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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Announcing Memorandum to track Tech and Politics/News blogs — Here's some very cool non-Microsoft news that I'm proud to announce (I am the first site to report this news). — I'm on the phone with Gabe Rivera, emperor of Memeorandum. He is, at this very moment, turning on major …
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Software Only, seattlepi.com Microsoft Blog, paradox1x, Smalltalk Tidbits …, InterAdvocacy and Scripting News
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Richard MacManus / Read/Write Web:
New-look Memeorandum launched — I've been one of the beta testers of a brilliant new blog news service over the past 2-3 months - and today it's gone live. tech.memeorandum is the brainchild of Gabe Rivera. It basically aggregates all the latest news from blogs on one page - but it's more than that.
Rob Hof / TechBeat:
Why eBay Is Buying Skype — Here's my quick take, below, an edited version of which will appear in a few hours at businessweek.com. CEO Meg Whitman & Co. gave an impassioned rationale for the deal. I can certainly see that if Skype meets its ambitious goals, the deal could pay off eventually.
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Web 2.0 Explorer, PaidContent.org, Things That, Ross Mayfield's Weblog, Get Real, loose wire, SearchViews and Susan Mernit's Blog
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Lev Grossman / Time:
Stevie's Little Wonder — Honey, he shrunk the iPod. How Jobs and his team of Apple innovators created this season's must-have gadget … Kanye West is doing his level best to rock the house, but it's not an easy house to rock. He's onstage at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco …
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A design and usability blog
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DL Byron / Textura Design:
Microsoft And The IPod Nano — 12 Sep 05 By DL Byron — After reading the Time article about how Apple made the ipod Nano and this quote … I thought that Microsoft should issue all of its employees a Nano and then have them report back a week later on why they can't make a product like that.
Business Wire:
New Pluck InSite Offerings Enable Publishers to Embrace ``Citizen Journalism'' Through Blogs and RSS; Cox Newspaper's Austin American-Statesman Adopts Pluck InSite for Community Blogging and Personalized News Portal Services — AUSTIN, Texas—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sept. 12, 2005—Pluck Corp. …
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Susan Mernit's Blog
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Times of London:
New legal threat to Google over GMail — Google, the internet search engine, is facing a renewed threat of legal action from a company that claims to own the intellectual property rights to its GMail e-mail service. — Independent International Investment Research, a British company …
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Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Stars Rise at Startup Summer Camp — Having just finished his sophomore year at Stanford University, Sam Altman spent this summer holed up in a Cambridge, Massachusetts, apartment paid for with a little bit of startup funding, writing code for hours on end and eating so much ramen he ended up sick from vitamin deficiency.
Jeremy Wagstaff / loose wire:
iTunes and Your Vulnerable MP3 collection — My friend and fellow columnist Phil Baker writes about Apple's new iPod in his San Diego column, but he also points out a serious problem with the company's new iTunes software, something I have experienced myself.
Jan Schaffer / j-lab.org:
chicagocrime.org Wins $10,000 Batten Award — COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The Web site chicagocrime.org, an innovative overlay of the city's reported crimes with Google's online mapping technology, today won the $10,000 Grand Prize in the Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.
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Rebuilding Media
Chris Kohler / Wired News:
Game Boy Micro Goes Big on Style — Honey, Nintendo shrunk the Game Boy. Again. — Ever since the company launched its original black-and-white portable gaming console in 1989, Nintendo has striven to shrink each successive iteration of the Game Boy. In the early '90s …
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Yahoo! News:
Tech Notebook: We hear VoIP gets excellent mileage — All the major tech companies — including Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google — have been investing millions of dollars in VoIP, an acronym for Voice over Internet Protocol, which is a fancy term for making phone calls over the Internet.
Alan Reiter / Wireless Muse:
First impressions: IBM X41 Tablet PC — A mere seven weeks (less three days) after I ordered an IBM/Lenovo X41 Tablet PC — only four weeks longer than the original estimate — it arrived. — Like so many others who ordered the X41 (and who also have been frustrated by Lenovo's rotten logistics …
Ed Taylor / eastvalleytribune.com:
Motorola develops 'polite' phone to help reduce incidents of distracted drivers — With concerns mounting over the safety of cell phone use while driving, Motorola's Driving Simulator Lab in Tempe is testing mobile phones that can analyze driving conditions and avoid distracting the driver.