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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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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.
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 — Brewster Kahle hopes to realize his 25-year dream of an international book archive — A fat October moon shone through the Presidio treetops the night Brewster Kahle launched the latest shot in the space-race for a digital library.
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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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Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Opens Office File Formats — Microsoft Corp. has decided to open up its Office file formats and has submitted the formats to be considered for recognition as a formal standard by Ecma International, which will develop the documentation and make it available to the industry.
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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 …
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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 …
Gwendolyn Bounds / Wall Street Journal:
How Selling Pixels May Yield a Million Bucks — It was just a few months ago that 21-year-old Alex Tew of Great Britain was stumped about how to pay for college. He'd filled a notebook with ideas before jotting down this simple, if rather audacious, query to himself: How Can I Become a Millionaire?
gamesfirst.com:
How To Get Podcasts on Your Xbox 360 — game: Xbox 360 — publisher: Microsoft — keywords: podcast media syndication — As we've covered already, the Xbox 360 is a powerhouse media machine. But its dependency on Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center doesn't provide …
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.
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.
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 …
