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Mena / About Six Apart:
The Ups & Downs of a Successful Service  —  As many of you have noticed, during the last couple of weeks TypePad performance has not been what we aspire to and you pay for.  While I am as displeased as you, at the current time I can do nothing more than apologize — a weak sentiment without action to back it up.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
TITANS COLUMN: OMID KORDESTANI  —  I interviewed Omid a couple of months ago for my B2.0 column, here it is in full.  —  TITANS OF TECH  —  The Wizard of Ads  —  Google's Omid Kordestani conjured a formula that took its sales to $3 billion.  Now he's rethinking the world of advertising again.
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Anil wants Flickr to pay  —  Interesting little debate going on the blogs this morning.  Anil Dash wants Flickr to pay its users, particularly the ones who put the most popular content onto the service.  Caterina, co-founder of Flickr, answers back, says more to life than money.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Rip and Burn and Download on a Stereo  —  JUST because a bunch of individual ingredients are delicious doesn't mean they'll taste good when they're all cooked up together.  Ask anyone who's ever sampled a 5-year-old chef's rendition of chocolate chip spaghetti with meat sauce and grape jelly.
2006.sxsw.com:
SXSW TECH BOOK TOUR: INTERACT WITH AUTHORS  —  "Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution"  —  The SXSW Interactive Festival is proud to team with Book People for the SXSW Tech Book Tour: InterAct with Authors.  Each month, we will be co-presenting …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
First Screen Shots of Riya  —  Riya (formerly Ojos) will be opening its doors to 10 or so lucky alpha testers tomorrow morning.  —  Riya leverages potent facial and text recognition technology with an intelligent interface to help people make sense of the thousands of untitled and untagged photos …
creativepro.com:
Terri Stone: Will Aperture replace Photoshop?  —  Joe Schorr: Depending on your workflow, there may be a need to use tools that go beyond Aperture.  One of the things pros do is launch Photoshop, so we integrate with Photoshop.  —  Aperture was developed with photographers looking over our shoulders, literally.
Jeff Clavier / Software Only:
The Facebook unplugged at Stanford ETL  —  I attended tonight the session of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL) program featuring Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder and CEO of the Facebook, and Jim Breyer, the Managing Partner of Accel Partners who is sitting on the board of the company.
Discussion: pc4media
Twl / Open Source Applications Foundation Blog:
Producing Open Source Software  —  Open Source Software is more than just software that has an Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved license.  It's a whole development style and culture.  Karl Fogel is one of the developers of the Subversion project, and has been involved with a number of open source projects.
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Ted Leung on the air:   Producing Open Source Software
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Sounds great.  Where do I upload eBay's business plan?  —  So how did Google become the world's single largest marketplace?  Paul Ford posed that question back in 2002 in a seminal essay entitled "August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web," and answered …
Osman Ratib / CNN:
'I use my iPod to store medical images'  —  GENEVA, Switzerland (CNN) — Osman Ratib, professor and chief of nuclear medicine at the University Hospital of Geneva, has co-created a computer software program called Osirix.  It enables medical professionals to view medical images on their iPods …
Discussion: SearchViews
Robert Roy Britt / MSNBC:
How Einstein managed his inbox  —  Study suggests modern e-mail habits similar to older, letter-writing ones  —  If you're like Einstein, you respond to some e-mails immediately and let others wait.  And, of course, some you never answer.  —  And every now and then …
writersblocklive.com:
Apple - Thinking Different Again  —  A key figure in the US civil rights movement died on October 24th...her name was Rosa Parks.  I confess to be only vaguely aware of her name in the past, but I knew she was involved in the famous bus segregation incident.
Forbes:
US Supreme Court denies RIM request to postpone action in Blackberry patent case  —  WASHINGTON (AFX) - The US Supreme Court has refused a request by Canadian firm Research in Motion to suspend a potentially devastating injunction in a patent dispute over its Blackberry handheld computer.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Phone Scoop
Mark Beall / Cinematical:
Cinematical Seven: Videogame Movies  —  Yeah, so we all know by now that DOOM is a terrible movie.  Reviews have hit it fast and hard, and nobody seems to like it.  Is anybody really surprised by this?  With very few exceptions, video games simply have not translated into good movies - or even mediocre movies, for that matter.
Discussion: Kotaku, digg and Blogebrity
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Kaboodle Launch: Bookmarking + Wiki  —  Kaboodle opened its doors this afternoon for an official launch on Wednesday.  —  I met with Manish Chandra, the CEO, earlier today for a walk through and came away very impressed.  In addition to Manish, Kaboodle's founders include Keiron McCammon and Chetan Pungaliya.
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