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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bill Gates On The Future Of DRM — Microsoft convened a small group of bloggers today at their Redmond headquarters to discuss the upcoming Mix Conference in Las Vegas. Highlights of the day included: — The receipt of a Zune as a gift (the third I've received from Microsoft - I now have all three colors)
Discussion:
Forever Geek, Apple Gazette, Mathew Ingram, JD on EP, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Rex Hammock's weblog and digg
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Our Sixty Minutes with Bill Gates — A group of bloggers and online influencers, myself included, got to sit down today with Bill Gates as part of Microsoft's special Mix n' Mash 07 event. The day's participants included an eclectic group of individuals. Some were bloggers …
Discussion:
Monkey Bites, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Joseph Scott's Blog and Corporate Engagement
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Bill Gates on the Future of Web Apps — I'm up at Microsoft HQ with a group dubbed "leaders in various aspects of the web community" for a day that closed with an hour-long conversation with Bill Gates. Gates opened with remarks about recent products, as well as the coming ascension …
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gotomobile, Business 2.0 Beta Blogs, Technically Speaking, Thomas Hawk's Digital … and Ajaxian
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Talking Linux IP with Bill Gates — If you could ask Bill Gates one question, what would you ask? I spent an hour today with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on the company's Redmond campus. I chose to ask Bill about Microsoft's intellectual property stance against Linux and its open source developers …
David Pogue / New York Times:
Vista Wins on Looks. As for Lacks ... After five years of starts, stops, executive shuffling, feature rethinks and delays, Windows Vista is finally complete. It's available to corporations already, and starting Jan. 30, it's what you'll get on any new PC.
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Start-up Jaxtr lets friends phone you on your blog — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Silicon Valley start-up is gearing up to embed free, Web-based telephone services on a variety of popular social networking and blogging services, including MySpace, Friendster and Blogger.
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textually.org
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Business Wire:
Jaxtr Launches Private Beta; Brings Voice to Social Networks and Blogs — LinkedIn Co-Founder Konstantin Guericke Joins as CEO — PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Social communications company jaxtr today launched the world's first service that brings voice to social networks and blogs.
Windows Live Local:
New Virtual Earth release launches — Although its a minor point release, this build of Virtual Earth packs a few great new features. I mentioned a couple days ago that the Birds Eye navigation control was being replaced soon, and today marks the day. Makes me want to sing the witch is dead song from Wizard of Oz.
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
First Look: StumbleUpon Announces New Video Surfing Site, StumbleVideo — If you're familiar with StumbleUpon, the web surfing toolbar, you've probably spent countless hours hitting the "stumble" button and discovering sites that are eerily tailored towards your taste.
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Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Google Tests New Ad Offerings — But Will Advertisers Follow? — Google Inc. has been racing to extend its reach on the Internet and in traditional media. Now it needs advertisers to follow. — Among those it is wooing is Alan Cohen, chief marketing officer of Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. Early …
Steve / The Tomorrow Times:
How to login to an expired Windows — Microsoft has a neat little way to prevent software piracy of their Windows operating system. "Windows Genuine Advantage"[edit: I stand corrected, it has nothing to do with WGA] with its "Product Activation" requirement.
Glenn Fleishman / New York Times:
Marrying the Cellphone to Cheap Internet Calling — MATTHEW MILLER wanted to cut the cost of his cellphone plan. He and his wife, Dayna, had regularly exceeded their 2,000-minute-per-month T-Mobile family plan, incurring extra-use charges that reached $60 some months.
Hollywoodreporter / Reel Pop:
On an Internet powered by video, page views are passe — There as a lot of commotion yesterday about MySpace's page view count passing Yahoo. [1] But that metric means a whole lot less today than it did six to eighteen months ago. — Why? Because new page display technologies …
Discussion:
a shel of my former self
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Fred / A VC:
MyBlogLog's Growth — I wrote in my Social Networking Interconnects post the other day: … Well maybe Eric read that. Or maybe not. But he wrote a post on the MyBlogLog blog yesterday outlining exactly how fast MyBlogLog is taking off. Here's my favorite chart.
Microsoft:
With Windows MultiPoint, Youths in Developing-World Classrooms Learn 21st-Century Skills — The solution underscores Microsoft's commitment to innovating ways to help people in emerging markets - especially children - realize educational opportunities through technology.
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
Why YHOO Will Outperform GOOG in 2007 — I was on CNBC tonight making the bullish case for Yahoo: — Yahoo needs to grow earnings faster than Google to regain investor interest — It can do that by cutting costs, growing audience, acquisitions or improving monetization (or some combination of all four)
