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Israel.com: Bidding Starts At $5.5 Million
Thu, 15 May 2008 18:54:59 -0400
Moniker.com plans to part with a number of domain names at auction on May 23rd. One of the domains will be Israel.com, with the highest starting bid in the group.
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Icahn Throws Haymaker At Yahoo Board
Thu, 15 May 2008 17:39:57 -0400
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn published a letter he submitted to Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock, officially confirming his intent to challenge Yahoo's board.
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Cox, Comcast Caught Red-Dotted
Thu, 15 May 2008 17:36:15 -0400
Only two countries in the world have ISPs actively blocking or interfering with BitTorrent transmissions: Singapore and the United States. Only one kind of ISP in both countries, though, is doing the blocking: cable. An independent test conducted by Germany's Max Planck Institute for Software Systems showed that Comcast and Cox are both currently interfering with BitTorrent despite recent public and regulatory outrage. read more
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A Short Guide To Carl Icahn's Ten Men
Thu, 15 May 2008 16:54:25 -0400
Consider it confirmed: Carl Icahn wants to stick ten new men on Yahoo's board of directors. Icahn's even gone so far as to provide their names and biographies, and the men constitute a rather interesting collection.read more
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MySpace Suicide Mom Indicted
Thu, 15 May 2008 16:37:16 -0400
The woman whose bizarre MySpace hoax led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide was indicted today on federal charges. If convicted on all counts, Lori Drew could face a maximum of 20 years in prison. The country was stunned by the alleged actions of Drew some months back when news broke of the sadistic mind game she was playing with a neighborhood teenager and classmate of her daughter. Posing as a teenage boy, the 49-year-old Drew is said to have rejected the romantic interest of Megan Meier and told her the world would be better off without her. Meier later hanged herself. read more
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Blockbuster Is Turning Profit
Thu, 15 May 2008 16:17:50 -0400
In the age of video on demand, advertisements touting that Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) has rented over two billion movies, the pervasiveness of peer to peer (p2p) networks, and the general drum-beat of the demise of video rental, today's earnings report from Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) is a shocker:read more
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Facebook Snubs Google's Friend Connect
Thu, 15 May 2008 16:07:48 -0400
Looking to not repeat the privacy panic occurring when the company launched Beacon, Facebook has excused itself from participation in Google's recently unveiled Friend Connect. On the Facebook Developers blog, Charlie Cheever says Friend Connect, Google's Open Social-based program allowing webmasters to integrate social networking features on their sites, doesn't measure up privacy-wise:read more
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Yahoo's SearchMonkey Comes Out To Play
Thu, 15 May 2008 15:28:43 -0400
Want to "have a hand in shaping the next generation of search"? Or at least pad your wallet with ten thousand dollars? Yahoo has opened its new SearchMonkey platform to all developers, and at the same time, announced the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge.read more
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The Hottest Trends Of Internet Marketing
Thu, 15 May 2008 15:04:13 -0400
In internet marketing circles, there are a handful of names that pretty much everyone should recognize; Danny Sullivan, Dr. Ralph Wilson, and Larry Chase are among them. What? You’ve never heard of Larry Chase?read more
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When To Adobt The SEO Of Tomorrow?
Thu, 15 May 2008 12:29:36 -0400
Within the mass confusion that can erupt when there is a blog controversy, occasionally a thoughtful post will emerge. Last week ShoeMoney wrote about the Death of SEO and here on this blog Greg Howlett supported that theory, while I spoke up to disagree with those opinions. Others have also been discussing the topic and Joost de Valk, has chimed in as well, afterread more
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