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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Yahoo's new pretty maps are doomed (and so are Microsoft's) — Has Google disrupted the businesses of Yahoo and Microsoft? Yes! It got me out of bed to write this post. No, that's not the disruption I'm talking about (I'll hopefully be able to take a couple of days off …
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web2.wsj2.com:
10 ISSUES FACING WEB 2.0 GOING INTO 2006 — Now that industry leaders like Microsoft are not only taking Web 2.0 concepts very seriously, they are apparently intent on banking on them as well, we're certainly living in a slightly different world this week compared to last.
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Yahoo! Search blog:
Yahoo! Maps: drag 'em, search 'em, hack 'em — Today we're giving you a first look at the next generation of Yahoo! Maps which, we think, has a lot of features you're gonna like. We've really worked hard to make the product as intuitive as possible while building in some major upgrades in the interface …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:New Yahoo Maps Shows Power of Flash
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Solution Watch, Between the Lines, Mashable*, Venture Chronicles, WeBreakStuff, InsideGoogle, The Unofficial Microsoft …, Metroblogging DC, Jeremy Zawodny's blog, The Map Room, Flashpoint, Signal vs. Noise, BASEMENT.ORG, The Tao of Mac, CrunchNotes, Comments from the …, Toni Schneider's Blog and Metafilter
Edward W. Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
SonyBMG and First4Internet Release Mysterious Software Update — SonyBMG and First4Internet, the companies caught installing rootkit-like software on the computers of people who bought certain CDs, have taken their first baby steps toward addressing the problem.
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John Borland / CNET News.com:
Sony CD protection sparks security concerns — Mark Russinovich was doing a routine test this week of computer security software he'd co-written, when he made a surprising discovery: Something new was hiding itself deep inside his PC's guts. — It took some time for Russinovich …
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Wired News, www.gulker.com, vnunet.com, Blog Business Summit, F-Secure and Dan Gillmor's blog
Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
Sony, DRM and Trespass to Chattels — A minor storm is brewing over Sony's installation of DRM software on users' computers when they play Sony's CDs. Sony's software is installed as a "rootkit," a difficult-to-remove installation, and it supports Sony's DRM, which really irritates the anti-DRM crowd.
Pat Schroeder / Washington Times:
Reining in Google — You're probably reading the byline above and wondering, "What could these two, from opposite sides of the aisle in Congress, possibly have in common with each other?" — The answer is when it comes to Google's Print Library Project we have much in common …
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Google Patent : Organic Results Ranked by User Profiling — Google Patent : Organic Results Ranked by User Profiling — Google has filed for an organic search patent which is a bit different than what we're used to seeing in Google search, and perhaps something we may expect from their AdWords or AdSense divisions.
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
The new Robert Scoble Services agenda — Oh, Dave, I couldn't say "clone the Google API" in public! But you did. So I'll riff on it. I agree with it. I'll even repeat it. Clone the Google API. Clone the Google API. Clone the Google API. Without the limits. Without the limits.
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Adam Mathes / Official Google Blog:
Preserving public domain books — The world's libraries are a tremendous source of knowledge, much of which has never been available online. One of our goals for Google Print is to change that, and today we've taken an exciting step toward meeting it: making available a number …
Bryan Glick / computing.co.uk:
Exclusive: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates talks to Computing — Bill Gates reflects on Microsoft's past and future plans, in an exclusive two-part interview looking back on Microsoft's 30 years — Thirty years after founding the world's biggest software company, and despite being the richest man …
PR Newswire:
Microsoft Acquires FolderShare, a File-Synchronization Technology Provider — Deal Aligns With Windows Live Goal of Connecting Customers to the People and Information That Matter Most to Them — REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - News) …
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Download Squad, CNET News.com, The Unofficial Microsoft …, Om Malik's Broadband Blog, Andre and OpsanBlog
James Enck / EuroTelcoblog:
And the answer is... I guess people have varying definitions for "amazing," and my teaser from last night somehow got people thinking I was talking about VoIP (and several others thought I had landed a mega-bucks job - dream on). I hope no one is let down.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Saving journalism isn't about saving jobs — Every time we hear about another cutback in newspapers — and there are plenty of them these days — we automatically hear the notion that journalism jobs must be saved to save journalism. I'm afraid it's time to challenge that assumption.
James Boyle / Financial Times:
Web's never-to-be-repeated revolution — The web is having a birthday. This month, we will have the 15th anniversary of the creation of the first web page. It is the birthday of Tim Berners-Lee's amazing idea that there could be a worldwide web, linked not by spider silk but by hypertext links …
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