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Top Five Week Five

Mark Glaser

by Mark Glaser, February 14, 2006

  1. NBC takeover at Google
    Massive video promo on Olympics search
  2. Linkology
    New York mag tries to understand how A-list bloggers make it
  3. Office Pirates
    Buzz builds over off-color joke site from Time Inc.
  4. Assignment America
    Viewers vote online for what CBS will report next
  5. Digg
    Users submit news items; users rate news items
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