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3:30 PM ET, November 21, 2006

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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
Discussion: Blog Business Summit
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Wordpress Takes On SixApart With Enterprise Edition and Wordpress.com
Discussion: Monkey Bites, Changing Way and digg
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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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.
Discussion: TechSpot and Kotaku
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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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.
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 …
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 …
Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:
Sony May Have Missed PlayStation 3 Goal, Analysts Say (Update2)  —  Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) — Sony Corp. may have missed its goal of having 400,000 PlayStation 3 consoles in U.S. stores for the video-game player's Nov. 17 debut, analysts said.  —  The number of machines available was ``even lower than expected,'' Kaufman Bros.
Discussion: Joystiq, Kotaku, You NEWB and digg
Tom Grubisich / Online Journalism Review:
'Potemkin Village' Redux  —  Commentary: Are there really a thriving communities to justify the hype about hyperlocal journalism?  Web editor Tom Grubisich peeks behind the curtains of grassroots news sites. … A year ago I toured 10 geographical community websites that were pioneering in grassroots journalism.
Discussion: The Kelsey Group Blog
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 …
Andy Golding / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Introducing Sitemaps for Google News  —  Good news for webmasters of English-language news sites: If your site is currently included in Google News, you can now create News Sitemaps that tell us exactly which articles to crawl for inclusion in Google News.  In addition, you can access crawl errors …
Greg Linden / Geeking with Greg:
Innovation and learning to love destruction  —  Marissa Mayer says that Google operates "like small companies inside the large company" and feels "a lot like managing a VC firm."  —  Jeff Bezos "encourages experimentation ... as much of it as possible" in order to "maximize invention per unit of time" …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Myfabrik - The YouTube and Flickr of Online Storage?  —  Today Silicon Valley company Fabrik launched its myfabrik online storage and file-sharing service, after a 4 month beta period.  It's also releasing a new service called myfabrik lite, that lets users share large multimedia files (up to 1GB at a time).
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.
 
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Wesabe Makes Money Management Social
Discussion: VentureBeat and Trends
Pete Williams / MSNBC:
Calif. court says bloggers can't be sued
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Newsmaker: Playing catch-up with Google
Press Association:
Helmet cameras to help police
Doreen Carvajal / International Herald Tribune:
Outsourcing hits a new class of workers: Journalists
Josh / Bokardo:
Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture
Josh Bancroft / TinyScreenfuls.com:
Asus R2H Ultra Mobile PC Unboxing and Hardware Review, with 162 photos
Market Wire:
Nielsen//NetRatings Announces September U.S. Search Share Rankings
 Earlier Items: 
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Yahoo, Saved by the Bell
Discussion: Screenwerk
Erick Schonfeld / The Next Net:
Dabbling With Video Search: A Conversation with Mary Hodder
Discussion: Blogspotting
Brad Reagan / Popular Mechanics:
The Digital Ice Age
Discussion: Techdirt, JD on EP and Slashdot
It's all mobile:
Got mobile? Searching on your mobile just got easier
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Palm's Ed Colligan laughs off iPhone
Discussion: I4U News and PalmAddicts
John Chow / John Chow dot Com:
New Google Ad Placements
IT Security:
Hacking Email: 99 Email Security and Productivity Tips
Discussion: Paul's Down-Home Page and digg
Jennifer Granick / Wired News:
Second Life Will Save Copyright
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: CNN's Poppy Harlow is leaving the network; she joined in 2008 and most recently co-hosted CNN This Morning, which was effectively canceled earlier in 2024

Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Howard Stern of SiriusXM snags a surprise interview with President Biden, following reports of Biden's refusal so far to give The NYT a sit-down interview

 
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