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Yahoo! Search blog:
Announcing the Open Content Alliance — From time to time we've invited guest bloggers to write on the Yahoo! Search blog. Today we welcome Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. We asked Brewster if he'd like to introduce the Open Content Alliance.
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Yahoo-Backed Alliance to Open Web Library — SAN FRANCISCO — Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. is setting out to build a vast online library of copyrighted books that pleases publishers _ something rival Google Inc. hasn't been able to achieve. — The Open Content Alliance …
Gary Price / Search Engine Watch:
A New Digital Library Alliance Makes its Debut — Yahoo, The Internet Archive and several other organizations announced the formation of the Open Content Alliance (OCA) to make thousands of books, multimedia files and other materials freely searchable and accessible online.
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 …
Los Angeles Times:
This Just in: Flops Caused Box Office Slump — Studio execs who pinned problems on factors beyond their control now take responsibility. — One of Hollywood's basic tenets is that when things go wrong it's somebody else's fault. — Which is why it's so startling, suddenly …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Yahoo! Played a Key Role in McDonald's Fake Blog Campaign — Remember McDonald's phony Lincoln Fry blog? Well, according to MediaPost (third story down) the umbrella Lincoln Fry campaign (TV/online) was successful and the fake blog played a big role in it. What's more, Yahoo had a major hand in it as well.
Jill Goldsmith / variety.com:
Spark lights a capital fuse — Industryites create financial fund — A team of longtime showbiz industryites, including former Lions Gate, Sony and Turner exec Dennis Miller, has launched a venture capital firm called Spark Capital. — Firm said it will direct its $260 million under management …
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.
Carlfish / The Fishbowl:
WHAT'S WRONG WITH OPML — OPML is the Outline Processor Markup Language - an XML dialect invented by Dave Winer as a serialization format for outlines created in Userland applications such as Frontier. Winer continues to evangelize the format, and it has made its way into a number of applications …
Richard MacManus / Read/Write Web:
Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 26 Sep - 2 Oct 2005 — This week: Defining Web 2.0, Web-based office, Yahoo media/tv, Google Wifi, Techie Post of the Week: Tim O'Reilly's What is Web 2.0. — sponsored by: — Defining Web 2.0 — A lot of online trees were felled this week to write about what Web 2.0 means.
Stuart Waterman / Autoblog:
Do hybrids save money? — No. That's the conclusion of Joe White, Detroit Bureau Chief for The Wall Street Journal, who looked into buying a Prius for his own daily driver. White was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition September 30. (Audio here) — White first looked at trading …
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blogs.sun.com:
The Value in Volume — How did you buy software a couple decades ago (for those old enough to remember)? — You went to your local retailer (or back then, they sent a sales rep), you bought a box, with a manual, 20 floppy disks, and a heavy carton. As a software company …
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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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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