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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 …
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.
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 …
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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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?
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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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Web 2.0: It's ... like your brain on LSD! — But what is it really? — Friday Poll There's much fretting about what Web 2.0 really is. It's twice as cosmic, but what is it? — Conference co-organizer Tim O'Reilly's first attempt to explain it spanned five pages, and produced the following.
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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.
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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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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Anoop Gantayat / cube.ign.com:
Revolution Controller: Japanese Creators Speak — The makers of F-Zero, Killer 7, Pac Man, Harvest Moon, Kirby, Pokemon, and Final Fantasy tell us what they think. — October 21, 2005 - Japan's gaming elite have spoken out on Nintendo's Revolution controller.
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.
Nick Taylor / Washington Post:
. . . But Not at Writers' Expense — I am a writer. — For some time now — too much time, I suspect my editor believes — I have been working on a history of the Works Progress Administration. This has taken me to states from Maine to California, into archives and libraries …
