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John Markoff / New York Times:
Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense — From the billions of documents that form the World Wide Web and the links that weave them together, computer scientists and a growing collection of start-up companies are finding new ways to mine human intelligence.
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Nick / Rough Type:
Welcome Web 3.0! — Web 2.0 is so over. First came the tepid reviews of the third annual 2.0 boondoggle. "If you were looking to learn something new," sniffed GigaOm's Liz Gannes, "this week's Web 2.0 Summit was not the place to be." Wrote a jaded Scott Karp, "there were few revelations …
Frank Gruber / Somewhat Frank:
WIDGETS LIVE! EVERYWHERE — Widgets Live! was a fabulous day of festivities (November 6, 2006) which attracted the thought leaders of the web, mobile and gadget industries to discuss one of the hottest topics, widgets. Companies like AOL, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft …
George Ou:
Critical Broadcom Windows driver exploit released! — The MoKB (Month of Kernel Bugs) project has released a Metasploit 3.0 kernel-level driver exploit for Broadcom based Wireless LAN devices for Windows 2000 and XP. The flaw was discovered by researcher "Johnny Cache" …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Rumor: Apple getting creative on album pricing — del.icio.us Digg this — It's one of the problems of the digital-music era. You buy a couple of songs from an album at 99 cents each. After listening to them a few times, you think you might want the album.
Sid Yadav / rev2.org:
ReviewMe Launches Better PayPerPost — Apologies for the low posting this week, I've been too sick to write anything. :-( — When Florida-based PayPerPost launched with the idea of advertisers being able to pay bloggers to write positive things about them without giving any disclosures …
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Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's GestureLab:
Let It Be Gang — I'm in Washington for a workshop on attention and gestures. In the cab on the way to the hotel I called in to the Gillmor Gang recording, as did Mike Arrington, Jason Calacanis, Robert Anderson, Hugh MacLeod, Dan Farber, and Doc Searls. There's a lot of nice moments …
Smaran / Torrentfreak:
LimeWire to filter out Adobe products — LimeWire today announced on the company blog that from now on they will be filtering out Adobe products like Photoshop that are distributed illegally over P2P networks that LimeWire hooks into. — This move is part of a "continuing effort to work …
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Alexbarnett / alexbarnett.net blog:
Enterprise 2.0 and Culture Change — Andrew McAfee, an associate professor at the Harvard Business School has identified a user segment within organizations that he describes as the 'Empty Quarter'. The context is within the types of users who become the early adopters of Enterprise 2.0' applications …
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Kotaku:
360 HD-DVD Impressions — I'm not a video snob. When I first got my big-ass high-def television I really wasn't that impressed. The non HD signal looked like crap and the HD stuff looked OK, but it didn't make my eyes bleed. I guess I heard one too many people tell me that an HD picture looks 3D.
blogs.smugmug.com:
Amazon S3: Show me the money — I still have some more Web 2.0 Summit stuff to write up if I get a few minutes today, but let me talk about Amazon's S3 for a minute. At the conference, I was chatting with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch fame (who perfectly handled a blogosphere mini-explosion last week …
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Intel eyes nanotubes for future chip designs — Intel is eyeing carbon nanotubes as a possible replacement for copper wires inside semiconductors, a switch that one day could eliminate some big problems for chipmakers. — The chip giant has managed to create prototype interconnects …
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Inside AdSense:
Saturday maintenance for AdSense ... and for you, too? — This Saturday, November 11th, our engineers will be performing routine system maintenance from 10am to 2pm PDT. Although you won't be able to access your account during this time, ads will still be served to your pages and we'll continue to track your earnings as normal.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The YourMinis Do-It-All Flash Homepage — YourMinis is a Flash-based customizable homepage product that will compete for users with a number of similar products that use Ajax - Netvibes, Pageflakes, Google, Live.com and more. This was launched by a startup called Goowy …
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John Shinal / MarketWatch:
Motorola to acquire Good Technology — Research In Motion shares fall in wake of deal for smaller rival — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Motorola Inc. has agreed to acquire privately held Good Technology, a provider of wireless e-mail service, in expanding into a market that has so far …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
PlayStation 3 vs. Xbox 360 vs. Wii — Well, here we are. 2006, and perhaps the last console launch of the decade. And here they are, all decked out n' pretty. Go ahead, debate it. Just be nice, ok? At the end of the day the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, they're only video game consoles, and we love our babies the same.
