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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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Darwinian Web, Russell Beattie Notebook, Niall Kennedy's Weblog, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Software Only, Paul Kedrosky's …, Hellonline, business2blog, Flashpoint, Between the Lines, Lorcan Dempsey's weblog, Microsoft Watch, Paul Mooney, Todd Bishop's Microsoft …, RatcliffeBlog, franklinmint.fm and Scobleizer
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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 …
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CrunchNotes, InsideMicrosoft, Danny Ayers, Raw Blog, Read/Write Web, WeBreakStuff, Bink.nu, TechCrunch, Alex Barnett blog and John Palfrey
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.
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
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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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Don Dodge on The Next …
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.
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.
Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
FIRST TAKE: XBOX 360 MEDIA CENTER EXTENDER — Thanks to my cool day job, I got an early Xbox 360 and spent some time today running it through its paces. I'll leave the reviews of the release-day games to others (although I found Amped 3, a top-notch snowboarding game …
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Joystiq, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Scobleizer, Xbox 360 Fanboy, eHomeUpgrade and Ed Bott's Media Central
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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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Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
New AT&T Logo Analysis — Yeah, I think after careful analysis, consideration, comparision and contemplation, I can only come to one conclusion about the new AT&T logo: It sucks. — Not only do I just not like the amateur-looking new design, it's made even worse when you consider the history …
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Om Malik
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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 …
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.
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.
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
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 …
