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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 …
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 …
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
MY EXPERIENCE WITH GOOGLE BASE
Danny / Danny Ayers, Raw Blog:
Google Base : RDF lite silo?
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.
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 …
Discussion: Solution Watch
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
Discussion: Susan Mernit's Blog
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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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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Gadgetopia and Download Squad
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.
Discussion: Scobleizer and Daily Wireless
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 …
Discussion: Zatz Not Funny and Engadget
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 …
Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
Coffee Talk with Senior Google Engineer : Matt Cutts  —  Brett introduces the day and this session.  —  This session is where we pound Matt Cutts with questions, or not... we will see.  —  He explained that in 99 or so, he posted a thread telling the search engines to come talk to us (the webmaster).

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