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Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Where The Girls Aren't.... Christine Herron is one of the blog panel participants. First I added Christine to the panel because of what she's not. She isn't a VOIP blogger. She isn't looking at VOIP the way we have covered it in the past, and oh yes, she's not a guy.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
March 2006 tech conference season — If you see Hugh Forrest at SXSW tell him I say hi, and I'd love to meet him someday, and I offer my services for SXSW 2007, as I do every year. Maybe one of these years they'd be willing to let me talk with their community on stage, beacuse it's the same community, Hugh.
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Mike Langberg / Mercury News:
Langberg: Net giants create 'personal playgrounds' — Google, Microsoft and Yahoo no longer aim to confine you in a ``walled garden'' — the online equivalent of a gated community where you only use the owner's services. — Instead, they are now pursuing a more subtle approach I'm going to call a ``personal playground.''
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
DabbleDB: Online App Building For Everyone — Every so often I get asked 'what is the latest hot app' and after using DabbleDB I have a new answer to that question. DabbleDB is a platform that allows you to create applications online using a web interface.
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David Heinemeier Hansson / Loud Thinking:
Distinguishing power from versatility — I think I've distilled what made my eyebrows go up at Goslings comments about PHP and Ruby. Aside from the fact that he confuses Ruby with Rails and uses the dismissive term "web pages" instead of "web applications", I think the primary mistake was abbreviating …
cockeyed.com:
The Torn-Up Credit Card Application — You should probably buy a shredder today. — I get a heck of a lot of credit card applications in the mail. — A bunch for Visa, quite a few from Mastercard and tons of them from American Express. — I almost always tear them in half and throw them away.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flickr has some catching up to do — Kristopher Tate walked Brian Oberkirch and me through a demo of his zooomr project at a meetro party last week (Kris, who's 17, works full time at meetro and zooomr is a side project). He launched zooomr on March 1, 2006 after working on it for only three months or so.
Dan Nystedt / PC World:
CeBIT: An Origami With a Via Processor — The SmartCaddie is the first announced Origami device without Intel inside. — HANOVER, GERMANY — Via Technologies is a company that takes pride in bursting illusions, such as the idea the new ultramobile PCs would only come equipped with Intel microprocessors.
Nik Cubrilovic:
Technorati T100 Gets A Tweak — I just noticed that the Technorati T100 list, which is a list of the 'top' blogs, has been tweaked recently and bears no resemblance to it's former self. Many of the top blogs have dropped out of the list (including Techcrunch) and have been replaced …
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Business Week:
How the Masses Will Innovate — The newly appointed head of MIT's Media Lab envisions a time soon when millions will play a stronger role in societal advances, thanks to technology. And MIT is helping to plant the seeds — YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS OF TECH>>
Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
The metrics of influence—the mania for measuring the blogosphere — There is a current mania among corporations and PR companies to figure out which tools to use to find the influencers in the blogosphere. They are combing through the PageRank and Alexa rankings of online news sites and blog sites …
Reuters:
Cingular, T-Mobile stop Razr cell phone sales — Companies say a glitch in Motorola's wildly popular phone causes dropped calls or shut down; Motorola stock tumbles over 2 percent. — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cingular Wireless and T-Mobile USA have temporarily stopped selling the Razr …
Conrad Quilty-Harper / Joystiq:
The Xbox 360 VGA cable has width issues (Xbox 360 annoyance #016) — Microsoft's decision to provide a VGA cable for the Xbox 360 was a brilliant one - not since the Dreamcast has aconsole manufacturer made it so easy for gamers to plug their console into their computer's monitor.
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
Crazy Egg is Crazy Delicious! — Wow! Just wow. Crazy Egg will absolutely blow you away. Remember when ajax started getting popular, and some advertisers were concerned that they wouldn't be able to track pageview stats anymore? Not so! Ajax gives you the ability to track visitors right down to their mouse moves.
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