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Margaret Kane / CNET News.com:
Bloggers don't flock together — Bloggers were abuzz Friday over the launch of a new Firefox-based Web browser dubbed "flock." — The browser integrates Web technologies including RSS content feeds, bookmarks and photo sharing. It also includes many newer technologies that have been grouped under the …
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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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Mark Evans, VoIP and ENUM, TechBeat, Metafilter, The Social Software Weblog and Mashable*
Fred / WeBreakStuff:Flock? Okay, but wait a second
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Open Source, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Shore Communications Inc., ben barren and ThePodcastNetwork
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 …
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.
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*.
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 …
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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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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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 …
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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Mark Morford / San Francisco Chronicle:
Harness iPod's dollar power — porn on the go — I am the first. At least, I am the first I know of to think of this idea at this very moment in time, in this exact space, which you are right now reading, given that I'm quite sure that the very minute Apple announced its sexy …
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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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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 …
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.
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.
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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