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Lockergnome / Chris Pirillo:
gada.be — Largely, I've found it easier to tag or link to an aggregated location of results than it is to tag to a specific vendor all the time. Share the love, man! Announcing the public beta of http://gada.be/ (yes, that's .be). This is a metasearch service with a few unique features …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Gada - Tag Meta Search Done Right — Chris Pirillo has launched Gada.be today - a powerful tag meta-search engine that has an incredibly simple and thoughtful design. Shayne Sweeney is the developer who's building Gada. — Gada takes a query and runs it against sites like Google News …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
You gada.be using Pirillo's tag meta search — Chris Pirillo just released his new service: http://gada.be/. He wrote more about Gada.be on his blog. — Now, this is really cool. Particularly for mobile phone users. Why? Well, first of all the URL is easy to type on T9 text pad.
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Yahoo! Search blog:
You the Media — During Hurricane Katrina millions of people came to Yahoo! News for authoritative information. At the same time thousands of bloggers were posting first-hand accounts, photos, personal stories, and opinions. But without mainstream exposure, many important voices went unheard.
useit.com:
R.I.P. WYSIWYG … For the last twenty-five years, one user interface style has reigned supreme: the Macintosh-style graphical user interface. It's now reached its limits, however, and will be replaced by a style that partly reverses some of its most treasured interaction principles.
BBC:
Web enjoys year of biggest growth — The web has grown more in 2005 than it did at the height of the dotcom boom, says a study. — In the year to October the web grew by more than 17 million sites, says monitoring firm Netcraft. — This figure exceeds the growth of 16 million sites seen …
Holly J. Wagner / Wired News:
Cuban to Launch DVD Label? — Mark Cuban is hiring staff that could form the nucleus of a new DVD label, Wired News has learned, a move that comes as the dot-com billionaire attempts to shatter Hollywood's release window system by making first-run films available simultaneously in theaters, on cable TV, online and on DVD.
Tim Lee / affbrainwash.com:
The recording industry's new clothes — You're being had. — Online music sales have soared, from $220 million in the first half of last year, to $790 million in the first half of this year. Millions of consumers are discovering the convenience of buying music online.
Yahoo! Search blog:
Listen to the Internet With Yahoo! Podcasts — I'm finally able to talk about Yahoo! Podcasts, now in public beta. This new source for online audio programming uses Yahoo! Search to make it easier than ever to find and subscribe to audio content and listen wherever and whenever you want.
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David Carr / New York Times:
Forget Blogs, Print Needs Its Own IPod — SOMETIMES what appears to be a threat is actually a life preserver. — The poor defenseless music industry cowered - then prosecuted - when the monster of digital downloads came lurching over the horizon. Then the iPod came along and music looks …
Loyd Case / extremetech.com:
If Microsoft Never Existed... The alarm clock goes off, buzzing insistently until I reach out a hand and groggily slap at the button to silence the sound. I roll out of bed, pause for a few minutes, then head for the shower. — After breakfast, I head down to the office.
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Duncan Riley / The Blog Herald:
The Blog Herald Blog Count October 2005: over 100 million blogs created — Its been three months since the last Blog Herald Blog Count due to the richness of the figures I've been collecting and the time its takes, but the Blog Count returns for October, and will now be published quarterly.
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