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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Developer challenge: I'll switch blogs to the first blogging service that supports OPML — Here's the deal. I will switch to the blogging tool that outputs OPML automatically like what Michael Arrington did by hand. — Will it be a Microsoft service? I hope so.
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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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Barb Dybwad / The Social Software Weblog:
Approaching a definition of Web 2.0 — Many folks are working towards getting at the heart of the Web 2.0 revolution. I agree that visualizations such as Tim O'Reilly's or Dion Hinchcliffe's are not simple enough — they're too jargon-filled and don't do much to describe the big picture in human-readable terms.
Brad Hill / The Unofficial Google Weblog:
Google, UPN, and Baby Steps — Google's headline-inducing acquisition of "Everybody Hates Chris" is part of a larger deal than I realized when that TV pilot was first released on Google Video. Google has reportedly signed an agreement with UPN to provide streaming access to already-aired TV shows …
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Mark Prigg / thisismoney.co.uk:
Watch shows through Google TV — GOOGLE is to begin broadcasting television programmes over the internet. The search engine has already signed up an American channel to provide programmes for Google TV and is in talks with the BBC to broadcast its shows as well.
Yahoo! Search blog:
Webmasters, tell us what we don't know — Having been to a couple of Search Engine Strategies conferences, I realized how much you look to search engines for information on how your content is indexed by them. I've heard stories of elaborate scripts that scrape search engines, using 'site …
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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.
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.
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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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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BBC, ZDNet, IP Democracy, Gizmodo, Neowin.net, Dan Gillmor's blog, The WiFi Weblog and Gadgetopia
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vnunet.com:
P2P network eDonkey to close — MetaMachine throws in the towel following RIAA cease-and-desist letter — The company behind the popular peer-to-peer network eDonkey has announced that the site is to shut down. — In a testimony to the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Sam Yagan …
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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 …
Brooks Boliek / Reuters:
Senators turning up heat on P2P pirates — WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - Lawmakers pushed federal authorities Wednesday to crack down on peer-to-peer services that pirate copyrighted works, while one P2P operator told them pressure from the recording industry was forcing him to change his ways.
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Meetro Eases Hookups in Your Hood — A new, location-based web service is trying to make social-networking software more about socializing than simply collecting lists of buddies. — Meetro, from a small, Chicago-based company called Meetroduction, marries instant-messaging software …
