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Fred / A VC:
eBay and Skype? — First of all, let me say that I love Skype. — Now that I've gotten rid of AIM and Yahoo Messenger, I have only two IM clients on my desktop, Trillian and Skype. If everyone had a Skype account, I'd have only one and it would be Skype. — As Lucinda said in her comment to my Goodbye AIM post yesterday:
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Kate Mackenzie / Financial Times:Skype plays down talk of imminent takeover
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Vauhini Vara / Wall Street Journal:
New Search Engines Help Users Find Blogs — Users Say Google and Yahoo — Fail to Locate Latest Postings; — A Guide to the Top Sites — The race is on to become the Google of blogs. — Web logs, online diaries written and published by everyone from college students to big media companies …
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John Battelle's Searchblog, Kevin Burton's Feed Blog, Online News Squared and ben barren
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme — A Lexus SC 430 convertible speeds down a sunny street in Cupertino. The top is down. BRUSHED METAL is behind the wheel, stabbing at the buttons on his mobile phone. — We hear the connection ringing.
Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:
Who's There? the new ebook (free for now) — I wish I had started a cable TV network in 1980. — I also wish I had built a search engine in 1995. — Too late. — Blogs, on the other hand, are changing the consumption of information far far faster than either of those two outlets ever did.
Douglas Sorocco / rethink:
Carnival of the Capitalists - Rethink(IP) Edition — Permalink: Carnival of the Capitalists - Rethink(IP) Edition — Thanks for wandering on by Rethink(IP) for this week's installment of the Carnival of the Capitalists. If you are scratching your head trying to figure out what the heck Rethink …
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Marko Ahtisaari / Ahtisaari:
Blogging over Las Vegas — Seven Challenges to our Shared Mobile Future — I sit here connected, flying somewhere over Las Vegas. Wireless networks and satellite links combine to draw me online. Right now, finally always on, seems a fitting time to reflect on how we got here and where we should go next.
prweb.com:
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Makes Investment in Feedster, Inc. — Mitsui & Co., Ltd., today announced it has made an investment in Feedster, a leading developer and provider of RSS search services for the Internet that will help Feedster expand its business worldwide.
Stuart Henshall / Skype Journal:
Katrina - the landline - Telecom's Response — Now's a little late to rethink how Telecoms could respond to the Katrina crisis. Still... Imagine that your phone is under 20 feet of water. The number doesn't work. You are displaced (refugee apparently is a bad term) and split from your family and other loved ones.
Chandu Thota / Chandu Thota's WebLog:
Virtual Earth APIs available for commercial use (and they are FREE!) — Here is the good news folks: We are now offering the MSN Virtual Earth API for commercial applications free of charge to developers. This APIs include the JavaScript map control and local search service …
Martin LaMonica / CNET.com:
Microsoft Web plan takes aim at Google — Microsoft will take aim at rival Google next week with a new Web development plan. — The software company plans to open access to its MSN and other public Web sites to let developers assemble new applications that build on those sites …
Michael Singer / CNET.com:
Rokr iTunes phone, iPod Nano unveiled — SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Computer on Wednesday unveiled a tiny new iPod that will replace the popular iPod Mini and a cell phone capable of playing music downloaded from a computer running iTunes. — At an invitation-only event for journalists and others here …
fema.gov:
2. Wait 24 Hours … Does the online application require Internet Explorer? — Yes and no. — Currently to complete your application online you must be using Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 or above. We are in the process of modifying the application so that it will be available to additional browsers.