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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
The New Office Space  —  After reading my rant about Starbucks and some of the comments on that post, Jackson sent in this guest column about how many are using indi-cafes in San Francisco as mobile office space.  (Ritual is my favorite....) If you are not in San Francisco and have names …
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Dean Takahashi / Mercury News:
Google, EarthLink submit S.F. WiFi plan  —  Google and EarthLink have teamed up to submit a proposal to create a city-wide wireless Internet network for San Francisco, officials said Tuesday.  —  The bid was one of six San Francisco city officials said they received Tuesday evening.
Discussion: Wi-Fi Networking News
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Earthlink, Google Team On SF WiFi Net  —  EarthLink and Google have teamed up and submitted a joint proposal to the City of San Francisco to build a citywide wireless municipal network.  As part of the plant, the two companies propose a two-tier business model - a combination of free and pay service.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why formats like RSS 2.0 work  —  The roadmap of the RSS 2.0 spec, a piece of text that I thought about for years, but actually wrote in just a few minutes, has been the key to keeping RSS a stable platform for people to build on.  —  There have always been people who feel that the roadmap should be broken …
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Blog Herald doesn't understand why full-text feeds work  —  For the past couple of months Blog Herald has been subtly attacking me.  I thought it was just one of those suckups trying to bait me to link to them but today I saw the real reason for Duncan's tone: he thinks I don't want him or anyone else …
Duncan Riley / The Blog Herald:
Steve Rubel doesn't get it: RSS advertising sucks
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Derek Powazek / Technorati Weblog:
Got Favorites?  —  The number of blogs doubles every five months.  As I'm writing this, Technorati is tracking 28.4 million blogs.  That's a whole lot of voices.  Here at Technorati, we want to make the world of weblogs accessible, searchable, and fun for everyone to explore.
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Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
New Technorati Features: Favorites.  And Reading Lists/OPML for Blog Finder  —  The blogosphere doubles every five months.  As I'm writing this, Technorati is tracking 28.4 million blogs.  That's a whole lot of voices.  Here at Technorati, we want to make the world of weblogs accessible, searchable, and fun for everyone to explore.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Safari vulnerability worth taking note of  —  Yesterday, we reported on a Trojan horse for Mac OS X that is just like the entry for Earth in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in that it is mostly harmless.  A new vulnerability targeted at Apple's home-grown web browser, Safari, is another matter entirely.
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Larry Seltzer / eWEEK.com:
What Will Apple Do When the Malware Comes?
Discussion: TechBlog and isc.sans.org
Wired News:
All Google's Roads Lead to Kansas  —  If you want to find Kristine Crispel's horse farm outside Coffeyville, Kansas, the directions are easy:  —  Step 1: Go to Google Maps.  —  Step 2: Zoom in.  —  Crispel's 53-acre Shamrock "K" Horse Center sits just north of the Coffeyville Country Club …
Discussion: InsideGoogle
Daimaou / akihabaranews.com:
2nd hand electronics sales will soon be illegal in Japan  —  The customer is not always... well, rarely, right in Japan, and manufacturers don't really care about them.  The second hand marker flourishes over here, and most people take good care of their equipment, so used goods are usually …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Ubergizmo
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
Google Scores a 1.0 from the California Judge  —  Judge Howard Matz's preliminary decision on Google's use of thumbnail images is certain to be controversial.  (Read it here.)  I'm torn.  I'm sympathetic to P10's view that thumbnailed images of porn may be sufficient to be economically harmful …
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The Internet Stock Blog:
Brightcove vs. Akamai For Syndicated Video Content (AKAM)  —  Related Stocks: AKAM  —  Andrew Schmitt submits: Brightcove has buzz.  It's run by Jeremey Allaire, who seems like a solid get-it-done entrepreneur.  And today, they have managed to land themselves on the front page of the WSJ.
Paul Montgomery / Tinfinger:
Ponies not included  —  Adam Green has been enjoying the various discussions of what are being called memetrackers by the principals of the various sites.  That's understandable, since the people involved have been reasonably open in discussing their techniques and feature sets.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
HP Labs marks 40th with high-tech coffee table  —  PALO ALTO, Calif.—The researchers at HP Labs are a serious bunch working on ways to create the data centers and transistors of the future—but the company sees no harm in going after the gaming-table market on the side.
Discussion: Engadget and Incremental Blogger
Jeremy Wright / Ensight:
MySpace is the New Blogosphere  —  Let me get two things out right up front, before I get entangled in them:  —  1. MySpace scares the hell out of me  —  2. I've spent a total of like 20 minutes on MySpace (and 15 of those was due to exploring K-Fed's contacts, just for kicks and giggles)
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Web Services Upend Old Ideas About the Little Guy's Role  —  The old story of technology in business was a trickle-down affair.  From telephones to computers, big companies came first.  They could afford the latest innovations, and they reaped the benefits of greater efficiency, increased sales and expansion into distant markets.
JD Lasica / New Media Musings:
Mashup Camp  —  I couldn't attend Day 1 of Mashup Camp (at which Lawrence Lessig spoke), because I was out of town, but Day 2 was a doozy.  Here are 5 photos I took today.  —  Mashup Camp could well have been named Web 2. Camp — it was a celebration and display of some of the astounding …
Jack Spirko / blog.masterlink.com:
First Public Demo of MSN adCenter 3.0 presented to DFW SEM by MSN Team  —  On Tuesday night Feb, 20th MasterLink and other attendees of DFW SEM's Monthly Meeting were treated to a presentation of MSN's new Adcenter Version 3. (which of course is still in Beta and just released on Saturday …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Windows bumps Unix as top server OS  —  Windows narrowly bumped Unix in 2005 to claim the top spot in server sales for the first time, according to a new report from IDC.  —  Computer makers sold $17.7 billion worth of Windows servers worldwide in 2005 compared with $17.5 billion in Unix servers …
Guy Kawasaki / Let the Good Times Roll:
The Name Game  —  There's a great article called "How they named companies" at the Day2Day Activities blog.  How do you like this for irony? … I'll never look at a Volvo without thinking about this irony again.  (Latin scholars: if "volvo" doesn't mean "I roll," please don't blame me—I'm just quoting the blog.

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