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Michael Olivier / Yodel Anecdotal:
It takes two to Tango — When you find something broken on the Web, product folks at small web sites are usually easy to connect with. But visitors to sites with significant traffic usually have a tougher time lobbing input directly to site development teams about the good, the bad, and the screwed up.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Launches Digg-Like Suggestion Site — Yahoo is taking some criticism for launching a site that includes a Digg-like voting feature earlier today. The main criticism is coming from Digg users, who can sometimes stop fighting long enough to band together into a very angry mob.
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:Yahoo copies Digg, suffers the consequences
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Music execs criticise DRM systems — Almost two-thirds of music industry executives think removing digital locks from downloadable music would make more people buy the tracks, finds a survey. — The Jupiter Research study looked at attitudes to Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems in Europe music firms.
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J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, Tech_Space, Kevin Maney, Podcasting News, Coolfer, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, The Future of Music … and Slashdot
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Preston Gralla / Computerworld Blogs:
U.S. senator: It's time to ban Wikipedia in schools, libraries — Here's the newest from Sen. Ted Stevens, the man who described the Internet as a series of tubes: It's time for the federal government to ban access to Wikipedia, MySpace, and social networking sites from schools and libraries.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Text of Email to all Yahoos — This email was sent by Yahoo CFO Susan Decker to all Yahoo employees today at 9:01 AM PST and has the details of who's doing what in their new Advertiser & Publisher Group. Lots and lots of SVP and EVP promotions from the Yahoo ranks, and other peanut butter being spread around.
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Scott Kirsner / New York Times:
All the World's a Stage (That Includes the Internet) — AT lunchtime, or when he is walking the halls of his workplace, Roy Raphaeli's colleagues often beseech him to do a magic trick. Usually, he obliges. "I take the opportunity to show people my new stuff and see how they react," …
Fred Aun / ClickZ:
Omniture to Acquire Site-Side Behavioral Targeting Firm — In what it described as an effort to reduce "human interaction — a limiting factor" in online consumer interactions, Web analytics vendor Omniture yesterday said it is acquiring Touch Clarity, a site personalization firm, for more than $50 million.
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Ruby Huang / DigiTimes:
15.4-inch MacBooks to begin shipping in 2Q, say sources — Apple is planning to introduce 15.4-inch MacBooks in the second quarter of 2007, according to industry sources in Taiwan. The new model will fill the gap between the company's 13.3-inch MacBooks and the 15.4- and 17-inch MacBook Pros …
Saska / Fiendish Glee Club:
Customer service gone shockingly right — (I have to throw in a little plug for Vox here, even though I just use their services for free. This entry survived being #1 on digg.com and reddit.com in the same day, and one person claimed they couldn't get to it, but I personally never saw Vox go down.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
EFF takes Viacom to task over YouTube takedown — A watchdog group is encouraging those wrongly accused of posting pirated Viacom material on YouTube to stand up to the giant conglomerate—even if it means a court fight. — Two weeks ago, when Viacom demanded that YouTube remove 100,000 …
Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
The real secret to a successful blog/book/business... For the last three years, Bert and I have tried to explain the "secret" to the success of the Head First books. We've tried to explain the "secret" to how a little non-news, non-scandal blog could land in the Technorati Top 100.
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Senator wants to ban 'deceptive' video game ratings — update A U.S. Senate Republican with presidential ambitions has renewed his push to slap new regulations on the video and computer game industry, including a ban on "deceptive" labels by ratings outfits.
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Patricia Hursh / ClickZ:
Yahoo Local Advertising Options, Post-Panama, Part 2 — › › › Local Search — Last time, I provided an overview of Yahoo's local search advertising options, post-Panama. I covered the long-awaited geotargeting option now available in Sponsored Search …
Iljitsch van Beijnum / Infinite Loop:
New Airport Extreme could expose Macs via IPv6 — In Apple's Designing AirPort Extreme 802.11n Networks manual there is a cryptic line: "This version of AirPort Utility supports IPv6." Upon further examination (page 53), it turns out that the Airport Utility has a tab titled "IPv6" hidden away in the Advanced settings.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Viruses promise heartbreak on Valentine's Day — update Beware of e-mails bearing Valentine's Day greetings, or you may get a digital heartache. — At least two romance-themed security threats are arriving in e-mail in-boxes on Wednesday, researchers have warned.
