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Brian Benzinger / Solution Watch:
37signals Writeboard for collaborative writing — 37signals has released Writeboard. My first impressions? Meh. Honestly, I wasn't all that impressed with it, but overall, it is a great solution to collaborative writing. My expectation was to be something more along the lines of Writely …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Zoho Writer - Another Ajax Word Processor
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:37Signals to Release Writeboard Next Week
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Dan Farber / ZDNet:
Scobleizing Microsoft's corporate culture — Home IT Management Software Infrastructure — Who says Microsoft's culture has become too bureaucratic? Forget about reorgs and hierarchies. Microsoft's chief blogger Robert Scoble goes directly to the top. Corporate bloggers take note.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Farber asks: why not go directly to the execs? — Dan Farber asks why I didn't just go to Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates, or Steve Ballmer directly. Hmmm, I did (and a few others too). Ray answered my email immediately. — I'm not the only one Ray answers fast, by the way.
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google Bids to Provide WiFi in San Fran — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. (GOOG) wants to connect all of San Francisco to the Internet with a free wireless service, creating a springboard for the online search engine leader to leap into the telecommunications industry.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google in San Francisco: 'Wireless overlord'? — While some people worried about privacy issues, others on Saturday praised Google's proposal to blanket San Francisco with free wireless high-speed Internet access, saying it will help bring fast Web connections to more people in more places for less money than they are paying now.
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Mary Jo Foley / microsoft-watch.com:
Microsoft to Build PDF Support Into Office 12 — The software kingpin also is releasing pre-Beta 1 Office 12 bits to some of its Most Valuable Professionals. — Microsoft will build into its forthcoming Office 12 desktop suite a "save to PDF" capability, according to Office program manager Brian Jones.
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RBuzz / ResearchBuzz:
RSS Feeds to Newsletters and Specializing the Feed — I got a very nice e-mail from a lady in Australia asking how the ResearchBuzz newsletters were done. Did I have a method, she asked, of converting my RSS feed to a newsletter? — The answer to that is no; the newsletter is done separately …
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Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
BUSINESS BLOGGING != EXECUTIVE BLOGGING — Another example of creeping "headism": Stephen Baker at Business Week warns that "The business blog backlash is nigh". … I fully agree that it's hard to imagine many CEOs keeping up a decent blog for long. Not only do they not have the time …
Ray Beckerman / Recording Industry vs The People:
Oregon RIAA Victim Fights Back; Sues RIAA for Electronic Trespass, Violations of Computer Fraud & Abuse, Invasion of Privacy, RICO, Fraud — ATLANTIC V. ANDERSEN — This is the case peer-to-peer file sharers have been waiting for. Tanya Andersen, a 41 year old disabled single mother living in Oregon …
Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
First Ever Wedding Proposal via Search Engine — I just wanted to let all you know, that I am now engaged to be married to my beautiful girlfriend, Yisha. — Why am I posting this here, at a search blog? Well, because of the way I did it. — I proposed via Ask Jeeves.
CNET News.com:
The Big Picture — The Big Picture is a CNET News.com special feature, connecting the dots between stories, companies, and topics within the News.com site. — See a live example, or in full-screen mode. — Navigation Click on a bubble to center the display on that story, topic or company.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Beyond porkbusters: Paramedia — I like Porkbusters (and I'm about to hear Glenn Reynolds plug the movement on Reliable Sources). It was born the way things are online: a sudden need, a sudden inspiration clicks with a critical mass and movement moves. This is a great example …
Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Web 2.0: Compact Definition? — I said I'm not fond of definitions, but I woke up this morning with the start of one in my head: — Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform …
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