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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 …
Discussion: InsideGoogle and PaidContent.org
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo to digitize public domain books  —  Yahoo is launching a library-digitization project to rival Google's controversial program.  —  Yahoo is working with the Internet Archive, the University of California and others on a project to digitize books in archives around the world …
Discussion: business2blog and OpsanBlog
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.
Nick W / Threadwatch.org:
Yahoo! Backed Open Content Alliance Trumps Google
Discussion: SearchViews
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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Jason / A design and usability blog:
Writeboard is live  —  Today we officially announce Writeboard (and here's what it looks like for those visual thinkers).  It's free and available as a standalone hosted web app.  It's also integrated into Backpack if you have a Backpack account.  More on the Backpack integration below.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is Memeorandum a good thing, blogger asks
Discussion: The Post Money Value
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Reading Battelle's book makes me look at the Search  —  I just finished reading John Battelle's The Search.  First, a disclosure.  He sent me the book and even signed it.  So, I'm a bit biased to say something nice about it.  —  I did enjoy it.  Even ignored West Wing, which was on TV.
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tbray.org:
Scoble ♥ RDF  —  Check out Scoble's speculation on The Perfect Search: he'd like to find a hotel in New York with free WiFi, a good view, and good food, in a particular price-range.  Rob, meet Tim Berners-Lee; Tim, meet Rob.  Rob wants the Semantic Web.
Discussion: The RSS Blog
JD at Drake Associates / Drakeview:
104th Carnival of the Capitalists  —  2 years ago Jay and Rob created the Carnival of the Capitalists.  This edition celebrates the end of the 2nd year and looks forward to the Anniversary editions from the founders the next two weeks.  In that time there has been some 3,500 hundred posts …
Discussion: BusinessPundit
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.

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