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Newsweek:
Google: Ten Golden Rules — Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here's how we do it at google. — By By Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian — Issues 2006 - At google, we think business guru Peter Drucker well understood …
Clive Thompson / Wired News:
Monsters of Photorealism — My hat is off to whoever designed the new King Kong game for the Xbox 360, because they've crafted a genuinely horrific monster. When it first lurched out of the mysterious tropical cave and fixed its cadaverous eyes on me, I could barely look at the monstrosity.
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Cathode Tan
Daniel.Turner / Behind the Curtain at TCG:
NASA ditches IE in favor of Firefox — A little birdie told me today that NASA has given up entirely on Internet Explorer. Now, if you are an employee of NASA, every time you go to a page using IE, you get up to three prompts telling you how risky it is to run scripts.
Richi / Richi'Blog:
eBay's anti-phishing desk sucks — [Updated Dec 5: this story has been on the digg.com home page and also on TechDirt. Feel free to click an interesting advertisement to help me pay for bandwidth!] — I reported a phishing attack last week. Nothing new there, I do it a lot as part …
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Geraldine Geraldine / LES BLOGS 2:
Opening remarks: welcome to Les Blogs 2.0 ! — On behalf of Six Apart, the entire team who organized les blogs that I will introduce you in a few minutes and all our partners, welcome to Les Blogs 2.0, welcome to Paris. — I can't believe you have made it all here today ! Here is where you are from to begin with.
Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Have you updated your buzzwords? — You may think you're appropriately buzzword-compliant, but this is internet time, baby, and last month's 2.0 buzzwords are outdated (but not in that retro-cool way). If you're doing a VC pitch and building to flip, it's crucial that you sound as current as possible.
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Life On the Wicked Stage
blogspot.boekhoff.org:
Saga of Circuit City False Advertising and Customer Abuse — A few weeks ago we were really impressed with the great service we got at Circuit City when purchasing a new car stereo and a new DVD player/recorder/VCR combo. So when we decided to replace our 4-year-old laptop computer, we agreed that we would go back to Circuit City.
Tom's Hardware Guide:
Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered — Intel Focusing On 45 nm Now — Intel was surprisingly talkative when it came to future technologies and products this year. As a result, most of the technical audience is up to date regarding the upcoming micro architecture based on the 65 nm Merom design.
Reuters:
Madison Avenue faces Google fears — Google's search for revenue beyond its wildly popular pay-per-click advertising system has everyone from publishers to phone companies unnerved by the seemingly endless scope of the Web leader's ambitions. — Nowhere is this more closely felt than Madison Avenue …
Cheryl Isen / bizjournals:
Churchill's words guide 180Solutions — Editor's note: This is the first monthly column written by Seattle marketing and public relations firm founder Cheryl Isen. It's based on monthly presentations by local entrepreneurs at Northwest Entrepreneur Network events. — To know 180Solutions is to have an opinion.
Anina .Net / LIFEBLOG.anina.net:
FASHION BLOGGER! — tonight i met with marc canter for dinner. it was supposed to be a simple, small, dinner, and instead it exploded into a full 20 person + dinner! robert scobble showed up with his wife, hugh was there, suw with kevin, and many more! it was fascinating pre-blog conversation.
Timothy L. O'Brien / New York Times:
Gone Spear-Phishin' — ABOUT a year and a half ago, Amnon Jackont, an Israeli mystery novelist and Tel Aviv University history professor, became ensnared in a mystery of his very own: friends and students were receiving e-mail messages from him that he had never written.
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Robert Hof / Business Week:
Froogle: Shopping Made Complex — It's not hard to see why the test version of Google's shopping service has yet to gain widespread acceptance — but it does show promise — THE GOOD Fast searches, nice integration of local searches with Google Maps — THE BAD Limited filtering tools, sparse local product listings
Bill Christensen / livescience.com:
New Soft Helmet Turns Hard in Crash — Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire have discovered a complex elastomeric compound they call d3o that is both soft and hard. — A shear thickening material, it is flexible when moved slowly, but when it is compresssed by an impact, its molecules lock together.
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