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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
There goes Scoble again talking about search — The dinner tonight was really fun. Renee and Paul Mooney put together quite a great group of more than 30 geeks. I can't tell you everyone who was there, but Jason Calacanis was sitting next to me most of the night and everyone sitting at the table was interesting.
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Danny Ayers, Raw Blog, The Post Money Value, Smalltalk Tidbits … and Adnans Sysadmin/Dev Blog
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Rob Pegoraro / Washington Post:
Security Suites Are Rife With Problems — If security software is so necessary in Windows — as it is — why are we supposed to pay extra for it? — For years, that's been a paradox Windows users have been able to mull over as they sat through installations of other companies' security software on their computers.
Ravi / All about Linux:
Using TCP Wrappers to secure Linux — TCP Wrappers can be used to GRANT or DENY access to various services on your machine to the outside network or other machines on the same network. It does this by using simple Access List Rules which are included in the two files /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny .
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Microsoft asks for feedback on RSS icon — Microsoft's RSS team floats a few icons to see what people think we should do in future news aggregators. Dave Winer answers "big thumb down ... stop reinventing." — One thing is that we love icons. Look at IE's toolbar (or any of our toolbars).
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Kevin Howarth / Narcissistic Graffiti:
Live from ConvergeSouth: Session with Dave Winer — These are the general notes of the ConvergeSouth session discussion led by Dave Winer on October 8, 2005. Unfortunately, I was not able to capture every tool mentioned. Please add what I missed through adding comments, and I will be sure to add them as updates to this entry.
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
No Office suite from us - Google — "See, we start with the toolbar, then we do the Talking Paperclip..." — Google co-founder Sergey Brin has quashed speculation that the giant ad broker is to introduce a web-based Office suite. — "We don't have any plans," he told Web 2.0 conference organizer John Battelle (pictured below).
linuxdevices.com:
Palm Linux mobile phones coming this year? — Palm will ship Linux-powered mobile phones this year, say sources claiming to be close to the company. The devices will be powered by Wind River Linux, and pending carrier reaction, may well be the first Linux-powered handsets distributed widely within the US.
BBC:
Ceatec shows off future gadgets — Tokyo is a city synonymous with technology so anticipation at the glimpse of the future at the yearly consumer electronics show Ceatec was high. It did not fail to impress, reports Simon Perry from Tokyo. — PHONE ON YOUR FINGER
Joe Cashman / Neowin.net:
Windows Vista Build 5231 Leaks — A new build of Windows Vista has leaked, a week before the new build is expected to be released to testers. — The October CTP build released to testers will incorporate additional functions than this leak, whilst likely retaining the same build number.
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Ed Bott's Windows Expertise
Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Sphere, the Relevant Blog Search — Blogs are big. There are 19 million blogs, and a few thousand will go online by the time you get done reading this. To paraphrase a popular disco ditty - so many blogs, so little time. Technorati, Feedster and Icerocket do a good job of searching the blogs …
washingtonian.com:
U.S. News Makes Big Bet on Internet to Try to Save Fading Magazine — U.S. News & World Report, the perennial third among the newsmagazines, is trying to become the first to exploit the Internet. It's also trying to be among the first of the mainstream media outlets to hitch its fortunes to the shaky engine of Web economics.
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Blogspotting
chinadaily.com.cn:
Internet becoming part of life for Chinese — Lu Li, a 23-year-old working with a foreign firm in East China's Shanghai, has found surfing online indispensable in her daily life since she first accessed to the Internet seven years ago. — "It has unfolded a new chapter in my life," …
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Smart Mobs
