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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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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.
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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.
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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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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 …

Steve Rubel doesn't get it: RSS advertising sucks
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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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Message, michael parekh on IT, Alex Barnett blog, Don Dodge on The Next …, Somewhat Frank, The Social Software Weblog, This is Powazek, The Blog Herald, Media Orchard …, Like It Matters, EirePreneur, ben barren, the j. botter weblog, Google Blogoscoped, BASEMENT.ORG, Business Blog Consulting, Scobleizer and PaulStamatiou.com
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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.

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 …
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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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MacInTouch, OSNews.com, Geek News Central …, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Security Fix
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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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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)

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 …
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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.

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 …

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.