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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
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Microsoft standardizes Office formats - Jean Paoli interview — I just interviewed Jean Paoli, co-inventor of XML (he usually works a few doors down from my office in building 18, so we talk often). He has been bragging to me for days now about what we just announced 22 minutes ago …
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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.
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.
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.
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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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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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
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 …
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.
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Google Base blog import instructions — Google Base launched last Tuesday as a new repository of information for distribution across Google's network of sites including Google search, Froogle, and Google Local. You can add your existing content to the Google Base for broad distribution with only a few easy steps.
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 …
