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Geeks will appreciate this one.

There’s a stir amongst the online kingpins created by Valleywag in accusing the likes of Mike Arrington of Techcrunch, Om Malik of Giga Om with John Battelle of Federated Media right in the middle. In a nutshell, we have an online advertising campaign created by Federated Media for the Microsoft People Ready system/service/software (still a little obscure in my books), with some of the big names in the tech blogging world offering (being pay for) their support of the Federated Media campaign. So now we have Om Malik asking to be pulled from the campaign and many folks questioning the integrity of Arrington et. al.

It’s really not surprising, those who follow the top blogs closely are quite aware that some dodgy behaviors happen behind the scenes…it seems only Om is willing to step forward in this instance.

Here’s a decent summary of the year that was:

“The year has come to a close and that can only mean one thing – top 10 lists! We tried to resist, but too much has happened for us to just let 2006 slip by like a passing stranger.”

The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: MashUp

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We review this new search engine briefly on this week’s show. An interesting concept that acts more like Yahoo! Answers than Google but sure enough, it works.

“A new internet search engine, ChaCha, has hit the web, promising results more relevant than even Google.While Google relies on highly complex algorithms to give responses to queries, ChaCha, in addition to a traditional computer-based search, provides the option of having a human guide assist with any query.According to one of the human “guides”, LindaS, there are thousands like her online at all hours of the day, each working from home.”

Human-powered search engine launches – web – Technology – smh.com.au

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