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Amazon Acquires Independent Seller AbeBooks

Amazon has snatched up independent bookseller AbeBooks , the companies announced this…

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Olympic Internet Access will be unrestricted

The IOC has announced that media internet access at the Beijing Olympic…

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AOL proves that big companies and blog networks are a difficult mix

A week after announcing cut backs , bloggers at the AOL Weblogs…

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Tune in live to Things You Can’t Say on the Internet #6

Things You Can’t Say on the Internet returns for episode 6 today,…

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AIM Offers New Social Aggregation Tool

AIM is expanding its reach to include integration with other social-oriented services.…

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Flickr Co-Founder Signs With Secretive New Startup

One of the co-founders of Flickr has a new startup home. Caterina…

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Forrester and Jupiter Join Forces

Two of the leading technology research companies are now one. Forrester Research…

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Social Median wants to be Digg for 2.0 geeks

New FriendFeed mates with Digg and has a rabid child service Social…

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Cuil insults Helen Keller, is their target market adolescent boys?

New search engine Cuil is pushing tasteless blind jokes into search results…

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Posterous grasping at straws?

Tumblr competitor Posterous has announced support for reposting to blogs including Blogger,…

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Regator now supports OPML, personal feeds + extra invites

Directory 2.0 service Regator has moved towards becoming a RSS reader with…

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YouTube Gets Interactive With Omnisio

YouTube is looking to get more interactive with the newly announced acquisition…

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Kickfire Raises $20 Million

Kickfire’s kicked up a cool $20 million to expand its MySQL appliance…

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Former Microsoft Exec Joins Online Identity Startup

A former Microsoft executive has joined Identity.net , a new startup aimed…

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YouTube Being Used To Catch Police Pranksters

We’ve heard of police using the Internet to try to catch robbers…

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Lifecast brings simple, geolocated blogging to the iPhone

iPhone application Lifecast brings simple, geolocation and time tagged blogging to iPhone…

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IAC Now Alpha Testing How-To-Style Site

InterActiveCorp’s as-of-yet unannounced new project is now online and in alpha testing.…

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Perspctv Tries To Level The Election Playing Field

A new Web startup is attempting to offer a balanced approach to…

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HP, Intel, and Yahoo Get Into Cloud Computing

The cat’s out of the bag: HP, Intel, and Yahoo are teaming…

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Blog Council releases disclosure toolkit

The Blog Council, an organization of corporations formed to promote best practices…

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Google Knol starting to smell spammy

Google launched its Wikipedia competitor Google Knol last week , but one…

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Australian Government considering iPod searches

The Australian Government is considering searching iPods at airports for pirated music…

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Independent Internet Stations Sign On For Massive New Radio Network

A group of independent Internet radio stations has signed on for what’s…

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Your Public Photos Could Become My Disguise

Your online photo collection could soon be used to disguise strangers. Scientists…

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Mogulus Gets Millions From Gannett

Video streaming company Mogulus has secured around $10 million from Gannett ,…

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Cuil: Interesting, but not so cool for research

Cuil, a new search engine started by some ex-Googlers and $33million in…

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The Blogging Dream

Blogging has changed the world. Information is no longer controlled by a…

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The Changing Blogosphere and Blogging 2.0

Is blogging today fundamentally different to blogging five years ago? It’s a…

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Yokway: sort of FriendFeed meets De.licio.us

Yokway is a service that bills itself as a place to “share…

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Userplane Partners with Community Platform Providers for Service Integration

Social software provider for online communities Userplane has inked partnerships with four…

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Were You There?

Hull Media Inc. wants you to remember, share, and preserve stories that…

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Google Knew The Web Was Big

In 1998 Google had 26 million indexed pages. It went further north…

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Zimbra Desktop: A Closer Look at Yahoo’s New E-mail Offering

Following our release day editorial on Yahoo’s Zimbra Desktop , we thought…

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