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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.
A Whole Lotta Nothing:
when it rains, it pours — (67spamblogs, originally uploaded by mathowie) — I have an ego feed I check every few days for my last name (fairly rare) from technorati. On a normal day there might be one or two mentions of my last name and it's not always about me, but it's useful …
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
All the News That You Can Use. And More. — NEWS enthusiasts, rejoice. A Web site is being introduced today that will not only let you find articles on the topic of your choice from hundreds of newspapers and magazines, it will also alert you to all the other news accounts floating around cyberspace …
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Rali / PaidContent.org:
Inform.com? Not Really... [by rafat] : Inform.com, a 55-person NYC-based news search startup, launched in beta today, and NYT covers it. The company has been formed by Neal Goldman, the former founder and CEO of CapitalIQ (which got bought out by McGraw-Hill last year for $225 million).
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Since coming back to the Bay Area, most weekends when I'm in town I have breakfast with Steve Gillmor on Saturday morning. A few weeks ago, I asked a couple of other people to join us, and maybe soon I'll ask more. Not sure how to do this, but it's becoming interesting.
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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
Associated Press:
Wi-Fi Cloud Covers Rural Oregon — HERMISTON, Oregon — Parked alongside his onion fields, Bob Hale can prop open a laptop and read his e-mail or, with just a keystroke, check the moisture of his crops. — As the jack rabbits run by, he can watch CNN online, play a video game or turn …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
My Thoughts on Reading Lists — Dave Winer has been thinking about, and recently writing about, a new idea: Reading Lists. — OPML is a really useful file structure that just about everyone who uses a feed aggregator, like bloglines, is already using without necessarily knowing it.
Vladimir Cole / Joystiq:
Nintendo DS Wi-Fi uses obsolete WEP security — In these flickr images captured by "Apreche" at the Digital Life Show in NYC on Friday, we can see the unlaunched interface for the Nintendo DS's Wi-Fi capabilities. Interesting features include: — Save settings for up to three connections
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Wi-Fi Networking News
Steven Levy / Newsweek:
The Next Movie Show — Not only does Apple's latest iPod do video, but so does its online store. — Oct. 24, 2005 issue - Steve Jobs had some 'splain-in' to do. He's spent the last couple of years insisting that no one wants to watch video on the puny screens in handheld devices.
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Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus
Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
More on Google's Plan for Wi-Fi in San Francisco; Text of Google's Filing Available — If you're interested in learning more about Google's plan (one of 17) for providing free Wi-Fi access throughout San Francisco, the San Jose Mercury News article: S.F. unveils 17 firms' WiFi bids …
Michael Bazeley / SiliconBeat:
Healthline search engine launches — One of the challenges of being a successful vertical search engine is finding that sweet spot where no one else plays. Healthline, a new health search engine out of San Francisco, thinks it's found its spot. It's between a general search engine such as Google and a …
