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8:15 AM ET, March 27, 2007

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Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Death threats against bloggers are NOT "protected speech" (why I cancelled my ETech presentations)  —  As I type this, I am supposed to be in San Diego, delivering a workshop at the ETech conference.  But I'm not.  I'm at home, with the doors locked, terrified.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Taking the week off  —  I'm physically ill after reading what happened to Kathy Sierra.  Maryam and several others here at PodTech asked me about it and are concerned since the same sites that are attacking Kathy also mentioned me and Maryam.  Maryam is really freaked out about it.  So am I.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Blogger cancels conference appearance after death threats  —  Kathy Sierra, a well-known blogger and author of books on Web design and programming, has abruptly canceled a speaking engagement after a rash of death threats began appearing on her blog as well as others.
Discussion: Webware.com
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Kathy Sierra: the dark side of anonymity  —  Kathy Sierra's disturbing and heart-wrenching take on cyber-stalking, which is here, is yet another example of how the anonymity of the Web allows — and even encourages — certain individuals to toss aside what we see as normal human behaviour and indulge the worst elements of their nature.
Shelley / Burningbird:
Disappointed  —  Kathy Sierra just just posted a note …
Discussion: rc3.org
Frank Paynter / Listics:
Mere anarchy … MeanKids was purposeful anarchy.
Discussion: Slacker Manager
ongoing:
Way Way Over the Edge  —  Please, stop reading this and go …
Discussion: One By One Media
Don Park / Don Park's Daily Habit:   Simply Awful  —  As Tim Bray wrote, something is badly …
Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:   Misogyny and anonymity  —  Three years ago, I posted about anonymity.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo to Offer a Network for Web Ads on Cellphones  —  Yahoo is moving to secure a position on the next Internet battleground: Web search and advertising on cellphones.  —  The company plans to announce on Tuesday that it is creating a mobile advertising network that will allow marketers …
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Business Wire:
Yahoo! Opens Up oneSearch to Mobile Publishers
Discussion: Mashable!
Skrentablog:
How to beat Google, part 1  —  Our entire industry is scared witless by Google's dominance in search and advertising.  Microsoft and Yahoo have been unsuccessful at staunching the bleeding of their search market share.  VCs parrot the Google PR FUD machine that you need giant datacenters next to hydroelectric dams to compete.
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Read/WriteWeb:
Is Google a Semantic Search Engine?
Discussion: Profy.Com and Between the Lines
Microsoft:
Windows Vista Debuts with Strong Global Sales  —  More than 20 million licenses were sold in the opening month of general availability for the new operating system, as new tools and programs ease the transition for consumers.  —  Initial sales figures from Microsoft show …
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Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Says Vista Sales Strong
Discussion: Neowin.net and The Tech Report
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:   Playing "Parse the Microsoft Vista Numbers"
Scott Van Voorhis / Boston Herald:
Google on search of a Hub: Tech co. fetching multiple results in bid for office space  —  Google, one of the tech world's hottest companies, is scouting for a major location in Boston or Cambridge.  —  The multibillion-dollar Internet giant has been hunting for anywhere from 100,000 …
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David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Tasty Chowdah: Google Moving Into Boston
Brian Bergstein / Associated Press:
Wikipedia co-founder seeks to start over  —  In just six years, Wikipedia has mushroomed into one of the Web's most astonishing successes, with 1.7 million articles in English alone.  The downside is that the free encyclopedia has its share of errors and juvenile vandalism, and sometimes the writing is incomprehensibly arcane.
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Business Wire:
Sprint Announces WiMAX Ecosystem Initiatives  —  ORLANDO, Fla.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) today announced further progress with the development of its upcoming Mobile WiMAX advanced multimedia network, citing wireless device and chipset initiatives while identifying additional service markets.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Board of Directors Adds New Member and Declares Quarterly Dividend  —  Reed Hastings of Netflix to Join Board; Dividend of $0.10 per share payable in June.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced that its board of directors has increased the size of the board from nine to 10 members …
Babak / Trader's Narrative:
What Everyone Ought to Know About Agloco  —  Agloco is a pay to surf MLM scheme that exploded onto the interwebs late last year.  It is backed by the same team as AllAdvantage which crashed and burned in the bubble years.  Check out this article from Business 2.0 on AllAdvantage (pdf).
Discussion: John Chow dot Com and digg
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Spins Off ZenZui, Mobile Browsing Via Widgets  —  Microsoft-backed ZenZui launched this morning.  It's a new mobile browser that aims to make surfing the web on your mobile device easier through widgets.  The application that lets you surf over a 6×6 grid of website widgets by panning and zooming around the grid.
Jonathan M. Gitlin / Opposable Thumbs:
Why a $100 XBox can be better than the Apple TV  —  I was out of town this weekend meeting a friend from back home who happened to be in Columbus, OH, on business.  Originally we'd planned to go karting, but the threat of rain and the lure of beer took us in a different direction.
Discussion: AppleTV Hacker and digg
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
MarketWatch Adds Community Stock Predictor  —  Financial news site MarketWatch added a number of new features to their site recently, including a single search box (you no longer need to look up stock symbols separately) and a new user-generated stock price predictor called MarketPerception.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
GrandCentral A Little Too "Beta" For Some  —  New telephone management startup GrandCentral is off to a solid start.  They showed a preview of the service at the DEMO conference last year, and we gave GrandCentral a solid review, as did Rafe Needleman and others.
 
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Probono / AwkwardTV:
Apple TV boots from USB (without opening case)
Alertbox:
Does User Annoyance Matter?
Discussion: WebProNews
Robert Young / NewTeeVee:
Did Murdoch just KO Google?
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
The Efficient Crank Call Tool
Microsoft:
Microsoft's Acquisition of devBiz Promises Improved Application …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Rocketboom Seeks Alternate Revenue Steams
Nick / Rough Type:
Showdown in the trailer park
 Earlier Items: 
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Newsmaker: At PayPal, fending off phishers—and Google
Discussion: TechSpot News
Iljitsch van Beijnum / Infinite Loop:
Leopard is secretly three-dimensional
Discussion: Apple Gazette and digg
Mark Coker / VentureBeat:
Start-up advice for entrepreneurs, from Y Combinator Startup School
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Students largely ignore RIAA instant settlement offers
Discussion: Neowin.net
Sony Ericsson:
Meet the W580: the Walkman® phone with street style
BBC:
Many net users 'not safety-aware'
Discussion: Hardware 2.0
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Looking for a Job? Make Sure You Have a Web Identity!