. Jobs.
Mike Melanson / Penguin.SWF:
Basic Beta Briefing  —  Our current schedule for releasing the final version of Flash Player 9 for Linux is early 2007.  Many readers have understandably requested a beta version before that time.  —  Yes, we do plan to release a beta version in advance of the final version.
Discussion: SitePoint Blogs, JD on EP and TechWeb
Cpd / e.politics:
The Washington Post, Social Media and Audience-Building  —  The Washington Post (or, properly, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive) is one news outlet that gets social media: they seem to truly understand the the benefits that come from being a part of the broader internet conversation …
Shel Israel / Naked Conversations:
Global Neighborhoods TOC v.01  —  For you old timers who have followed this blog when Robert and I just started writing Naked Conversations, you may recall how we struggled over our Table of Contents (TOC).  The TOC is a key component of what you send to the publisher in the hopes of getting an advance payment for writing a book.
 
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JJ Hawkins / PVR Wire:
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Mary Jo Foley / Microsoft Watch:
What Is the Business Case for Upgrading to Vista?
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
The iRocker chair with built-in iPod dock
Discussion: CrunchGear
Ellen Qualls / forwardtogetherpac.com:
Forward Together - Gov. Mark R. Warner, Honorary Chair
Grant Robertson / The Digital Music Weblog:
Is SpiralFrog an end run around royalty payments?
Discussion: MediaShift and New York Times
Gizmodo:
5 Ways To Peak Your WiFi Feng Shui: Featuring the Radiolabs Stage …
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Requiem For The Future of VoIP
Ryan Saghir / Orbitcast:
Stiletto and Soloist - so happy together
Discussion: Engadget
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Eric Case / Google Code:
Announcing Tesseract OCR
Dhiramshah / New Launches:
UWB Hub coming in October
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Handling noindex meta tags
Cyrus Farivar / Engadget:
Fiber in the home thanks to Tennessee's Tenvera
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Startup Uses Military Tech to Fix Low Res Video
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Scoble visiting the Plex
John R. Quain / New York Times:
Films That Come Over the Net Don't Come Easy
Valleywag:
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Discussion: Earthling
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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