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Steven Levingston / Washington Post:
Blog Buzz Helps Companies Catch Trends in the Making — ConAgra Foods Inc. got an early warning from chatter on the Internet that the low-carb craze was fading. The huge food company seized the chance to promote an alternative menu, its Healthy Choice soups, entrees and lunch meats.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fox Announces Acquistion; Exclusive Video — During an interview that I conducted at the Under the Radar event this afternoon, Ross Levinsohn, president of Fox Interactive, announced that they had acquired one of the 32 companies that presented at the event. He would not, however, say which company it was.
Discussion:
Between the Lines, SiliconBeat, Nik Cubrilovic, The Blog Herald, Message, Good Morning Silicon Valley and Valleywag
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Web 2.0 And Media 2.0 Are Still In the 1.1 Phase — I've read A LOT about Web 2.0 — I haven't seen so much Koolaid since I was at summer camp. And I've taken a stand that Web 2.0 is a long way from Media 2.0. — Kent Newsome has the latest antidote to Web 2.0 hype …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Push to create OpenDocument standards — With government records, reports and documents increasingly being created and stored in digital form, there is a software threat to electronic access to government information and archives. — The problem is that public information can be locked …
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TechSpot
Douglass C. Perry / IGN:
And Now for Something a Little Different — Forget Grand Theft Auto for a moment. Rockstar Games aims to innovate in a different way, in a different genre, without a single gun. — March 3, 2006 - Earlier this week I spoke with Rockstar's COO Terry Donovan about Rockstar Games' newest endeavor.
Neo / macsimumnews.com:
Apple files new patent for wide touchpad for notebooks — On March 2, the US Patent & Trademark Office revealed an Apple patent concerning a wide touchpad, originally filed on Aug. 25, 2004. — Apple's abstract — In one exemplary embodiment, a portable computer having a display assembly coupled …
Workbench:
Support the Common Feed Icon — A recent Yahoo study reported that four percent of Internet users have jumped on the RSS bandwagon and begun subscribing to syndicated feeds. — Considering the number of ways that web publishers show their readers they offer feeds, it's amazing we've gotten that many:
Discussion:
The Social Software Weblog
MSN Search's WebLog:
Customer Focused ... Humble ... Under Promise/Over Deliver ... Customer Focused ... Humble ... Under Promise/Over Deliver ... These are some of the key cultural traits the Web Search team here at Microsoft tries to live by. Boy, were we surprised to wake up yesterday to a bunch of press saying things like …
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Thomas Hawk's Digital …
New Zealand Herald:
Peter Nowak: What Apple co-founder actually said — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has posted a statement online [see link below] in which he denied some of the comments attributed to him in an article I wrote recently. — In that statement, he suggests that I pushed him to make some of those comments …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Congress raises broadcast flag for audio — update Digital radio receivers without government-approved copy-prevention technology likely would become illegal to sell in the future, according to new federal legislation announced Thursday. — Rep. Mike Ferguson, a New Jersey Republican …
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
The Business 2.0 Next Net 25 Roundtable — Yesterday afternoon, I headed up to San Francisco to attend the Business 2.0 Next Net 25 Roundtable. Billed as an open discussion among new company CEOs from their Next Net 25 list and other interested parties, the event was very well attended.
Discussion:
Mark Fletcher's Blog, Somewhat Frank, Ken McGuire Blog, The Ponderings of Woodrow and Random Culture
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Live: Google faces off with analysts — Google hosted a four-hour meeting Thursday with analysts at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. The event, its second annual Analyst Day, was in the spotlight because of comments made by the company's CFO earlier this week that resulted in a sharp decline in Google shares.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Next Version of Tablet PC's Said to Be Lighter and Smaller — Microsoft and Intel plan to announce next week that several industry partners will make small, light versions of a tablet personal computer, people close to the two companies said yesterday. — The machines, which have been the subject …
Ted's Take:
Deja Vu All Over Again — An article in the New York Times today started me thinking that many of the lessons of Web 2.0 are the same ones we learned during Web 1.0. As before, success is not simply a matter of taking offline models and transplanting them online.
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
Senator Wyden describes his 'net neutrality' bill- and we have the bill here — Just got off a conference call with U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon). — Earlier today, Senator Wyden introduced the Internet Non-Discrimination Act of 2006 - popularly called the Net Neutrality Act.
Peter Rojas / Engadget Mobile:
Motorola ROKR E3 - Exclusive pics! — Asusual, we can't divulge our super-secret source, but earlier this week we scored an exclusive hands-on session with theMotorola ROKR E3 (at least, we think it's called the ROKR E3!). As you've probably noticed, this is the very same mystery phone …
