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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.
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 …
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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Life On the Wicked Stage
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 …
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.
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?
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 …
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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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 …
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.
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 …
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
$94, ER, $106 BILLION — That's a very large market cap. Today is a quiet posting day, for various reasons, but I did find the time to step into a CNBC studio and mull why Google seems to be pulling away from everyone else in search related earnings. My really, brilliant, over the top observation?
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