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Fred / WeBreakStuff:
Forbes says we lie and cheat — In quite possibly the most despicable article I've read this year, Forbes calls bloggers part of an "online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies" (quoted from this article by Daniel Lyons). Talk about media sensationalism. Lets think about this for a little while.
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Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Attack the bloggers — Are we at the cusp of a new media trend called attack the bloggers? First it was Advertising Age and now its Forbes. I am disappointed to say the least by Forbes' over-the-top cover-story that paints bloggers as a lynch mob. The fact that it is the #1 story …
Peter Kafka / Forbes:
Sprint's Music Service To Use Samsung, Sanyo Handsets — Sprint Nextel's (nyse: S - news - people ) new music-download service, set to launch Monday Oct. 31, will be supported by new mobile phones from Samsung (otc: SSNLF - news - people ) and Sanyo (nasdaq: SANYY - news - people )according to people familiar with the plans.
Jo Twist / BBC:
Picturing online gaming's value — For some time, online gamers have been treating their virtual lives as just another part of their offline lives. — Millions around the world play, meet up, battle, buy and sell in online games and virtual worlds, such as Second Life and World of Warcraft.
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Tom Coates / plasticbag.org is a weblog:
On the BBC Annotatable Audio project... This post concerns an experimental internal-BBC-only project designed to allow users to collectively describe, segment and annotate audio in a Wikipedia-style fashion. It was developed by the BBC Radio & Music Interactive R&D team …
Rudy De Waele / m-trends.org:
Carnival of the Mobilists 03 — It is a great pleasure to introduce you to the third Carnival of the Mobilists. The more I get into the concept the more I believe it's really great for everybody involved. Not only for the bloggers writing about mobile but especially for the readers who …
China Martens / InfoWorld:
Open source 2.0: New kids on the block — With the boom in the number of open source startups some are predicting fallout — Remember a year or so ago when you could probably name most of the open-source companies in the market? Try doing that now when the number of startups has skyrocketed to several hundred.
Richard MacManus / ZDNet:
Microsoft building a fully Web-based Office? — Microsoft is leaping into hosted applications big time. InformationWeek reports that Microsoft plans to offer hosted implementations of SharePoint, CRM and ERP applications. But the best quote in that article was left till last.
GameSpot:
PS3 to run at 120 fps? — It's possible, says Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi; all that's needed is a TV capable of displaying it. — Coming soon to an Internet message board near you: waves of more-hardcore-than-thou posters referring to any game running at 60 frames per second (fps) as "a slideshow."
Inside AdSense Team / Inside AdSense:
The facts about smart pricing — We've noticed a lot of talk recently about the phenomenon commonly referred to as 'smart pricing'. There are some misconceptions out there about this, so we wanted to provide a few facts about smart pricing and how to ensure you're maximizing your revenue.
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opensolaris.org:
The Java Desktop System — Introduction — The Java Desktop System is a secure and comprehensive enterprise desktop software solution that combines the best of open source innovation. Java Desktop System is a major component of the Solaris 10 Operating System, x86 and SPARC architecure editions …
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Planet GNOME
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Digg, and you shall find VC money — Digg, the San Francisco start-up that ranks news items by letting people choose which stories they like anywhere on the Web, has just received $2.8 million in venture capital from some big-name investors, including Omidyar Network, the outfit led …
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blizzard.com:
BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT® ANNOUNCES EXPANSION SET FOR WORLD OF WARCRAFT® — World of Warcraft®: The Burning Crusade™ expands the Warcraft® universe with new playable races, new lands, new features, and more — ANAHEIM, Calif. - October 28, 2005 - Blizzard Entertainment …
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Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
Making Money? — Okay, extending my thoughts from the last post, I think we should have a conversation about how to make money if you're a startup. Help educate me if I'm wrong on this: The basic concept is pretty simple, right? I create or obtain something of value, and I exchange that something for money.
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Signal vs. Noise
Davilac / webmasterbrain.com:
Discover the ultimate all-in-one SEO Tool … A totally new and smart way to check SEO stats while you surf: — The SEO Links extension gives you tooltips specially enhanced for SEOs. When enabled, hovering any link in Firefox will show you Yahoo, MSN, and Google link popularity and ranking data for the URL and anchor text pair.
