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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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Richard MacManus / Read/Write Web:
Attack of the Clones — So the latest ruckus in tech.blogosphere is about Dave Winer's call to Clone the Google API (note the URL name). Robert Scoble wrote an enthusiastic post entitled Yahoo's new pretty maps are doomed (and so are Microsoft's), which understandably got up the nostrils of Yahoo!'s Jeremy Zawodny.
Michael Bazeley / SiliconBeat:
Yahoo Maps: a Flash-y interface and a better API — It's been said before, but the bare-knuckles competition between Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc. is nothing but good for consumers. — Take the news tonight out of Yahoo about its mapping service. Yahoo's released another upgrade to Yahoo Maps …
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Social Patterns, Read/Write Web, web2.wsj2.com, Solution Watch, business2blog, Mashable*, The Map Room, Search Engine Journal and JD on MX
cruel to be kind:
Maps: Let me play — Scoble writes about map and APIs: … The tag line is always: Make it easy for me to spend my money. Or in the case of a content owner: Make it easy for me to implement your service. — Google ads? Piece of cake. Little generator to do them, one applying, usable every where I like.
25hoursaday.com:
Clone the Google APIs: Kill That Noise — Yesterday Dave Winer wrote in a post about cloning the Google API Dave Winer wrote … and earlier that … This doesn't seem like a great idea to me for a wide variety of reasons but first, let's start with a history lesson before I tackle this specific issue
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Kevin Poulsen / Wired News:
Alleged Pop-Up Hacker Busted — In the first U.S. prosecution of its kind, FBI agents arrested a 20-year-old Los Angeles man Thursday on charges that he cracked some 400,000 Windows machines and covertly installed pop-up-generating adware on them, in a scheme that allegedly brought in $60,000 in ill-gotten profits.
Robert Lemos / securityfocus.com:
World of Warcraft hackers using Sony BMG rootkit — Want to cheat in your online game and not get caught? Just buy a Sony BMG copy protected CD. — World of Warcraft hackers have confirmed that the hiding capabilities of Sony BMG's content protection software can make tools made for cheating …
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Terra Nova, Guardian Unlimited, technology filter, broadband, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Engadget and Boing Boing
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:Sony releases de-rootkit-ifier, lies about risks from rootkits — UPDATED
Edward W. Felten / Freedom to Tinker:SonyBMG and First4Internet Release Mysterious Software Update
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Technology & Marketing …, Infothought, F-Secure, Spyware Confidential, Ed Bott's Windows Expertise and Copyfight
Rasmus / Rasmus' Toys Page:
GeoCool! … There is of course the fancy new maps.yahoo.com/beta site which is fun, but as far as I am concerned the killer app here is the geocoding platform that drives this. And it is completely accessible for anyone to use. It's also a sane API that anybody can figure out in minutes.
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Michael S. Malone / ABCNEWS:
Silicon Insider: Forbes Fumbles the Blogosphere — Does an Attack on Bloggers Signal the Dawn of Blogosphere-Dominant Media? — Nov. 3, 2005 — It's déjà vu all over again. — I was halfway through the blogosphere summit in Manhattan last week, running back and forth …
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 …
Reuters:
MySpace.com creates own record label — MySpace.com, one of the top music destinations on the Internet, is starting its own record label. — The imprint, to be manufactured by Universal Music Group's Interscope Records, will begin life Nov. 15 with the release of the compilation "MySpace Records: Volume I."
Jason McCabe Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Creative-Weblogging: What a bunch of thieves — People are frequently inspired by Weblogs, Inc., and we love that. Heck, we were inspired by folks like Ted Leonsis at the AOL Greenhouse and Scott Kurnit at About.com. However, once and a while someone will cross the line between inspiration and outright theft.
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The Blog Herald
prweb.com:
U.S. Patent Office Publishes the First Patent Application to Claim a Fictional Storyline; Inventor Asserts Provisional Rights Against Hollywood — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will publish history's first "storyline patent" application today from an application filed in November, 2003.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft buys FolderShare — Microsoft said on Thursday that it has acquired an online file-sharing service that it will incorporate into the Windows Live service announced earlier this week. — The software maker purchased the FolderShare service from Austin, Texas-based ByteTaxi.
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Jason McCabe Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
The Weblog Ad Directory (+ Weblogs, Inc. v. Gawker stats!) — My pal Nick has been asking me to expose our stats forever (in fact, trying to bait me by saying that I was afraid). I never wanted to put them out there because the stats really layout the WIN business plan in many ways.
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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 …
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.
