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Jtokash / John Tokash:
Dinner with Jim Allchin — The invite suggested an informal dinner with a rich discussion. A Vista demo would be involved. — I expected the night to include a group of people casually interested in Vista and a Microsoft-steered Q&A session. I imagined I would meet some people whose interests …
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Allchin: Buy Vista for the security — If new features won't get you to upgrade to Vista, security enhancements should, Windows chief Jim Allchin has urged. — Microsoft has already touted the bells and whistles it is putting into Windows Vista, the operating system successor to XP that's due out by the end of the year.
Miss Rogue / HorsePigCow:
Dinner with Jim Allchin — [photo taken by: Thomas Hawk of Jim Allchin] — Somehow, I got added to this very intimate list of people to go for dinner with Jim Allchin and see a demo of MS Vista yesterday evening. I didn't know who the other attendees would be, either, so the entire evening was shrouded in a sort of mystery.
Jason McCabe Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Why Google made the right choice in China — A lot of folks, including John Battelle, are taking a hard line on China and our involvement there as technologists. For those of you who don't know, Google is going into China and they are—shockingly for Google—censoring their results at the Governement's request.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
THE REAL IRONY HERE... ...is that Google is, for the first time, being a content editor. I've written extensively about how Google, by its very DNA, does not like to be an editor of content. But in China, it's doing exactly that. (SEW) — Google's first big editing job?
Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
How to reform the VC industry — There's a wisp of a discussion materializing in the tech blogosphere about reforming the VC industry. I have been thinking about this for many many years. It's an exciting time because I think it might actually happen now.
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Kill the Big, Bad Dragon (Teamwork Required) — Jeff Kaplan knows what it's like to try to please all of the people all of the time. Don't envy him. — As a lead game designer at Blizzard Entertainment for World of Warcraft, the ridiculously successful online PC game …
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Robyn Peterson / Yahoo! News:
Q&A: The Future Of Speech — Editor's Note: As we reported earlier this week, IBM unveiled new speech recognition technology on Tuesday that can comprehend the nuances of spoken English, translate it on the fly, and even create on-the-fly subtitles for foreign-language television programs.
Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
AOL, Broadband Providers Form Alliance — AOL Forges Partnerships With Broadband Providers to Provide High-Speed Subscription Packages — NEW YORK (AP) — America Online Inc. may be focusing lately on expanding free offerings on its advertising-supported Web sites, but that doesn't mean …
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Google and the Me2 revolution — My friend Rob Hyndman has a great post up about how the Web is playing havoc with the traditional structure of the advertising industry. But he's not talking about things like how Google's AdSense is revolutionizing the ad business, or how Craigslist.com …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Del.icio.us Competitors Try Paying Users — At least two Del.icio.us competitors, Simpy and RawSugar (profiles) have begun paying users to use and promote their services. While the companies have different payment models, both pay based on traffic generated at a particular users page containing the user's bookmarks.
barcamp.org:
BAR CAMP DALLAS IN PROGRESS NOW READ THIS PART IT IS IMPORTANT : HOW TO GET IN — Update: you should sign up on the wiki, then come to loading dock "c" at the informart and tell the security guard you are with barcamp. they probably won't check the list, but if they do object …
Parallax:
I Pity The Fool — Normally I don't write blarticles related to the news. However, I could not resist writing something about Oracle's dog and pony show last Wednesday at San Francisco's City Hall. Oracle put on an event called "Half Way to Fusion". It was meant to be sort of a round …
Heather Green / Blogspotting:
Bubble V. Boom? — There is a lot of talk about how we should redefine what's going on right now with the Internet not as a bubble, but at a boom. But I can't help but think that the third B word we should keep in the back of our minds is bust. — We're all very close to the last bubble …
Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
New Search Service from TVEyes Offers Free Keyword Search Of Some Web-Based TV News Content & Lots More Video Search — A new free service from multimedia search engine TVEyes allows a searcher to keyword search each and every word spoken during tv news segment from well-known news organizations.
xbox.com:
New ANZ Launch Dates for Xbox 360 — January 27, 2006 - Xbox today announced a new launch date in Australia and New Zealand for the Xbox 360™. The new launch date is 12:01am on March 23 2006. — The new launch date has been set due to unprecedented global consumer demand …
