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7:05 AM ET, November 11, 2006

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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Web 2.0 Summit Wrap-up  —  Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!  —  It's the end of a hectic week of conference-going for your R/WW correspondent - and so time for a wrap-up of my thoughts on the Web 2.0 Summit.  Firstly, my overriding feeling is that this year's conference was a lot different from last year's.
Discussion: ben barren
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
The Best and the Worst of the Web 2.0 Summit  —  If you were looking to learn something new, this week's Web 2.0 Summit was not the place to be.  However, if you were planning to catch up, make contacts and swap business cards, then the Palace Hotel's grandiose hallways were where all the action was.
Kate R. Houlihan / suburbanchicagonews.com:
Months-old dispute over iPod finally settled  —  WHEATON - It's over.  —  A settlement in the case of a missing iPod Nano that pitted two 14-year-old girls against each other was reached Thursday in DuPage County Circuit Court, putting to rest the months-old case that made headlines locally and in the blogging world.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Stolen teen's iPod lawsuit settled, mom insulted
Discussion: Techdirt
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Whither magazines?  —  Time Magazine just made a rash of brash decisions: cutting its rate base from 4 to 3.25 million (now barely ahead of Newsweek's 3.1) by getting rid of junk circulation; raising its cover price by a buck to a rather ballsy $4.95; cutting five of its eight special demographic editions …
GamePolitics / GamePolitics.com:
ESA Suffers First Amendment Amnesia, Gets Legalistic on Game Blogs  —  Get over yourself, ESA.  Grow a sense of humor, ESRB.  —  It's only a t-shirt.  —  If the ESA believes that a novelty shirt which lampoons the ESRB rating system somehow infringes upon their brand …
softwarefreedom.org:
Bradley M. Kuhn's Letter to the FOSS Development Community Regarding Microsoft's Patent Promise  —  Last Thursday, Novell and Microsoft announced a new collaborative effort involving both licensing and technology.  The Software Freedom Law Center has been following the situation, and as its CTO …
Discussion: Ted's Radio Weblog and Slashdot
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Zephoria / apophenia:
social network sites: my definition  —  I would like to offer my working definition of "social network sites" per confusion over my request for a timeline.  —  A "social network site" is a category of websites with profiles, semi-persistent public commentary on the profile …
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google Checkout ready to go international?  —  Since I live in Canada, purchasing or selling items on Google Checkout is not an option.  I really wanted to check out the new "email invoice" feature they just announced today, but I'm unable to sign up as a seller.
Discussion: Cost Per News
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Marianna / Official Google Checkout Blog:   New feature: Email invoices
Kotaku:
PS3 Campers Removed From Burbank Best Buy  —  Mr. Andrews and I made a little road trip north today to check out the Best Buy PlayStation 3 line of insanity—you know, the line of dudes queueing up eleven days in advance?  After hearing rumblings that the camping crowd had been dispersed, we had to see what was up.
Discussion: I4U News, You NEWB and digg
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Competitors of PodTech that I love, er, going to the Content Mall  —  Ever go to a content mall?  Well, there sure are a lot of them being built.  It's where the VC's are seeing some potential cash, at least in part because that's what Jason Calacanis did when he built Weblogs Inc. and sold …
Mike / Techdirt:
Court Will Examine The Constitutionality Of RIAA Fines  —  from the a-big-loss-for-the-RIAA dept  —  When the RIAA sues people for unauthorized uploading of songs, they usually put a price between $750-per-song to $30,000-per-song in losses.  Many have argued that this seems rather excessive …
RawmeatCowboy / Go Nintendo:
GoNintendo's Twilight Princess impressions - Part 2  —  Make sure you click the MORE link to read the full article.  —  No matter how many times I write a set of impressions for Twilight Princess, I don't think I could cover a tenth of what goes on in the game.
Discussion: 4 color rebellion and Siliconera
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Motorola to acquire Good Technology  —  Motorola will buy enterprise mobile-computing software company Good Technology, the companies announced Friday.  —  "Good Technology's solutions, talent and customers complement Motorola's business and extend our ability to deliver compelling products …
AppleInsider:
Disney sells nearly a half million films through iTunes  —  Walt Disney Co. said Thursday it has sold nearly a half million films through Apple Computer's iTunes store since announcing the distribution deal a little less than two months ago.  —  The sales figure, which amounts …
Kevin Remde / Full of I.T.:
AGGREG8 - HOME FOR IT PROS  —  Okay.. you're an IT Pro.  (If you're not, you're still welcome to keep reading.)  And you're tired of feeling alone in the world.  But you know that there must be some others out there like you - dealing with the same issues and same technologies …
Discussion: Mashable! and All about Microsoft
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Harnessing Collective Intelligence  —  I've long made the assertion that one of the central differences between the PC era and the Web 2.0 era is that once the internet becomes platform, rather than just an add-on to the PC, you can build applications that harness network effects, so that they become better the more people use them.
Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Judge orders RIAA to justify its piracy charges  —  $750 for a 75 cent song is taking the Wii  —  A US COURT is forcing the Recording Industry of America to explain why it charges people it catches pirating $750 a single rather than the 70 cents they flog them to retailers for.
Greg Linden / Geeking with Greg:
Marissa Mayer at Web 2.0  —  Google VP Marissa Mayer just spoke at the Web 2.0 Conference and offered tidbits on what Google has learned about speed, the user experience, and user satisfaction.  —  Marissa started with a story about a user test they did.  They asked a group of Google searchers …
Matt / Signal vs. Noise:
All about flow  —  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience," describes flow as "being completely involved in an activity for its own sake.  The ego falls away.  Time flies.  Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.
Discussion: engtech
 
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Open Source:
The war is over and Linux won.  (The original Linux penguin was created by Larry Ewing.
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Ellie Gibson / Eurogamer:
Gears of War has 'zero innovation', says EA exec
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The Web 2.0 Short-Sellers' List
Merlin Mann / 43 Folders:
Revenge of the Smart Playlist: 5 tricks for packrats & power users
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Amid Changes, Time Shifting: To Guarantee Total Audience—Print And Online
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Yahoo planning a 180 on Yahoo 360  —  Yahoo co-founder David Filo …
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Jordan Running / Download Squad:
Google says: "Take your data with you!"
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Amazon To Sell Xbox 360 for $100?
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Divide and Conquer  —  In the U.S. elections this week …
Gizmodo:
Wii and PS3: Complete and Synchronized Unboxing
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
When Microsoft conspiracy theories spin out of control
Baris Karadogan / VentureBeat:
Amazon.com and the fabless semiconductor industry
Josh Goldman / CrunchGear:
Can You Tell The Difference Between 1080i And 1080p?
Discussion: Joystiq, HDBlog.net and digg
Nick / Rough Type:
More blogs, less weight
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