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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Riya's Launch Party @ TechCrunch — We reached a new milestone in our ongoing experiment to see how many people can fit inside my house before the police come and arrest me: over 250 last night (previous record was 200ish) at the Riya Launch Party. — The thing I liked best about this party …
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Software Only, Laughing Squid, CrunchNotes, ben barren, The Social Software Weblog and POP! PR Jots
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Shel Israel / Naked Conversations:
Riya Party Rocked — Boy I haven't been to a launch party like that since the dotcom was still bubbling. There must have been 300 people jammed into Michael Arrington's Atherton yard, all enjoying beer and pizza at an event billed as a barbecue. Pictures are all over the place and most faces …
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
#52: Back from TechCrunch — So, my son and I helped close out the TechCrunch party. We got there at 11 and stayed until 1:15 a.m. — I, and a small group, were gathered around Riya CEO Munjal Shah. We were trying to find out if the rumors were true. He wouldn't confirm nor deny any rumors that Riya was being sold to "G."
Roger Lowenstein / New York Times:
The Story of the Search, Applause Included — THOUGH "The Google Story," by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed (Delacorte Press, $26), is as adoring a business profile as I have read, there are occasional hints that the extraordinary success of this search-engine phenom has begun to go to its head …
malbela.com:
RIAA President To Stop Downloading, Save The Empire — Cary Sherman wants you to know that he isn't against you enjoying music in your own fashion. According to the RIAA president, he is deeply concerned about investing in new artists and keeping your local record store open.
Randall Stross / New York Times:
How Google Tamed Ads on the Wild, Wild Web — FIVE years ago, Web advertisers were engaged in an ever-escalating competition to grab our attention. Monkeys that asked to be punched, pop-ups that spawned still more pop-ups, strobe effects that imparted temporary blindness - these were legal forms of assault.
Andrew Brown / Guardian:
Owning ideas — The boom in the intellectual property market will not reap rewards for us all — The difference between ideas and things is obvious as soon as someone hits you over the head with an idea - so obvious that until recently it was entirely clear to the law. Things could have owners and ideas could not.
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Ten Wikipedia Hacks — When something's working, you stick with it. My series of social media hacks (RSS, Technorati, blogging) has been such a hit, I am going to keep it going! So, with that in mind, here are 10 hacks that will help you get more out of your favorite reference site and mine - Wikipedia!
Brian Bergstein / Associated Press:
Copy Protection Still a Work in Progress — BOSTON - It's been the better part of a decade since Napster and other free song-sharing services began scaring the daylights of the music industry. And still recording companies can't find an effective anti-piracy technology to save their hides.
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I4U News
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Google Base v. microformats — I've read the little background material on Google's Base and still can't see whether the material you put there can be found by other search engines. I also cannot find evidence of an API that shares any standards for tags and structure. Is Base open or closed?
Discussion:
CrunchNotes
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Cisco's Bold New TV Bet — The Scientific-Atlanta deal pushes the networking giant deeper into consumers' home and helps it court cable and telecom providers — Until three years ago, Cisco Systems (CSCO) steered clear of cutthroat markets for high-tech consumer gear.
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Scobleizer
Om Malik / On Broadband, VoIP …:
Google Analytics Is Now Full — Google redressed Urchin web analytics software and released it as Google Analytics. It seems to be quite a hit, that the company had to close the applications for the service. I tried signing up for it this morning and found that I was too late to the party.
Om Malik / On Broadband, VoIP …:
Babble not Bubble 2.0* — John Battelle in an op-ed for The New York Times argues that we are not in a bubble, but instead we are building a better boom. Looking back over past few years, John argues that things have changed for the better. Open source software, commodity hardware …
SEOmoz:
Changes to SEOChat — There's been some major changes to SEOChat, the forum where I moderate and spend most of my online forum time. The owners, DevShed and John Caputo, have decided to enforce strict "nofollow" tags on all outbound links in signatures, causing a mass exodus of many members …
