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circleid.com

• Stopping the Flow of Online Illegal Pharmaceuticals
  Reading through Brian Kreb's blog last week, he has an interesting post up on the White House's call…
• White House Calls for a Meeting with Domain Registrars, Registries, and ICANN
  Brian Krebs reporting in Krebs on Secruity: The Obama administration is inviting leaders of the top…
• ICANN's Tokyo Meeting Provides a Little More Clarity on the New gTLD Program
  New gTLDs continue to be a major topic of discussion within ICANN circles, and the regional meeting…
• The Window of Opportunity for ccTLDs
  The announcement that .co has already achieved over 450,000 new registrations since the opening up o…
• Anatomy of a Domain Name Land Rush
  The launch of a new or repurposed Top-Level Domain (TLD) is always surrounded with speculative activ…
• The Web is Dead: What This Means to ICANN, New gTLD Program and the Domain Industry
  While we are spending years figuring out how to create the perfect generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) l…
• Undesirable Consequences of Empirical Studies on Cybersquatting
  Empirical studies on cyber- and typosquatting (for example, Moore and Edelman's Measuring the Perpet…
• ICANN Looking Into Demand Media's eNom After Serious Allegations by Security Group
  ICANN is looking into Demand Media's eNom division for answers following complaints from the Interne…
• ccIDNs: So Many Choices, So Little Time
  As a result of ICANN's IDN ccTLD Fast Track process, which was launched in November of last year, a…
• Dot-Jobs Expansion Worries Job-Site Operators
  Sarah E. Needleman reporting in the WSJ: So far limited to only employers' names, as in Disney.jobs…

• .ORG, The Public Interest Registry Releases Results of Bi-Annual Domain Name Report, "The Dashboard"
  Key Findings Show that 2010 .ORG Registrations Grew 7.6 Percent during First Six Months - Total .ORG…
• Afilias Announces Judging Panel for 2010 .INFO Awards
  Leading members of media and technology will select the short list of finalists to vie for Best .INF…
• Google & eBay, Keywords & Domains, & ICANN
  Sell a trademark as a keyword for directed search or online auctions and make $billions. But use a t…
• Domain Names as Second-Class Citizens
  A new book by Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis (Lecturer in Law at the University of Strathclyde) provides…
• Putting String Similarity into Context: Bulgaria's IDN (.бг) vs. Brazil's ccTLD (.br)
  Bulgaria is a nation which is directly impacted by the current Fast Track automatic disqualification…

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blog.icann.org

• Is ICANN Handling Too Many Policy Issues?
  Earlier this month, DomainNameWire.com published an article about ICANN’s policy development proce…
• Temporary Drafting Group Work Session on New gTLD Registry Agreement Issues – to be held 8 September 2010
  As reported on this blog on 23 and 28 April 2010, ICANN has consulted with an open drafting consulta…
• If you build it, they will come
  As you would expect, most of ICANN’s external services, including this blog, are available over IP…
• Black Hat / Def Con تعليقات الرئيس التنفيذي حول مؤتمري
  حضر عدد من أعضاء ICANN  مؤتمري Black Hat وDefcon الأسبوع الماضي ب…
• CEO 对 Black Hat / Def Con 的评论
  几名 ICANN 员工于上周出席了 Black Hat 与 Defcon 会议，并在会上向全球互联网�…
• Замечания генерального директора о проведении конференций Black Hat и Def Con
  В рамках запуска технологии DNSSEC для глобального сообщ�…
• Observaciones del director general ejecutivo sobre el “Black Hat/DEFCON”
  Varios miembros del personal de ICANN asistieron a las conferencias "Black Hat" y "Defcon" la semana…
• Remarques du P.d.-g. sur les conférences Black Hat / Def Con
  Plusieurs membres du personnel d’ICANN ont participé aux conférences Black Hat et Defcon la sema…
• CEO Remarks on Black Hat / Def Con
  Several ICANN staff members attended the Black Hat and Defcon conferences last week to launch DNSSEC…
• عزيزي مقدم خدمات التسجيل،
  أصدر مجلس إدارة ICANN مؤخراً قراراً يطالب فيه فريق العمل �…

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techcrunch.com

• Six Apart and Vox—How Promise Gets Squandered
  Six Apart is shutting down its free blogging service, Vox, and as Mike points out this announcement…
• The Problem With Ping
  With the launch of Ping this week in the latest update for iTunes, Apple is finally adding social e…
• IFA 2010 Video: Plex Running On LG TV
  Plex, taking over the world. Only a few days after releasing Plex/Nine and Plex for iOS, the media c…
• Motorola Pulls Out Another Full Page NYT Ad Aimed At Apple’s Head
  Oh my, how I love some good ol' fashion mudslinging. Flash Websites? There's A Phone For That. To a…
• ESPN Thanks Sony For ESPN 3D Help, Says ‘People Who See 3D Can’t Get Enough Of It’
  Without Sony's support ESPN “probably would not have launched” ESPN 3D. So said Bryan Burns, Vic…
• Google To Update, Shorten And De-Jargon Privacy Policies – Here’s What’s Changing
  Mike Yang, Google's Associate General Counsel, just published a post on the Google blog, informing…
• Shazam Launches Major Updates To iPhone app, Now On 20m Users
  Music identification app Shazam has announced big feature updates to its iPhone and iPod touch music…
• comScore: Time Spent Watching Live Web Video Up 650 Percent
  comScore has just released some telling stats about the massive growth of live streaming video over…
• Former UK PM Joins Web Foundation – But He Really Should Join Twitter
  Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, ousted in this year's election, is forming the Gordon and Sar…
• Android’s Mobile Web Consumption Share In The US Is Surging, iOS Share Dropping
  Media measurement and Web analytics company Quantcast has some interesting numbers on mobile browsi…

• Plex Inks A Deal With LG, Could Be The Start Of Something Huge For Both Companies
  Plex is about to get big. The offshoot of the XBMC project just announced that LG will be using its…
• The Samsung Galaxy Tab Can Set Its Own Price, No Need To Directly Compete With The iPad’s $500 Price
  The Samsung Galaxy Tab is going to sell well. It won't be a blockbuster like the iPad, but it should…
• A Merger Made In High Heaven: US Cannabis To Buy WeedMaps
  Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson fame may be too chicken to invest in WeedMaps (think Yelp for…
• Google Hopeful Of 2010 Launch For iTunes Rival Despite Lack Of Signed Label Deals
  We all know Google Music is coming, it's just a question of when - and what it'll look like, of cou…
• Project Dance Party: Facebook’s Secret Twitter-Like Follow Feature
  Yesterday, news broke about a new feature Facebook is testing out called Subscribe. For a second, I…
• YC-Funded Cloudant Launches Its NoSQL Cloud Database Platform
  YCombinator-funded Cloudant, a database platform built around Apache’s open source CouchDB framewo…
• Important: Gmail Priority Inbox Should Now Be Available To All
  It's hard to remember a product I've become so dependent on quicker than Gmail's new Priority Inbox.…
• Six Apart’s Vox Heads To DeadPool
  When Six Apart launched Vox, a blogging/social network platform with strict privacy controls, in 20…
• How Tagged Found A 100 Million User Path Post Facebookocalypse (Video)
  Heard of Tagged? Back in 2005 it was a teenager-only social network, catering primarily to U.S. high…
• Visual Website Optimizer: Another Way To Run A/B Tests On Your Site
  A/B testing, which entails running multiple versions of a site at once and tracking which one perfor…
• Twitter For iPhone Push Notifications Are Being Internally Tested; Rolling Out Soon
  To many users, Twitter for iPhone (the artist formerly known as Tweetie) is perhaps the perfect Twit…
• Notifo for iPhone Gets Free User-to-User Messaging, Real Time Twitter Notifications
  Last time we wrote about Notifo, we called it a simple mobile notifications platform for anything -…
• Twitter Now Over 145 Million Users, Almost 300,000 Apps
  When I read Twitter CEO Evan Williams post tonight about the state of Twitter from a mobile perspect…
• Um, Where’s Twitter For Android On Twitter’s Top 10 Apps?
  This evening Twitter CEO Evan Williams put up an interesting post about Twitter mobile usage. By jus…
• Record Numbers Pinging Ping.fm Thanks To Apple’s Ping
  An interesting beneficiary of Apple's launch of music-oriented social network Ping—social status u…

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webguild.org

• E-mail Marketing: The Social Outcast?
  Although I wouldn’t consider myself a “shopper” per se, not a day goes by that I don’t recei…
• Marrying Social Marketing & Media Buying
  With every passing day, it seems social media becomes more engrained in the media strategist’s dai…
• Social Traffic Soars But Digg Continues To Die
  Digg is dying just when traffic from social media to web sites increases. Social traffic is becoming…
• HP Buys 3PAR – VCs Cash Out Big
  HP bought 3PAR to extend its cloud computing strategy. HP beat out Dell by paying $2.35 billion. “…
• Apple Launches Music Social Network
  CANOEApple Goes Into Social Networking, Launches New iPodsTAXI Design NetworkLooks like Apple is in…
• Steve Jobs Says Eric Schmidt Is Full Of It (AAPL, GOOG)
  Steve Jobs just took a jab at Google. At today Apple news conference, Jobs announced Apple has shipp…
• The Future Of Sports Marketing Could Be Online
  When you think sports marketing, many names come to mind like Nike, AT&T, and Budweiser, however it…
• eBay Bans Google Checkout From Its Sites
  Starting next July, eBay will no longer let Google Checkout transactions on eBay web sites. eBay own…
• Social To Increase Online Ad Spending 14%
  Online ad spending is expected to grow almost 14%, from $45.6 billion, in 2010, to $51.9 billion, in…
• 20 Burning Questions About Apple’s New iTV (AAPL)
  Apple is expected to unveil a new Internet TV gadget today at an event in San Francisco. (Join us he…

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venturebeat.com

• Google gearing up for iTunes rival music service by year end
  Google is apparently in talks with record labels to populate its upcoming music store and streaming…
• Gmail’s Priority Inbox available for all, lives up to hype
  Earlier this week, Google launched Gmail Priority Inbox, a new feature that will automatically sort…
• Facebook moves in on Twitter’s turf with new follow feature
  Facebook confirmed yesterday that it has begun testing a new “subscribe” feature for users and p…
• On the GreenBeat: GridPoint nearing IPO, smart meters win in PG&E and Oncor disputes
  Smart grid company GridPoint is nearing a public stock offering, possibly beating Silver Spring  to…
• Big surprise: Spammers find their way into Apple’s Ping social network
  Now that we’re little more than a day from the launch of Apple’s social network Ping, reports ar…
• 3 ways to improve entrepreneurial success
  John Osher, developer of the low-cost spin toothbrush, was a successful entrepreneur because he thou…
• Frosmo’s analytics help web sites engage with people, not numbers
  The problem with most web analytics is that they give you insight into numbers. You can see how man…
• Plex and LG bring TV to all your devices
  Plex is media center software, from a startup of the same name, which integrates video content from…
• Nvidia’s new graphics chips will give you laptops with long battery life and 3D
  Nvidia is announced a new family of laptop graphics chips today that will balance good 3D performan…
• Bank middle-manager BankSimple raises $2.9M to not be a bank
  BankSimple, the not-quite-a-bank provider of front-end services for a number of treasury-focused ban…

• vChatter raises seed round for video chat without the gross stuff
  vChatter, a video chat startup led by online dating pioneer Will Bunker, has raised $250,000 in seed…
• Yammer 2.0: A Facebook for the Warren Buffett set
  Yammer, originally launched as a “Twitter for businesses,” will soon expand its services into a…
• What’s keeping you from importing Facebook friends into Apple’s Ping social network
  Facebook friend importing was a key feature of Apple’s new Ping social network, until discussions…
• Coda’s electric sedan says ‘aloha’ to Hawaii next year
  Coda announced today their plans to roll out their all-electric sedan in Hawaii in the third quarter…
• Incubator BoomStartup unleashes its first class of Utah startups
  Startup incubators continue to spread across the country, and one of the latest is BoomStartup, a Ut…

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sphinn.com

• Is Google Legally Liable For Defamatory Reviews In Google Maps Business Listings?
  If they aren't now, they certainly should be held accountable given the vast majority of the market…
• Sphinn to remove voting; thoughts from a power user!
  David Harry chimes in on the death of voting at Sphinn; his side is opposite of most of the outcry w…
• Sphinn Is Dead: Long Live Anything Else
  Ruud Hein discusses why the removal of voting from Sphinn is a spectacularly bad idea
• Sphinn Says Goodbye To Voting
  Within a week or two, the voting model will end at Sphinn. Stories can still be submitted, but edito…
• Case Study: Google Webmaster Tools for Diagnostics
  Google Webmaster Tools gets a bit of slack because you are “giving Google too much information”…
• 10 Lessons I’ve Learned from My SEO Career
  A must-read for every SEO out there - great insight by an excited SEO pro.
• Did Google Just Kill ORM?
  Tony gets this insight spot on. Online reputation management for the bigger brands is now an easy pa…
• How Buying Links Cost A Flower Vendor $4 Million In Google Traffic
  Debate whether Google should penalize over paid links all you want. The bottom line remains that Goo…
• 30 Blogging Tips from 30 Bloggers
  Great blogging tips from 30 different bloggers with 30 different perspectives.
• 5 Link Building Questions That Make Me Die a Little Inside
  I actually enjoyed this post from Jenn - almost a SEOBS worthy post!! #1 and #3 are likely my favs -…

• The Definitive Guide to Image Search Optimisation
  Picking up the gauntlet thrown down by Bill Slawski, here's my guide to optimising your images for r…
• Are Analytics Services Sharing Your Personal Browsing History?
  This post is about sharing something Jennifer Mattern recently discovered occurring on Compete.com,…
• Time for another look at TrustRank concepts
  This one has been on my mind for 6 months, finally got around to finishing it up. Exceptional conten…
• Google Responds To Pagination SEO Questions
  A summary of one of the most detailed discussions on the topic of pagination with a Googler and so…
• Google Helping Slimeballs Profit from Golfer’s Death
  Terrible story about people who are taking advantage of an expired domain and Google to profit from…

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internetinc.com

• OnlineRecruitingNews.com redesigned
  We started publishing daily about three weeks ago at OnlineRecruitingNews.com and redesigned the si…
• OnlineRecruitingNews.com now publishing daily
  We relaunched OnlineRecruitingNews.com August 1st on WordPress and have made good progress working…
• Thinking past dot jobs
  With the .jobs expansion moving forward, it's time to think beyond the niche.jobs domain that you m…
• Fear
  Many job board operators are fearful of the .jobs expansion. The value we provide to job seekers an…
• .jobs - Gerry says it all
  Does anyone know more about .jobs than Gerry Crispin? He called me yesterday with a bone to pick ab…
• Will ICANN step on a land mine with .jobs?
  Ever since SHRM started pushing the benefits of allowing Employ Media to launch http://diversity.jo…
• .jobs domain expansion - all over but the clapping
  Now that the ball is in ICANN's court, you can consider this a done deal (great reporting by John Z…
• Boulder Internet companies and startup resources
  Boulder has been getting some good press recently which encouraged me to create this list of Boulde…
• Jeff Hoffman at StartUpGuru in Boulder
  Last night I went out to hear Jeff Hoffman (a Priceline.com founder) speak at a StartUpGuru event.…
• New .jobs video
  Some new videos supporting .jobs are available at the universe.jobs website.  I have expressed my c…

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wired.com

• Shopping Site 'Thefind' Finds Its Facebook Way, Carefully
  The increasingly popular online shopping site Thefind has finally found a way to connect with Facebo…
• Apple TV's Meager Offerings Are Due to Business, Not Tech
  This week’s big Apple announcement featured one big disappointment: Apple TV’s relative lack of,…
• How Apple Just Disrupted the Cable Guys
  People in Silicon Valley have focused on the set-top box as the lever to attack the cable industry.…
• 5 Reasons Why Apple TV Is (Still) Boring
  We know — the new Apple TV is really small, and cheap and easy-to-use. That's all good, but still…
• Apple's Ping Network Is Already Too Big to Fail
  Apple audaciously seems to think the world actually needs another social network — one that you ev…
• FCC Delays Net Neutrality Over Google-Verizon Proposal
  Federal regulators are putting off efforts to regain authority over the nation’s internet provider…
• Apple to Livestream Press Conference — to Apple Customers Only
  Breaking with a longstanding but unstated policy, Apple has decided to publish a live video stream o…
• Screw Viral Videos. You Heard Me. Pass It On
  Online video creators, advertisers and producers have an unhealthy fascination with viral videos, an…
• Google Saves E-Mail With 'Priority' Message Filtering
  Gmail users can now choose to let Google sort their inbox by the most pressing messages, thanks to a…
• The Oxford English Dictionary Definitions of 'Print' and 'Digital'
  The venerable Oxford English Dictionary isn't even one-third finished with what will be only its thi…

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news.netcraft.com

• Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in July 2010
  Rank Company site OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS [...]
• August 2010 Web Server Survey
  In the August 2010 survey we received responses from 213,458,815 sites. This month saw four of the m…
• July 2010 Web Server Survey
  In the July 2010 survey we received responses from 205,714,253 sites. This month's results show that…
• Firefox security test add-on was backdoored
  Netcraft takes a detailed look at a backdoor which was discovered among a collection of security tes…
• Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in June 2010
  Rank Company site OS Outage hh:mm:ss Failed Req% DNS Connect First byte Total 1 INetU unknown 0.000…
• June 2010 Web Server Survey
  In the June 2010 survey we received responses from 206,956,723 sites. This month's numbers show a mi…
• iPad: New incentive for phishing site reporters
  As of 1st June 2010, the Netcraft Toolbar community has helped to block over 3 million phishing atta…
• Twitter still affected by networking error
  Twitter suffered from some noticeable site availability issues last night, and is still running at a…
• Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in May 2010
  The most reliable hosting company site in May was New York Internet, responding to all but three of…
• Busiest Sites Hosting Provider Switching Analysis
  Netcraft has developed a dataset which tracks the changes in the hosting locations of the million bu…

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blog.compete.com

• Uhaul.com- Traffic Gets Moving
  This is my first post as the new social media marketing intern at Compete!  I am a Northeastern co-…
• “Mad Men” Boosts Online Traffic for AMCTV.com
  I’ve been a big fan of AMC’s Mad Men since I watched the first episode in 2007. It’s now in it…
• Eight out of Ten Consumers Shop Online at Least Once a Week
  Last week, Marketwire released the Compete Online Shopper Intelligence Study that revealed the formi…
• Digital CMO Series: American Express Business Insights
  American Express Business Insights, a sponsor of the 2010 Digital CMO Summit is a global information…
• Old Navy $2 Megasale
  Recently an Old Navy online ad on Yahoo for a ‘$2 Cami Sale’ caught my eye. The Old Navy ad prom…
• Thanks For Being A Loyal Fan!
  As a way of saying thanks for being part of the Compete community on Twitter, Facebook, or Linkedin,…
• July Search Market
  Just last week, the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance rolled out its first big change to the publ…
• Urbanspoils.com
  If you’re like me, you’re on e-mail overload. You might feel like Old McDonald, except replace f…
• Compete Meets Omniture
  Hello there Omniture. A sincere pleasure. We kicked off our partnership with Omniture back in March…
• Digital CMO Series: T-Mobile USA
  This week Dennis Haugan, Senior Director, Digital Strategy, T-Mobile USA describes how the customer…

• Back-to-school Shoppers Dip Into Their Wallets and Head Online
  The Compete Online Shopper Intelligence study provides powerful insight into the complete online sho…
• Fastest Growing Domains for July 2010
  Do you subscribe to our free Pulse Newsletter? If not, you’re missing out on digital insights from…
• The Compete Experience
  Here at Compete, we do a lot with data and analytics. We aid the online world (you!) with tons of in…
• Digital CMO Series: Alaska Airlines and Zaaz
  “We don’t do anything without measuring anymore. As marketers we are used to kind of bull*******…
• Compete Data Shows FIFA World Cup Was an Online Success
  Today, Compete announced a press release regarding the successes of the 2010 Fifa World Cup as a U.S…
• SXSW Interactive Panel Picker
  Think Like a CFO: Making Digital Measurement Matter Marketing expenditures are now more heavily scru…
• The Weekly Compete Pulse
  Here are the articles we read this week and found interesting for online marketers. AdvertisingAge h…
• SXSW Interactive Panel Picker
  Social Media As Serious Business: Are You Ready? With daily calls for more leads and engagement, mor…
• Summer of Smartphones – iPhone 4 vs. EVO star in the Apple/Android Battle
  Since the original iPhone launched in June of 2007, the summer months have typically played host to…
• The Whistle Blew Loud in July for WikiLeaks
  July data is live on Compete.com, and to no surprise of many, Unique Visitors to WikiLeaks.org incre…