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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Forbes Cover Story Blows It, Calling Bloggers Lynch Mobs — Earlier tonight I was on a four-minute segment on CNBC that largely focused on Forbes' new cover story - Attack of the Blogs. Registration is required or the bugmenot login/password "forbesdontbug" worked for me.
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Dan Gillmor / Dan Gillmor's blog:
Forbes's Trashy Blog Attack — Overall, what a pile of trash from Forbes Magazine, which uses its cover to go on the attack against bloggers in the new issue. You have to register to read the stories. Go ahead if you must; it's worth reading to see how a normally solid business magazine …
Daniel Lyons / Forbes:
Attack of the Blogs — Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective. Their potent allies in this pursuit include Google and Yahoo. — Gregory Halpern knows how to hype. Shares of his publicly held company …
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blog.flickr.com:
Your Photos - not on Flickr! — Over the last year, we've been asked 15,381 times, "How about printing? When are we going to get printing!?" Today we are happy to answer: "Today!" For now it is U.S. only (we know! we're working hard on rolling it out everywhere!).
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Jason / Signal vs. Noise:
How do you feel about someone else making money off your content? — Jason Oct 26 — 36 comments Latest by Stewart Butterfield — Anil makes an interesting observation regarding Flickr, Yahoo, and your content. He uses Flickr and Yahoo as examples, but of course this relates …
Yahoo! Search blog:
From My Web to Your Website - A Button Share! — Over at SearchEngineWatch, Danny Sullivan has been asking why we haven't offered a "Save to My Web" button. Well here it is! — Save to My Web is a simple, sociable button you can add to any and every page of your blog or website.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Need a job? Don't use a Mac — update When it comes to some big-name companies, Macintosh users may have a tough time landing a job. — It's not just that the business world is dominated by Windows-based computers. It's because, at a number of large companies, Mac users literally can't apply.
Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:
Time Warner board to discuss AOL future — Time Warner's board of directors will hold crucial discussions about AOL's future at a meeting on Thursday, focusing on whether to partner with Microsoft or Google, although a final decision is not expected immediately.
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microsoft.com:
Microsoft Reports First-Quarter Earnings — Microsoft delivers double-digit operating income growth, announces plans to accelerate share repurchase. — Income Statements — Balance Sheets — Cash Flows Statements — Segment Revenue/Operating Income(Loss) — SEC Filings
Darryl K. Taft / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft RTMs Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 — Microsoft on Thursday released to manufacturing its Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 products, previously known by the code names Whidbey and Yukon respectively. — Officials at the Redmond, Wash., company called the RTM …
Tim / Surf-Bits, The Switcher's Website:
The Ultimate Freeware Package for your iPod. — The Mac developer community has given us Mac users a ton of great software for our iPods. I've talked about many of my favorite programs in the past. Most of these, like Pod2Go and Podlock are shareware and commercial.
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BBC:
Microsoft aims to trounce Google — People are underestimating what Microsoft is doing with search technology, says Bill Gates. — The head of the software giant told the BBC that its ambition is to be bigger than Google in search. — He said that competition had ultimately …
EFF: Breaking News:
Court Issues Surveillance Smack-Down to Justice Department — No Cell Phone Location Tracking Without Probable Cause — New York - Agreeing with a brief submitted by EFF, a federal judge forcefully rejected the government's request to track the location of a mobile phone user without a warrant.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
GOOGLEBASE: STRUCTURED/VERTICAL/DOMAIN SEARCH AIN'T THE FREEWEB — I recently spoke to a reputable person who is a senior exec in a major structured database company ( I promised not to name this person or the company/industry.) I can't go into specifics, but the company owns a very large repository …
Kurt Kleiner / newscientist.com:
Email and letter writing share fundamental pattern — Both Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein relied on pen, paper, and the postal service to communicate with correspondents around the world. But researchers have now found the pattern of their replies is the same as that of computer users …
