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New York Times:
A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor — When Google was a graduate-school project being run from a Silicon Valley garage, its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, built their own computers out of cheap parts meant for personal computers. They wanted to save money …
Discussion:
Digital Micro-Markets, John Battelle's Searchblog, Zoli's Blog, Clickety Clack and Got Ads?
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Where was Google? — Thinking back on the last two days of Gnomedex and I am wondering "where was Google?" I don't remember meeting a Google employee (I just looked through my stack of more than a hundred business cards and didn't find one from Google). — But, yet, Google was the talk of the conference.
Randall Stross / New York Times:
AOL Said, 'If You Leave Me I'll Do Something Crazy' — "YOU'RE going to listen to me." — This was the taunting command of an AOL customer service representative who sounded like a jailer twirling his keychain. The customer on the phone wanted to complete his business …
Discussion:
WebMetricsGuru, Message, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Life On the Wicked Stage, IP Democracy, 21talks, Smart Mobs and A VC
Sam Ruby:
Repave Periodically — Bill de hÓra: I don't have time to change OSes — That's scary. When was the last time you installed any version of Windows? For me, it was April. — My biggest concern is an involuntary need to reinstall that comes at a time that I can least afford it.
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Daniel Greenberg / Washington Post:
Internet and Land-Line Calls on One Phone — At one point, the biggest selling point in Internet phone services was price. — Companies such as Vonage Holdings Corp. and 8x8 Inc. enticed customers with calling plans that offered local and long-distance services over a high-speed Internet connection for as little as $15 a month.
Discussion:
IP Democracy
Jessie Seyfer / Mercury News:
Seven bidders step up with wireless Net plan for valley — NETWORK TO COVER 1,500 SQUARE MILES FROM SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO THROUGH SANTA CRUZ — Seven bidders stepped up Friday with proposals for bringing affordable wireless Internet access to all 1,500 square miles of Silicon Valley — a costly, technically challenging task.
Discussion:
IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Firefox in the next 6 months — I heard a few questions yesterday about the future of Firefox and its product goals, differentiating factors, and its positioning against Microsoft and its Internet Explorer browser. I've been following the Firefox process intermittently so I'll outline …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Gawker Trims Portfolio, Lays Off Bloggers — The New York Times is reporting that Gawker Media founder and CEO Nick Denton is putting two of his lowest performing blogs on the block, reorganizing others and laying off several people. — Sploid and Screenhead are being sold.
Arieanna / Blogaholics:
Bitch Session with Jeremy Zawodny: Gnomedex 6.0 — Related entries in Opinion, Social networking, Events — I think it's appropriate that Jeremy Zawodny moves into a planned "bitch session" [particularly social software/media] after the bitch slapping of our last session.
Michelle Meyers / CNET News.com:
Some MacBooks have premature age spots — What began as a few isolated reports of mysterious stains appearing on the wrist rests of Apple Computer's MacBooks looks to be more widespread and the impetus for a growing Web community of displeased owners. — Reports of the discoloration …
Business Week:
How Failure Breeds Success — Everyone fears failure. But breakthroughs depend on it. The best companies embrace their mistakes and learn from them — Ever heard of Choglit? How about OK Soda or Surge? Long after "New Coke" became nearly synonymous with innovation failure …
Discussion:
Randy Holloway Unfiltered
Google Blogoscoped:
Different Types of Google Trends — Google Trends shows the volume for different search queries over time. Nadine Schmidt-Mänz at the Berlin search engines workshop last Monday categorized a bunch of these searches. Her work was based on storing & analyzing search live tickers …
Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
Delete All Spam In Gmail — Gmail has a great spam filter, but the spam is hard to delete. And that's a problem if you get hundreds of spam messages everyday. Gmail is rolling out a new link called "Delete all spam messages now" so you don't have to repeatedly select all messages and delete them.
Justin Baillargeon / QJ.NET - PSP Updates:
[Breaking News] 2.50/2.60 Downgrader - v5 Beta Released — Yes, you have read the title right - 2.50/2.60 Downgrader. Dark_Alex, along with Mathieulh and Yoshihiro from SonyXTeam, have released the first working 2.50/2.60 downgrader. Most credit goes to Dark_Alex (as said by Mathieulh) as he is the founder of the downgrader.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Samsung's Yepp YP-T9 with Bluetooth hits FCC — Looks like Samsung has a new one in the works; their YP-T9 DAP just got its FCC approval and it's looking mighty nice. The Yepp player measures 0.43-inches thick, and weighs a mere 1.7 ounces, but Samsung still managed a few extras.
