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9:00 PM ET, July 11, 2006

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Well, well, Dell  —  So Dell is starting a blog.  —  Ha.  Heh.  Ho ho ho.  —  It's a blog in content management system name only.  —  The subtitle is "direct conversations with Dell" but this is as much a conversation as yelling at a brick wall.  There is not one link there.
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Nick / Rough Type:
Dell's unorthodox blog  —  A few days ago, Dell quietly launched a corporate blog, called one2one.  Mixing words and video, it's designed to let various Dell employees talk about Dell products and services - and to share their enthusiasm for the company with customers.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Dell joins the bloggy Web  —  Oh, oh, this is becoming a trend.  A human being on Dell's Web site?  Calling Jeff Jarvis, calling Jeff Jarvis!  Oh, he already chimed in.  Steve Rubel did too and says the same thing.  —  What did I tell Nestle when someone asked "how do you start?"  —  Listen.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Some friendly advice from Dell
Discussion: tins
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Dell blogging job comes with Kevlar-Nomex logoware
Discussion: SunbeltBLOG
Bill Tancer / Hitwise US:
MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites  —  Today Hitwise issued a press release reporting that for the first time, www.myspace.com has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users.  To put MySpace's growth in perspective …
Wired News:
Condé Nast Buys Wired News  —  Lycos is selling its Wired News unit to Condé Nast Publications for $25 million, Lycos parent Daum Communications announced in Korea late Tuesday, a deal that brings Wired.com and Wired magazine under the same owner after an eight-year separation.
Discussion: Anil Dash
Sid Yadav / rev2.org:
33 Places to Hangout in the Social Networking Era  —  Update: Someone dugg this list (thanks krazydog!)  Click here to digg it if you find it useful.  —  Social networks have had giant growth spurts over the past couple of years, and it seems there's one for everyone: from dogs to moms to book-worms to shoppers.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Continued CRM Momentum and Outlines Roadmap for New Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live Service  —  New software-as-a-service offering will further extend the power of choice for CRM customers and partners.  —  BOSTON — July 11, 2006 — Building on the market success …
Associated Press:
Gates: Vista likely to be ready in January  —  Microsoft chief says 80 percent chance new OS software will be available  —  CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday there was an 80 percent chance the company's next-generation operating system, Windows Vista, would be ready in January.
Jessica Lee / Google Maps API Official Blog:
Zoooooooom!  —  Today we're enabling some new zoom features on Google Maps.  We're making these features available to API v2 users as well, so please test them out and send us your feedback!  — Double-click to zoom.  Instead of double-clicking to recenter the map …
Jgovernor / James Governor's MonkChips:
My First Gartner Cease And Desist: the missing link  —  James Governor's MonkChips: On Sample Sizes for Magic Quadrants  —  Its about time, I guess.  Last Thursday I received an email, strangely enough from Gartner's Vendor Relations department, asking me to remove a link from monkchips …
Mark Ward / BBC:
Microsoft shuts down Windows 98  —  Technology Correspondent, BBC News website  —  Microsoft is urging an estimated 70 million users of Windows 98 to upgrade as it ends support for the software.  —  From 11 July, Microsoft will no longer help users over the phone with any problems they have with the ageing operating system.
Discussion: Larry Borsato, M-Dollar and Ubergizmo
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Porn Browser Heatseek Launches (yeah, porn browser)  —  Heatseek is a pornography focused browser that quietly launched today.  The point of this software is to make porn browsing more efficent and more secure.  The browser is available on Windows machines only, and is built on top of Internet Explorer.
CNET News.com:
BitTorrent inks licensing deal with studios  —  BitTorrent is lining up entertainment companies as it prepares to sell downloads of feature films, TV shows and other video entertainment.  —  The San Francisco-based file-sharing company announced on Monday that it has signed licensing deals …
Robert Young / GigaOM:
Rise of the Socially-Integrated Media Empire  —  Rupert Murdoch built his media empire, News Corp, the old-fashioned way... by vertically and horizontally integrating deep and wide into the layers of the media industry (e.g. from production to distribution).
Discussion: A VC and Digital Micro-Markets
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Microsoft's media player dubbed Zune  —  Well, the info's finally starting to come in about Microsoft's wireless media player; the project, dubbed Argo, will apparently spawn at very least one device, which we saw yesterday.  By way of our trusted sources we now know the device is currently dubbed Zune …
Staci / paidContent.org:
NYTimes's Personalized Service "My Times" Debuts In Limited Beta  —  One of the linchpins of the new NYTimes.com design is slipping into place finally ... personalization feature My Times is now in limited beta for 5,000 registered NYTimes.com users who showed early interest (Some screenshots here).
 
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Leander Kahney / Wired News:
Are Apple's Customers Rebelling?
Business Wire:
Time Warner To Present AOL's Future Business Strategy At August …
Peter Cohen / playlistmag.com:
iPod FM transmitter sends artist, song info to radio
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Free WiFi spawns cafe backlash
Discussion: Ben Metcalfe Blog
Valleywag:
Rocketboom dies on the launchpad
Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
TheWeblogWire Launches, Makes PRWeb Redundant?
bLaugh:
Friend or Foe?  —  Millions of fans poured into the streets …
Discussion: Chris Pirillo
Jonathan Berr / TheStreet.com:
MySpace Grows Up  —  MySpace, the cyber home of countless teens …
 Earlier Items: 
Read/WriteWeb:
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Anything But iPod:
The SanDisk Sansa e280 8GB Flash Player is "Official"
Discussion: Engadget, dapreview.net and Gizmodo
Om Malik / GigaOM:
SageTV Brings PlaceShifting To Linux
Discussion: Engadget and PVR Wire
Johnporcaro / Gamerscore Blog:
Summer of Xbox Live Arcade Event in San Francisco Tomorrow
Shawn Andrich / Gamers With Jobs Press Pass:
Hellgate: London Source Code Stolen?
New York Times:
Google to Put a Research Center in Michigan
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Citibank Phish Spoofs 2-Factor Authentication
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