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Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Price as Signal — Forbes: "EMI Group boss Alain Levy said at press conference today that he believed Jobs would introduce multiple price points for iTunes music within the next year." — The story they're trying to tell you is that "older, less popular songs could be discounted …
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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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
VCS VS. THE PLATFORMS — This morning (London time) I was on a panel featuring Simon Levene of Yahoo, among others. The focus was Web 2.0 and venture capital (fittingly, it was sponsored by FirstCapital). Simon, who is MD here for Yahoo in Business Development, mentioned something …
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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Oblivionabyss / It's a Mad, Mad Mind:
Back Off, Porky. — OKAY FOR THE READING IMPAIRED (PSSST, AOL EXECUTIVES THIS MEANS YOU) I WILL BE WRITING MOST OF THIS EXACTLY IN THIS FORMAT, JUST SO YOU CAN SEE EACH AND EVERY WORD. I EVEN NIXED MY FAVORITE COMIC SANS MS FONT. — NOW, ON WITH MY JOURNAL ENTRY.
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Phillip Torrone / makezine.com:
Laser etched Powerbook! — I didn't really plan using a $20,000 laser cutter on my 17" Powerbook to etch a 19th-century engraving of a tarsier, a nocturnal mammal related to the lemur (also the vi book cover image, from O'Reilly), but it seemed like it had to done. The results are stunning - photos and more...
Martha Graybow / Reuters:
Online daters sue matchmaking sites — NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's not easy finding love in cyberspace, and now some frustrated online daters say they were victims of fraud by two top Internet matchmaking services and have taken their complaints to court. — Match.com, a unit of IAC/Interactive Corp. …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Skype to make U.S. retail debut — Net telephone service Skype Technologies is set to make its first appearance in a U.S. retail store. — The Luxembourg-based Net telephony company, founded by the people behind the Kazaa peer-to-peer service, is expected to announce on Monday that it has struck …
Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
What would you do with an extra $100 a day? — This is a real question. Anyone reading this weblog knows that I'm notoriously bad with money and pretty much hate the topic with a passion, so I'm asking for real, what would you personally do if you had an extra $100 a day?
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Pamela Parker / ClickZ:
Following the Lead to a More Transparent Future — Come along on a trip to the cutting edge, where we join some of the smartest folks in Internet marketing as they work to realize a very far-out (to use San Francisco lingo) vision of online lead generation's future. — First, some background.
Chris Kohler / Wired News:
Xbox 360 Hits a High-Def Homer — I lean back in my chair, press a button on my game pad, and the console turns on. Why hasn't anyone ever thought of this before? — Well, now they have. On Tuesday, Microsoft unleashes its next-generation video-game console, the Xbox 360.
Rupert Goodwins / ZDNet:
Hyperthreading hurts server performance, say developers … Intel had stated that hyperthreading's performance advantages would show once threaded software became available, but it appears that in some cases the opposite is true — Intel's Hyperthreading Technology (HT) is being blamed for server performance problems.
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cbc.ca:
Mega Bloks wins SCOC ruling on Lego trademark — Canada's highest court ruled unanimously Thursday that Mega Bloks does indeed have business in the playrooms of the nation, along with Lego. — The Supreme Court of Canada decision marks the end of a long-running trademark battle between …
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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 …
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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