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Michael / michael parekh on IT:
ON WHY GOOGLE BASE IS A REALLY BIG DEAL — Well, after weeks of speculation and anticipation, Google Base is officially announced and out. And as it is with things, the hype set the stage for initial, general disappointment. — Around the blog landscape this morning, the initial vote seems lukewarm, as seen on memeorandum.
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Bill Burnham / Burnham's Beat:
RSS and Google Base: Google Feeds Off The Web — There has been a lot of talk about Google Base today on the web and much of the reaction appears to be either muted or negative. The lack of enthusiasm seems to be driven by the fact that the GUI is pretty rudimentary and doesn't provide …
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Web 2.0 Explorer, PaidContent.org, Charlene Li's Blog, Scripting News and Paul Kedrosky's …
Fred / A VC:Google Is Lame — While I am venting about Google this morning …
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Google Blogoscoped, WeBreakStuff, Mark Evans, albert.tanutama.com, Oliver Thylmann, B.L. Ochman's weblog, Shore Communications Inc., a shel of my former self, BASEMENT.ORG, SearchViews, RatcliffeBlog, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, The Stalwart, Incremental Blogger and Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
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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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.
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Burningbird, cruel to be kind, Ted's Radio Weblog, Daily Wireless and The Community Engine
Jason McCabe Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Gawker's Yahoo deal — A bunch of folks have been pinging me about Gawker's Yahoo! deal and my thoughts. My thoughts are: excellent!!! Great for bloggers, great for Yahoo, and most of all great for consumers. — We're psyched that Scott Moore at Yahoo News understands and values blogs …
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PaidContent.org
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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 …
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Grace Kwak / Official Google Blog:Knowledge is power — We launched Google Sitemaps this past summer …
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Staci / PaidContent.org:
Demand For Ad Inventory Outstrips Supply At Major Portals (sub. req.) : Nothing new about this in one sense ... ad inventory has been at a premium for months and is among the top drivers of the push for more video with its 15-second broadband bookends and the move to ad-supported video for sites like CNN.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:Creating false scarcity in advertising
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Not Too Geeky, Software Only, The Blackfriars Blog, Wall Street Journal and Online News Squared
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.
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Alice Hill's Real Tech News
Om Malik / On Broadband, VoIP …:
Google's Riya Designs? — Exclusive: To paraphrase a popular Bollywood ditty, Is Google singing O Riya! O Riya! — Since this past Thursday, I have heard whispers that Riya, a Redwood City, California-based photo service is being courted by Google. Now this rumor has been repeated …
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.
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.
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.
Steve Friess / Wired News:
Women Warm the Podcast Bench — Ontario, California — Wendy Malley says she didn't know how much of a men's club podcasting had become until she arrived here for the nascent industry's first trade show last week. — The co-host of Gabber JaW says she realized her gender might be a problem …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
$100 laptop expected in late 2006 — TUNIS, Tunisia—A hand-cranked laptop that will cost roughly $100 is expected to be in the hands of schoolchildren in poorer countries by late 2006. — MIT Media Lab Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at a United Nations Internet summit …
Joshua Chaffin / MSNBC:
Wal-Mart mulls DVD download booths — Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has held discussions with Hollywood studios about installing kiosks in its stores from which consumers could use digital technology to download films on to portable discs. — The move aims to alleviate the shortage …
