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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.
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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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 …
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.
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 …
Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
WEB 2.0 AND THE LONG TAIL, PART 2 — After posting his Web 2.0 "meme map", which he apparently hadn't expected people to find until he was finished with an accompanying essay, Tim O'Reilly has now posted the full essay: What is Web 2.0. He'll be talking about it at his Web 2.0 conference next week in San Francisco.
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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 …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
FAQ: HD DVD vs. Blu-ray — Microsoft and Intel last week tried to swing the computing, consumer electronics and entertainment industry toward HD DVD in a format war to establish a higher-capacity successor to today's DVD. — It didn't work. — Dell and Hewlett-Packard …
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