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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Google, Skype Fund FON — [Updated with comments from Martin Varsavsky and Glenn Fleishman]. FON a wireless services company started by maverick entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky has just raised $21.7 million from Google, Skype, and Sequoia Capital. The cash infusion has been led by Index Ventures …
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Martin Varsavsky:
A dream come true — As you know, FON is a global community of people who share WiFi connections. We call these people "Foneros", as a tribute to our heritage as a Spanish company. In order to become a Fonero, you go to FON, to download software that you install in your router …
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Alec Saunders .LOG, robhyndman.com, isen.blog, Gizmodo, Googling Google and Randy Holloway Unfiltered 2.0
Wendy / Wendy's Blog:
FON SCORES ITS FIRST TOUCHDOWN — Martin Varsavsky has just blogged about FON's partnership with Google , Skype, Sequoia Capital, and Index Ventures as investors. FON is a startup, of which I'm on the board of advisors, that aims to put wireless internet everywhere by linking sharing and commercial installations.
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Dan Gillmor / Dan Gillmor's blog:
FON Times — I met Martin Varsavsky last March at the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security last March in Madrid, where he'd invited me to join an Internet working group. He impressed me with his energy, vision and genuine belief that people working together could improve the world.
Ethan / ...My heart's in Accra:
FON, and why sharing WiFi's a cool technology for Africa — My friend Martin Varsavsky just announced some amazing news: his new company, FON, has just accepted €18 million in investment from an all-star list of partners and investors: Skype, Google, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
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Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
How RSS can bust through — Fred Wilson says "RSS has to become brain-dead simple to use." — I'm pretty sure we can do it, but it would require the companies to give up hope of locking users into their software, into their extensions, their mistakes. — How RSS can bust through
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Fred / A VC:
Email vs. RSS (continued) — I first posted on this topic in October 2003 as I was starting to blog. — I posted again in the middle of last year. — And once more in the fall of last year. — I can save you the trouble on clicking on all those links.
Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter: Who do you trust? — RSS got another big boost today when portals …
Chris Beasley / sitepoint.com:
Amazon-Sense? — Amazon is apparently looking into the feasibility of starting their own ad network like Adsense. They've been contacting select members of their associates programs, including myself, asking if we'd like to be beta testers. The way they want the beta test to work is to give …
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Things That, TechBeat, Squash, @ Alex Moskalyuk Online, AdMoolah News and Views and Somewhat Frank
Stowe Boyd / Message:
The Conversational Index: Thoughts After The Deluge — Wow. What I thought was a modest post with a neat and helpful small idea — The Conversational Index — took off in a big way yesterday, getting picked up, and picked on, by a long list of smart people.
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Rational rants, BusinessBlogWire, Full Circle Online …, The Doc Searls Weblog and mathewingram.com/work
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Jon Lebkowsky / Weblogsky:
Blog Conversational Index: say what? — Stowe Boyd says we should measure the worthiness of our blogs by something he calls a Conversational Index, which you derive by dividing the number of posts by the sum of the number of comments and trackbacks. The lower the number, the better your CI …
Matt Cutts:
Ramping up on international webspam — Remember my previous post noting that Google would be paying more attention to webspam in other countries and languages this year? This week our webspam team continued ramping up our anti-spam efforts by removing bmw.de from our index, and ricoh.de will be removed soon for similar reasons.
Brian Benzinger / Solution Watch:
Comment Tracking with coComment — (Update: Look at the end of the review for a Greasemonkey script for coComment) — Tracking comments that you make at a blog has always been a hassle. The way I usually do it is by making a comment and then bookmark the article with a tag of "comment."
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TechCrunch, Scobleizer, Newsome.Org, Message, Cameron's Brain, Zoli's Blog, mathewingram.com/work, AMCP Tech Blog, Ross Mayfield's Weblog and EBB
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Gillmor Gang: Memeorandum and the future of media — Gabe Rivera of Memeorandum joined a partially populated Gillmor Gang (Steve, myself, Doc Searls and Mike Arrington-Jon Udell, Mike Vizard and Dana Gardner unavailable) podcast on Friday. As I said during the show, I'm a fan of Memeorandum.
Tom Foremski / IMHO:
The 14-year old coders are back in business-proof of Internet 2.0 — Yes, it is official, the 14-year old programmers are back, that means concrete proof that we have a new dotcom boom emerging-but this time with an interesting twist. — The twist is this: The 14 year olds are not being employed …
Connie Guglielmo / Austin American-Statesman:
Dell drops hard-drive MP3 line — Dell Inc. stopped selling its most expensive digital music players after failing to take market share from Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod. — Dell, the world's largest personal computer maker, discontinued three Digital Jukebox players that sell for $200 …
Damien Barrett / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Apple Special Event - Feb 22nd - Airport Video? — We've known Apple's planning a specialmedia event for a week or so, but didn't know the precise date or what would be announced. On Flickr today, someone has posted up what claims to be an image used on theevent invitation.
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
AOL/Yahoo: our email tax will make the net as good as the post office! — AOL and Yahoo have proposed a system to charge senders a quarter of a cent for guaranteed delivery on each email sent to their customers. They justify this as an anti-spam measure, but of course it could make them billions …
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:Bye Bye Email Marketing, Hello RSS
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The Jason Calacanis Weblog, apophenia, A View from the Isle, raving lunacy, Rough Type and Guardian Unlimited
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
This idea originally ran on 4/12/04. Still a good idea, still waiting for one of the search engine companies to do it. — A search engine views the Web as a set of pages. Before Google, they were unrelated pages, but Google started a practice where pages were considered more relevant …
