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1:25 AM ET, March 20, 2006

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Paolog / Revolving World:
FIREFOX 2.0 ALPHA IS HERE!  —  Revolved by Paolo Gagliardi in Flammable on 19/03/2006  —  Mozilla is about to gift us again with a faster, more stable and generically better Firefox major release.  Please note that it's still a Alpha version, which means it does not contain all new expected features …
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David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Firefox 2.0 alpha released  —  DownloadSquad has noticed that an alpharelease (read: not stable) of Firefox 2.0 is live, available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and waiting foryour clicks.  I'm having ahard time tracking down any kind of official list of what's new in this next major point release …
Reuters:
Kinderstart sues Google over lower page ranking  —  SAN FRANCISCO, March 18 (Reuters) - A parental advice Internet site has sued Google Inc., charging it unfairly deprived the company of customers by downgrading its search-result ranking without reason or warning.
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Joshua / del.icio.us:
private saving ryan  —  Because many of you have asked for it, we have just rolled-out a beta of our private saving feature.  To try it out, go to "settings" and click on "private saving" to activate; you'll then see the new option whenever you save a page.
Michael / michael parekh on IT:
ON MYSPACE AND REPUTATIONAL MORTALITY  —  SLIPPERY SLOPE AHEAD...  (Update Below)  —  It's interesting how MySpace, and it's more grown-up counterpart Facebook, have become the holy grail of Internet trends.  Every geek over 35 (investor or not), is desperately trying to "get it" in recent months.
MobileTracker:
Possible Treo 700p info leaks  —  Interesting information about the Palm Treo 700p showed up this week in a TreoCentral forum thread.  The 700p hasn't been announced, but is rumored to be a Palm OS powered smartphone similar in features to the 700w.  The thread includes a scanned document purporting …
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Mike Rundle / Business Logs:
The Decisionmakers and Sucking Down  —  Venture capitalist and 9rules member Guy Kawasaki just wrote about The Art of Sucking Down, which essentially is how everyone needs to respect those who have power over certain aspects of our lives.  Don't piss-off waiters because they handle your food, did you see "Waiting"?
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Think the Internet will replace TV ?  Think again  —  Craig Moffet of Bernstein Research was asked to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee on the subject of Net Neutrality.  His comments were of course right on the money.  The interesting conclusions that can be drawn from his testimony …
James McGovern / Enterprise Architecture:
More Thoughts on Ruby and Why it isn't enterprise ready!  —  I previously blogged on Large Enterprises and why they don't care about Ruby and was rightfully accused of bashing folks in the Ruby community but not providing the answer to my original statement.  Figured I would set things right...
 
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