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Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter:
Time is on our side — When Dare Obasanjo and Jason McCabe Calacanis come out swinging against forward motion in attention, you know something important is happening. Both are important figures in this reboot we're calling Web 2.0, and their concerns should be examined carefully.
Rob Pegoraro / Washington Post:
Ground Rules for Buying on the Cutting Edge: home computer — Shopping for a computer would be easy, if it weren't for that whole Windows-versus-Mac thing. — Fortunately, that may be a simpler choice than you think — and making that call first can greatly simplify the rest of your home-computer shopping.
Tadelste / lxer.com:
Linux News says Mac OS X could destroy Microsoft — LXer Day Desk: 11-20-2005 — Apple can alter its business plan slightly and become the well-liked dominant force in the technology market. Everything Apple needs sits right in front of them for the taking.
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.
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
Attention Skype-haters: SkypeKiller lets you wipe Skype from your network for good — And no, I am not talking about the Uninstall feature activated from Add/Remove Programs. Something far more effectual. — I've found a site called SkypeKiller, the Web presence for a freeware program …
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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Om Malik, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, Don Dodge on The Next …, A VC and PaidContent.org
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.
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Scobleizer
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?
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 …
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.
John / ProgrammableWeb.com:
diggdot.us — Digg + slashdot + del.icio.us/popular are a regular browsing cycle for some folks so the diggdot.us mashup combines them into a unified format, eliminates duplicates and adds a few extras. It's brand new so it will likely go through refining shortly (ex: some duplicates still get through).
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
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
