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Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
MY EXPERIENCE WITH GOOGLE BASE — So, to properly experience Google Base, I submitted an "item", namely my article on Google Base. You can read it here, and you can view all (one) of my Google Base "items" at my Google Base store page. — So, problems:
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Google Blogoscoped:Google Base Officially Live Now
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PC World's Techlog, InsideGoogle, Charlene Li's Blog, Coolz0r and The Social Software Weblog
Doc Searls / Linux Journal:
Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes — We're hearing tales of two scenarios—one pessimistic, one optimistic—for the future of the Net. If the paranoids are right, the Net's toast. If they're not, it will be because we fought to save it, perhaps in a new way we haven't talked about before.
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Phil Windley's Technometria, Between the Lines, Jarrett House North, Copyfight, Ed Batista and Internet Pro Radio
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The Doc Searls Weblog:
Saving the Net from the pipeholders — I've spent much of the last two weeks writing an essay that just went up at Linux Journal: Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes. It's probably the longest post I've ever put up on the Web. It's certainly the most important.
Wall Street Journal:
Top Web Sites Build Up Ad Backlog, Raise Rates — Prime Spots Are Sold Out — Months Ahead as Marketers — Shift Dollars From TV, Print — As marketers shift dollars from TV and print media to the Internet, more Web sites are hanging "sold out" signs on their most coveted pages and dramatically raising ad rates.
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Staci / PaidContent.org:
Yahoo, Gawker Join Forces In Licensing, Distribution Deal : Once again, Nick Denton zigs where Jason Calacanis zags. Instead of shopping Gawker Media, Denton is teaming up with Yahoo for the blog network's first multi-blog major distribution deal. Dozens of posts from Gawker's five best-known blogs …
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David A. Vise / Washington Post:
Yahoo to Add 5 Gawker Media Blogs to Web Site — Yahoo Inc. is adding daily feeds from five popular bloggers to its Web site, the latest move by the Internet giant to spice up its news and entertainment offerings with irreverent content. — The firm's licensing deal with privately held …
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Hot Donkey! Premium CableCARD HDTV in Microsoft's Media Center Coming in 2006 — Hot Donkey. Per the press release below, it's official: expect to see CableCARD HDTV Support in Vista due out before Christmas next year. As those of you who read my blog know, lack of premium HDTV …
Roger O. Crockett / Business Week:
Orchestrating a Revved-Up ROKR — After the music-playing handset's lackluster launch, Motorola and Cingular are working on a revamp — and a slew of related services — On the 11th floor of the Cingular Wireless headquarters outside Atlanta's hip Buckhead neighborhood, executives are plotting a comeback.
Fred / A VC:
Google Is Lame — While I am venting about Google this morning, I may as well share a feeling I've had lately about Google. — They are lame. — Not in their core search product which remains the single greatest web service in existence. — But in many of their recent initiatives …
Gina Trapani / Lifehacker:
Geek to Live: Turn Firefox into a web writer — The rise of the read/write web makes the term "browser" a misnomer. If you use web-based e-mail like Gmail, or if you post to forums or write a blog, you're using a "browser" to author documents as well as browse them.
Inside Google Sitemaps:
More stats! — Posted by Vanessa Fox, Google Engineering — We've just launched some new features. The biggest change for those of you already using Sitemaps: if you've verified your site, you'll see substantially more stats and error details. — The biggest change for new users …
Cmdr Zorg / Game + Life Review:
BLUE SKY IN GAMES CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED — Games need BLUE SKIES! Games need BRIGHT YELLOW SUNS! Games need RED AND BLUE THINGS in them! We want to play in a HAPPY PRETEND LAND, not a s**t version of an American slum full of mixed-race gangsters wearing licensed sportswear!
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft eyes ads as consumers close wallets — Although Office and Windows continue to produce vast revenue and profits for the Microsoft, some of the company's other well-known consumer titles are generating only a trickle of business. — According to internal documents seen by CNET News.com …
Walter S. Mossberg / Wall Street Journal:
Mossberg's Favorite Tech Blogs — Every day, I scan dozens of blogs, on politics, sports, news, and, of course, personal technology — the topic I write about. Here are some of my favorite tech blogs. Like all blogs, these range from mere roundups of items elsewhere on the Web to outpourings of personal opinion.
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mygadgetbag.com:
~ The Most Shocking Video Game Moments of All Time ~ — Related Categories: — I am the first to admit that I spend entirely too much time in front of a computer monitor. I am also the first to admit that the majority of the time in front of my computer is spent on video games.
John C. Dvorak / PC Magazine:
Xbox 360 to the Rescue — Real progress in desktop computing always stems from gaming. Even the invention of spreadsheets was a sort of game, and all the display technologies were boosted by gamers. But in the mid- to late 1990s, the scene began to focus purely on business computing, giving it a largely undeserved leadership role.
