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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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Things That … …, Podcasting, Digital Tech Life, Incremental Blogger, Download Squad, Qumana Blog, Micro Persuasion and Nick Bradbury
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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 …
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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MocoNews.net, The Unofficial Microsoft …, Life On the Wicked Stage, RatcliffeBlog and Things That … …
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.
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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 …
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.
Amit Varma / India Uncut:
A question of principles — Many of you no doubt know about the latest controversy that has broken out in the blogosphere, about Arindam Chaudhuri and IIPM. In case you don't, a quick summary: A few months ago Jam Magazine, edited by Rashmi Bansal, did a story exposing some of the claims made by IIPM …
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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.
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.
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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John Hagel / Edge Perspectives with John Hagel:
The World Is Spiky — Two writers that I admire greatly - Tom Friedman and Richard Florida - appear to clash with each other. Tom in his best-selling new book says "The World Is Flat" and Richard in a new article in the October 2005 issue of Atlantic Monthly asserts "The World Is Spiky".
