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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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MarketWatch:
EBay reportedly in talks to buy Skype
Kate Mackenzie / Financial Times:
Skype plays down talk of imminent takeover
Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
SkypeBay?  —  Another day, another Skype rumor.
Discussion: TechBeat and Get Real
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 …
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Blog Business World
sony-europe.com:
NEW WALKMAN is born  —  NEW WALKMAN is born  —  Berlin, 8 September 2005 - 26 years after WALKMAN created a revolutionary music lifestyle, the new Sony WALKMAN will now redefine it.  —  Simply called 'WALKMAN', the new digital music player from Sony features spectacular ergonomic design …
Discussion: Gadgetophile
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Barb Dybwad / Engadget:
Sony throws down a new Walkman
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.
Neil Hume / Guardian:
Acquisition hysteria grips Reuters  —  Reuters, the news and financial information group, became the latest stock to be caught up in the acquisition craze sweeping the London market.  —  Its shares, which have underperformed the wider market by nearly 15% over the past three months …
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.
Anil Dash:
Web Development Trends for 2006  —  Curious about what technologies and techniques are going to be popular in the coming months and into the next year?  Well, our crack team of editors here at dashes.com (that is to say, me) have assembled a list of up-and-coming trends that you should keep an eye on.
Discussion: Jeffrey Veen and clock
Inside AdSense Team / Inside AdSense:
Temporary G.A.S.S. Relief  —  Speaking to AdSense publishers at face-to-face events and in reading emails and forums, we on the AdSense team have seen a phenomenon develop that's probably best described as G.A.S.S. - Google AdSense Stats Syndrome.  The primary sign of affliction …

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