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Dave Winer / thetwowayweb.com:
Build to flip the Flickr of evrything — Later today I'll give a keynote address, at a BBQ. — That's got to be a first. — It's a tradition that when I give a talk, I prepare it on Scripting News, in the open, for all to see. — Since this talk will be given in the heart of Silicon Valley …
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Mark Pincus Blog:
Where's the love for web 2.0? — I'm reading john heilemann's piece in new york magazine about 'diller's foxy strategy' and amazed that a journalist could in one article be so critical and dismissive of silicon valley's 'kacki clad vc's chasing prepubescent entrepreneurs' and so shamelessly …
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A VC
Burtonator / Kevin Burton's Feed Blog:
$20 Gets you a TailRank Golden Ticket! — Here's the deal. I need money for servers. — One way to raise funds is to go to an Angel or a VC and try to raise funds but honestly this takes time and I'm really not sure this is the right way to go. — Another way to raise funds is to sell $20 Golden Tickets to TailRank.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Dave Winer To Give the Flickr of Keynotes tonight — Everything is all set for tonight's party and we've very quietly re-opened the wiki to attendees. It also looks like we'll have 50+ people participating remotely via festoon. — We will be having demos from 6 pm to about 10:30 …
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Scripting News
MSNBC:
Accidental invention could light up the future — Quantum dot mixture takes LED lighting to a new level — The main light source of the future will almost surely not be a bulb. It might be a table, a wall, or even a fork. — An accidental discovery announced this week has taken LED lighting …
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Guardian Unlimited
Robert X. Cringely / pbs.org:
Energy Crisis — It's Hard to Make a Buck When You Are Storing Everyone's Stuff for Free — Combining themes of several recent columns, we can see that a lot of money is being bet on a future user computing experience based on web services. Ubiquitous broadband along with hefty processing capability …
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Bubble 2.0
25hoursaday.com:
Web 2.0 Bozo Bit Reflipped — As I mentioned in my previous post on Understanding Web 2.0 the "web 2.0" meme isn't about technology or people, it's about money and hype primarily geared at VCs and big companies looking for small companies to buy so they look hip.
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Read/Write Web, ben barren, web2.wsj2.com, ThePodcastNetwork, Gadgetopia and Smalltalk Tidbits …
Charles Arthur / The Register:
How ATM fraud nearly brought down British banking — This is the story of how the UK banking system could have collapsed in the early 1990s, but for the forbearance of a junior barrister who also happened to be an expert in computer law - and who discovered that at that time the computing department …
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Threadwatch.org
Paul Buchheit / Official Google Blog:
Guess what just turned 34? — It's difficult to pin down the exact origin of email, but in October 1971, an engineer named Ray Tomlinson chose the '@' symbol for email addresses and wrote software to send the first network email. — At the time, it must not have seemed very important …
Vin / Digital Deliverance LLC:
What Obstacles Exist for Online Journalism? — What obstacles exist for online journalism? — That topic will be on the minds of attendees at the Online News Association's annual conference next week in Manhattan. — Unfortunately, the major obstacle for online journalism is the people …
Msnshopblog / MSN Shopping Insider:
MSN Shopping Launches in Australia — MSN Shopping is very pleased and excited to announce the launch of the new Shopping site on ninemsn in Australia! The new site is built upon the same application platform recently released in the United States, and demonstrates the MSN Shopping team's commitment …
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
Qualcomm's Belk Dissects Mobile WiMax — Let's admit upfront that Jeffrey Belk has a vested interest in cellular data networks: But let's look beyond that. Belk is well known as a Qualcomm marketing executive who, two years ago, circulated an interesting account of business travel using cell data …
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Daily Wireless
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Access announces the death of PalmOS... sooner than later — For those holding out that PalmSource's acquisition by Japanese firm Access would grant the PalmOS a second life, we have some bad news for you. We have it that Access officially declared what industry experts expected and Palm fanboys feared …
Matt Haughey / PVRblog:
Netflix/TiVo deal is dead — This morning on Engadget, they carried news that Netflix "indefinitely postponed" their online movie download service due to licensing rights that just about everyone pointed out was going to be an issue (when the rumors started a year ago, that was my first thought).
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Hacking NetFlix
