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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Like a BloggerCon — In her writeup, Sylvia Paull compares Friday's BBQ to early BMUG meetings. If Woz were there, he might compare it to the Homebrew club that met at Stanford in the early days of the PC. We all have our points of reference. To me, it was like the first BloggerCon.
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Scobleizer
David A. Vise / Washington Post:
AOL, and Other Online Keys — A Stake in the ISP, Paired With These Strengths, Could Create a Web Giant — The most ferocious battle on the Internet these days is between Microsoft Corp., the incumbent software giant, and Google Inc., the extraordinarily profitable Internet search firm.
Jeremy Wagstaff / loose wire:
The Secret Behind Google's Success: The Instant Massage — Google's profits are indeed impressive, and if my local newspaper (no link available, I'm afraid) is right, it's clear clear why: the company is offering a service no right-minded person could refuse:
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Google Blogoscoped
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 …
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.
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 …
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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ben barren
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.
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.
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Infendo
