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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.
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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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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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.
Laura Lundin / af.mil:
Air Force testing new transparent armor — Air Force Research Laboratory Public Affairs — 10/17/2005 - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) — Engineers here are testing a new kind of transparent armor — stronger and lighter than traditional materials — that could stop armor-piercing weapons …
Red Herring:
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 …
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 …
cristianvidmar.com:
OPML reading lists scenarios — I agree with Alex Barnett :2006 will be a big year for OPML. The format is getting more and more traction, ideas start to flow and applications are just around the corner. On my side, I'm getting really excited about it. — Recently Dave Winer proposed …
O'Reilly Network:
Evening Extravaganza — 19:30 - State of the Onion, Larry Wall, Creator of Perl — 20:00 - Fun With Dead Languages, Damian Conway, Thoughtstream — Watch in mesmerized terror as Damian hacks code in five unrelated languages (none of them Perl). Along the way, you'll also learn …
Wall Street Journal:
TV Downloads May Undercut ABC Stations — Last Thursday morning, Apple Computer Inc. started selling an episode of the hit television series "Lost" through its iTunes Music Store for $1.99 after the show aired the night before on ABC. It marked the first time a popular show was made available …
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.
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Gabe / penny-arcade.com:Yack Thompson — Perhaps you read the letter from the National …
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Alorie Gilbert / CNET News.com:
Blogging 101—Web logs go to school — As a middle-school teacher, Clarence Fisher is used to spending some time each evening grading papers and reviewing lesson plans. But this year he's got an additional after-school task: updating his students' blogs. — Fisher set up online personal journals …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Apple steps up iPod 'tax' push — Apple Computer is stepping up its push to get iPod accessory makers to pay for the right to connect to the popular music player. — For some months, the company has been seeking royalties from accessory makers that want to display a "Made for iPod" logo on their products.
Ravneet / Emergintex:
LifeStyle 2.0 — We are done with Web2.0 for this year. What good did it give to us? Maybe we got some cool applications like Meebo & Morfik. But at the end of the day these are just some applications that would be available online for the more than average user. Whats in store for the average users?
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.
Tim Wu / Slate:
Leggo My Ego — GooglePrint and the other culture war. — Did you know you can search television? That you can type in "yada yada yada," and find the exact frames where George Costanza's girlfriend Marcy said it first? Weird as it may seem, you can do it with one of Google's little-known products, "Google Video."
