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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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Om Malik, The Jason Calacanis Weblog, Shore Communications Inc., Get Real, IP Democracy, PodTech Comments … and SearchViews
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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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michael parekh on IT, IP Democracy, Between the Lines, Oliver Thylmann, Geeking with Greg, Bokardo and The Blackfriars Blog
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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.
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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Bokardo, Paul Kedrosky's …, Scripting News, Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter, Things That and Alex Barnett blog
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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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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 …
Red Herring:
Hackers Cracked Gmail — Google fixed a problem in its email program that allowed hackers to read people's email and pose as legitimate users. — Google said Wednesday it has fixed a problem in its widely used email program that allowed hackers to break into people's Gmail accounts …
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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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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 …
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...
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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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.
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 …
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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