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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Chevy Tries a Write-Your-Own-Ad Approach, and the Potshots Fly — At first glance, the video looks like a typical 30-second car commercial: a shiny sport utility vehicle careers down a country road lined with sunflower fields, jaunty music playing in the background.
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Scobleizer, Publishing 2.0, BuzzMachine, B.L. Ochman's weblog, Adrants, JD on EP, scot hacker's foobar blog and AdPulp
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Umair / Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab: GM vs the Edge — Lots of buzz about GM's peer produced ad campaign …
Christopher Carfi / The Social Customer Manifesto:Chevy Careens Out Of Control (Or Do They?) …
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B.L. Ochman's weblog
Jackie Huba / Church of the Customer Blog:Why Chevy Tahoe campaign was doomed before it launched
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Between the Lines
CNN:
How I Work: Bill Gates — Not much of a paper chase for Microsoft's chairman, who uses a range of digital tools to do business. — NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft (Research) was starting and realize how work has been transformed.
Leslie Walker / Washington Post:
New Trends In Online Traffic — Visits to Sites for Blogging, Local Information and Social Networks Drive Web Growth — While growth is slowing at most top Internet sites, it is skyrocketing at sites focused on social networking, blogging and local information.
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible — LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.—In a rare discussion on the severity of the Windows malware scourge, a Microsoft security official said businesses should consider investing in an automated process to wipe hard drives and reinstall operating systems …
Shimon Sandler:
Google Real Estate - beta Launched — Thanks to my friend Avi from Promediacorp who alerted me to this immediately. — Google has silently released: Google Real Estate. I don't know if that is the official name, but that's what I'm calling it until I hear otherwise.
Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired News:
Reasons to Love Open-Source DRM — I acknowledge that the title of this column is strange. Aside from the fact that most savvy music listeners (justifiably) hate DRM, the very idea of using open-source software to enforce digital rights management runs counter to everything commonly assumed …
Tristan Louis / The TNL.net weblog:
Microsoft Does Linux — I had to check the date on the article when I saw the announcement that Microsoft was going to provide some level of support for Linux. However, this is not an April Fool's Day joke; it's the real thing and has serious implications.
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microsoft.com
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Software 2006: The shifting landscape — MR Rangaswami started off Software 2006 outlining three major themes for the event at the Santa Clara Convention Center. He said the industry is undergoing a "quiet but dramatic revolution," driven by SaaS, open source and SOA architecture.
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Ross Mayfield's Weblog
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Erick Schonfeld / B2Day:
NYtimes.com Redesign—Don't Mess With A Good Thing — I was travelling yesterday when the NYTimes.com launched its new home page, so I only really saw it this morning when I booted up my computer. And my first reaction was "Ugh!" There are so many more obstacles now in the way of getting to the information that I want.
jkOnTheRun:
TabletKiosk eo UMPC evaluation underway! — The good folks at TabletKiosk have let me borrow one of their prototype eo UMPCs for a few days and I will be offering my observations about the device. Here's a couple of quick photos of the unit which will have to do until I have spent a little more time with the eo:
Discussion:
Kevin 2.0
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Wins Biggest Phone-Software Order, Rivals BlackBerry — April 4 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. won its biggest-ever contract for mobile-phone software, an order from the U.S. Census Bureau that covers 500,000 handsets. — Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker …
Discussion:
The Ponderings of Woodrow, Todd Bishop's Microsoft …, Kevin 2.0 and Microsoft News Tracker
This is Powazek:
Death to User-Generated Content — Can I make a suggestion? Let's all stop using the phrase "user-generated content." I'm serious. It's a despicable, terrible term. Let's deconstruct it. — User: One who uses. Like, you know, a junkie. — Generated: Like a generator, engine.
Discussion:
Jeremy Zawodny's blog
Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:
Web Ads Appear On Racy Sites Despite Checks — Last month, Verizon Communications Inc. was surprised to find one of its Internet ads on a MySpace.com page with photos of scantily clad women. Walt Disney Co. was unaware that its ad was next to an article about male sexual performance on About.com.
Mark Del Bianco / CNET News.com:
Perspective: Bumps in the road for AT&T-BellSouth merger? — The conventional wisdom in Washington is that regulatory approval of the proposed AT&T-BellSouth merger is a done deal. The consensus is that this deal will sail through with flying colors—and a few not very onerous merger conditions.
Discussion:
O'Reilly Emerging Telephony
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Mac's Moment? — Apple has its best chance in years to make a dent in the business market — Japan's Aozora Bank Ltd. is planning to do something once unheard of in the business world: switch nearly all of its 2,300 desktop personal computers to Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh computers.
Discussion:
Between the Lines, O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog, Mac Rumors, MacSlash and The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Inquirer:
Lucent takes legal action against Microsoft over Xbox 360 — Patent place, again — NETWORKING GIANT Lucent is suing Microsoft alleging it breaches a patent it holds. — The patent, 5,227,878, was issued to Lucent on July 13th 1993 and called "Adaptive Coding and Decoding of Frames and Fields of Video".
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Negroponte: Slimmer Linux needed for $100 laptop — BOSTON—The One Laptop Per Child organization will use Linux on its inexpensive machines, but the operating system suffers the same code bloat as Windows, the project's leader said Tuesday. — "People aren't thinking about small, fast …
