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John Battelle / New York Times:
Building a Better Boom — IT sure feels like a bubble, doesn't it? Let's tick off the signs: a red-hot market for Internet stocks (Google, for example, has more than quadrupled since it went public in 2004); fawning articles celebrating entrepreneurs; a glut of venture capitalists elbowing …
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Shore Communications Inc., michael parekh on IT, Get Real, IP Democracy, PodTech Comments … and SearchViews
Robert X. Cringely / pbs.org:
Google-Mart — Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet Than Microsoft Ever Did — Play to your strengths. That's the key to success in any industry. This is the week I promised to explain where I think Google is headed, and playing to the company's strengths …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Google data centers and dark fiber connections — Robert X. Cringely wrote a fascinating story today "Google Mart" about Google's plans for all their data centers and dark fiber they have been buying. Google has tens of thousands of servers, and over 50 data centers, scattered all over the world.
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Lucas van Grinsven / Reuters:
Software Writers Spot Open Source in Sony BMG CDs — BARCELONA (Reuters)—Controversial copy-protection software used by music publisher Sony BMG on music CDs appears to have tapped an open source project, raising questions about copyrights, software experts said on Friday.
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Brian Krebs / Security Fix:Sony, Amazon Detail CD Buyback
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Microsoft Monitor, Ed Bott's Windows Expertise, Boing Boing and Life On the Wicked Stage
Nick Bradbury:
An Attention Namespace for OPML — In a recent post I said that OPML would be a great format for sharing attention data, but I wasn't sure whether this would be possible due to uncertainty over OPML's support for namespaces. This afternoon I talked with Dave Winer and Steve Gillmor …
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Marc / being-reasonable.com:
Reasonable Interview: Shel Israel, Co-Author, Naked Conversations — In the inaugural Reasonable Interview, Shel Israel, co-author (with Robert Scoble) of the upcoming book Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, talks about the impact of blogging on marketing and advertising.
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
#46: Blogging does not integrate, Shel says — Shel is writing up a storm over on our book blog, Naked Conversations. — He and I met the other day and he told me that he is hearing lots of companies thinking about integrating blogging into their marketing plans.
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Apple iTunes security flaw discovered — A critical vulnerability has been found in some versions of Apple's popular iTunes that could allow attackers to remotely take over a user's computer, according to a warning issued Thursday by a security research firm.
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Jennifer Guevin / CNET News.com:
Open Source Media group met with harsh criticism — OSM, the Open Source Media group formerly known as Pajamas Media, launched Wednesday, but it hasn't received the positive response one might have expected from the blogosphere. The group, which just secured $3.5 million in venture funds …
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Steve Sloan / Steve Sloan, SJSU Tech on a mission:
Scoble returns to SJSU — Scoble talks to SJSU J-school faculty about future of Mass Communications — Today, my long-time friend, former student employee and current Microsoft Tech Evangelist & author Robert Scoble [Link], a former student of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications …
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Evolution of the Species:
Open Source Hardware — Other blog titles we considered... Power to the People — Open-Gratis-Libre — Friday Free Stuff — (...but, Mary sort of has that one already.) — Let Freedom Ring II — The latter follows up on the previous blog of the same title from last week: Let Freedom Ring.
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Liam McNulty / Engadget:
Japan-only 20th Anniversary Edition Windows XP — Localization be damned, since Microsoft has decided to release a special edition of Windows XP only in Japan to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first Windows. Finding details about what has changed versus previous XPs is difficult …
New York Times:
Cisco Set to Enter Cable Field — Cisco Systems Inc., the Internet equipment provider, plans to announce today the acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta, a maker of television set-top boxes, for $7 billion, according to people who have been briefed on the negotiations.
Michael Singer / CNET News.com:
High-tech photos give new meaning to 'talking pictures' — If a picture is worth a thousand words, how valuable would it be if someone added a sound track? — Italian start-up Zanetti Studio aims to find out. The Milan, Italy-based company is preparing a new photo printer, called Speekysmart …
Blogmalware / Anti-Malware Engineering Team:
Sony rootkit signatures now available — Hi, we are Eric Allred and Ziv Mador, response coordinators for the anti-malware technology team. — We have analyzed several versions of the rootkit that have been shipped as part of Sony's XCP software. We are calling the family WinNT/F4IRootkit.
Kevin Poulsen / Wired News:
Negroponte: Laptop for Every Kid — TUNIS, Tunisia — If tech luminary Nicholas Negroponte has his way, the pale light from rugged, hand-cranked $100 laptops will illuminate homes in villages and townships throughout the developing world, and give every child on the planet a computer of their own by 2010.
