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Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
State of the Blogosphere, October 2005 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth — It is that time of the year again, and I've got some new information on the continued growth of the blogosphere. I made this presentation as part of my 10 minute talk at Web 2.0 on October 6, 2005.
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Get Your Blogspot S**t Together Google — It was exactly two months ago I wrote about problems that Icerocket.com and really, the entire blogosphere was having with Splogs created and maintained on Blogger.com, with a blogspot.com URL. — Well the S**t hit the fan today.
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LexBlog Blog, Mini-AOL, Techdirt, Marketing Pilgrim, SearchViews, Life On the Wicked Stage and Chris Pirillo
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
Palm Inc. and BlackBerry Maker Will Sign a Licensing Agreement — SAN FRANCISO, Oct. 16 - Palm Inc., maker of the Treo smartphone, and its rival Research In Motion, the maker of the wireless BlackBerry device, are expected to announce on Monday a licensing agreement that could alter competition …
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Michael Singer / CNET News.com:
Palm, RIM ink licensing deal — Handheld computer makers Palm and Research In Motion inked a deal on Monday to let Treo 650 owners to connect with BlackBerry e-mail and calendar software. — The option will be available for new and existing Treo 650 users as well as future Treo products …
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Gizmodo
useit.com:
Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes … Weblogs are a form of website. The thousands of normal website usability guidelines therefore apply to them, as do this year's top ten design mistakes. But weblogs are also a special genre of website; they have unique characteristics and thus distinct usability problems.
Ken Belson / New York Times:
Power Companies Enter the High-Speed Internet Market — CINCINNATI - The idea has been around for years. In Spain and elsewhere in Europe, utility companies have long offered high-speed Internet service to consumers over their power lines. — But American utilities are only now beginning …
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Sam Kennedy / mcall.com:
End of Internet over power lines? — PPL calls it quits but a telecom company pushes on in Virginia. — Of The Morning Call — PPL Corp. announced this month that it was giving up on the futuristic technology that provides high-speed Internet access, or broadband, through electrical wires and power outlets.
Cortopolis:
Cory, wrong again — Update: Now: the bloggy equivalent of rolling on my back and exposing my stomach. The low quality and low tone of my post is beneath Cory and the subject in question. It was awfully nice of him to respond in my comments with a measured response.
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Peter Rip / EarlyStageVC:
The Web 2.0 Entrepreneur Bubble — There has been a lot of conversation of late about how much easier it is to start a Web software companies these days. Open source and Moore's Law are the principal drivers. Great stuff. — It's springtime in the Internet and there has been a fresh rain.
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Om Malik's Broadband Blog, Bubble 2.0, Like It Matters, TECHNOSIGHT, Feld Thoughts and PR MACHINE™
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USA Today:
Techies: They're everywhere — When you think of people who are technologically savvy, you probably envision a hip young guy in Seattle or Silicon Valley or New York, sitting in a coffee shop and sending e-mail from his laptop or PDA or even his cellphone. — You're right, but not entirely.
Tom Coates / plasticbag.org is a weblog:
Farewell BBC - and hello Yahoo! — Right then! It's time to get everything out in the open and talk about some of the stuff that's been going on behind the scenes over the last few months. First things first - and this will probably come as a bit of a surprise to a few people …
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Guardian Unlimited
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Inform.com Doesn't — Employees: 55 — Inform.com launched today with a splashy New York Times article. — Steve Rubel has some kind words. Rafat Ali isn't so kind - he says "It fails miserably." I agree. — I honestly can't figure out what it is, even after reading the Times fluff piece.
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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Curing Medical Information Disorder — Healthline is a specialized medical search engine that offers high-quality, authoritative information that's easy to find, even if you don't speak medicalese. — According to the Pew Internet Project, more Americans search for health information on the web than make doctor visits each day.
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John Markoff / New York Times:
At Microsoft, Interlopers Sound Off on Security — REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 14 - In a windowless war room where Microsoft manages worldwide computer security crises, George Stathakopoulos, the general manager for security, opened a small refrigerator, revealing three bottles of Champagne.
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Lev Grossman / Time:
How Apple Does It — Conventional wisdom says its strategy is wrong, yet it keeps turning out great products. TIME looks inside the world's most innovative company — This is partly a story about a company called Apple Computer. It's also partly a story about a fancy new iPod …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
New hopes from Sun's idea factory — Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems' sharp-tongued chief executive, isn't known as a touchy-feely sort. — But when Andreas Bechtolsheim, Sun's first employee and the creative force behind many of the Silicon Valley giant's early workstation computers …
