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WinFS Team / What's in Store:
WinFS Update — It's been nearly a year since I wrote my entry about WinFS Beta1, but rest assured, we have been working furiously since then. Today I have an update about how we are delivering some of the WinFS technologies. It represents a change to our original delivery strategy …
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pro-networks.org, Mini-Microsoft, Microsoft News Tracker and Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
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longhornblogs.com:
Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET - Windows Vista Edition — A .NET Developer's Perspective on the Windows Vista Experience — WinFS Project Ends, No Beta 2 Release — In the post that is sure to be slashdotted all to hell in the coming days, Quentin Clark of the WinFS Team posts of the projects demise.
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The NeoSmart Blog
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Notes from Day 1 — Things that worked: The song, wifi, air conditioning, signage, lunch. — All the DLs and monitors were awesome. The right people showed up, the right people stayed home. — Phil Torrone was every bit as good as I imagined he would be, esp given that this was his first BloggerCon …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Production values debate breaks out during videologger session — I just listened to the video blogging session at BloggerCon. — In the discussion it was clear that there is a coming conflict between people who "do it for love" and those who are doing video to build an audience …
AppleInsider:
Apple's Leopard has its eye on Redmond — For the second time in as many years, Apple Computer is looking to outshine rival Micrsoft Corp. in the inevitable battle between the two companies' software operating systems. — There's still over a month to go before Apple will take the wraps off Leopard …
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Infinite Loop
Trinity Rubicon:
The jig is up... I'm going to be honest here: When I posted those Leopard screenshots on Blogger, I was never expecting quite the popularity it ended up acheiving. For it to get on the front page of digg is one thing, but to have it get commented on 200 times is pretty surprising to me.
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Infinite Loop
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sidekick 3 Sells for $4050 on eBay — Now some of us have been lucky enough to test out the Sidekick 3 - for instance, The Engadget Boys and Phone Scoop Gang - but even they could not have predicted the mad dash for the new Danger Hiptop, aka T-Mobile Sidekick 3. — One of these puppies just sold for a whopping $4050 on eBay.
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the j. botter weblog
Will / will langford dot com:
Firefox 1.5 vs. Opera 9 — Click here for screenshot. — I've been a diehard Firefox user sense before Beta 1. I wrote my Firefox Guide earlier this year, once that page hit Slashdot there were several comments about how Opera does all of that and more, without the need of the extensions that Firefox has.
Dan Mitchell / New York Times:
More Rumblings About Net Privacy — ONCE again, an online news outlet has published details about secret rooms in AT&T buildings where government spies are said to be gaining access to millions of private e-mail messages and other Internet traffic. This time, it's Salon …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
UMass Study Identifies the Traits of Successful Bloggers — A fascinating new UMass study penned by Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes, Chancellor Professor of Marketing, interviewed 74 different business bloggers to identify what makes some stand out more than others. The paper (PDF) is chock full of really interesting information.
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google's secret IPv6 plans — Google Operating System reports on Alex Lightman's theory why Google is buying up "dark fiber" — to pursue IPv6 initiatives. According to Lightman, Google has a huge block of "slash 20" addresses — exactly what is needed to be a large scale service provider.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
Pandora's New Feature: Backstage — Pandora, the excellent internet radio service, rolled out a great new feature last week: Backstage. The new service is powered by All Music Guide and lets you research the bands you're listening to - over 20,000 artists are listed.
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Lifehacker
Computer Guru / The NeoSmart Blog:
Windows Vista Build 5456 Released — Microsoft has just released a new build of Windows Vista for technical beta testers. Windows Vista Build 5456 offers many security, functionality, and performance advantages over the previous build (Beta 2 - build 5384.4).
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
BloggerCon: Dave talks about exiting the blogosphere — During the concluding wrap up for BloggerCon IV, unconference host Dave Winer ironically talked about his plan to cease blogging, not for the first time. Before he launched into his exit strategy he talked about reasons for blogging.
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Corporate Engagement
Chris Pirillo:
Freedbacking — Just had my session on Users at Bloggercon. I wasn't sure how it went, but several people came up to me afterwards and told me that they really appreciated that - it was a psychotherapeutic session, enabling users to complain about software (why it doesn't work, why it's messed up, how they wish it could be better).
