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Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Ultra-fast release cycles and the new plane — I just came back from dinner with my daughter Skyler (that's her in the picture). She's an extremely passionate myspace user. In her words, "If you're not on myspace, you don't exist." So I asked what made myspace so compelling... why didn't she fall in love with LiveJournal?
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Push for Net neutrality mandate grows — The American Association of Retired Persons, better known as the AARP, may be more famous for its lobbying muscle on pension plans and Medicare, but now it's taking up a new platform: keeping the Internet free and open for the age 50-plus set.
Michael J. Miller / PC Magazine:
Google's Schmidt Clears The Air — Stung by recent criticism of the company's actions in recent months, Google CEO Eric Schmidt held a roundtable lunch Thursday with a number of journalists in which he talked a lot about the company, how it is perceived, and where it is headed.
Esther Dyson / New York Times:
You've Got Goodmail — A COMPANY called Goodmail Systems thinks it has come up with a potential (and partial) solution to the problem of spam and fraud on the Internet. According to Goodmail, market forces are the answer, rather than the kinds of ineffective regulations that have so far failed to solve the problems.
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Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
MacBook Magnetic MagSafe Connector Not So Safe After All — Apple's magnetic Mag"Safe" connector on its Intel-based MacBook must be inappropriately named. How safe is a connector that bursts into flames with no provocation? This happened to a MacBook belonging to Rogier Mulder …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Police blotter: Judge orders Gmail disclosure — What: In a lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission, a subpoena is sent to Google for the complete contents of a Gmail account, including deleted e-mail messages. This is unrelated to the Department of Justice's own subpoena to Google …
Steve Hamm / Business Week:
Microsoft's Enterprising Endeavor — Armed with a series of product upgrades, Redmond plans to go mano-a-mano with IBM in large-business computing — Ever since the dawn of the info era more than 50 years ago, IBM (IBM) has been the 500-pound gorilla in large-business computing …
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Microsoft Reveals Plan to Take Business From I.B.M.
Microsoft Reveals Plan to Take Business From I.B.M.
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B2Day, Publishing 2.0, Datamation IT News Blog, deal architect and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Nicole Wong / Official Google Blog:
Judge's Tells DoJ No on Search Queries — Google will not have to hand over any user's search queries to the government. That's what a federal judge ruled today when he decided to drastically limit a subpoena issued to Google by the Department of Justice.
Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
France Weighs Forcing iPods to Play Other Than iTunes — PARIS, March 16 — In the digital music market, France is singing a different tune. — A bill under debate in the French Parliament may require iPods to be able to play music purchased from competing Internet services …
Tom Sanders / Silicon Valley Sleuth:
Could Digg be used for Sun stock manipulation? — Something extremely weird is going on over on Digg.com. Today for the third time in a short period, a story got promoted to the front page where a blogger raises a baseless rumour about Google buying Sun. And as is explained further down …
Cesarmenendez / Gamerscore Blog:
Xbox 360: We're Big in Taiwan — And Singapore. And Hong Kong. — On March 16, Xbox 360 launched in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Folks on the Asia marketing team were nice enough to share photos with me (seeing as how I didn't get invited and all). Here's a quick rundown of what happened:
Google Blogoscoped:
Joga, a Google/ Nike Community — In time for the world cup, Joga.com is a collaboration between Nike and Google to create an online community for soccer fans. "Joga bonito" means "play beautiful" in Portuguese, the site says. The domain Joga.com is registered to Google.
James Ransom-Wiley / Joystiq:
Confirmed: PlayStation 3 will ship with 60 GB HDD — To clear any confusion, a Sony representative, speaking with Yahoo! Games, has confirmed that the PS3will ship with a 60 GB HDD, with an option to upgrade. No PS3 bundles will be sold without a hard drive.
Staci / PaidContent.org:
Google 10K: New Emphasis On Mobile Platforms, Monetizing Content : One way to track a company's growth and strategic evloution is to look at how the language changes from one annual report to the next. Google's efforts to shift from an online search company relying on search advertising to fuel …
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Paul Kedrosky's …, Got Ads?, The SEO Blog, InsideGoogle, The Kelsey Group Blog and Search Engine Watch Blog
Scrivs / 9rules Network:
9charities — The first purpose of the 9rules Network is to help its members connect with each other and with our readers. We have tried our best to gather the greatest talent from all niches on the web and obviously due to our strong roots in the web development community we have a great deal of resources to work with.
Doc Searls / linuxjournal.com:
Imagining the Maximum Net — Why the best model for building out infrastructure may be the Interstate Highway System. — Here's a question: should the decision to build the Net to maximum capacity—the broadest we can make broadband—be based on whether or not today's carriers can think of a way to pay back the cost of building it?