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David Hornik / VentureBlog:
Built To Be Bought (Bubble 2.0) — Over the last couple of months I've noticed an increasing sense of unease in the venture community about the trend in Web 2.0 company creation and financing events. While no one is officially willing to peg it Bubble 2.0 for fear of missing the next great opportunity …
Sylvia Paull / Berkeley Blog:
Techcrunch Tsunami — Last night, I went to megablogger Mike Arrington's Techcrunch party, akin to an open house for nerds, if one can imagine such a locale on tony Atherton's main drag, with free food, drinks, and a TV screen for blasting demos of new products. Instead of paying cash, people brought their new ideas.
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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.
Adrants:
BUDGET LAUNCHES BLOG-BASED, SIXTEEN CITY TREASURE HUNT — In a first, Car rental company Budget has launched a blog-based, four-week, 16-city treasure hunt, called UP YOUR BUDGET, which offers a total of $160,000 in prizes. To win, participants must find a sticker which has been placed …
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Micro Persuasion
Bruce Meyerson / Associated Press:
Cingular Introduces E-Mail Access on Cells — NEW YORK - Cingular Wireless is introducing a service for nonbusiness users to get BlackBerry-like mobile access to their personal e-mail accounts from AOL, Yahoo and MSN Hotmail on a cell phone. — The new service, powered by OZ Communications Inc. …
patrickweb.com:
BlogOn 2005 — The Copacabana Hotel in Manhattan is said to be an excellent place to enjoy salsa. This week it was also a place to enjoy a discussion about the past, present, and future of blogging as more than three-hundred people gathered at BlogOn 2005.
Fractals of Change:
Good News - People are Social Animals — It turns out that we voluntarily do thing we don't get paid for, even for strangers. Sometimes we even do good anonymously. Now go figure. What a way to screw up the economists' models. — This aberrant and apparently unmotivated behavior …
John Anderson / New York Times:
Once It Was Direct to Video, Now It's Direct to the Web — IT was a late night in Seattle. It was probably raining. Scilla Andreen was still haunting the offices of her as-yet-to-be-started Internet movie company, IndieFlix, when the phone rang. It was - no surprise - a young filmmaker.
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Hacking NetFlix
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
A guided tour of the Microsoft Command Shell — Introduction — The Windows community is a universe of uniformity in which users depend on robust commercial applications and standard graphical utilities. With the Vista release right around the proverbial corner, Microsoft is engaged in much-needed reinvention.
Aaron McKenna / tgdaily.com:
RTF EULA — The End User License Agreement. You probably have grown accustomed to clicking through on these when installing new software, so accustomed that you don't even read them anymore. Well, we have and here are some of our favourites. We also present them with simultaneous plain English translations.
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Techdirt
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
Poor Nations Are Littered With Old PC's, Report Says — Waste from electronic devices littered a neighborhood in Nigeria. Computer monitors can contain large amounts of toxic materials. — Much of the used computer equipment sent from the United States to developing countries for use in homes …
RetroSight:
Some Thoughts About Apple Front Row — I've been following the Apple's Media Center PC End Around post over at http://www.applematters.com. It's sort of like watching a very loooonnnnng tennis volley. 'Apple copied Microsoft.' 'No, Microsoft copied Apple.' — Back...forth...back...forth...back...fo rth...ad nauseum.
David Carr / New York Times:
Why You Should Pay to Read This — IN a bedroom in New Jersey, there is a shrine to Entertainment Weekly. A 17-year-old who lives there - that would be my daughter Erin - has the magazine's covers on her wall, and she divines a film's artistic value and business prospects with close readings of the magazine.
Zoe Brennan / Times of London:
Ooh-aaar, cows do milk themselves, down on the robotic farm — THEY are the cows that milk themselves. Farmers have teamed up with scientists to create a farm where the cows choose when they want to be milked using automated booths. — The new parlour, developed in Holland, is already in use on several British farms.
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