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David Richards / smarthouse.com.au:
Apple A Threat To Windows Vista. Re Write Confirmed — The marketing director of a key Microsoft partner has confirmed that key elements of Windows Vista are currently being re written. — Mr Raymond Vardanega, the Marketing Director, of Acer Australia has confirmed independently …
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Incremental Blogger, Alec Saunders .LOG, Scobleizer, Microsoft News Tracker and Digital Inspiration
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Phil Sim / Squash:
Biggest. Microsoft. Stuff-up. Ever? (And Who the heck is David Richards?) — In case your not a regular Squash-ee or else haven't picked it up along the way, my tiny, tiny little niche area of authority that I've been fortunate to build a business on is the Australian technology media.
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Steve says "I shoulda been there"; gives me a "reality check" — Steve Gillmor says that if we wanted a really interesting conversation that he should have been at the Bill Gates lunch. Hey, that's really selling the skills of Albert Lai, Mike Arrington, and Lynda Weinman short.
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Andrew / Web Publishing Blog:
Exclusive Interview with PlentyOfFish.com creator and owner, Markus Frind — As I reported a few days ago, Markus Frind, the owner of the free dating site PlentyOfFish.com has been pulling in $10,000 a day from Adsense. What is even more remarkable is that he is single handedly …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Saving journalism (and killing the press) — I'm in Philly at the Annenberg School of Communication for the Norg unconference: A remarkable, perhaps historic, gathering of newspaper people and bloggers starting a conversation about saving news. Will Bunch, a columnist on the Daily News …
Rich Miller / Netcraft:
Widespread Outages for World of Warcraft — World of Warcraft is experiencing lengthy downtime, and blaming its service provider for the outages. The virtual world, which now has more than 6 million users, also announced emergency maintenance outages overnight on a large number of game servers (known as "realms").
Discussion:
Igniq - Gaming News
Christine Hurt / Conglomerate Blog:
The Democratization of Expertise — ProfB has an interesting post on the wisdom of crowds versus the wisdom of experts. One of the intriguing aspects of the Internet has been the democratization of authority. Thirty years ago, if you were writing a paper for school, you found facts and support for your paper in written materials.
Discussion:
Scott Rosenberg's Links …, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, madisonian.net and Newsome.Org
Rick Schaut / Buggin' My Life Away:
Of Intel Macs and Red Herrings — Scott Byer at Adobe put up a very nice post about the switch to intel and some of the growing pains many of us are going through. While I've added my own comments to Scott's piece, a number of my colleagues in Mac BU have asked me to weigh in on the subject here on my blog.
Michael Swanson / Michael Swanson's Blog:
MIX06 Session Recordings — The MIX06 conference in Las Vegas is over, and it was an outstanding event. Feedback has been almost universally positive, and attendees are encouraging us to do this again. MIX06 was a smaller, more intimate conference, and many of our presentations and panels were driven by our customers and partners.
David Walker / ehomeupgrade.com:
Easy DivX to Xbox 360 Streaming with MCE Video Encoder — Until now, in order to play your DivX encoded copies of The Matrix on your Xbox360, you had to resort to a "hack", which was functional, but required you to be somewhat computer savvy to get it running.
madpenguin.org:
Tux goes retail: How open source is faring in big box retail stores — Free open source software is making slow in-roads into the world of big box retail. This article is the first of a series of two Mad Penguin™ articles which take a detailed look inside the world of retail as Tux is experiencing it.
Steelieboy / F**kedGoogle:
S & P 500 chairman admits he market timed the Google addition: — EDIT: Their chairman, or Standard and Poor's itself, is a monumental liar. When they announced the addition in the press release they said that "price was not a consideration in our decision."
news.designtechnica.com:
The Quandary — We find ourselves in a bit of pickle: either (a) our definition of podcasting is insufficient or inaccurate, or (b) 80% of those who we call "podcasters" are nothing of the sort. — Before we write off 80% of podcast users as being posers, perhaps we should reconsider …
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Jaffe Juice
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
Fans put satellite radio on cellphones, draws fire — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fans of U.S. satellite radio have been waiting eagerly for nearly a year to get XM or Sirius on to their cell phones. — But as the two satellite radio providers carefully ponder their mobile strategies and chew …
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Techdirt
IEBlog:
Announcing Internet Explorer Feedback — Many customers have asked us about having a better way to enter IE bugs. It is asked "Why don't you have Bugzilla like Firefox or other groups do?" We haven't always had a good answer except it is something that the IE team has never done before.
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Vast.com and Its Ilk Please Some, Annoy Others — Vast.com may be the latest classified ad aggregator to hit the market, but the service is raising some familiar concerns. — Like its competitors, the firm insists it is simply scouring the Web for relevant information based on user queries …
