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Daniel Gross / Slate:
Twilight of the Blogs — Are they over as a business? — As a cultural phenomenon, blogs are in their gangly adolescence. Every day, thousands of people around the world launch their blogs on LiveJournal or the Iranian equivalent. But as businesses, blogs may have peaked.
Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
Campfire: Too Bad It's Not Mobile — [Backpack] Campfire's kinda nice... for a PC app. You know, so much effort being put into a dying platform, it sorta makes you sad. Really, it's too bad there's not a mobile version baked in from the start. [Networked to do list, calendar, notes …
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Amazon Will Take On iPod With Its Own Music Player — Amazon.com is preparing to take on Apple Computer in digital music by introducing its own portable music player that would be linked to an online music service, according to several music industry executives involved with negotiations with Amazon.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party Tomorrow — I'm pretty excited about the Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party tomorrow night starting at 7 pm. — We've been working hard for weeks to get the event together and, thanks to our sponsors, this should be the best one so far.
May Wong / Associated Press:
Apple Hackers Encounter a Poetic Warning — SAN JOSE, Calif. - Apple Computer Inc. has resorted to a poetic broadside in the inevitable cat-and-mouse game between hackers and high-tech companies. — The maker of Macintosh computers had anticipated that hackers would try to crack …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Congressman quizzes Net companies on shame — When the U.S. House of Representatives convened a hearing on Wednesday to talk about China and the Internet, it quickly devolved into an exercise in political speechmaking. — Not until nearly halfway through the event did any of the technology …
Wall Street Journal:
News Corp. Goal: Make MySpace Safer for Teens — When News Corp. bought the social-networking Web site MySpace.com last July, the media company got two surprises, one good and one bad. — The good part: The site, where teens and twenty-somethings post pages about themselves and communicate with friends …
Chris Pratley / Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog:
OneNote 2007 Drawing Tools — Awhile back I promised to write about drawing tools in OneNote 2007. I'm pleased to say that thanks to the valiant efforts of one of our interns (hiya Bill!), we've got 'em! — Obviously a big part of capturing information quickly is capturing diagrams.
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Life On the Wicked Stage
Saritha Rai / New York Times:
India's Outsourcing Industry Is Facing a Labor Shortage — MUMBAI, India, Feb. 16 — India's leadership in global outsourcing may be in jeopardy unless it increases its supply of skilled workers, according to executives gathered here for an foindustry meeting.
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Tom's Future of Web Apps, Translated for Product Managers — I've had a tab open in my browser pointing at Tom's Native to a Web of Data slide for a few days now. It's been nagging me. I needed to do something with the ideas encapsulated in that one slide, and tonight it struck me while I was doing something completely unrelated.
Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
DirecTV blade coming to 360 Dashboard? — During CES in January, Microsoft andDirecTV announced a"long-term agreement to expand the reach of digital content throughout the home and on the go." Part of thatagreement involved extending "the DirecTV experience to the Xbox 360 system."
Bonnie Ruberg / Wired News:
Sex Games Get Down to Business — Sexy mods squeezed into video games may still cause controversy, but racy titles are becoming so popular the industry is planning a convention so developers can chart a path to success. — Evergreen Events will host the first-ever Sex in Video Games Conference this June.
Elatable:
Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers — As Yahoo! has been gobbling up many social media sites over the past year (Flickr, upcoming, del.icio.us) I often get asked about how (or whether) we believe these communities will scale. — The question led me to draw the following pyramid on a nearby whiteboard:
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Introducing, The Daily Om — Back in the day when I worked for a weekly newspaper in New York, the dismal newsroom taught me something: not everything merits a front page 24 point headline treatment. There are some stories which are short, sweet, touching or simply quirky.
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michael parekh on IT, Zoli's Blog, CrunchNotes, Paul Kedrosky's …, PodTech Comments … and Nik Cubrilovic
Chris Holland / The Apple Blog:
Will Microsoft Adopt Darwin? — The idea that Microsoft would ditch its own OS for the key underlying technology that powers Apple's flagship operating system came to me in a most auspicious e-mail from a dear friend of mine, Dr. Arnold E. Handy, a well-regarded professor of gynecology …
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Guardian Unlimited
