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What could at first have been just one of those days on the Internet where some newbie engineer accidentally announces a spurious route and takes out a segment of the network has turned into an international fiasco.
But no, Pakastan has ordered all ISP’s to block YouTube.
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Will Madison Avenue ever figure out social networks? Facebook, MySpace and the rest have plenty of page views and users, but have yet to figure out how to extract much value for them.
MySpace is trying to use personal data on the networks to hyper-target ads, and the jury is still out on whether that’s working. […]

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What’s it take to make $10 million in 12 months in these wonderful times of mighty Web growth? Apparently not very much.
Not very much work, that is. Today’s New York Times delivers a nice, sprightly memo about a 29-year-old coder based in Vancouver, Canada, who managed to put together a dating website, dubbed Plenty of […]

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Sedo, the leading market place for buying and selling Internet domain names and websites, has announced its online auction for premium Christmas co.uk Internet domain names.
Sedo has secured some of the most sought after generic Christmas co.uk Internet domain names for auction, including christmas.co.uk, christmasbreaks.co.uk, christmasgifts.co.uk, christmashampers.co.uk and stuffing.co.uk. The auction closes on Tuesday 27th […]

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It’s a numbers’ game, for sure, but you shouldn’t be cooking the numbers to win. Call me naive, call me idealistic, but that’s my philosophy.
A recent post on Tech Crunch talks about how “two top Hollywood movie studios, a major record label, a variety of very well known consumer brands, and a number of […]

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SAN FRANCISCO - It’s hard to determine what’s more surprising about Microsoft Corp.’s investment in Facebook Inc. — the appraisal that valued a 3 1/2-year-old Internet hangout at $15 billion or the rare snub of online search leader Google Inc.
The $240 million price Microsoft paid for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook demonstrates just how […]

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Seven years ago, 13-year-old Lauren Nelson and a few friends entered an Internet chat room during a sleepover. Within a week, an online predator was e-mailing one of them lurid photos.
“We were chatting with people we didn’t know, which was our first mistake, and someone asked for our personal information,” she […]

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Google’s stock price had an impressive growth in the past two weeks and, for the first time, GOOG was traded at more than $600, closing the day at $609.62.
“The shares have increased more than sevenfold from their initial public offering price of $85, bringing the nine-year-old company’s market value to $190 billion - eclipsing bigger, […]

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Yahoo is preparing to launch Mash, a whimsical and quirky new social-networking service. The company claims it’s the first one to let you mess with your friends’ profiles.
The site, which is in invitation-only beta, gives you the option to leave your profile open to your friends, allowing them to make changes and add modules like […]

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Nine council workers have lost their jobs for spending too long on the internet auction site eBay.
Three were sacked and six resigned after managers at Neath Port Talbot council found some staff were spending up to two hours a day on the website.
Union officials have blamed bosses for “putting temptation in their way” - by […]

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