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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
TechCrunch leads Silicon Valley Web renaissance — I went to the TechCrunch event Friday night, celebrating the publication of Naked Conversations by Shel Israel and Robert Scoble. — Many friends, acquaintances and new faces (pictures here). The party atmosphere reminded …
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Tom Raftery's I.T. views:
Sneak peek at edgeio! — I received an invite to take a sneak peek at edgeio this morning - edgeio is Michael Arrington of TechCrunch fame's latest startup. The tagline for edgeio is "Listings from the edge" so the name comes from the word "edge" and "io" (input/output?).
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Webmaster / AMCP Tech Blog:
Preview of Edgeio, the eBay Killer — To day I was invited to test out Edgeio, a Web 2.0 version of eBay. Edgeio was co-founded by TechCrunch writer, Michael Arrington and RealNames founder, Keith Teare. Edgeio is a listing service, much like eBay and allows users to list jobs, housing …
Colleen Marie O'Connor / iddmagazine.com:
Media Investing's New Thing: Web2.0 — Six Apart, the creator of social networking site LiveJournal and maker of blogging applications like Moveable Type, just snagged $12 million in a private round of funding from three firms, sources said last week. The series C round, rumored to include Intel …
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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Another $12 million for Six Apart? — Update #2: Six Apart, the San Francisco-based start-up behind TypePad, MoveableType and Live Journal is rumored to have raised another $12 million in Series C financing, according to a report in Investment Dealers' Digest. The names of investors have not been disclosed.
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Guy Kawasaki / Let the Good Times Roll:
How to Suck Up to a Blogger — Blogging has flipped traditional PR on its head. It used to be that ink begat buzz. Life was simple then: you sucked up to the Wall Street Journal, one of its reporters wrote about your product, and the buzz began. … Nowadays buzz begets ink.
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Mike / CrunchNotes:
How to Get What you Want from Bloggers — Something about Guy Kawasaki's post "How to Suck Up to a Blogger" bothers me. It's like it's saying "If you can't be normal, here's how to pretend". — Some of the suggestions, like linking back to bloggers, are good ones.
Philip P. Pan / Washington Post:
The Click That Broke a Government's Grip — BEIJING — The top editors of the China Youth Daily were meeting in a conference room last August when their cell phones started buzzing quietly with text messages. One after another, they discreetly read the notes. Then they traded nervous glances.
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osx86project.org:
Reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated... As most of you know, two days ago we were contacted by an Apple representative concerning links, posted by our members, to the newest patches by Maxxuss on his site. Since the beginning, we have made it known that we would be very willing …
William Safire / New York Times:
Blargon — Every walk of life and field of endeavor generates its own insiders' lingo. Those of us in the MSM — that's the superannuated, archaic mainstream media — have our own jargon, of which the first sentence of an article is the lede, the early edition is the bulldog and the guys working …
Kotaku, the Gamer's Guide:
SPAM Alert: Fight Night 3 PSP Costs Privacy — I was tinkering with the Playstation Portable version of Fight Night Round 3 tonight when I decided to check out the online play. — Imagine my shock when a message popped up telling me that I had to either pay $2 or give my privacy away …
Business Week:
Going Private — Hotshot managers are fleeing public companies for the money, freedom, and glamour of private equity — Ask J. Crew Group Inc. chairman and chief executive Millard S. "Mickey" Drexler what it's like to run a public company, and he curls his fingers into the shape of a pistol.
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Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
From 'Starter' to 'Ultimate': Site shows six Vistas — Microsoft hasn't yet issued any official announcement detailing the different versions of Windows Vista to be offered, but several online sites are pointing today to a list of them on a help page under development.
Mure Dickie / Financial Times:
China's virtual cops pinpoint web dissent — With their big blue blinking eyes and their quirky personal websites, there is no denying the cuteness of the cartoon cops at the front line of China's battle for control of the internet. — But the role played by Jingjing and Chacha …
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Smart Mobs
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Botnets: A Global Pandemic — Below is another excerpt that got cut from my Post magazine story on botmasters and their contribution to the growing adware and spyware problem. — Some information security experts say the mainstream Internet security companies have inadvertently yet drastically understated …
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