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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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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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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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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
October Web Search Referral Statistics — I was looking at some updated stats for my web site and decided to plug the numbers into Excel so that I could more easily visualize the relationships. The chart below is one of several I produced. It shows the percentage of search referrals …
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.
Michael Bazeley / siliconvalley.com:
The 800-pound Google — STOCK JUMPS $36 TO $339 AFTER REVENUE SURGE — Is there no slowing for Google? — After a standout earnings report Thursday that surpassed the expectations of practically every outsider, Google's stock price set a new record Friday as a bevy of analysts rushed …
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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.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Gizmondo launches in North America — We're a bit surprised we didn't get a liveblog-like stream of emailed press releases from Tiger Telematics this morning because today's their big day in North America. That's right, the Gizmondo is officially on sale for $229 with fourteen launch titles.
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