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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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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:
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.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Dave Winer To Give the Flickr of Keynotes tonight
Discussion: Scripting News
Narendra Rocherolle / No Soap, Radio!:   Techcrunch Meetup #3  —  Further evidence that the Web Renaissance is in full swing.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Techcrunch and the Web 2.0 fest — and the best VCs
Discussion: TechCrunch and Scobleizer
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited
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 …
Discussion: Seth's Blog
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.
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 …
Discussion: Threadwatch.org
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 …
Discussion: A VC
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Online News Squared and clock
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 …
Discussion: Daily Wireless
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 …
Discussion: Read/Write Web and TechBlog

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