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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 …
David Carr / New York Times:
A Blog Mogul Turns Bearish on Blogs — THE blogging bubble has been taking on serious air of late. Last week, PaidContent.org, a blog that covers digital media, held its first mixer. It was, by all reports, filled to the brim with money and content guys speed dating on the way to marriage.
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IP Democracy, Digital Inspiration, Make Money Online …, The Blogging Times, Poynter Online and duncanriley.com
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New York Times:
Internet Calling Pressures Bells to Lower Rates — Competition in the phone business, intensifying this year as Internet-based calling has taken root, has reached the point where many industry experts are anticipating an era of remarkably cheap and even free calls.
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VoIP Watch
Dhiramshah / New Launches:
Angel Kitty USB keyboard for the naughty geeky lover — After the USB powered shirt here is something naughty, a maid's costume with a functional USB keyboard wrapped around the chest region. The 85 key keyboard is bendable and made of silicon to give you the right feeling and avoid damage to your girlfriend.
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Gizmodo
Andrew Becker / Contra Costa Times:
Some countries already monitor text messages — As text messaging evolves into a popular method of global communication, some repressive governments are reading along, texting back and even editing messages — with the help of North American companies. — A joke received by cell-phone text message …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Focus on the users — I was a user, developer and web writer during the Browser Wars and the Java Wars, and I pleaded and begged Microsoft, Netscape and Sun to pay attention to the users, and not focus on each other. But like two parents fighting while the kids are going hungry …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
PalTalk to offer massive multiperson video chat for social networks — The video chat company PalTalk will go live on Monday with a new social networking service designed to be a proof of concept for the inclusion of video chat in social networks. PalTalk already has a thriving business …
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21talks
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Israeli Soldier's Captors Set Tuesday Deadline Japan's Business Optimism Rises 'Superman' Lands Atop Box Office China Network Denies PCCW Report — Filmmaker Hao Wu returned to his homeland to document the changes shaping Chinese society. But the story of his arrest illustrates how blurry …
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.
RawmeatCowboy / Go Nintendo:
Sports Illustrated for Kids knows Wii release date — You find gaming information in the weirdest places. Reader Eryin was scanning through the latest issue of Sports Illustrated for Kids when he came upon an article on the PS3 and Wii. According to SIforK, the Wii is coming out November 6th.
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.
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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Bill de hÓra
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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Firefox in the next 9 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 …
