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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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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.
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hyku | blog, Boing Boing, Guardian Unlimited, albert.tanutama.com and Google Blogoscoped
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
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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 …
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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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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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Norway's public broadcaster sells out taxpayers to Microsoft — The Norwegian public broadcaster has broken new ground with a project that has put 20,000 video clips and 12 radio stations online. That's the good news. Hell, it's better than good. It is breathtakingly amazing.
verisign.com:
News & Events — VeriSign Acquires Moreover Technologies — Real-time Aggregation Platform to Complement Blog and RSS Feed Infrastructure — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, October 17, 2005 - VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the Internet …
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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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
Dan Choi / Joystiq:
Thompson breaks his word on $10k bounty, says he was just kidding — A team of GTA modders called the Fighting Hellfish has created a San Andreas mod for the PC that Jack Thompson could have designed—that is, if he included himself as the vengeful father he proposed earlier, on a murderous rampage through the video-game industry.
Daniel Roth / Fortune:
Torrential Reign — Bram Cohen's BitTorrent software made it a cinch to pirate films on the Internet. So why is Hollywood on his side? — For two years after the dot-com crash, Bram Cohen could almost always be found at his small dining-room table, first in San Francisco's Nob Hill and later in Oakland.
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 …
Alan T. Saracevic / San Francisco Chronicle:
In the year 2050, Google seeks new life forms — Oct. 16, 2050 — Google Inc. announced today yet another partnership with NASA in which the Mountain View search giant will collaborate with the much smaller government agency on the search for extraterrestrial life.
