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Skrenta / Topix.net Weblog:
TOPIX TAGS BLOGS — Today we added 15,000 top weblogs to the Topix.net crawling/tagging engine. Blog posts are being categorized into our 30,000 local feeds as well as our 300,000 subject feeds. Our search results now include blog results, and posts should show up on our site and search index within 1-3 minutes of being crawled.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Yahoo Plans to Connect Services With TiVo — Yahoo and TiVo plan to announce a deal today that will connect Yahoo's vast online service to TiVo's set-top boxes, which, in addition to recording television programs, have a largely unused capability to connect to the Internet.
Nancy White / Full Circle Online Interaction Blog:
Seattle Mindcamp 1.0 — After a nice shower and lunch, I wanted to sit down and reflect on the past 48 hours and the first ever Seattle Mind Camp. From 10 a.m. Saturday through noon today, Sunday, around 140 smart people convened in an empty office building to think, share and play together.
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Todd Bishop / SeattlePI.com Microsoft Blog:
Notes from Mind Camp — Microsoft's Alex Barnett at Seattle Mind Camp. Click image for photo gallery from the event. — Hanging out in an empty office building this weekend, I heard about the latest ways to use online news feeds, took an inside look at Amazon.com's newest project …
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FireRabbit / Eric's Blog:
Seattle Mind Camp was AWESOME — I just got home from Seattle Mind Camp... the event was absolutely awesome. Everyone who attended is already eager to do it again. I met a lot of people, learned a lot, and had a lot of fun. — Here is a list of everything I learned: — Riding a Segway is a lot of fun.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Comparing The Flickrs of Video — I've been tracking a number of sites that offer flickr-like services for video. — I've taken a look at as many of these services that I could find. The most well known is YouTube, which we profiled in August and which recently raised venture money from Sequoia.
CNET News.com:
Crowd gathers for Homebrew Computer Club's 30th — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—If you've never seen a couple hundred bona-fide geeks sitting on the edge of their seats with excitement, you should have been on hand Saturday for an appreciation of the 30th anniversary of the Homebrew Computer Club.
Craig Pringle:
My wishlist for the Tablet PC world … My answer to that is twofold: — 1) The things I want to see in Tablet PC applications right now include (in no particular order): — · Native ink support in Acrobat Reader. And every other application too, of course, but Acrobat Reader is a major one for me.
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Video Plug-in for Google Talk — Video Plug-in for Google Talk — Google Talk, Google's messaging and VOIP application, is now Video enabled with a new plug-in from Festoon. Using the video plug-in, Google Talk users can now see who they are talking to, in real time.
Marc Orchant / The Tablet PCs Weblog:
Gateway Chronicle: First impressions — I've now had a couple of days with the new Gateway convertible to build some first impressions and I must say the experience has been overwhelmingly positive. James and I just finished recording this week's OnTheRun with Tablet PCs podcast …
tbray.org:
Emacs OS Xplosion — OS X has been with us for a few years now, and Emacs has been coming along slowly and surely. We must have hit some sort of a tipping point, and there are a whole lot of people working on the problem; the result is that life is getting better and better for the Emacs tribe.
Matt Haughey / PVRblog:
TiVo and Yahoo deal in the works? — A little birdie dropped me a note that looks legit and sounds trustworthy, but I can't back it up so I'm posting this as a rumor (that I have a strong hunch is real). — It looks like there's an impending deal between Yahoo and TiVo.
Tom Evslin / Fractals of Change:
Don't Buy DSL From This Man (If You Can Help It) — Ed Whitacre is CEO of SBC, the huge local telecom monopoly which is about to swallow AT&T. The excitement of the progeny buying the former parent may be going to his head. Business Week published an interview with him here …
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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Can Hollywood Evade the Death Eaters? — BY all outward appearances, Warner Brothers Entertainment should be having one of its best years ever. For the 21st year in a row, it is expected to show a profit, propelled by a string of television hits like "ER," "The O.C." and "Friends," which is a hot seller on DVD.
