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  • It’s the end of the internet as we know it

    The US Congress today failed to support a vote to enshrine net neutrality into law. Why does this matter to me you may well ask? well think about it this way, who owns the trans-pacific cables? If I visit a page hosted in the states, how does it get there? it’s got to go via the gateways of the big US Telcos, so any attempt to mess with page speeds in the States doesn’t just affect Australia, it affects the entire world. Not only that, this sets a dangerous precedent for other countries to follow: imagine Telstra implementing a similar scheme, we’d not only be bound by Telstra playing gatekeeper, but most likely AT&T as well, a double gateway in which only the rich can benefit, and start ups, like my own b5media stand to lose. The internet as a level playing field is what has made it the wonderful place that it is. Thanks to the US Republican Party, the days of the internet being free for all is soon going to end. Thanks America….f*ck you.

    More at CNet.

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  • Now this is an Adsense cheque!

    Check out Macrus of Plenty of Fish’s Adsense Cheque:

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    $991,773.04 for two months…..wow!

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  • Web 2.0 company Pageflakes resorts to Web 1.0 email spam

    Pageflakes, apparently yet another Web 2.0 online-OS startup, has resorted to spamming people in an attempt to get their RSS subs button up on blogs. I received this email from Pageflakes on 5 June:

    From: Tegan Harris (Pageflakes) [email protected]
    Reply to: [email protected]
    Date: 5/06/2006 8:58pm
    To: [email protected]

    Hi Seth,

    My name is Tegan and I am part of the Pageflakes team. I have visited your Blog and noticed that you offer a RSS subscription service to your users. May I suggest that you add the Pageflakes RSS subscription feature, too?

    You can then use this button http://www.pageflakes.com/subscribe2.gif in combination with the link below:

    http://www.pageflakes.com/subscribe.aspx?url= (followed by your Feed URL)

    If you have any questions or suggestions please do not hesitate to contact me.

    With kind regards

    Tegan Harris

    www.pageflakes.com – The Web at your Fingertips
    Latest News: Check out our sharing feature http://tinyurl.com/zgla5

    Disappointing really, that a Web 2.0 startup would resort to spamming, particularly when they can’t even use their you beaut Ajax driven tech to actually get my name right in their spam email!

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  • Aggressive advertising

    Aggressive advertising thanks to Fark, the best photoshop contest they’ve held in a long time. My two favourties as follows:

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    fark2

  • Google Browser Sync?

    Google has announced Google Browser Sync, a Firefox Plugin that basically backs up your bookmarks, passwords, cookies and what not to the Google servers so you can access them from anywhere in the world if you are away from your computer.

    Honest thoughts: do people really want to give Google access to everything? I guess they probably know everything about me anyway, given they can find it all in my gmail account, but I’m not sure I want Google tracking every single last thing I do online more than they do already 🙂

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  • OK, Google Spreadsheets is cool

    Got my invite today to Google Spreadsheets, initial thoughts: it’s pretty damn cool.

    It’s quick, and it seems to do everything I’d ever want to do with a spreadsheet, at least is plays like Excel does in terms of formula which is…well cool.

    Is it a Microsoft killer? I still don’t think so, but there is little doubt that, particularly compared to Writely, that Google Spreadsheets has more potential, particularly in terms of group collaboration, to gain a decent number of users. Certainly for people who travel a lot, this is going to be very, very handy.

    Screen shots as follows (click to enlarge):

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  • Feedburner Partners With TypePad

    Very nice for TypePad users, although I’m interested to know how SixApart is implementing it, modredirect through .htaccess perhaps? From Techcrunch:

    Feedburner and TypePad will announce a partnership on Thursday that will allow TypePad users to automatically redirect their existing TypePad RSS feed into Feedburner. Until now, if a TypePad user wanted to transfer RSS subscribers to a Feedburner RSS feed (and take advantage of Feedburner stats for those subscribers), each subscriber to the old feed would be required to change their subscription to the new feed. Since subscribers have little incentive to do this, many Feedburner publishers end up managing multiple RSS feeds over time. This partnership will save them the hassle of doing that.

  • Nick Denton and Gawker Media cause World Crisis

    According to Reuters:

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    The only sites I’m aware of at the moment running the pics of little Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt: Gawker Media’s Gawker and Defamer!

    (via A Socialites Life)

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  • Not happy Bill!

    Latest news on Microsoft is that Windows XP communicates with Microsoft once a day…yep, basically Microsoft has been secretly spying on computers and hasn’t owned up to it until now.

    Personally I’ve got nothing to fear as my two computers running XP (one is XP MCE) both have legit copies (and yes, they are registered as well), but the fact that I’ve paid for this software means that Microsoft shouldn’t be spying on my activities in ANY SHAPE OR FORM.

    Robert Scoble has so far been silent on this one, I’ll be interested to read what he has to say if he decides to comment on this, because despite all the good work Microsoft has been doing to clean up its act, it seems that the old, evil guard at Microsoft is still at play.

    Now if only I could get an Open Source OS that runs Windows Software…..I’ll have to keep dreaming I guess.

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  • Bloggers vs Time Inc.

    The Gallery of the Absurd hits the mark again!

    hola

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