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Eric A. Taub / New York Times:
McDonald's and Nintendo in Wi-Fi Deal — Would you like Mario with that Big Mac? — Nintendo of America is expected to announce today that it will offer free wireless Internet access for its Nintendo DS portable game system at McDonald's restaurants. Customers will be able to play select DS games …
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Matt Casamassina / ds.ign.com:
DS Goes Wayport — Eat hamburgers and play Mario Kart online at McDonald's across the nation. — October 17, 2005 - Nintendo of America on Tuesday will announce a groundbreaking partnership with Wi-Fi provider Wayport to make available free Internet access to DS owners at McDonald's restaurants across the nation.
Anil Dash:
The Flip 2K5 — Or, "Yahoo bought everyone on my buddy list, and all I got was this t-shirt". — Following up on the discussion about Web 2.0 from last week, the only thing as glaring as who was missing from the room was the talk of a new bubble. I can't even count how many blog posts …
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Jeff Clavier / ZDNet:
Innovation 2.0: Why Web 2.0 companies might have to flip to avoid being flopped — The question of "What is Web 2.0" has been debated at length in the blogosphere and in the alleys of the eponymous conference a week ago (and I am not sure that we have come to any agreement yet).
Yannick Laclau:
Well, that was fast! The "open" Web2.0 starts to "close" — "Openness" is one of the hallmarks of web 2.0. But is the Brave New World of mash-ups going to close up as quickly as it opened? — Classifieds aggregator Oodle reported over the weekend that Craigslist has banned Oodle from aggregating its listings.
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EFF: Breaking News:
Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You — Tiny Dots Show Where and When You Made Your Print — San Francisco - A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document.
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Marc Perton / Engadget:Yes, your printer is spying on you — EFF cracks Xerox printer fingerprinting code
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Lockergnome / Chris Pirillo:
Ten Suggestions for Google's Blogspot — Emotion. Raw emotion. — That's what caused me to write something about the Blogspot spam problem this weekend - independently from Jarvis writing independently from Haughey writing independently from Cuban writing independently from Bray.
Matt Cutts:
More info on updates — I've already talked about index updates some in the past. These days rather than having a large monolithic update, Google tends to have smaller (and more frequent) individual launches. So I think my Sept. 8th, 2005 post on the subject of non-updates was just mentioning …
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Meet the 21-yr-old Norwegian who defied Hollywood — Jon Lech Johansen dropped out of high school after just one year. He lives alone most of the time, except when he stays with his parents in his native Norway. The 21-year-old doesn't drive, rarely goes to parties and says he has no close friends, except his father.
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verisign.com:
VeriSign Acquires Moreover Technologies — 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 …
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Doc / Doc Searls' IT Garage:
Beyond Monoculture — I became convinced today that our biggest problems are monocultures. What's bad for lawns and farms is also bad for classrooms, churches, industries, governments, political parties, banks, credit card companies and every other organization that lives by controlling and isolating its members.
Official Google Blog:
We get letters (3) — Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog team — This just in: Walid Elias Kai, a Ph.D. in search engine marketing, is, it must be said, an avid fan of our company. Dr. Kai, who is Lebanese, and his Swedish wife Carol live in Kalmar, Sweden, where their son was born on September 12.
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Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Releases Code for Windows Server R2 RC1 — Microsoft Corp. on Monday came closer to the final release of Windows Server 2003 R2, expected before the year's end, by making Release Candidate 1 available for download. — The release of the RC1 code, which is available here, follows the release of RC0, in late August.
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Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Cafe 2.0: After the Gold Rush — SAN FRANCISCO — A hip Mission District cafe has become the unlikely nerve center for a new wave of software innovators, amid signs of a second internet gold rush. — Ritual Coffee Roasters opened just this May, but thanks to free Wi-Fi …
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Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
Look Who's Online Now — It took a while, but Rupert Murdoch has a case of Internet fever. A real-time portrait of a legendary mogul remaking his media colossus. — We can't say for certain which of his many tribulations was on Rupert Murdoch's mind when he convened his lieutenants …
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VC Fundraising Up 62% — U.S. venture firms raised more in the first three quarters of 2005 than all last year. — Investments in U.S. venture capital firms jumped 62 percent in the first three quarters of 2005 over the same period a year ago as pension funds, endowments …
