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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
It's a different world today — Adam Green: "Microsoft long ago mastered the trick of calculating exactly the minimal feature set needed to suck the air out of a market it wants to enter." — Like me, Adam is a dinosaur who walked the earth in the days when little software animals …
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Darwinian Web:
IE7's aggregator isn't impressive, but it is good enough — Trying to recharacterize a quote once it is loose in the blogosphere can be a tricky business. In my initial thoughts on IE7 I wrote that it would likely kill many RSS aggregators that did little more than let you read feeds.
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
The iPod Ecosystem — In the weeks leading up to last month's Macworld conference, few people knew what the notoriously secretive Steven P. Jobs was going to announce. — Gavin Downey, the director of product management at the Belkin Corporation, listened to all the rumors leading …
Jeff Chester / The Nation:
The End of the Internet? — The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.
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TeleRead, Mark Evans, a shel of my former self, IP Democracy, Moogle1, robhyndman.com and Smart Mobs
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Interview with Gabe Rivera, founder of Memeorandum — Tech Memeorandum is part of my daily reading list, actually I read it several times a day. There are several other "clipper" services out there that approach the problem from a slightly different angle. Blogs have exploded in growth and popularity over the last year.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
New Gossip Rag On Google Execs Dating — New gossip rag ValleyWag discloses that Google cofounder Larry Page and Google vice president of search products Marissa Mayer apparently used to date, backed up by an anonymous comment on a blog. Hey, that's not the only evidence!
Wall Street Journal:
The Type-A Bathroom — For workaholics, it's the new home office. Jon Weinbach and Peggy Edersheim Kalb on showerproof computers, mirrors with stock quotes and the latest water hazard: 'BlackBerry dunk.' — With a BlackBerry, two mobile phones, three office computers and wireless Internet for his car …
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Erick Schonfeld / B2Day:
What Comes After the Blockbuster? The Nichebuster — I am at the Entertainment Gathering conference in LA and there is a lot of talk about the death of the blockbuster. Wired editor Chris Anderson showed some nifty charts from his upcoming book on the Long Tail documenting the decline in hit albums …
Valleywag:
Tony Perkins' embarrassing web stats — To turn around the phrase on its head, on the web, everyone knows you're a dog. The internet may provide anonymity to individuals, but it leaves publishers nowhere to hide. A reader emails in about Tony Perkins, 'creator' and editor-in-chief of AlwaysOn …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
VMware to make server product free — VMware, an EMC subsidiary whose software lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer, is expected to announce next week that it will begin giving away one of its key products for free, CNET News.com has learned.
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Matt Cutts, Rough Type, Microsoft News Tracker, virtualization.info, Bink.nu and d2r: diego's weblog
John Borland / CNET News.com:
Tomorrow's games, designed by players as they play — LOS ANGELES—Game budgets are skyrocketing. Development teams are swelling almost to film studio's proportions. The only way out of this trap is to enlist players to help create their own worlds, a pair of top game creators said Thursday.
Stefan / Ogle Earth:
Center of Gravity II — An accurate center of gravity calculator for Google Earth is now available here. All the code is Brammeleman's, taken from his calculator page here, save for the one final altered latitude correction, which places the center of gravity closer to the poles — at the correct position.
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Download Squad
Reuters:
Have a cell phone? Make a movie — Eight cell phones, $160,000 and a good idea—could this be the future of filmmaking? — South African director Aryan Kaganof thinks so. And to prove it, he made "SMS Sugar Man," which is billed as the world's first feature film shot entirely on mobile phones.
Matt Haughey / PVRblog:
MediaCentral HTPC frontend for the Mac — The most recent iMac comes with a nice simple home theater PC front-end called FrontRow, and acts as a nice gateway to your music, movies, and photos using the provided remote. I have one of the new iMacs and I enjoy it, though I must admit I rarely use FrontRow …
Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
Sirius Shock: Pirates Hit Howard Stern Show — Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., which liberated radio shock jock Howard Stern from the federal decency standards that he felt had shackled him, is finding that freedom's just another word for $500 million to lose.
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Good Morning Silicon Valley
Chris Pratley / Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog:
OneNote "12" and the Tablet PC — I promised some time ago to write about the Tablet experience in OneNote 12 and how it has changed. This is a tricky topic to cover since there are still a lot of people out there who think OneNote is only or primarily meant to be used on Tablets.
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