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Jennifer Slegg / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Official Google Blog Deleted, Blogger Registers googleblog.blogspot.com — Back in April 2004, Google launched their blog at googleblog.blogspot.com. But somehow, in the past few hours, that blog has been completely deleted from the Blogger servers, and users are instead seeing a "Not Found.
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Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Facebook's on the Block — The owners of the privately held social-networking site hope to fetch as much as $2 billion. And media giants like Viacom may make a good match — Facebook, the Web site where students around the world socialize and swap information, has put itself on the block, BusinessWeek Online has learned.
Rafat / PaidContent.org:
Once a Maverick, Google Joins the Lobbying Herd: Google's lobbying efforts are intensifying as the company tries to find a way to balance employees' Democrat leanings with legislative reality. Understatement of the day: Lauren Maddox, a principal in one lobbying firm with a Google account: "They are brilliant engineers.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Verizon SuperPages.com joins Google AdWords — SAN JOSE, Calif.—Google and Verizon SuperPages.com have signed a deal under which the classified ad provider will help its tens of thousands of marketers get ads onto Google search result pages, the companies said Monday.
Chris Suellentrop / Wired News:
Global Gaming Crackdown — Last fall, a group of World of Warcraft players in China committed mass suicide. They wanted to draw attention to the latest restriction on their liberty: The same government agency that censors newspapers and bans books had just mandated a system of disincentives …
Stephen Bryant / Online Journalism Review:
Syndicate this! Linking old media to new — A new service called BlogBurst aims to get newspapers republishing syndicated blog content. Will it work? Who will benefit? — Blogs and newspapers have been getting cozy of late. The successful journaling experiments at dailies …
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makezine.com:
The Future of Credit Cards - Earning virtual currency for spending in the real world & other world bridging — Very soon, credit card companies and game makers will reward their customers who spend money in the real world using private label "rewards" credit cards.
Robert / infOpinions?:
The Worst of PR and WOM - All In One Post — T he worst aspects of PR and Word-of-mouth (WOM) were laid bare in one pitiful post this weekend. Filled with stereotypes and void of character (while masquerading as one), Strumpette busts on the scene and is quickly exposed by - a student.
Major Nelson / Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Manage your Xbox Live friends list from the web — Just in time for the Xbox free live weekend, the 'My Xbox' section of Xbox .com has been upgraded. You can now send, receive, or decline a friends request...or remove a friend from your friends lists directly from Xbox.com.
David / weblog.rubyonrails.org:
Rails 1.1: RJS, Active Record++, respond_to, integration tests, and 500 other things! — The biggest upgrade in Rails history has finally arrived. Rails 1.1 boasts more than 500 fixes, tweaks, and features from more than 100 contributors. Most of the updates just make everyday life a little smoother …
wikia.com:
BESSEMER VENTURE PARTNERS FUNDS JIMMY WALES' STARTUP WIKIA — Bessemer leads $4 million round with prominent angels — Company changes name from Wikicities to Wikia — Wikia supports foundation behind Wikipedia — Wikia, Inc., formerly known as Wikicities …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
5 Years For Nation Wide WiFi — In five years, most major metros and suburbs will have ubiquitous Wi-Fi based broadband coverage says Chuck Haas, the co-founder and chief executive officer of MetroFi, a Mountain View, Calif.,-based start-up that is rolling out metro wireless networks.
Randfish / SEOmoz | Daily SEO Blog:
SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards — I ask those of you for whom the phrase "Web 2.0" is an anethma to refrain from judgement while you read this post and browse the site we've created. Afterwards, when you've had time to process it, I invite you to comment with as much passion (for or against) as you like.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
SEARCH SHARE — From a Bear Stearns report on comScore data, Google continues to gain ground in search share in the US. Given all that's going on in search and related media, that's impressive. From the report, which was emailed to me:
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Alan Saracevic / The Technology Chronicles:
Adios Avie — Avadis "Avie" Tevanian, Apple Computer's Chief Technology Officer, is leaving the firm to "pursue other interests," the company confirmed Monday. Tevanian, who came to Apple in 1997 from his previous post working for Steve Jobs at NeXT, played a key role in developing Mac OS X …
