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BBC:
Sub-$100 laptop design unveiled — Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Labs, has been outlining designs for a sub-$100 PC. — The laptop will be tough and foldable in different ways, with a hand crank for when there is no power supply.
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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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Bokardo, Web 2.0 Explorer, Between the Lines, Edge Perspectives …, Microsoft Weblog and Get Real
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Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
What is Web 2.0? — Last night, I was at a dinner, where one of the topics of discussion was Web 2.0. More appropriately, what is Web 2.0? It is a damn fine question, and difficult one to answer. D. Keith Robinson writes, "Depending on who's using the term, you could be talking …
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Scobleizer, Worker Bees Blog, BeyondVC, hyku | blog, Tom Raftery's I.T. views, Musings from POP!, Chris' Insytes and Scripting News
Lynn Fox / www1.nasa.gov:
NASA Takes Google on Journey into Space — NASA Ames Research Center, located in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, and Mountain View-based Google Inc. today announced plans to collaborate on a number of technology-focused research-and-development activities that will couple some of Earth's most powerful technology resources.
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Gray Hat Search Engine News, PaidContent.org, Google Blogoscoped and The Search Engine Herald
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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.
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 …
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.
geektechnique.org:
disclaimer — This setup worked for me, but I really can not tell you or guarantee you this will work for you also... you are risking your ipod with this!!! — Somehow, the 5.8V this setup was giving, bothered me and kept me from putting this project away as being finished …
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Bill Slawski / cre8asiteforums.com:
Quote: — A system and method for providing on-line advertising is presented. An interface guiding on-line advertising creation is presented. An advertisement is created from at least one of user inputs and stored data and includes information describing at least one item.
letsgodigital.org:
Fujifilm FinePix F11 — Fujifilm FinePix F11 digital camera introduction : Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. has announced the debut of the new Fujifilm FinePix F11, a 6.3-megapixel digital camera featuring a 3x optical zoom lens, a large, 2.5-inch LCD monitor, sensitivity of up to ISO 1600 and expanded manual shooting functions.
Richard MacManus / ZDNet:
The Web-based Office will have its day — I first profiled a Web 2.0 office in early September and since then more web-based office products have surfaced. Peter Rip posted recently that he's now "bumped into an alpha or beta Web-incarnation for every Microsoft desktop product".
Michael Gartenberg:
More on the good and the better — Scoble touches on a really important point. If we were chatting about the "next big thing" four years ago, we probably wouldn't be talking about a digital music format that offered less quality than the standard CD quality that consumers were used to.
