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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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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.
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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.
New York Times:
Google's Shopping Service to List User's Local Stores — Google executives said last night that the company planned to move quickly to capitalize on its new Google Base database service, adding a feature that lets merchants provide local shopping information.
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:Google Unveils Tool to Map Shopping Trips
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Alice Hill's Real Tech News
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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Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Niall Kennedy's Weblog, Danny Ayers, Raw Blog, InsideMicrosoft and elliptical
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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 …
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Guardian Unlimited
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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
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Search Engine Watch Blog
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 …
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.
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.
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" …
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Schneier on Security, Between the Lines, Spyware Confidential, OpsanBlog, Lot 49 and Boing Boing
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 …
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
Self 2.0: Internet Users Put a Best Face Forward — Web Chatters Upgrade Their Identities for Virtual Life — Jeff Maynard has created an online alter ego, Klepto. — Klepto is slightly trimmer but otherwise looks and dresses like Maynard. He races cars and attends black-tie weddings.
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 …
