Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:55 AM ET, October 12, 2006

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
- NOA: Wii Demo Units Not Just at GameStop - Sony Happy With PS3 Pre-Order Results - Reserving a PS3 in Japan is Super Easy - First Wii Japanese TV Spot - UPDATE: Lumines Live is Free?  —  NEXT POST »  —  Twilight Princess GC Online Only in Japan  —  Nintendo's really pushing that Wii version, aren't they?
RELATED ITEMS:
qualcomm.com:
QUALCOMM Launches Project in Collaboration with Mozilla Foundation to Develop Open Source Version of Eudora Email Program  —  Open Source Version of Eudora will be Free of Charge; Final Commercial Versions of Classic Eudora for Windows and Mac Available Now  —  QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq …
Business Week:
The Web According to Ballmer  —  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer chats with BusinessWeek editors about Web 2.0's sky-high valuations and the new competition the company faces  —  Even the people running the richest tech companies are awestruck by Web 2.0 valuations.
Google Blogoscoped:
Good Blog Writing Style  —  Danny Sullivan begs "Google Blog: Please Get Descriptive With Your Headlines!" and I agree.  Here are some rules for good writing style when you're blogging:  — Use descriptive headlines that reveal the point of the article without further reading …
Discussion: Copyblogger and InsideGoogle
RELATED ITEMS:
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Blog: Please Get Descriptive With Your Headlines!
Discussion: E-consultancy
Vincent Maher / E-Media Tidbits:
We're Facing a Monster: Will Someone Please Step Up and Say It?  —  In the midst of the dot-com-bubble-style euphoria triggered by Google buying YouTube (a $1.65 billion stock transaction), I see very little criticism leveled at Google over this deal.  But not everyone is happy.
Federal Trade Commission:
Should Municipalities Provide Wireless Internet Service?  FTC Staff Report Provides Guidance to Promote Competition  —  Improving consumer access to broadband Internet service is an important goal for federal, state, and local governments.  The possibility of competitive risks arising …
Merlin Mann / 43 Folders:
Merlin's top 5 super-obvious, "no-duh" ways to immediately improve your life  —  How to get organized and stay that way  —  When I was up in Toronto last week, I was interviewed by Samantha Grice from the National Post about 43 Folders, productivity stuff, and the sad sorry state of my own day-to-day productivity.
Discussion: digg
John Gaudiosi / Next Generation:
Research Findings Put PS3 Way Ahead  —  New research has shown massive consumer belief in the PlayStation 3, and waning interest in Xbox 360.  —  According to the study by Los Angeles based Interpret, 8.9 million U.S consumers 'are prepared' to pay full price ($500 or $600) …
Jeff / Venture Chronicles:
Teqlo: What It Means for Customers  —  A little over a month ago I left SAP for a startup and at the time I declined to name the company I was joining.  I would like to say that this was part of some brilliant marketing plan but the fact is that I joined a very early stage company …
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Gootube - The End of DRM ?  —  Power to the People !  The union of Google and Youtube has been described as a triumph of the consumer's interests over corporate control.  The big media entities, as evidenced by all the deals cut with Google and Youtube, CBS, WMG, Universal, et al, really gets it this time.
Discussion: Mathew Ingram, TechBlog and Valleywag
Darren Waters / BBC:
Warning over 'broken up' internet  —  The internet could one day be broken up into separate networks around the world, a leading light in the development of the net has warned.  —  Nitin Desai, chair of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), set up by the UN, warned that concerns over the net's future could lead to separation.
Adobe:
Acquisition to Extend Flash Experience to Broad Market of Mobile Devices  —  Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the acquisition of vector graphics technology developed by Actimagine, a company that develops, patents, and licenses software solutions in the field of video and interactive vector graphics.
Discussion: MocoNews.net
Light Reading:
Google: Dark Fiber Story Not So Dark  —  Google (Nasdaq: GOOG - message board) head of special initiatives Chris Sacca went into spin cycle last week while explaining his company's dark fiber investments to Light Reading.  (See Google's Own Private Internet.)  —  "I've bought a lot of fiber for Google," Sacca says.
Discussion: GigaOM and dailywireless.org
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Helium: click to compare other peoples' topical writing  —  Massachusetts based Helium launched its user generated article database yesterday and combines original writing with user rankings and profit sharing.  It's an interesting model that's more compelling that proved more compelling than I thought it would once I started using it.
Discussion: PostBubble and ContentBlogger
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Office 2.0: Where are we at and please get off my network  —  Om Malik (GigaOm), Rajen Sheth (Google), Mark Suster (Koral), Shel Israel (Naked Conversations), Karen Leavitt (WebEx), Ismael Ghalimi (Intalio, Office 2.0 conference host)  —  During a panel titled "Office 2.0: Where Are We," …
Discussion: Alpha.CNET.com and GigaOM
Benjamin Edelman / BenEdelman.org:
False and Deceptive Pay-Per-Click Ads … Read Google's voluminous Adwords Content Policy, and you'd think Google is awfully tough on bad ads.  If your company sells illegal drugs, makes fake documents, or helps customers cheat drug tests, you can't advertise at Google.
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 12:55 AM ET, October 12, 2006.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Qualcomm Spark:
Book Excerpt: The Creative Destruction of Medicine  —  The emergence of powerful tools to digitize human beings creates an unparalleled opportunity to inevitably and forever change the face of how health care is delivered.
Cloud Foundry:
Cloud Foundry Improves Support For Background Processing  —  Cloud Foundry has significantly enhanced support for worker applications that perform background processing by allowing applications to run on CloudFoundry.com without the application container.
Channel 9:
Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ sessions now online  —  Thanks to all of you who attended on premise and in the cloud.  —  All sessions are available for on demand viewing.
Atlassian Blogs:
Meet Atlassian Stash: Git Repository Management for Enterprise Teams  —  Atlassian now offers a centralized solution to manage Git repositories behind the firewall.  Streamlined for small agile teams, powerful enough for large organizations.
OpenDNS Blog:
Field Reports: How a Swiss IT Solutions Provider makes Web filtering for 15K+ students less complex  —  Complex IT problems are a nightmare for any network admin, whether you're running a single device at home or managing hundreds on a corporate network.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 Site News: 

Nothing recent. See Techmeme News for earlier news.

 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Mini-Techmeme: Techmeme for mobiles
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Add Techmeme to:
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on Twitter
 
 
 More Items: 
Ben Kuchera / Opposable Thumbs:
Get rid of your universal remotes, the PS3 has no IR port
Discussion: Joystiq
PR Newswire:
Verizon SuperPages.com Goes Where No Internet Yellow Pages Provider Has Gone Before
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
A sneaky change in Windows licensing terms
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
The Social News Faceoff
Discussion: WebMetricsGuru
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Vista Mythbusters #7: How much DRM is too much?
Discussion: Slashdot
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google Docs to go "offline" and more
Joe Siegler / 3D Realms News:
Prey Update for Triton Customers
Discussion: Neowin.net, Joystiq and Cathode Tan
Chris Tew / PVR Wire:
Microsoft's answer to the YouTube-Google Deal
 Earlier Items: 
Nokia:
Nokia marks WiMAX milestone with Nokia Flexi WiMAX Base Station
Discussion: dailywireless.org and 21talks
Stan Gibson / eWEEK.com:
Ballmer: Windows Live Is Top Microsoft Priority
Lucas van Grinsven / Reuters:
Firms to boost Internet speeds without fiber-optics
Discussion: Engadget and digg
Loyd Case / ExtremeTech:
AMD Unveils Barcelona Quad-Core Details
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Protect DVD-Video - A slap in the face for PC and Media Center owners
Sara Kehaulani Goo / Washington Post:
YouTubers Ponder Google
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Coghead Goes Live: Build Applications Visually
John Markoff / New York Times:
U.S. Group Reaches Deal to Provide Laptops to All Libyan Schoolchildren
 

 
From Mediagazer:

David Carr / Media Decoder:
New Orleans Paper Said to Face Deep Cuts and May Cut Back Publication

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Amazon bans Kindle Store spam (finally)

Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
Leveson Inquiry: DCMS exchanged 799 texts with News Corp during BskyB bid

 
Sister Sites:

Mediagazer
 Must-read media news
memeorandum
 Politics, opinion, and current events
WeSmirch
 Celebrity news and gossip