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Duncan / duncanriley.com:
Wall Street Journal Tries to Re-Write Blogging History — Tunku Varadarajan at The Wall Street Journal wishes blogging a happy 10th birthday; one problem, blogging is not 10 years old, it's actually older. — According to my history of blogging (still No. 3 on Google BTW …
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Tunku Varadarajan / Wall Street Journal:
Happy Blogiversary — It's been 10 years since the blog was born. Love them or hate them, they've roiled presidential campaigns and given everyman a global soapbox. Twelve commentators — including Tom Wolfe, Newt Gingrich, the SEC's Christopher Cox and actress-turned-blogger Mia Farrow — on what blogs mean to them.
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GigaOM, mathewingram.com/work, CrunchGear, Slashdot, Life On the Wicked Stage, Webomatica and Publishing 2.0
ITWire:
Firefox now a serious threat to IE in Europe: report — Mozilla's Firefox (FF) web browser has made dramatic gains on Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) throughout Europe in the past year with a marked upturn in FF use compared to IE over the past four months, according to French web monitoring service XiTiMonitor.
International Reporter:
Now, seven simple hand gestures to switch your TV on — Australian scientists have reportedly come up with a box that lets television viewers change channels, switch on the DVD player or switch off an irritating presenter with the wave of a hand. — The controller's built-in camera …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google Reader + Facebook Application = Digg killer? — Mario Romero has built something very interesting that's getting more interesting all the time. — If I weren't on Facebook and didn't have his Google Reader application plugged into Facebook I would totally have missed it.
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Life On the Wicked Stage, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Brij Singh's One More Idea, CostPerNews and Technovia
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
China to overtake US in number of Internet users in 2009 — The research firm Pew Internet has released a new study (PDF) that looks at the growth in the number of Internet users in China, and what it might mean for the future of the 'Net. — There are now an estimated 137 million Internet users in China …
Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:
Brown Zune finds meaning in Hide-a-Pod — Bill was a hired infomercial actor pretending to be on the brink. He used to lose at least half a dozen iPods to relentless and cunning thieves, continually able to outsmart him and relieve him of his portable music boxes.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Confirmed: Microsoft's Windows Media DRM cracked (again) — The Zune may not be the most popular portable media player, but you wouldn't know it based on the game of cat and mouse that has been going on for nearly a year between Microsoft and "hackers" who have continually found ways to defeat Microsoft's DRM.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
4 Years Ago Today - Netscape Corporation Killed, Mozilla Foundation Born — 4 years ago today, 15 July 2003, AOL Time Warner disbanded Netscape Communications Corporation - the company that sparked the Dot Com Internet boom in the mid-90's with its 1995 IPO.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
The Boat Is About to Rock (Again) in Internet Video — DMITRY SHAPIRO brings an unlikely gadget into meetings these days: a TV remote control. — As chief executive of Veoh Networks, an Internet video company based in San Diego, Mr. Shapiro uses the remote to navigate the company's new software program, VeohTV, on his laptop.
Michael / DVD Dossier Blog:
Is Toshiba Giving Away The Razor To Get You To Buy The Blades? — If you're thinking of buying an HD DVD player, you might want to wait a week or so. — I just received an e-mail tonight from the folks at the EMA (Electronic Merchant's Association), who are responsible for a big industry event next week, the Home Media Expo.
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Facebook to supplant email? — A few weeks ago, I had a discussion with my kid sister, in a humerous way she told me that she "Only uses email to communicate with old people like me". And I'm not even in my mid 30s. — Apparently social networks like Facebook, MySpace …
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
Vista drivers — I'm trying to keep track of download locations for Vista-compatible drivers for common hardware types in a single location. To that end, I've set up the Vista Master Driver List page. The rules are as follows: — 1. Only primary download locations (official sites run by hardware maker) are allowed.
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Those OS X iPods? They're Already Here! Pixo, ARM, and the Mac OS — Speculation has run rampant over how Apple might bring iPhone technologies to its iPod line. Will the next generation of iPods look like the iPhone and run the same software? It turns out I stumbled upon the answers six months ago.
