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4:35 PM ET, March 11, 2006

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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Memo Outlines Microsoft's Plans  —  The Redmond giant details the progress of Windows Live — and points to a slew of new services on the way  —  Last November, Microsoft (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates kicked off what he called the era of "Live software," saying he'd unveil a host of new ways for consumers …
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Nate Mook / betanews.com:
Microsoft Building New Free Mail Client  —  Internet Explorer isn't the only application to enjoy a resurgence in Windows Vista — Microsoft is readying a new desktop e-mail client that will be integrated into Windows Live and eventually replace Outlook Express.
Darren Rowse / Make Money Online …:
Reflections from an 'unlikely media magnate'  —  Today's been a fun day as a result of the Sydney Morning Herald article (it didn't appear in the Age for those asking).  I finally managed to get a copy of the hard copy and was amazed to see it as a half page spread on page 3.
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Tom Burton / Sydney Morning Herald:
Online buying frenzy as big business swoops on sites  —  CHRIS SHARKEY is 23.  He has just got a cool $6 million plus, his share from the sale of a holiday house booking website, Stayz.  —  Four years ago, having just graduated from high school in Newcastle, his teacher parents were keen for Chris to attend university.
Discussion: Make Money Online … and Filtered
Business Week:
How the Masses Will Innovate  —  The newly appointed head of MIT's Media Lab envisions a time soon when millions will play a stronger role in societal advances, thanks to technology.  And MIT is helping to plant the seeds  —  YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS OF TECH>>
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
March 2006 tech conference season  —  If you see Hugh Forrest at SXSW tell him I say hi, and I'd love to meet him someday, and I offer my services for SXSW 2007, as I do every year.  Maybe one of these years they'd be willing to let me talk with their community on stage, beacuse it's the same community, Hugh.
Discussion: GigaOM
Reuters:
Cingular, T-Mobile stop Razr cell phone sales  —  Companies say a glitch in Motorola's wildly popular phone causes dropped calls or shut down; Motorola stock tumbles over 2 percent.  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cingular Wireless and T-Mobile USA have temporarily stopped selling the Razr …
Fred / A VC:
Sponsored by Sonos  —  You probably notice that Sonos is now sponsoring my "In Heavy Rotation" list on the left sidebar of this blog.  This is the result of several things, first my decision to partner with FM Publishing who is now representing this blog to the advertising community …
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
DabbleDB: Online App Building For Everyone  —  Every so often I get asked 'what is the latest hot app' and after using DabbleDB I have a new answer to that question.  DabbleDB is a platform that allows you to create applications online using a web interface.
Ina Fried / silicon.com:
Apple: 'Don't expect Mactels to run Vista'  —  "Windows is a legacy OS.  We don't have legacy support"  —  Intel Macs are unlikely to be able to run Windows Vista, according to an Apple engineer speaking on Thursday.  —  One of the big obstacles is that although both the Macintosh OS …
PC World:
CeBIT: Samsung Shows Flash-Disk-Based Laptop  —  Company continues to develop more stable solid-state disks.  —  HANOVER, GERMANY — Samsung Electronics has developed a higher-capacity version of its solid-state disk, a flash-memory-based replacement for hard disks, and is showing it here at the CeBIT technology show.
Discussion: Engadget and TechBlog
Mr Blog:
Net neutrality - Circa 1996  —  The The Progress and Freedom Foundation, as Marty Kaplan calls it "a corporate-funded fake think tank" has come out against Net neutrality.  They say "Net neutrality is, in fact, the theft of property rights from [broadband] infrastructure providers."
Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
The metrics of influence—the mania for measuring the blogosphere  —  There is a current mania among corporations and PR companies to figure out which tools to use to find the influencers in the blogosphere.  They are combing through the PageRank and Alexa rankings of online news sites and blog sites …
Jessi Hempel / Business Week:
eBay's Affinity for Meetup.com  —  The online auctioneer has a lot in common with the virtual community site, so it took a nibble  —  The online auction colossus has caught a dose of community activism.  On Mar. 9, eBay (EBAY) joined five other investors to purchase a minority share in community Web site Meetup.com.
Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
River of Meme-O-Randum?  —  I just had one of those AHA moments, when something clicked into place, and the only question is how to share the idea, because this is one that's just begging to be shared.  —  So I called Scoble, to make sure I wasn't out of my mind, and he got excited and said "You're onto something."
 
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Rob Fahey / gamesindustry.biz:
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Dave White / mobilemag.com:
Pretec expands i-Disk offerings
Discussion: Ubergizmo and Engadget Mobile
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
As Local Paid Search Grows, Local Media to Battle Big Search Engines
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Paid Search Spawns 'Drafting' and 'Hijacking' Strategies
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Gauging Google's Gaffes
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