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Mike Ricciuti / CNET News.com:
The $100 laptop moves closer to reality — CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—A low-cost computer for the masses moved one step closer to reality on Wednesday. — Nicholas Negroponte, the co-founder of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, detailed specifications …
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David Berlind / ZDNet:
Move over Microsoft, Dell. The $100 PC cometh. From MIT. — Home Hardware Infrastructure Wired & Wireless Mobile Government — As a part of what he says is his life's most important work, MIT Media Labs director Nicholas Negroponte is on course to deliver a $100 laptop to the people who need it most: the world's children.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia — When Esquire magazine writer A.J. Jacobs decided to do an article about the freely distributable and freely editable online encyclopedia Wikipedia, he took an innovative approach: He posted a crummy, error-laden draft of the story to the site.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
MORE ON GOOGLE AND NASA — In the book I asked Eric Schmidt what was next for Google. He replied that the joke was "carbon nanotubes to the moon." — Well, take a look at this release: — NASA Takes Google On Journey Into Space — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - September 28, 2005 - NASA Ames Research
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Richard MacManus / Read/Write Web:
Web 2.0 Elevator Pitch — The 'What is Web 2.0?' meme is everywhere and everyone seems to have a different interpretation. Here are some of the latest: — Om Malik: "a "collection of technologies - be it VoIP, Digital Media, XML, RSS, Google Maps... whatever .... that leverage the power of always on …
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Dave Taylor / Tech Support and Business Questions? …:
GOOGLE ADSENSE ADDS "ADVERTISE ON THIS SITE"? — Dave, rumor has it that Google's introducing a new "advertise on this site" feature for the top performers in the AdSense program, but I can't seem to find any specific information about it, and when I go to the AdSense site, there's no information about it.
Gootch / Google Addiction:
A Date To Remember — Google is developing a Calendar service that will likely be known to everyone as "GCalendar". There has been speculation in the past about such a service, but now there is evidence that Google has been thinking about it since 2004. — Another mysterious domain registered …
Thomas Crampton / Joi Ito's Web:
Does globalization exist? — My experiences in changing cities five times and continents three times in the last 18 months have given me an insight into the shallowness of certain aspects of globalization from a consumer perspective. — (My experiences are used merely as example I know well …
newscientist.com:
Clothing gives sportsmen a kick up the pants — As if being bawled at by the coach during training were not bad enough, sports stars may also end up being pushed around by their own clothing. — Haptic sports garments, which use tactile signals to prompt the wearer to optimise their technique …
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 for Mac in development — Earlier this week, Adobe Systems Inc. released Photoshop Elements 4, but the new version was for Windows only. With no mention of a new Mac version, some speculated that the company may be phasing out the Mac product, but Adobe said on Thursday that is definitely not happening.
Jo Best / silicon.com:
UK online music hobbled by high prices — Record companies must pass on the money they save from web distribution, says IDC — High prices and digital rights management (DRM) incompatibility are slowing the take up of online music services in the UK, according to analyst IDC.
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Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Roll Your Own Search Engine With Rollyo (Beta) — For the past few weeks I've had the chance to test out and create several focused and targeted search engines (based URLS I specified) with Rollyo, a new search tool released to the public today in an early beta by Dave Pell of Davenetics fame.
