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Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
It May Be a Long Time Before the Long Tail Is Wagging the Web — Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson's hot, new best seller, "The Long Tail," is causing a sensation with its eye-opening claims about the way the Web is rewriting the rules of commerce. But I've looked at some of the same data …
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Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
THE BACKLASH, CHAPTER 1 — I'll take it as a compliment that I now warrant a proper Wall Street Journal takedown for crimes of...well, I'm not quite sure what the crimes are. But Lee Gomes has tried mightily to find flaws with the Long Tail theory and deserves a response of some sort.
Nick / Rough Type:
How large is the long tail? — In his column in the Wall Street Journal today, Lee Gomes tries to debunk Chris Anderson's Long Tail theory, and on his Long Tail blog today, Anderson tries to debunk Gomes's debunking. It's an interesting - and important - debate, and I find myself agreeing with both gentlemen.
Inside AdWords crew / Inside AdWords:
Estimating invalid clicks — Over the past few months, we've provided answers to your invalid click questions. Now, Shuman Ghosemajumder, Business Product Manager for Trust & Safety, is back to provide details on a new related feature. … Update: Changed to reflect the fact that monthly …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google to offer advertisers click fraud stats — Responding to concerns about click fraud in the online-ad industry, Google will be revealing to advertisers the number of invalid clicks on their ads with changes it's set to make to its AdWords system late Tuesday.
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Digital Micro-Markets, UMBC eBiquity, paidContent.org, GigaLaw.com Daily News, Smart Mobs, Techdirt and Slashdot
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft tags IE 7 'high priority' update — Microsoft plans to automatically push Internet Explorer 7 to Windows XP users when the browser update is ready later this year. — IE 7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter as a "high priority" update via Automatic Updates in Windows XP …
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IEBlog:
IE7 to be distributed via Automatic Updates! — As we get close to the final availability of Internet Explorer 7, I want to provide an update on our distribution plans. To help our customers become more secure and up-to-date, we will distribute IE7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates …
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
TiVo Is Watching When You Don't Watch, and It Tattles — AS the advertising and television industries debate how to measure viewers of shows watched on digital video recorders, the pioneering maker of the recorders, TiVo, is getting into the argument. It is starting a research division …
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TechEffect, AdJab, flashpoint, Clickety Clack, TiVo's Privacy Promises …, Screenwerk and Lost Remote
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Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Limelight Raises $130 Million — Limelight, the CDN darling for hot content startups, announced a monster round of $130 million in funding from Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, which we heard was in the works earlier this month. Limelight said it will spend the money on building out it's infrastructure.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:Limelight Networks lands $130m more to deliver the web's future
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Tom Sanders / vnunet:
Nigeria orders first million OLPC laptops — $100 laptop project receives first official order — Nigeria has officially ordered and paid for one million of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) devices, according to the Nigerian Vanguard newspaper. — The deal is the first actual order …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Who's Getting What Out Of The iTunes/Facebook Deal? — Lots of folks are talking about the deal between Apple and Facebook to give away some music to Facebook users — but the details are anything but clear. First off, rather than just giving away individual songs as others have in the past …
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Evan Blass / Engadget:
LogiNoki: the LCD mouse mod — In much the same way that moving to a dual-monitor setup only makes you want to add a third and maybe even a fourth display, mod king Jani 'Japala' Pönkkö decided that if his Logitech G15 gaming keyboard sported an LCD screen, why, his mouse needed one too.
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Jasmine France / CNET News.com:
Sony NW-S205 (2GB) — Overview Series info User Opinions Compare — CNET editor's take — To the lack of surprise of most industry professionals, who generally put more stock in Apple's ability to keep secrets than in Sony's, the Japanese consumer electronics giant fessed up to having a unique …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
SayNow helps musicians call their fans — Sometimes simple systems work the best and SayNow might be one of those cases. The service, still in private beta, is targeting musicians on MySpace who want to exchange voice messages with their fans. They can record voice messages …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Congress spanks naughty sex sites — The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would make it a federal felony for Webmasters to use innocent words like "Barbie" or "Furby" but actually feature sexual content on their sites. — Anyone who includes misleading "words" …
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
AlwaysOn: YouTube wants to stay independent — During a panel at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 2006, YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley was asked by moderator Kara Swisher about disparaging comments Bill Gates made about his service at the D conference. "Speaking about competiton and Gates …
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Wiki start-up taps open source to lure new users — A wiki software start-up is releasing two products into open source to help get more developers familiar with its commercial products. — MindTouch, founded by former Microsoft employees, on Tuesday announced the creation …
