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Microsoft joins book search plan — Microsoft has joined a Yahoo-backed effort to digitise the world's books and other works to make them searchable and accessible to anyone online. — The software giant said it would work with the Open Content Alliance (OCA), set up by the Internet Archive, to initially put 150,000 works online.
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Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:It will seek accords with copyright holders
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Mark Pincus Blog:
Google Base Comments — google launching a classifieds aggregator and listing service is big exciting news for web 2.0. for me it just hastens the world of free data that we're inevitably headed for. if you go back one of my posts from a few days ago (forgetting which) …
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Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog:Google Base - it's more than just classifieds and listings
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Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
The Whole Kit & Kaboodle — It is only October, but you hear the jingle bells. This is expected to be a break out year for the online retailers. US online retails sales for this holiday season are predicted to top $26.2 billion, up nearly 21.9% from last year.
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Yahoo! Search blog:
Plan a Trip in a Single Search with Yahoo! Travel Trip Planner — For most people, trip planning begins with a search box. But a single search is just the start of what often becomes hours, even months of intensive online searching, sharing with friends, planning, and logistical details.
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.
Ramit Plushnick-Masti / Associated Press:
Gates Welcomes Competition With Google — JERUSALEM - Google Inc. is fierce competition for Microsoft Corp., but the software giant does not fear the race and plans to upgrade his search technology in the next six months, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates said in remarks published Wednesday.
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David Cohn / Wired News:
Will Pajamas Media Wake Up Blogs? — Big-name political bloggers are banding together to try to bring order to the sometimes-chaotic blogosphere. — Pajamas Media has signed up 70 bloggers including Instapundit.com's Glenn Reynolds, CNBC's Lawrence Kudlow and Pamela from Atlas Shrugs.
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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Stephen Lawson / PC World:
Google Describes its Wi-Fi Pitch — San Francisco evaluates proposals for citywide free Wi-Fi. — SAN FRANCISCO — Google wrote grandly of the importance of Wi-Fi in its recent proposal for free wireless here, but the search company downplayed its own potential role in delivering Internet service.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Engineers Report Breakthrough in Laser Beam Technology — SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26 - A team of Stanford electrical engineers has discovered how to modulate, or switch on and off, a beam of laser light up to a 100 billion times a second with materials that are widely used in the semiconductor industry.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Who owns the wisdom of the crowd? The crowd. — There are lots of issues unsettled around who owns what in our new online world where our whole is worth a heckuva lot more than the sum of our parts. — Who owns my actions and attention and trust... but me? Who owns the wisdom of the crowd... but the crowd?
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Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press:
Japan developing remote control for humans — ATSUGI, Japan (AP) — We wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance, make them halt. Ground-bound pilots use remotes to fly drone airplanes, soldiers to maneuver battlefield robots. — But manipulating humans?
Jo Best / silicon.com:
Mobile & Wireless — BBC shuts down BlackBerry service due to flaw — Emails appearing in wrong inboxes... The BBC has stopped its staff from using BlackBerrys after a flaw in BlackBerry Enterprise Server meant workers at the Beeb received portions of emails intended for colleagues.
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Marketers Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the DVR — Bedoop. Bedoop. Bedoop. — That's the noise a TiVo makes when it skips ads, and it is the most dreaded sound in the television industry. As TiVos and digital video recorders offered by cable and satellite operators proliferate …
