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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.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Putting the Napster Genie Back in the Bottle — SHAWN FANNING turns 25 on Tuesday, and it's been a very long seven years since he wrote a little computer program that let him trade electronic music files with his dorm mates at Northeastern University in Boston, where he was a freshman.
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Don Dodge on The Next …, Om Malik, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, A VC and PaidContent.org
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.
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GROKLAW
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
RIAA prez: Lots of companies secretly install rootkits! It's no biggie! — RIAA President Cary Sherman gave a recent college press-conference where he addressed Sony's rootkit fiasco (among other things — the whole trascript is worth reading for a quick visit to the planet greed). His take?
25hoursaday.com:
Reading Lists in OPML and RSS Bandit — We are getting down to the end game for getting the Nightcrawler release of RSS Bandit. This is where all the more unfun parts of the release happen such as dealing with translations and tracking down performance bugs such as memory leaks or issues with multithreading.
Discussion:
Scobleizer
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.
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michael parekh on IT
Cervezas / Software Everywhere:
All geeked out over my new tablet — And it's the 7-pound Gateway monster with the 14" WXGA screen! Am I stupid or what? I don't think anyone could sum up the folly of this device more aptly than Marc Orchant who described this device as a "desktop replacement Tablet PC.
intertwingly.net:
GOOGLE BASE FORMAT REVIEW — I've started implementing Feed Validator support for the Google Base Bulk Upload formats, initial support is already online, more is committed and should go online overnight, and work will continue into next week, including better error messages.
macdevcenter.com:
Getting the Video out of Your New iPod—for Cheap! — by Erica Sadun, author of Modding Mac OS X — So I buy a video iPod, figuring it would be a cool toy. (Gotta get those toys.) It arrives and I'm ready to give it a whirl. I pony up my two bucks, download the pilot episode of Desperate Housewives …
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PodGuide.tv
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
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
#59: A PR tip, don't beg for links — I'm getting more and more PR that begs for links lately. I immediately delete them. Never beg a blogger for links. Say, instead, "here's something you might find interesting." — Never ask a blogger to link to you
Maryamie:
The Blogging Family's Short and Sweet Conversations — Robert, Patrick and I were having lunch in Palo Alto today. "So what did you do last night Patrick?" I pat him on the back affectionately. — "I saw the Harry Potter movie. It definitely earned its PG-13 rating." He says excitedly.
Discussion:
Marc's Voice
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
