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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Windows Live Writer, Write On! — Mac-happy bloggers often use either Ecto or by Mars Edit as their desktop blogging client. Given that those two products are pretty close to perfection, we are unlikely to switch to another client. Windows PC users, on the other hand have had to choose from w.Bloggar, Qumana or some similar tool.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Windows Live Writer — Microsoft launched Windows Live Writer today. This is a free, downloadable application that runs on your Windows PC and allows you to write blog posts. Don't bother clicking the link if you have a Mac, this is Windows PC software only.
Harrison Hoffman / LiveSide:Windows Live changes the way you write your blog
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Guardian Unlimited, Craig Burton, Microsoft News Tracker, Bleeding Edge and Chris Pirillo
Chron.Com / TechBlog:Just testing: Windows Live Writer
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Lifehacker, Incremental Blogger, Buzzworthy, PaulStamatiou.com, Mark Evans, Elliott Back and Newsome.Org
Harrison Hoffman / LiveSide: Exclusive: Interview with J.J. Allaire, Architect for Windows Live Writer
Microsoft:
Microsoft Invites the World to Create Its Own Xbox 360 Console Games for the First Time — More than 10 esteemed universities to add XNA Game Studio Express and Xbox 360 game development into their curricula starting this fall. — In the 30 years of video game development …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Play your own Xbox game — Microsoft is trying to turn hard-core gamers into Xbox programmers. — The company plans to show off on Monday a new set of developer tools that will let college students, hobbyists and others create their own games for the Xbox 360 console, for a Windows PC or both.
Robert Levine / New York Times:
Microsoft Has a Starter Kit for Aspiring Game Designers — During the last decade, the cost of recording and producing music and video has plummeted, giving amateur auteurs a chance at stardom. But at the same time, the expense involved in making video games has gone up …
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Ouriel Ohayon / TechCrunch:
Netvibes secures a $15 million investment — NetVibes, a Paris/London based company, will announce a $15 million round of financing on Monday. Index Venture (which is a prior investor) and Accel ventures lead the investment operation which certainly is one of the largest in European internet this year …
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Stephen Foley / Independent:
To google or not to google? It's a legal question — Search engine's sense of humour crashes as it fires off warning letters over use of name as a verb — Search engine giant Google, known for its mantra "don't be evil", has fired off a series of legal letters to media organisations, warning them against using its name as a verb.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:Google Warns Media on Using Its Name as a Verb
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Virtual Economics, Newsome.Org, Life On the Wicked Stage, Google Watch, OnlyOnce and Blogspotting
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Browster 2.0 Makes MySpace Suck Less — Browster, the browser extension that lets you preview search results by hovering over them, launched a new version today (Sunday). Browster 2.0 offers the same free add-on for Internet Explorer and Firefox, but they're also targeting MySpace users.
Ken Belson / New York Times:
Verizon Is Rewiring New York, Block by Block, in a Race for Survival — It's 9 in the morning, and a team from Verizon has been stringing fiber optic cable along a residential side street in the Bronx for three hours. In a basket about 20 feet in the air, James DeMattia guides the cable …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
CPA - The Holy Grail of Online Advertising? — Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus. Ebrahim is lead developer of search product Qube and authored the Search 2.0 series, which featured recently on Read/WriteWeb. — This article explores the new online advertising model of CPA …
Guy Kawasaki / Signum sine tinnitu:
Everything You Wanted to Know About Getting a Job in Silicon Valley But Didn't Know Who to Ask — Many people ask me for advice about getting a job in Silicon Valley, so here's the inside scoop. Not everyone will agree with this advice, and some will outright deny what I'm saying …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
30Boxes On Your Mobile, On Your Mac — 30Boxes, the web calendar that totally rocks, just keeps getting better. They just introduced a mobile version of the site, so now you can get your calendar apps right on your favorite mobile phone, something we can all appreciate when we are late …
Evan Blass / Engadget:
New Segway coming tomorrow? — Wouldn't you know it, just when we've finally perfected riding our Segway HT180i without falling off every five seconds and skinning our knees, multiple reports are claiming that the company is poised to release a brand new version of the self-stabilizing human transporter as soon as tomorrow.
Darren / Blog Republic:
John Evans - Blogger Interview Series - Number 5 — The highly anticipated 5th installment of the Blogger Interview Series is here. This time we feature John Evans, of Syntagma Media. — Bloggers' Bio — I'm a fulltime author, journalist and owner of Syntagma Media which produces Syntagma, a Web Network Magazine.
Mike / Techdirt:
Does Apple Own All Naming Rights To Any Electronic Device Named A Pod? — Apple has always been especially protective of their intellectual property — and when it comes to trademarks, the law pretty much requires you to be extra aggressive or you risk losing the protection.
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