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The First 100 Days: Observations of a Nouveau Blogger — I've been a blogger for a whopping 100 days, and it's been a delightful and educational experience. Some readers (Omer Trajman, in particular) asked me share my observations about my blogging experience, so here goes:
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Rex Hammock's Weblog


Mo' Beta Maps — Today we added global satellite imagery to Yahoo! Maps beta. The new satellite imagery will help people visualize maps, driving directions, and local search, and is available across Yahoo! and to developers through our APIs. — Here are the highlights:


Live.com to be homepage of Vista, IE7 — Microsoft's new hire, Niall Kennedy (formally of Technorati), wrote in his blog today that Live.com will be the default homepage for Vista and IE7: … This is something I've been predicting for a while, but until now Microsoft hadn't confirmed it.
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Windows Vista Product Guide Preview Was Available!
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"ROBO-ONE in the Space" promises low-orbit robot battles — Besides the promised army of nanobots that will fulfill our every want and need, there hasn't been too much about the "future" to get really jazzed up about — until, that is, we found out about a little event happening on October 10 …
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Tie me Webaroo down, sport — Is it a bubble yet? There's no way to be sure, but one telltale sign of irrational exuberance the last time around was the proliferation of companies based on ideas that simply made no sense. — The portents are beginning to loom once more.


'Red Hat wraps Linux in sh*t,' says new exec — With the sale of his company JBoss to Red Hat, Marc Fleury will be going to work for an open source pretender that has never done much in the way of innovation. Or, at least that's what Fleury used to think.
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tecosystems, Yet Another Software Blog, JD on EP, James Governor's MonkChips and Feld Thoughts

Combining OPML and RSS to create an export format for a blog — Marc Canter links to Joe Brockmeier's post about weblogs having a shared format. Timely. — I've been thinking about this myself because I want such a format too. Although I have written a tool to serve my own needs …

IRS seeks PayPal's aid finding hidden cash — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service won approval from a federal court to ask PayPal to turn over information about people who might be evading taxes by hiding income in other countries, officials said Tuesday.
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China's got RedBerry — Cheaper rival hits the market on eve of RIM's long-delayed debut — BEIJING and TORONTO — On the eve of its long-delayed China launch, BlackBerry is facing a sudden challenge from a cheaper Chinese rival called, unapologetically, RedBerry.


News Corp. Has New Pitch: Generation Fox — Reorganizes Sales Force to Sell 12- to 24-Year-Old Demo Across Platforms — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Move over MTV. News Corp. is making an early grab for ad dollars aimed at the 12- to 24-year-old demographic and is retooling its sales operation …
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Hell Is Other People's Music — "Hell," said Jean-Paul Sartre, "is other people." I'd qualify that slightly. People are fine; it's their music that's hell. — When I moved to New York my first year was sheer bliss; I spent my second in the inferno. Just one thing changed …
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Smart Mobs


EXCLUSIVE SCREENSHOTS OF GOOGLE CALENDAR / CL2 — A reader passed along these screenshots of Google Calendar (code-named CL2). I'm not going to speak towards their authenticity, just pass 'em along to you guys. — Lets say these are the real thing. If so, we're seeing …

The MySpace Economy — Tens of millions of people show up regularly at MySpace, News Corp.'s suddenly popular virtual hangout. That's good news for News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch, who raised eyebrows by shelling out $580 million for the Web site last summer.

Exclusive: Google Fire and Google Wheel Launched — It seems we just can't get enough of Google these days. Yesterday's news that Google had hired a new employee - and acquired some early stage technology as a result - generated a crazy amount of buzz. It seemed lost on most people …

Introducing the Dell De-Crapifier... It's a sad state of affairs when you buy a new computer these days and it comes pre-loaded with a ton of garbage software that brings your new machine to a crawl. If anyone's bought a Dell PC in the last few years, you probably know what I'm talking about.

Bloggers Join the Mainstream — A syndication service that delivers commentary from 600 bloggers for use by newspaper publishers is set to launch on Tuesday, further blurring the lines that divide blogs and mainstream media. — BlogBurst, as the service from blog technology company Pluck Corp. is known …
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