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Susan Kuchinskas / internetnews.com:
Next Up: Google Office? — There's a Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. These times must be really interesting for Steve Ballmer. — Microsoft's (Quote, Chart) CEO allegedly said he'd crush Google (Quote, Chart), his company's rival in search, and the lucrative ad business it engenders.
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useit.com:
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 … For this year's list of worst design mistakes, I decided to try something new: I asked readers of my newsletter to nominate the usability problems they found the most irritating. — I assumed that asking for reader input would highlight many issues that I hadn't noticed in my own user testing.
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Music managers tackle Apple over royalty payments — MUSIC managers will today wade into the row over online royalties with the claim that bands and solo artists are being unfairly squeezed in the digital era. — The Music Managers Forum is unhappy that artists typically receive a royalty …
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Tony Smith / The Register:Artists' managers, royalty collectors turn on iTunes
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Frederico Oliveira / TechCrunch:
Ning launches! — Ning, also known as the official name for 24 Hour Laundry's project, just launched. I actually had to keep myself from posting early because I was excited about it. Now that I got the word from them with the approval to post, here goes the unveiling.
USA Today:
Video-laced websites evolve into pseudo-TV stations — LOS ANGELES — Don't touch that mouse. Online news and entertainment video is booming, says market tracker Forrester Research, with video traffic doubling every six to eight months on average at websites that offer sight, sound and motion.
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
HP to ship Netscape browser on new PCs — update In a move that harks back to the browser wars, Hewlett-Packard plans to ship Netscape's Web browser on new consumer PCs and notebooks starting early next year. — The agreement, announced Monday, is the first browser distribution deal …
Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Newsgator buying who? NetNewsWire? — Richard asked about who is on the menu for Newsgator? He has many guesses and one of them is right: Ranchero Software, the company behind Mac-a-licious RSS reader NetNewsWire. Sources in Silicon Valley tell me that this deal is pretty much done …
BBC:
Digital music revenue 'triples' — Digital music sale revenue tripled in the first half of 2005 compared with 2004, figures have suggested. — The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) estimated 6% of record industry sales were digital, worth $790m (£450m).
Brian / Eventful Blog:
A Reponse to Tim O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Article — Tim O'Reilly's written an excellent piece attempting to define, once and for all, what the notion of "Web 2.0" means. — One very interesting illustration (click link or photo to see full-size), the Web 2.0 "meme map", accompanies the first page of Tim's article.
Bill Palmer / ipodgarage.com:
How Steve Jobs snookered the entire cell phone industry — So Apple decides to bring an iTunes-compatible cell phone to market. That should be fun to watch, right? But instead we're treated to watching Apple join forces with one of the planet's least-capable companies in Motorola …
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Ann Harrison / Wired News:
'UnGoogleables' Hide From Search — Geri Agalia doesn't appear to leave less of a data trail than most Americans. She has a phone in her name, a bank account, utility bills, a mortgage and a credit card. But the stay-at-home mom and part-time student is among a select and ever-shrinking group …
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Whatshisface / The Post Money Value:
Web 2.0 != a check — It's great people are reading my blog before sending me a business plan. I've gotten a bunch of business plans, podcasts, etc, that I would have otherwise never had a shot at. I've had over 50 'no harm, no foul' meetings, participated in over 25 meetings with angels, start up groups, and various bar mitzvahs.
