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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Pipes and Filters for the Internet — Yahoo!'s new Pipes service is a milestone in the history of the internet. It's a service that generalizes the idea of the mashup, providing a drag and drop editor that allows you to connect internet data sources, process them, and redirect the output.
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Mashable!, Matt Cutts, Are You Paying Attention?, flashpoint, ProgrammableWeb, Gadgetopia and You've Got Ismail!
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Anil Dash:
Yahoo Pipes — Background: Yahoo's launched an interesting and innovative new service, Pipes, which lets users with a relatively low degree of technological expertise combine structured sources of web data such as feeds. In this way, it's possible for non-experts to create new web services for their own use or for public consumption.
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Yahoo! Launches Pipes — It takes effort to explain the significance of an important product who's immediate benefit to consumers may not be so obvious, and the awkwardly named 'pipes' from Yahoo! is no exception. The product name is taken from the world of UNIX where a pipe is a conduit …
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Yahoo! Pipes remixes the syndicated web — Yahoo! released Yahoo! Pipes tonight, a visual editing interface for web feed manipulation and reconstruction. The Pipes team, part of the Yahoo! Advanced Products group, has spent some time looking at how people consume syndicated content …
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Yahoo! Pipes: Unlocking the Data Web — For far too long now RSS has been used in ways that don't really tap its true potential. Being able to syndicate my favorite headlines or blog posts is great. In fact, it helped to kick off a revolution in personal on-line publishing that is still growing and evolving.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Yahoo Launches Pipes, an RSS Remixer — RSS feed remixing has been a pet topic of mine for quite some time, so tonight it was a pleasure to discover Yahoo's new Pipes service (hat-tip Thejesh). It's a beta service from Yahoo and the name, which pays tribute to Unix pipes …
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Yahoo! Pipes: The Modules For Building Pipes — Yahoo! Pipes was released today with the goal of allowing people to easily mix, match, filter, sort and merge data sources into RSS feeds. These resulting RSS feeds are called Pipes and they allow you to do things like find all of the parks …
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Why people hate SEO... (and why SMO is bulls$%t) — This video is so cheesy you have to think it's a fake... but I don't think it is. (Hat Tip) — The SEO folks got really pissed off at me for saying "SEO is bulls@#t." last year, but the truth is that 90% of the SEO market is made up of snake oil salesman.
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Stuntdubl SEO / Stuntdubl Business Search …:10 Reasons Diggers are like SEO's (really - don't digg my blog)
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The Last Podcast
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Windows Mobile 6 announced — Microsoft's finally ready to take the wraps off Windows Mobile 6, the long-awaited successor to Windows Mobile 5 (what else?) that's been baking in the oven for a while now as "Crossbow." The platform formerly known as Pocket PC Phone Edition has become Windows Mobile 6 …
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LiveSide, InformationWeek Weblog, dailywireless.org, SMS Text News, Ministry of Tech and digg
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Testing Virtual Gifts — Facebook is testing virtual gifts - small icons that you can give to other Facebook members to be displayed on their pages in the "wall" section as well as a new gift area. The test is running with members from just a couple of select schools at this time.
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Gizmodo:
The Most Ridiculous Windows Video Ever — If you thought the Vista Ads were boring, check out this Windows 386 ad from the early 90s. I'm not sure what kind of designer drugs these people were on when they made this, but we're pretty sure it's currently used for farm animals and prison inmates sterile.
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
RIAA misreads Jobs' open letter on DRM, thinks he's offering to license FairPlay — Steve Jobs' open letter about DRM and music yesterday definitely got a lot of tongues wagging, but there's one group that might want to re-read what he wrote. Bit Player (you gotta scroll down to the bottom of the post) …
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Jon Healey / Bit Player:Jobs to DRM: Drop Dead
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Profy.Com, Seeking Alpha, ResourceShelf, Computerworld Blogs blogs, A VC, Techdirt, The Tech Report, Listening Post and TechBlog
Ellen Messmer / Network World:
RSA '07: Bruce Schneier casts light on psychology of security — Security decisions often are much less rational than one would prefer, Schneier says — SAN FRANCISCO — One of the security industry's most outspoken experts, Bruce Schneier, spoke at RSA Conference on the topic …
Mike / Techdirt:
Phone Call Arbitrage Is All Fun And Games (And Profit) Until AT&T Hits You With A $2 Million Lawsuit — from the so-much-for-that-plan dept — Late last year, the NY Times' David Pogue wrote a blog post describing a service called FuturePhone, which offered free international calls.
Davidweiss / Mac Mojo:
Birthday Gift for MacBU — Yesterday, as I walked from the dark parking garage to begin my day of work, I remembered that we were celebrating MacBU's 10th anniversary! The clouds were thinning and I looked around to see if perchance, the cloudy weather would abate, even a little bit for our big party.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Jobster Attacks the Monster — Monster.com is a fat target. It has a market cap of nearly $7 billion and generates over $1 billion per year in revenue. All that revenue is largely generated on paid job listings, starting off at $475 for a single listing.
Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
YouTube Founders Got $650 Million in Shares Post-Sale; Sequoia Got $442 Million in Shares — YouTube Founders Got $650 Million in Shares; Sequoia Got $442 Million; Nothing For Music Labels? — Updated below: This is based on the $470.01 closing share price of Google on Wednesday.
Tropicaljantie / Watching, Testing, Digesting:
Somebody noticed that Skype Reads Your BIOS and Motherboard Serial Number. But is it really that big an issue ? — Important enough to mention it here. Read this entry by myria. — If this is all true (we will know once it is better documented, I guess) this then means that too many "confidential data" are located on one spot.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Is Helio's cool factor enough? — Helio, the cell phone service for the mega-cool hipster crowd, is bleeding cash, a scenario that will likely force its deep-pocketed investors in one of two directions: either dig deeper still or bid the business adieu. — Helio, which launched in May …
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Aipotek's ultra-slim VoIP phone — While its practicality for extended chatting sessions may be in question, Aipotek's latest VoIP phone here should fit in nicely with your other barely-able-to-hold-onto gadgets, measuring just 7.5 mm thick and less than an inch-and-a-half wide.
