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10:55 PM ET, April 2, 2006

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Richard Siklos / New York Times:
Death by Smiley Face: When Rivals Disdain Profit  —  THE tectonic changes facing media companies are by now the topic of an often-recited sermon.  Put briefly, digital technology is placing control over much information squarely in the hands of consumers and creating all kinds of opportunities …
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Not quite, Times  —  The Times — like many people in power — seems to have trouble grasping the full impact of the internet handing control over to the people.  They have real trouble turning their personal prisms around to look at the world from the bottom up instead of their usual top down.
Discussion: Syndicator Blog and New York Times
Harry McCracken / PC World's Techlog:
What Does "Windows Vista Capable" Mean?  —  Next month, new PCs will show up with stickers identifying them as being "Windows Vista Capable."  But "Capable of Running Certain Versions of Windows Vista, But Maybe Not Stupendously Well" might be a more accurate designation, it seems.
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
No Vista, but Vista Capable stickers coming soon  —  No fooling, Microsoft is prepping new Windows Vista Capable stickers for PCs, in anticipation of the release of the 50 million lines of Vista code to business users (end of 2006) and consumers (beginning of 2007 if all goes well).
Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
APRIL FOOL'S JUMPED THE SHARK  —  [Inspired by Nick Carr's recent post.]
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Werner Vogels / All Things Distributed:
AMAZON GETS IM  —  In order to get closer to their customers, humanize Amazon, increase sales, and stay modern, Amazon.com has decided to make all Instant Messenger (IM) handles of its employees public.  This way Amazon.com customers will get unprecedented access to the talented engineers …
Nick / Rough Type:
April Fools Day jumps the shark
Discussion: Scobleizer
Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage:
Tableteers And Bloggers Have Fun With April Fools Day  —  It is tough to be creative and fun on April Fools Day at the same time as preparing to open a new show.  Of course the rest of the blogosphere and a few Tableteers had quite a bit of fun.  James Kendrick had this funny take on Apple entering the Tablet scape.
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Bloggers Blog:
Blogging April Fools  —  Here are a few of the many April Fools related entries and spoofs occuring today.  — Google's New Ad Sizes  — MSN Search Spoof (via InfoWorld)  — Google Rooms  — Google launches a new service called Google Romance  — The Top 100 April Fool's Jokes of All Time.
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Seth Godin says Squidoo is not MLM  —  Seth replies to my "Newsvine/Squidoo doing the MLM thing" post.  —  Seth says "Neal is correct.  This isn't MLM, not by any definition (not that there's anything wrong with that.)  You are entitled to your opinion, whether I like it or not, but your facts are wrong."
Discussion: Web Publishing Blog
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Squidoo joins Newsvine in the MLM social news model...
Discussion: pc4media
Norimitsu Onishi / New York Times:
In a Wired South Korea, Robots Will Feel Right at Home  —  SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea, the world's most wired country, is rushing to turn what sounds like science fiction into everyday life.  The government, which succeeded in getting broadband Internet into 72 percent of all households …
Discussion: Engadget
Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
Web Directories...are They Relevant to SEO?  —  With Zeal recently closing (I think Looksmart are dumb to have closed it) some people have recently been questioning the value of directories.  —  $hoemoney recently had a mini interview of a few SEOs asking if they are still relevant.
lucent.com:
Alcatel and Lucent Technologies to Merge and Form World's Leading Communication Solutions Provider  — Combined company will have strong financial base and revenues of approximately Euro 21 billion (USD25 billion) based on calendar 2005 results  — Creates new growth opportunities …
Discussion: IP Democracy and GigaOM
Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Announcing The Emo Programmer book  —  I'm pleased to announce the release of my latest book, The Emo Programmer.  Most of you all know my co-author David Heinemeier Hansson (aka David HH) as the guy who created Rails to build 37signals loveable Basecamp application.
Discussion: greg hughes
cadenhead.org:
RSS: I'd Rather Switch Than Fight  —  Jason Young posed a question on Workbench recently: … As we work through the long-unresolved issues in Really Simple Syndication and spark up long-smoldering flamewars, people keep asking me why I don't just switch to Atom.
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Kcamp-Voip / Realtime-VoIP:
R.I.P. H.323  —  Yesterday, friend and colleague Ted Wallingford posted H.313 is DEAD and mentioned a post of mine to some tips for VoIP that seemed to indicate H.323. was a viable, competitive alternative to SIP.  Not so.  —  I recently posted a paper on the workings of H.323 to the Realtime VoIP Community Reading Room.
Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
Yahoo Buys Web 2.0  —  Yahoo is tired of buying Web 2.0 companies one at a time.  They just want tje whole package.  —  "We're in the midst of buying Dogg (a Web 2.0 cross between Digg and Dogster "Where Every Dog Has A Webpage"), and you know what?  It's a lot of work.
Chartreuse:
The Truth About This Blog (or why is Scott Karp always mentioned on this site)  —  Now I've said from the beginning that this website was an experiment.  —  There were much bigger plans going on behind the scenes and today I can finally talk about it.  —  After an extensive campaign …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Search the Universe, Not Just the Galaxies  —  A scant few days after Technorati started searching MySpace blogs they now are beginning to track other social networks too, at least superficially.  They have added a list of the most blogged Youtube.com movies from the past 48 hours.
Discussion: Bloggers Blog and Somewhat Frank
The Head Lemur / raving lunacy:
The Head Lemur joins Microsoft!  —  DATELINE Phoenix.  Arizona  —  Following the surprise move of Robert Scoble to Google, it was announced this morning that Alan Herrell, aka the head lemur will replace Scoble as the primary Evangelist for Microsoft.  —  Sources close to Management …
 
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