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Reuters:
Net TV start-up lands $16 million in funding  —  Brightcove, an Internet television start-up that helps programmers syndicate shows across the Web and collect money from it, plans to announce on Tuesday that it has attracted new high-profile investors, including America Online and InterActiveCorp, and a distribution pact with AOL.
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
AOL Joins Start-Up Company to Offer Web Video Distribution  —  America Online reached an unusual arrangement yesterday with a start-up company that will allow almost any producer of video content to distribute programming on its service, splitting revenue from advertising or fees.
Discussion: IP Democracy and BuzzMachine
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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microsoft.com:
Microsoft Offers Office Document Formats …
Discussion: Paul Mooney
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Gates at Xbox launch  —  If any managers in Microsoft's Server & Tools division have been missing an employee for the past few days, I think we've found him.  The first person in line to buy an Xbox 360 console at the launch event at Bellevue's Best Buy store Monday night was Dan Friedman …
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google Unveils Tool to Map Shopping Trips  —  SAN FRANCISCO - Joining the herd of Web sites jostling to cash in on the holiday shopping season, online search engine leader Google Inc. is adding a tool designed to make it easier for consumers to map out their local trips to the mall.
David A. Vise / Washington Post:
World Digital Library Planned  —  Library of Congress Envisions Collection To Bridge Cultures  —  The Library of Congress is launching a campaign today to create the World Digital Library, an online collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, posters, stamps and other materials from its holdings …
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Heidi Benson / San Francisco Chronicle:
A MAN'S VISION: WORLD LIBRARY ONLINE
Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
Microsoft SSE Thoughts  —  Everyone knows Ray Ozzie is my hero right?  I spent the first several years of my professional career as a Lotus Notes developer, and even worked for Lotus itself for a brief stint in 1996, so you can imagine what an Ozzie disciple I am.  I even was able to pay fealty to him in person back in 2004.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Companies I'd like to Profile (but don't exist)  —  There are companies I review every day that I don't write about.  Reasons vary - it's been done already and the product isn't even as good as what's been done, its a mostly or totally one-way application, or it isn't consumer focused …
Discussion: Web 2.0 Explorer and Mashable*
SHard / osx86project.org:
Rosetta and Driver Upgrades; New Build is Leaked  —  We've received unconfirmed reports concerning a few interesting new toys under the hood of OSx86 10.4.3, including a vastly improved Rosetta and brand new ATI drivers - each far more complete than in previous builds.
Discussion: digg and OSNews.com
OSM:
Excuse us while we change back into our pajamas  —  Once upon a time, some friends who met in the casual atmosphere of the blogosphere (us) got together and decided it would be groovy to start a blog company.  "We could call it Pajamas Media," we said, referring to the now-famous quote by whatshisface …
Munjal / Recognizing Deven:
How Riya Recognition Works  —  Viswadep wrote here about what might happen if the technology behind Riya was used for evil.  Let me address how the Riya recognition system works and how its limitations make it very unlikely that we could use this for security or "evil" applications.
microsoft.com:
Microsoft Security Advisory (911302)  —  Vulnerability in the way Internet Explorer Handles onLoad Events Could Allow Remote Code Execution  —  Microsoft is investigating new public reports of vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows 98, on Windows 98 Second Edition …
Ben Edelman:
Cleaning Up Sony's Rootkit Mess  —  Late last month, Windows expert Mark Russinovich revealed Sony installing a rootkit to hide its "XCP" DRM (digital rights management) software as installed on users' PCs.  The DRM software isn't something a typical user would want; the "rights" …
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Video Games Are Their Major, So Don't Call Them Slackers  —  "So you have these four basic types that occupy the environment: the Achiever, the Explorer, the Socializer and the Killer."  —  Nick Fortugno, the 30-year-old teacher, turned away from the whiteboard and faced the 14 undergraduate …

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