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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.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Thank You For Coming To Our Party — I believe we had as many as 200 people here last night for TechCrunch Meetup #3. The last of the guests left at 4 am. Thank you to everyone who came and everyone who tried to attend via festoon. — Scott Beale took my favorite picture of the event.
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Miss Rogue / HorsePigCow:TechCrunch BBQ — Michael threw another amazing BBQ in Atherton last night.
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Spy / Bink.nu:
Xbox Live to close for 1 day on 24th October 2005. — Microsoft has announced a planned single day closure of its online console gaming service Xbox Live and the associated Xbox.com website, in order to make changes in preparation for the Xbox 360 launch. — Scheduled for October 24th …
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?
Bloomberg:
Motorola's ITunes Phone Gets Off to `Rough Start' (Update1) — Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) — Motorola Inc.'s iTunes music phone, developed with Apple Computer Inc. and unveiled last month in front of an audience of more than 500, may have flopped. — As many as six times more customers are returning …
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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 …
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 …
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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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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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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.
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?
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.
John Borland / CNET News.com:
Yahoo boosts prices on music service — Yahoo is boosting the price of a key part of its digital music subscription service, after launching it six months ago with a price tag startlingly lower than rival offerings. — The company sent an e-mail message to subscribers late Thursday night saying …
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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 …
thegreenhead.com:
Alive Chimpanzee by WowWee - Animatronic Life-Size Bust with Video! — I was looking through the cool new Sharper Image catalog today and came across the coolest and creepiest state-of-the-art, fully-animated, lifelike, robotic chimpanzee head ever! I absolutely must get one of these for my desk at work.
