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Ray Ozzie:
Really Simple Sharing — One of the great things about once again having an active blog is that it enables me to engage in discussion about concepts I'm excited about, and that I'm working on, before they're fully-baked and while they could benefit from others' involvement.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Sharing at so many levels! — Microsoft has unveiled a new proposal called SSE, which stands for Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML. — In 2005, RSS-based aggregators have been around for six years. They come in all sizes and shapes, some inspired by mail readers, others are …
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
SSE - Simple Sharing Extensions - A Microsoft innovation on RSS — Ray Ozzie and the team at Microsoft is working on an exciting new innovation to RSS called SSE, Simple Sharing Extensions. There is a draft specification in place, and sample code will be ready soon.
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Web 2.0 Explorer, Texas Venture Capital …, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and franklinmint.fm
EFF: Breaking News:
EFF Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Sony BMG — Company Should Repair Damage to Customers Caused by CD Software — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with two leading national class action law firms, today filed a lawsuit against Sony BMG, demanding that the company repair …
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Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
EFF, Texas Attorney General Sue Sony — Greg Abbott, the attorney general for Texas, today filed a lawsuit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment, alleging that its controversial (and now recalled) "XCP" anti-piracy software violates the state's anti-spyware and consumer protection laws.
Martin LaMonica / ZDNet:
Microsoft to standardize Office formats … Microsoft intends to submit file formats for its new Office 12 applications to the European standards body ECMA International. The company hopes this will allay concern about its level of control over document formats.
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Brian Jones / Office XML Formats:
Standardizing the Microsoft Office Open XML formats — Today we are making a really important announcement about our XML formats. We are going to bring the Microsoft Office Open XML formats to a standards body with the intention of eventually making the formats an ISO standard.
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Paul Mooney
Peter Lewis / CNN:
Should you wait for the PS3? — Even if the Xbox 360 is a rousing success, Sony will likely still dominate the console universe. — NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - More than 90 million PlayStation 2 consoles have been sold worldwide since the PS2's debut in 2000, compared with some 25 million Microsoft Xboxes sold since 2001.
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Kotaku
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog …:Notes on Xbox 360 launch
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Michael Gartenberg, PaidContent.org, Thomas Hawk's Digital … and Ed Bott's Media Central
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
TiVo to Transfer Shows to iPods, Sony PSP — SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20 - TiVo, the maker of digital video recorders, plans to announce a new feature on Monday that will let TiVo owners watch recorded television shows on Apple's video iPods and on Sony's handheld PSP game machine.
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michael parekh on IT, Venture Chronicles, PaidContent.org, Associated Press, A VC, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Gizmodo, Los Angeles Times, PVRblog, IP Democracy, RatcliffeBlog, Digital Tech Life, Technology360, Blogspotting, Geek News Central …, The Voice of Online …, Joystiq and Pito's Blog
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Cingular to be AT&T — not! — Well, you can say goodbye to Cingular. SBC, which closed its merger with AT&T last week, decided that after spending untold millions promoting the Cingular brand for its joint venture with BellSouth, that they're going to drop the name and start selling wireless service under the AT&T brand name.
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John Hudson / Wired News:
Monster Scope to Dwarf Rivals — Astronomers are preparing to build the world's largest telescope that could be 100 times more powerful than the Hubble and will peer back to the very beginning of the universe. — The new TMT (Thirty-Meter Telescope) will be the first of a new generation …
iab.net:
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES SURPASS $3 BILLION FOR Q3 — Run Rate for Full Year 2005 on Pace to Exceed $12 Billion — New York, NY (November 21, 2005) - The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising revenues totaled …
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Katie Hafner / New York Times:
At Harvard, a Man, a Plan and a Scanner — Twenty years ago, when Sidney Verba became director of the Harvard University Library, he thought there was a good chance he would enjoy a placid transition into retirement. — Placid is not the word Mr. Verba would use to describe his life now.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Tapping a New-Age Life on the Web, Cellphone and TV — In 2000, when C. J. Kettler was the president for sales and marketing at Oxygen Media, she boasted that the company was a "point of convergence" between cable television and the Internet. — Oxygen, after all, was started by Geraldine Laybourne …
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Wi-Fi mosquito killer coming to a porch near you — A biotechnology company with a specialty in killing mosquitoes is turning to wireless technology and computers to make a killing for itself. — American Biophysics, a small private company based in North Kingstown, R.I. …
Red Herring:
Xbox 360 Starts Console War — Microsoft's Xbox challenges Sony, and charges into the connected living room. — Surrounded by a gaggle of video game geeks and bathed in the neon green glow of a dozen flat-screens running games on Microsoft's new Xbox 360, J. Allard looks, for a brief moment, at rest.
