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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Thank You For Coming to TechCrunch 5 — The Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party is now officially over (except for Stowe Boyd and Jason Roberts who are passed out on my couches). The pictures are here and here (tag: "techcrunch5″). — Thank you to everyone who came.
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Scott Beale / Laughing Squid:
Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party Photos — Several hundred people showed up tonight at the TechCrunch headquarters in Atherton for the Naked Conversations book launch party. Naked Conversations is a recently published book written by Shel Israel & Robert Scoble on the subject of corporate blogging.
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Web Strategy by Jeremiah
Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
Blogging is part of life — I agree with the author of the Slate piece that's getting so much play in the blogosphere, up to a point. The things that called themselves blogs that came from Denton and Calacanis are professional publications written by paid journalists that use blogging software for content management.
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mathewingram.com/work, Newsome.Org, A View from the Isle, Micro Persuasion and B.L. Ochman's weblog
Workbench:
RSS Means Never Being Board — John Palfrey: … Dave Winer: … As a member of the RSS Advisory Board for the past 21 months and the current chair, I am surprised to learn that the organization doesn't exist. — I joined the board at Winer's invitation in May 2004, not long before he resigned.
Associated Press:
Apple's ode to hackers — Developers embed poetic warning deep in OS X software — SAN JOSE, California (AP) — 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 …
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Digital Inspiration …
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Tom Krazit / ZDNet:
DMCA axes sites discussing Mac OS for PCs … Apple Computer appears to have invoked the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to stop the dissemination of methods allowing Mac OS X to run on chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. — The chatter at the OSx86 Project was stifled Friday …
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Voidstar, Rational rants, Engadget, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Boing Boing and MacSlash
saschameinrath.com:
Senators for Community Wireless! 2 Bills Introduced on Friday in the US Senate. — Major reform is afoot! — Two bills were introduced on Friday that would radically improve unlicensed wireless access. Both bills would greatly improve the general public's access to the public airwaves.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
PlayStation 3 to be delayed? — The North American launch of Sony's much-anticipated PlayStation 3 could be delayed until next year, according to a research report issued by Merrill Lynch. — In the report (Click here for PDF), the analyst firm proposed the idea that high costs …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Software pioneer Bricklin tackles wikis — update If ever someone was going to merge two technologies as disparate as wikis and spreadsheets, VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin might well be the person for the job. — In 1979, Bricklin released VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet for personal computers.
Wired News:
Here Comes a Google for Coders — For most people, open source is a synonym for free software. But for programmers, open source is about sharing code, building on the work of others and not having to reinvent the wheel — at least, that's the ideal. In practice, code reuse remains very low …
Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
JUST DON'T BE SURPRISED WHEN YOU GET LEFT BEHIND — As I am doing nothing but make money via blogs, courtesy of English Cut, Stormhoek and some other projects, I find this Slate article, "Twilight of the Blogs- Are they over as a business?" rather humorous, for all the wrong reasons:
Mike / Techdirt:
NBC Lawyers Cut Off SNL's Best Promotional Vehicle In Years — from the brilliant-business-strategy dept. — For years, we've tried to remind people that lawyers understand the law, not business, and why management needs to learn that just because you can do something legally, it doesn't mean you should.
pluralsight.com:
Pragmatics — Someone recently asked me about how to handle an internal product debate around REST vs. SOAP. — In hopes I never have to address this debate again, here's a record of what I told them. — The following design decisions are orthogonal, even though people often conflate two or more of them:
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Breememe, aka The Battle of the Memetrackers — OK, I am totally hooked on two memetrackers, memeorandum and TailRank. I can't decide which one is better. There are three qualities I look for in a good memetracker: diversity of sources, speed and design.
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Newsome.Org
Zoli Erdos / Zoli's Blog:
Web 2.0 in the Enterprise - Blogging the TIE Event — The Web 2.0 in the Enterprise panel discussion hosted by TIE was exciting. In fact it wasn't really a panel discussion, rather a most interactive group event. Jeff Clavier as moderator with Charlene Li, Ross Mayfield …
Jayvee / Cell phone 9:
BenQ-Siemens Pandora (EF51) — I had a chance to grab a sneak peek into the upcoming line of phones from BenQ-Siemens. Codenamed Pandora (in Asia), this phone is a prototype version of the new company's music phone. I'm quite pleased with the way the new company is churning out sensible phones with attractive designs.
David Walker / eHomeUpgrade:
Smartvue S2 IP Video Surveillance with Auto Configuration — Prowlers and burglars have a new enemy, and the name is not Jack Bauer (although he will always be their enemy). It's Smartvue; and if the baddies have any sense to them, they'll stay away from any palace protected …
Ted Dziuba / Epsilon-Delta:
An Analysis of Democratically Ordered Link Sites — With so much content floating around the web these days, the powers that be have come up with a way to separate the "spam" from the "ham" by using readers as human classifiers. Web sites like Digg and Reddit allow a user to cast votes for links that other users publish.
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ben barren
