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Lora / What Is New:
Gathering conversations continue — "I attended a gathering of Tablet PC owners at a place called Cheese Burger (which BTW makes WONDERFUL burgers!). It was nice putting a face to the people I have been conversing with this past year on TabletPCBuzz.com and StudentTabletPC.com. Especially Trevor and Rob!
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jkOnTheRun:
Tablet PC users gathering at CES a huge success — Last Friday the Tablet PC users meetup was held at Cheeseburger at the Oasis in Las Vegas. The gathering was open to all Tablet PC users attending the CES and it was a great experience. I'd rank it the best part of the CES …
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Lora / What Is New:Toshiba Portege M400 Notebook — Tablet PC by design
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Jason / Signal vs. Noise:
Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs: Guy gets it right — Jason Jan 08 — Guy Kawasaki follows up his Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists with Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs. — I obviously don't get pitched for investment by other entrepreneurs, so I don't know what lies are being told …
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Guy Kawasaki / Let the Good Times Roll:
The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs — (Since I've antagonized the venture capital community with last week's blog, I thought I would complete the picture and "out" entrepreneurs to begin this week. The hard part about writing this blog was narrowing down these lies to ten.)
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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Feedster Will Die in 2006 — Is it just me, or has Feedster been completely useless for over 6 months now? I have no idea if it's related to the recent departure of Scott Rafer (former CEO) and Scott Johnson (former co-founder), but I'm amazed at how bad it is. And I should know.
Paul Thurrott / winsupersite.com:
Hands on with Google Pack — During its first-ever appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2006 (see my show report), Internet search giant Google unveiled two initiatives, both of which are aimed, in part, to counter Microsoft, the company it considers a primary competitor.
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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
The State of Search Engine Marketing — A longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members discusses pricing trends revealed by the survey, including where search marketing budgets are coming from, keyword pricing trends and how search marketers plan to deal with financial challenges.
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Robert Levine / New York Times:
Buying Music From Anywhere and Selling It for Play on the Internet — Working in the media and entertainment group of the consultants McKinsey & Company, Greg Scholl got a firsthand look at the inefficiency in the music business: the major record labels focus on creating hits …
Ludens / Preoccupations:
What DRM argument? — I enjoy both of Lloyd Shepherd's blogs. His work blog, given that he is Deputy Director of Digital Publishing at Guardian Unlimited, helps me see into the world of commercial publishing and follow the developments at his paper. His most recent post calls …
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David Berlind / Between the Lines:Reverse DRM: Verizon phone defeats MP3 playback
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Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Video Player Removed From Downloads of Google Video Pack — Several people have sent along notes this weekend and I've seen a few blog postings mentioning that the new Google Video Player has been removed from downloads of the new Google Video Pack that went live on Friday evening.
Derrick Story / Macworld:
First Look: Adobe Lightroom beta — The first impulse most photographers will have is to compare Adobe's just announced Lightroom to Aperture, Apple's pro level photo app. And well they should. We may have a real clash of the titans on our hands here. — Adobe promotes Lightroom as …
Brian Garrity / Reuters:
Digital music enjoys a dream week — LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - There was so much legitimate downloading in the final week of 2005 that it recalled the impossible tallies research firms used in the late 1990s to dazzle venture capitalists and scare the daylights out of major-label executives.
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James / MocoNews.net:
Ringtone Biz Goes Off Tune As Piracy Creeps In — Another piracy story...but this one isn't aimed at consumers but rather carriers. India's music-licensing body Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) has complained about a number of things regarding mobile music...shops are selling high-end phones …
Abcoates / kontrawize:
Poor and Stupid — I was amused to read Tim Bray's conclusion that PHP is part of a plot to force everybody to replace their old PCs with powerful new servers. When I lived in Germany in the early 90s, my boss there told me that there had been a historical agreement between church and state in Europe …
