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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 …
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.
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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.
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 …
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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)
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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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Syndicator blog, Smalltalk Tidbits …, The Social Software Weblog and Connecting the Dots
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 …
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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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 …
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Newsome.Org, The Blog Herald, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Geek News Central …, Micro Persuasion and Smalltalk Tidbits …
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.
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.
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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home of fine hypertext products:
Oh, what a year — One year ago today, I asked the readers of kottke.org to become micropatrons and support my efforts in producing the site for a year. Over the course of three weeks, people generously sent in their financial support[1], giving me enough to pay my salary for the entire year …
Mark Glaser / pbs.org:
How Does iTunes Pick Featured Podcasts? — While working on last's week's guide to podcast directories, I stumbled onto one of the great mysteries of the podcasting world: Just how exactly does Apple choose the featured podcasts in its popular podcast directory?
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 …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Wearable game weaves clues into cloth — If you find yourself wearing clothes from a new company called Edoc Laundry, beware: Strangers may walk up to you on the street to examine the intricacies of your shirt's patterns. — That's because Edoc Laundry's first line, expected to launch March 1 …
