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Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Flock Lands To Cheers & Jeers — TechCrunch reported this morning that Flock was launching publicly today, in about four hours or so. Apparently it was out on the filesharing networks, prompting the company to pull back the curtain and let the beta out of the bag.
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David A. Vise / Washington Post:
Online Ads Give Google Huge Gain in Profit — Google Inc. yesterday reported a 700 percent increase in third-quarter profit, as a growing number of Fortune 500 companies and other firms around the world shifted their ad spending from newspapers, magazines and television to the Internet.
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Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Architecture Astronauts Are Back — I'm starting to see a new round of pure architecture astronautics: meaningless stringing-together of new economy buzzwords in an attempt to sound erudite. — When I wrote my original complaint about architecture astronauts more than four years ago, it was P2P this and messaging that.
Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
NEW GOOGLE ADWORDS KEYWORD SUGGESTION TOOL — A while ago I reviewed a ton of keyword research tools, but most of them are lacking in serious user data, which makes them top heavy, and forces people to only see the most common terms. — For the longest time it seemed as though Google …
Alexandros Roussos / macosXrumors.com:
Exclusive: Leopard to feature a totally redesigned Finder, based on Spotlight — To date, the only information Apple has provided about Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is that it will come sometime between late 2006 and 2007 and that it will be Intel compatible. Meanwhile, anonymous sources revealed …
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Hands-on with Intel's Ruby handheld PC — We kicked it at Intel's Destination Innovation event yesterday afternoon, and while most of what we saw there wasn't Engadget material — we couldn't care less about yet another way to sort through our digital photos — getting our hands on the Ruby …
Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
My New iPod: Video Podcasting Is Going to Be BIG — I couldn't resist - I got the new 30GB White iPod yesterday and it completely rocks. Apple did a great job with this gadget. Much thinner than previous iPods, super-fast syncing over USB, and the screen is *great*.
BBC:
Sony wins major DVD studio ally — Sony's Blu-ray DVD technology has won over another heavyweight supporter in the battle to be Hollywood's format of choice for the next generation of DVDs. — Film studio Warner Bros has said it will release DVDs in the Blu-ray as well as Toshiba-backed HD DVD formats.
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Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Cliff Notes From the Blog World — Blog addicts overwhelmed by information may have found their savior. — Memeorandum, which started with a focus on political blogs in 2004 and launched a technology version just weeks ago, aims to be the automated newspaper of the online world.
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Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
Pheedo Tests Multi-Channel Ads — Blog and RSS feed advertising network Pheedo has begun testing a program to make it easier for advertisers to create integrated, multi-channel campaigns across blogs, Web feeds and podcasts. — "If your ad message is only in one of these channels …
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John Hudson / Wired News:
Creating the Global Hot Spot — LONDON — Telecom giant Inmarsat is weeks away from launching the second in a series of two super-satellites — designed to be among the most powerful commercial communications spacecraft in orbit — that will beam broadband data and voice services to almost any location on the planet.
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The Odeo Blog:
Podcasting for Regular People — There are a lot of reasons to be excited about podcasting. — There's the fact that radio producers have moved to podcasting at a rapid clip and made tons of great content that was only available in certain locations at certain times downloadable and enjoyable at the listener's demand.
blogs.sun.com:
OpenOffice.org, AJAX and Common Sense — First, let me start by congratulating the global OpenOffice.org community for setting version 2.0 free to the world - you have my heartfelt congratulations (but you were a day early for having a great birthday!). With 50,000,000 downloads and counting …
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
IE 6 Gets IE 7 Phishing Filter — Microsoft Corp. has quietly backported one of the security improvements slated for the new Internet Explorer 7 browser into IE 6.0, but the giveaway comes with a small catch. — The Microsoft Phishing Filter, which is being embedded into IE 7 …
Matt / Photo Matt:
Leaving CNET — It was just about a year ago I blogged about leaving Houston and driving across the country to join CNET. It ended up being one of the best moves of my life. Since moving to the Bay Area I've had incredible oppurtunities and met a whole tribe of amazing people.
kottke.org:
Book author to her publishing company: your lawsuit is not helping me or my book — I got an email this morning from a kottke.org reader, Meghann Marco. She's an author and struggling to get her book out into the hands of people who might be interested in reading it.
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Jodi S. Cohen / Newsday:
Missed class? Try a podcast — Digital recordings of lectures allow college students with MP3 players to catch lessons or just catch up wherever and whenever they want — When Purdue University senior Marcos Kohler skipped a physics class to attend a concert in Chicago, he didn't have to borrow a classmate's notes to catch up.
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