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The Definition Of Evil: Microsoft’s Search Wars Hurt Us All

5:32AM Brian Lam | Microsoft may pay Murdoch to de-list from Google. If it happens, it sets a bad precedent. Imagine if all the world’s content is exclusive to some engines and we have to search them all to find what we want? Hell! More »
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Wikipedia’s Brain Drain

3:40AM Matt Buchanan | The decay of time, bitter infighting, and the increasing scope and strength of regulations slowly strangle the life out of Wikipedia, with editors – its braintrust – fleeing in droves, even as traffic at the world’s fifth most-popular website keeps growing. More »
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Microsoft Might Pay Murdoch To De-List From Google

12:21AM Danny Allen | Last week I joked that Microsoft paying big sites to de-list from Google would never fly – but it just might happen. We know Rupert Murdoch is thinking about de-listing News Corp content, and now Microsoft may provide an incentive. More »
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How Do You Hide From The Internet?

5:00PM Rosa Golijan | Wired writer Evan Ratliff spent 27 days in constant fear of getting caught as a small army of amateur and professional investigators hunted him. He had a bounty on his head and the internet nipping at his heels. More »
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Google Adding Automatic Captions To YouTube Videos

3:15AM Adam Frucci | Google is bringing its Google Voice speech recognition tech to YouTube, creating automatic captions for deaf and hearing-impaired users. Get ready for hilariously incorrect captions! More »
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Second Gen Pogoplug Lets You Share Multiple USB Drives Online

12:29AM Rosa Golijan | Like the prior generation, the new Pogoplug allows for USB drive sharing over the internet. It’ll run for $US129, still have no service fees, take up to four USB drives, and have Twitter and Facebook integration. More »
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Join The Giz AU Wave

3:41PM Nick Broughall | So I’ve been playing around with Google Wave for a while, and despite being on a few waves, have yet to find a really practical use for it. Until now – I want to use Wave as a way of chatting with you guys in real time – in particular as a way of getting feedback on the site. More »
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Moving Scroll Bar Clock Makes My Inner Web Designer Queasy

8:40AM John Herrman | On the surface, scroll clock looks like a simple visual trick: Look, it’s a clock made out of moving scroll bars! This is a marginally clever animation! Then you realise that every one of them actually works. More »
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Viacom Top Lawyer On Obliterating Peer-to-Peer Users

2:36AM Jesus Diaz | Michael Fricklas is Viacom’s general counsel, the company’s top lawyer. I can’t tell if he actually felt bad when he said the above at a recent meeting with Yale Law students. I kind of feel an evil, dark smile inside. More »
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At Long Last, The Pirate Bay Shuts Down Its Tracker

2:23AM John Herrman | The Pirate Bay has been in Zombie Pirate mode for months now, but one of the last remnants of its halycon days has been sent to sea on a burning boat: their tracker — the biggest in the world — is gone. More »