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Paul Sloan / Business 2.0:
The man who owns the Internet — Kevin Ham is the most powerful dotcom mogul you've never heard of, reports Business 2.0 Magazine. Here's how the master of Web domains built a $300 million empire. — (Business 2.0 Magazine) — Kevin Ham leans forward, sits up tall, closes his eyes, and begins to type — into the air.
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Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
PlentyOfFish Owner Has the Perfect Bait For a Huge Success — The headquarters of what may be, on a per-capita basis, the busiest, most profitable site on the entire World Wide Web is on the 16th floor of a brand-new Vancouver building with panoramic views of the nearby Canadian Rockies.
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The Paradigm Shift
Financial Times:
Google's goal to organise your daily life — Google's ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when it can tell people what jobs to take and how they might spend their days off. — Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Music industry offers deal to small Webcasters — Facing an outcry over imminent royalty fee increases for Internet radio operators, the music industry body that lobbied for the changes has attempted a peace offering. — SoundExchange, the nonprofit group that collects the fees on behalf …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:SoundExchange offers olive branch to small webcasters over royalties
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Ask.com goes "all in"... and my strategy suggestions to help them fight the beast — Update: Josh at Read/WriteWeb dives into my suggestions and offers up some of his own. — Also, let me make one thing clear... Ask spending $100 million on this stupid "xxxx hates the algorithm" ad campaign is downright stupid.
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Search Engine Guide
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
The Future of Ask.com: Search? How About Advertising — Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks has an interesting post today about Ask.com, in which he lays out his strategy for getting the search engine back on track. That caught my eye because last night when looking over the latest search data …
Karen / Official Google Blog:
What's hot today? — For more than six years, we have compiled a regular list of popular searches called the Google Zeitgeist. This has been our way to highlight the sorts of queries people type into the Google search box every day. More recently, we unveiled Google Trends to show …
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Google Gets Trendy — Google today launched an improvement to their Trends service, Hot Trends, which lists the top 100 break out searches of each day. These are not the top searches, but the ones that deviate the most from their normal search pattern. — Clicking on a trend leads …
USA Today:
AT&T eager to wield its iWeapon — The Apple iPhone, due out next month, has been breathlessly hailed as offering consumers the ultimate wireless experience. — It also could give AT&T, its exclusive U.S. distributor, the ultimate experience for a wireless carrier: an easy way to handcuff rivals and steal customers.
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Charles Douglas / The Boy Genius Report:
Apple iPhone to be available for prepaid users? — One thing we know about the Apple iPhone launch, is that we don't really know much. Today we received a few screen shots that shed some light on one of the major questions regarding the sales of the iPhone — who will be eligible to buy this new dream gadget?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Pandora Goes Mobile, and Sonos, and More — Music streaming service Pandora has had its ups and downs over the last two years since launching. People love to listen to their personalized radio stations that get more and more tailored as you tell it what you like and don't like.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Message to Michael: Just Say, Well, No. — In what I can only describe as a sentimental-veering-toward-weepy riff on the ongoing saga of "Silicon Valley Bubble: The Sequel," TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington waxes on about the need for a downturn to stop the madness.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Proof-of-concept virus gives insight into OpenOffice.org security failings — A group of malware developers have produced a proof-of-concept virus that uses OpenOffice macros. The virus, which is embedded in a specially crafted OpenOffice Draw document, can execute scripts with user-level permissions …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
'Electric Slide' creator backs down from DMCA claim — The man who claims to have created the famed Electric Slide has backed down from a legal claim against an engineer who posted a YouTube video of people doing the dance, the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Gmail Doubles Maximum Attachment Size to 20 MB — Gmail upgraded the maximum attachment size from 10 MB to 20 MB. Gmail was quite forgiving and you could send more than 10 MB in some cases, but now it's possible to send at least 20 MB in one message. — Of course, few mail providers …
VoIP & Gadgets Blog:
Nortel Strong Arms Open Source Vendor — What happens when a VoIP blog (yours truly) writes about the fact that a former Nortel subsidiary (Blade Network Technologies) went looking for a new phone system, chose an open-source Asterisk-based solution from Fonality instead of using Nortel's own PBX …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
House passes more tech-friendly antispyware bill — In their third effort to enact a federal law targeting spyware, members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved criminal penalties aimed at anyone implanting certain types of malicious software on computers.
