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Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now — Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version from http://www.microsoft.com/ie. — We listened carefully to feedback from many sources (including this blog) …
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Richard Siklos / New York Times:
A Virtual World but Real Money — It has a population of a million. The "people" there make friends, build homes and run businesses. They also play sports, watch movies and do a lot of other familiar things. They even have their own currency, convertible into American dollars.
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Tech Beat
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Kathleen Craig / Wired News:
Second Life's Must-Have Stuff — (Editor's note: Some links in this story will "teleport" Second Life residents to locations within the virtual world. They will be noted with "SLurl" after them.) — Second Life residents are spending $7 million a month on digital goods and services.
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PSFK Trend: PSFK
Davis / Davis Freeberg's Digital Connection:
San Francisco Local Politics Derail Free WiFi Project — San Francisco land of the nuts and fruits. I can only say that because I live here and consider many of them my close friends, but if you were a fly on the wall at last night's EarthLink Google WiFi meeting you would know what I mean.
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Mike / Techdirt:
Another Potential Problem With Muni-WiFi: You Need To Deal With Politicians — from the no-room-for-pork-in-wifi dept — While municipal internet access can be a valid option for providing some form of internet access to residents or businesses where they might not have any other choice …
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New York Times:
Music Companies Grab a Share of the YouTube Sale — YouTube's young founders may have been the biggest beneficiaries of last week's $1.65 billion deal with Google, but they have some unexpected bedfellows — old-line media companies that had been considered YouTube's biggest legal threat.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Allchin: Vista won't RTM next week — The Microsoft countdown clock was wrong. (Yeah, maybe it's running Windows Vista and blue screened. Teehee.) — Vista is not on track to be released to manufacturing on October 25, according to Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's platforms and services division.
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CRN Breaking News:
Vista, Office 2007 To Launch in NY After Thanksgiving — Microsoft plans post-Turkey-Day kickoff in the Big Apple. — 6:26 PM EDT Tue. — The long-touted Microsoft Vista/Office 2007 tandem launch is on for the last week in November in New York, sources said. This event will focus on business usage and scenarios.
Wendy / Wendy's Blog:
FORBIDDING VISTAS: WINDOWS LICENSING DISSERVES THE USER — Reading the Windows Vista license is a bit like preparing for breakfast with Lewis Carroll's Red Queen: You should be ready to believe at least six impossible things about what users want from software.
Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer:
YouTube may be the fastest growing website ever! — Jay Meattle of the web statistics firm compete has done an interesting analysis of the growth rates of MySpace vs YouTube. He concludes that YouTube's rate of growth exceeds that of MySpace - i.e. essentially it is more viral!.
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The Utube Blog
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Jay Meattle / Compete Blog:YouTube vs MySpace Growth: No Contest!
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Digital Micro-Markets
Apple:
Apple Reports Preliminary Fourth Quarter Results — Ships Record 1.61 Million Macs — Apple® today announced preliminary financial results for its fiscal 2006 fourth quarter ended September 30, 2006. These preliminary results may be subject to significant adjustment as a result of a likely restatement of historical results.
overstated.net:
Amazon launches answers site — Today I received an invite to join a new community at Amazon called Askville: … This site will compete with Yahoo! Answers and Microsoft Q&A in the free question-answering space except that it might be able to leverage the Amazon community of experts.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:
BusinessWeek looks to web in battle for readers — For the editor-in-chief of the world's biggest business magazine, one goal is paramount: keeping his title on the "must read" list. — "You don't want to be a discretionary read, that is too dangerous," says Stephen Adler …
AppleInsider:
Apple's share of U.S. PC market jumps to 6.1 percent — First on AI: Sales of Apple's Macintosh computers over the past twelve month's have grown faster than any other major PC manufacturer, boosting the company's share of the U.S. PC market to 6.1 percent, according to data released by Gartner on Wednesday.
Kyle Orland / Next Generation:
GAMING'S TOP 50 JOURNALISTS — Who are the 50 most influential journalists in the U.S games industry? We decided to find a freelancer crazy enough to compile and write up an actual list. Be warned, some of the pictures within are of a disturbing nature.
Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
Moscow Music Site Defends Free Downloads — A Web site based in Moscow that the United States Commerce Department has branded as the world's highest-volume online seller of pirated music plans to release hundreds of thousands of albums free, the site said. — Low prices and ease of use …
