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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 …
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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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
30GB Web Mail Launches Into Beta — A new web mail service launched today promising to bring users an email inbox of 30gb. — 30gigs.com started off with the idea of creating an "All in one" site for the webmaster and avid computer users. According to the sites "about us" page …
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.
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.
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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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Office 12 news broke on MVP blogs first — Daniel Larson notes that the big news about Office 12's PDF support isn't necessarily the news itself: it's how the news was broken. They released the news to MVPs who then broke it, got picked up by PC World. Microsoft employees later blogged it (which is where I first saw the news).
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