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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.
Brad Hill / The RSS Weblog:
REVIEW: Flock Browser (Mozilla) — Built on Mozilla, the newly released (pre-beta developer's edition) Flock browser threatens (promises?) to yank the browser back as the central window to the Internet experience. In the emerging era of Web-service sites displacing the browser's built-in tools …
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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 …
Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
SIPphone on Rupert Murdoch's Radar? — Rupert Murdoch had planned to spend $2 billion on Internet related acquisitions. With today's $373 million acquisition of EasyNet, and $1.2 billion buying up properties like IGN and MySpace, he has already spent about $1.57 billion. So what's next?
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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Emptybottle.org:
Wonderchicken Resurgent — You know when people say, "I turned 40 a little while back, and it got me thinking..."? and how you just want to smash 'em one in the face? — Well, I turned 40 a little while back, and it's been f**king with my mind. — I don't think my only problem …
New York Times:
Colleges Protest Call to Upgrade Online Systems — The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities …
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 …
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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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 …
Alec / Simply Relevant:
Voice 2.0: A Manifesto for the Future — We're witnessing the beginnings of a titanic clash between the internet and the telecommunications industry. My hope is that clash will be the, albeit painful, evolution of Voice into a full blow internet application — the birth of Voice 2.0.
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.
