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Richard MacManus / Read/Write Web:
Web 2.0 Naysaying reaches an all-time high (or is it low) — Looks like the Web 2.0 Naysayers are starting to drown out those of us who've been preaching the 2.0 Gospel. — Joel on Software, who has a lot of influence in the programming world, comes down hard with his post entitled Architecture Astronauts Are Back:
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Narendra Rocherolle / No Soap, Radio!:
Techcrunch Meetup #3 — Further evidence that the Web Renaissance is in full swing. 200 people in a random backyard in Atherton-on a Friday night! This is either a case of the web connecting a lot of people with absolutely zero social lives or a lot of people pretty excited about forthcoming products and businesses.
Miss Rogue / HorsePigCow:
TechCrunch BBQ — Michael threw another amazing BBQ in Atherton last night. It was a marathon of demos, networking and pearls of wisdom, including a very passionate speech by Dave Winer. — Other hightlights for me included hearing the champagne Riya donated to the evening being popped …
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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:Techcrunch and the Web 2.0 fest — and the best VCs
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Dave Winer / thetwowayweb.com:Build to flip the Flickr of evrything
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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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michael parekh on IT, OnoTech, Brian Sullivan's Random …, Geek News Central … and Bubble 2.0
Yahoo! Search blog:
Video Search To Go! — As I eagerly await the arrival of my brand-spanking-new 60gb white Video iPod (for research purposes only, I assure my manager), I've been thinking about how I can fill my new device up with content, and I imagine many of you are doing the same.
apcmag.com:
Apple lobs grenade into Microsoft media center camp — APC Magazine's Dan Warne reckons Apple is about to deftly round-house kick Microsoft's media center strategy for six. First Apple leaves a mysterious header on the Mac Mini motherboard for a non-existent iPod dock connector.
TDavid / Things That … Make You Go Hmm:
Tale of the tape: Tablet Guy vs. Channel 9 Guy — Warning: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY - the following post is highly sensitive, confidential and privileged information. An NDA (Non-Disagreement Agreement is required) . — Lora asks: … Please note Lora's curious and potentially disturbing use of the word "it" instead of "him."
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Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Pumping Indies on MTV — Norbury and Finch are a folk duo based on Vancouver Island. They aren't signed to a music label, but fans of the Ozzy Osbourne reality show and HBO's Real Sex have heard their music, thanks to an innovative music-licensing company that has placed thousands of songs …
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 …
Stephen Feller / trends.newsforge.com:
Wine will go beta next week — After roughly 12 years of work, the Wine Project is about to take its widely used Windows translation layer to a place it has not been in all that time: beta. — Wine Project leader Alexandre Julliard, who has worked on the software nearly since its beginning …
Paul Stamatiou / PaulStamatiou.com:
Flock, Under Those Feathers — Flock is the latest open source browser, catering especially to bloggers and Web 2.0 savvy users. It is heavily based upon open source code from Mozilla's Firefox browser and was developed by a group of a 10 guys and a gal in a garage in Palo Alto, California …
Kotaku, the Gamer's Guide:
Touching Babies — The woman in front of me was playing Adult DS Brain Training demo for a good ten minutes. She must've been forty. Her mother must've been mid-sixties. A parasite single or a spinster. Take yer pick. — She slid her copy of the game to the clerk, along with a Nintendo DS purchase ticket.
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft, OSI Discuss Shared Source Licenses — While Microsoft Corp. has publicly said it has no immediate plans to submit its newest Shared Source licenses to the Open Source Initiative for approval, the company met with the OSI board this week to discuss the matter.
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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