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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.
Stefanie Olsen / CNET.com:
Why Google hired Vint Cerf — news analysis What will Internet visionary Vint Cerf do for Google? — Whether he meant to or not, Cerf hinted at one area he was interested in six weeks before he joined the search giant, and it deals with a wireless device near you.
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Armed and Dangerous:
Microsoft tries to recruit me — The following is, verbatim, a letter I received a few minutes ago from a Microsoft recruiter. — From: "Mike Walters (Search Wizards)" <v-mikewa@microsoft.com> To: <esr@thyrsus.com> Eric, I am a member of the Microsoft Central Sourcing Team.
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 …
Matt Cutts:
What's an update? — (Normally I, you know, think before I post. I'm experimenting with the quick-post-with-very-little- thought technique here.) — What is an update? Google updates its index data, including backlinks and PageRank, continually and continuously.
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.
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 …
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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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:
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.
mozilla.org news:
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released — Project Links — 2.0 Development Roadmap - outlines 2.0 plans and priorities. — The Firefox 1.0 Charter outlines the reasons behind this project, and its goals. — Developer Links — Firefox 1.0.6 Source Tarball — Firefox-specific source lives under …
Loren / Incremental Blogger:
Ink gestures addin for Word (part 3) — The ink gestures addin for Word is coming along. — Bob is making some terrific progress with the Office UI integration. He was stuck on a couple Office CommandBar issues, but I think he's made his way through them. He's definitely been learning lots about the workings of Word.