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3:10 AM ET, March 17, 2006

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Chris / RojoBlog:
New at Rojo: Mojo, Relevance, Today Cats  —  Rojo now has extra mojo: voting, relevance, and categories.  —  Rojo Mojo - Voting Meets RSS  —  Vote for the top stories and blog posts of the day with one easy click.  Each story now has a snazzy tile where you can add some mojo—and see how many other votes it's received.
Discussion: Read/WriteWeb
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Rojo Gets Relevant  —  Rojo added a great new relevance feature tonight, and the result is a sort of personalized digg.  —  You can now view your feeds by date or relevance, with relevance being determined according to other users votes (think diggs), total reads and total user tags.
Seán Byrne / cdfreaks.com:
Tests find DRM shortens player battery life by up to ~25%  —  When users take the specifications of an MP3 player into consideration, one very important factor most take into account is the rated battery life.  However, as many are aware, the battery life stated is generally the runtime …
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Marc Perton / Engadget:
Is DRM sucking the life out of your MP3 player?
Discussion: Techdirt and Boing Boing
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Wozniak shuts down Wheels of Zeus  —  Not everything turns out to be Apple.  —  Wheels of Zeus, the start-up formed by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak a few years ago, has been closed.  —  The Ravix Group, a consulting firm that provides financial and human resources advice …
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John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Apple vets steal GMSV's exit strategy  —  Is it 1998 all over again?  Three former Apple execs took their new company public the other day and investors pumped $150 million into it, though the founders make clear in their S1 that they have no idea what the company will do …
Leslie Walker / Washington Post:
In Game of Click and Mouse, Advertisers Come Up Empty  —  Radiator.com got a jolt this month from the firm it hired to audit the nearly $40,000 worth of sponsored links it buys every month from Google and Yahoo.  —  It appears that many of the clicks on the Web site's search-engine ads …
Paul Stamatiou / PaulStamatiou.com:
XP on Mac Contest Over, Solution Released  —  It's finally been done.  With the recent news and video of narf2006 running Windows XP on his Intel iMac, everyone was wondering when his solutions would be verified.  Well today, Colin from OnMac.net, where the contest is held …
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Zonk / Slashdot:
Windows XP on Intel Mac Confirmed
Discussion: Metafilter
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
The new A list  —  Damn, I wish I hadn't read blogs today.  I took yesterday off.  I might take the rest of the week off.  Blogging for me is at an inflection point.  Blogging for me had the opportunity to become something magical: where the reader gets smarter and more informed.
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Jeanne Lim / CNET News.com:
IBM: The 'next big thing' no longer exists  —  SINGAPORE—An era of inventions ended with the passing of the 20th century, says a prominent thought leader from IBM.  —  Nicholas Donofrio, Big Blue's executive vice president of innovation and technology, made the declaration on Tuesday in an interview with ZDNet Asia.
David M Johnson / Blogging Roller:
Experimenting with the MS Feeds API  —  The Windows RSS platform includes a Feeds API that parses all forms of RSS and Atom to a simplified object model.  —  For example, an Item object has an Author property and not an author name, author e-mail and author URI which are all possible in Atom.
Discussion: Scripting News
Jeff Clavier / Jeff Clavier's Software Only:
Speaker update for the The Search for Attention - March 16th 6:30pm @ AOL - Featuring Memeorandum, Root Markets & Technorati  —  Dick Costolo is unfortunately grounded in Chicago by a snow storm, and he will be replaced my TechCrunch's Mike Arrington in tonight's session on "The Search for Attention".
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
PLEASE, GIVE ME LIVESOFT (OR...PLEASE SPLIT UP MICROSOFT!)  —  I've been thinking about Microsoft lately, maybe because I've been in an email dialog with Gary Flake, or because I just interviewed Ray Ozzie for my column, or because, perhaps, of silly speeches given by Gates like this one …
USB:
Kington Self-Destruct Privacy Flash Drives  —  Trying to force your way into the new Kingston Data Traveler Elite Privacy Edition for a competitor's data?  Think again.  The Kingston can reportedly melt the data, in a digital way, after just 25 consecutive failed passwords.
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's Weblog:
Don't miss Pandora  —  I've developed a new habit over the past few months that I want to share.  It's called Pandora, and I think it may be the most significant new concept to come down the pike in years.  You may have heard of it — you may even be an experienced user …
Discussion: Squash
chronicle.ubi.com:
Become a Hero... for Free!!!  —  Many members of the Shadowbane Community have already noticed that a change has occured to the Billing System today; one that allows players to play for free!  —  There will be a more in-depth announcement coming soon but, in the meanwhile, I wanted to let our community know that this is not an error.
Discussion: Joystiq
Mike / Techdirt:
Security Through Begging  —  from the even-better-than-security-by- obscurity dept  —  Last summer, the surprising news came out that Japanese nuclear secrets leaked out, after a contractor was allowed to connect his personal virus-infested computer to the network at a nuclear power plant.
Hugo 'poogie' Ortega / Uber Tablet:
Via Virtual UMPC  —  Knowing that UMPC deliveries are only weeks away, Hugo Ortega of the UberTablet blog couldn't help but get a little creative this evening.  With talk of Tablet MVP's trying out UMPC devices his excitement levels were as high as ever.  All he could think of was, 'I just want to demo my own UMPC!'
Martyn Williams / Macworld:
Sony plans GPS, VOIP, other updates for PSP  —  Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Wednesday outlined new software and hardware features that it plans to add to its PlayStation Portable (PSP) during 2005.  —  The company is planning three software updates during the year, said Ken Kutaragi …
 
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Thomas Heath / Washington Post:
Companies Fear Spread of March Madness
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MSNBC:
Google considers European retail push
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Earthling / EarthLink blog:
EarthLink Line-Powered Voice Coming To 8 More Cities
Discussion: GigaOM and VoIP Watch
Jamie Ernst / memorex.com:
Memorex First to Introduce Flash-based USB Storage Media Affordable Enough to Share
Discussion: Gizmodo, Ubergizmo and TechEBlog
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Netscape.com To Be Relaunched As a Digg-Like Site; Calacanis Heading …
 

 
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