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knownow.com:
KnowNow and Automattic Offer Enterprise-Class Blog Authoring and Intelligence Tools  —  KnowNow WordPress Enterprise Edition combines RSS and personal publishing platform to help enterprise work forces organize, filter and aggregate information for effective collaboration
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Toni / Toni's Garage:
KnowNow + WP = enterprise blogging  —  Fortune 500 companies are discovering WordPress.  They are figuring out that blogging is a great tool for fostering more open and active collaboration with customers and between employees.  This trend was anticipated in several places …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Wordpress Takes On SixApart With Enterprise Edition and Wordpress.com
Discussion: Changing Way and digg
Reuters:
Microsoft to face challenge over Linux licenses  —  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Supporters of PC operating system Linux are preparing to counter a recent deal penned by Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) which establishes for the first time the principle of paying the software giant for the operating system …
Discussion: Gadgetell, Bink.nu and The Tech Report
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Erik Sofge / Slate:
THE CASE AGAINST THE WII.  —  I'll admit it—I was in love with the Nintendo Wii long before we'd ever met.  And then, a few seconds after I touched those strange, new motion-sensing controllers, months of giddy anticipation vanished.  I've played and won 14-hour-long Halo tournaments.
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Chris Suellentrop / Slate:
Wii Is the Champion  —  NINTENDO'S NEW CONSOLE BESTS THE PS3 AND THE XBOX 360.  —  In a great video game, the narrative is secondary to the game's central appeal: satisfying my desire to be an NFL quarterback, a Jedi Knight, and a martial-arts wizard (though not—yet—all at once).
Discussion: TechSpot and Kotaku
Muhammad Saleem / The Mu Life:
Limitations of Socially Driven News  —  A number of my friends from Digg pointed out a story to me today that epitomizes several very important limitations to socially driven news.  —  The following story made it to the front-page of Digg.com within 2 and a half hours of being submitted …
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Fake News Story Games Thousands of Digg Users
Reuben Schwarz / Stuff.co.nz:
Police and Weta eye 3D scanner  —  Industrial Research has developed a hand-held scanner that quickly creates realistic 3D models of crime scenes, movie sets and large objects, garnering interest from the police and Weta Digital.  —  The Scene-scanner can be waved over a scene or object …
Discussion: Gizmodo, The Raw Feed and Trends
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:   Industrial Research creates 3D crime scene/movie set scanner
mobile-review.com:
Review of Windows Mobile 6.0 for PPC (Crossbow) operating system  —  Before starting the review, we have to make a short note in order to prevent an avalanche of letters similar to what we experienced after publishing the article on Windows Mobile 5.0.  The crew working for Mobile-Review.com …
Discussion: Engadget, jkOnTheRun and MSTechToday
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
In Web World, Rich Now Envy the Superrich  —  James Hong, a co-founder of the dating site Hotornot.com, said that for him, the site's success meant "freedom money."  He is making a symbolic switch in cars, from a Porsche Boxster, right, to a Toyota Prius.  —  Almost anywhere else, Reid Hoffman would be considered a major success.
New York Times:
Google Mapping an Offline Course  —  Major Internet sites are showing a strong and growing interest in the advertising business, and traditional ad firms are starting to get worried.  —  Google has been leading the way, building on its online ad strength by striking deals to sell advertising …
Discussion: Blogging Stocks
Google:
Google Checkout Makes Holiday Shopping Even Faster and Easier This Year  —  New Survey Says Forty Percent of Americans Expected to Shop Online From Work This Holiday Season  —  The Monday after Thanksgiving - Cyber Monday - is expected to draw another record crowd of online shoppers this year …
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Yahoo seeks geek credibility  —  Never before have small friends been so important to big companies.  —  Yahoo, best known as an Internet portal welcoming millions of consumers, is undergoing a transition to appeal to a different audience: software developers.
Market Wire:
Nielsen//NetRatings Announces September U.S. Search Share Rankings  —  Nielsen//NetRatings reports October 2006 data for the Top U.S. Search Providers.  —  Top search providers, ranked by total searches.  Searches represent the total number of queries conducted at the provider.
Discussion: Search Engine Journal
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Choices = Headaches  —  I'm sure there's a whole team of UI designers, programmers, and testers who worked very hard on the OFF button in Windows Vista, but seriously, is this the best you could come up with?  —  Every time you want to leave your computer, you have to choose between nine …
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Newsmaker: Playing catch-up with Google
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Doreen Carvajal / International Herald Tribune:
Outsourcing hits a new class of workers: Journalists
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Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture
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Yahoo, Saved by the Bell
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Erick Schonfeld / The Next Net:
Dabbling With Video Search: A Conversation with Mary Hodder
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Jim Allchin / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows ReadyBoost
Brad Reagan / Popular Mechanics:
The Digital Ice Age
Discussion: Techdirt and Slashdot
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Palm's Ed Colligan laughs off iPhone
Discussion: I4U News and PalmAddicts
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Myfabrik - The YouTube and Flickr of Online Storage?
IT Security:
Hacking Email: 99 Email Security and Productivity Tips
Discussion: Paul's Down-Home Page and digg
Business Wire:
Advertising.com Announces Deal with Mitsui to Enter Japanese …
Jennifer Granick / Wired News:
Second Life Will Save Copyright