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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Breaking: Microsoft Makes "Flashy" Hollywood Debut with Silverlight......and Extends Support to Linux — Microsoft just released Silverlight 1.0, the cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for streaming video, games and other multi-media content. The company has a number of content partners …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Delivers Silverlight 1.0, Extends Support to Linux — "Entertainment Tonight" HSN and World Wrestling Entertainment showcase new online experiences; more than 35 partners commit to Silverlight Partner Initiative. — Microsoft Corp. today released to the Web (RTW) Silverlight™ 1.0 …
Miguel de Icaza:
Microsoft/Novell Collaboration on Silverlight. — Today we are announcing a new collaboration with Microsoft around Silverlight. The Mono team at Novell will implement open source versions of Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 1.1. — Our implementation of Silverlight is Moonlight.
Scott Gu / ScottGu's Blog:
Silverlight 1.0 Released and Silverlight for Linux Announced — Silverlight is a cross platform, cross browser plug-in that enables designers and developers to build rich media experiences and .NET based RIAs for the web. I first blogged about Silverlight back in May after we announced it at our MIX conference in Las Vegas.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Facebook Opens Up To Public Search — One of the great features of Facebook was privacy. You could be assured that what was in Facebook remained in Facebook. However, that illusion might be ending soon. — Tonight, Facebook launches a "public listing search" which allows anyone to search for a specific person.
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Facebook Profiles Will Appear in Google Results Next Month — If you thought the news feed was a threat to your privacy, be warned: Facebook is announcing Public Search Listings today, meaning profiles will be searchable through Facebook, and soon turn up on Google, Yahoo and MSN Search.
Brad Stone / Bits:
Business 2.0 RIP — We're sad to report that employees of Business 2.0 magazine were told today that the monthly publication will close next week, after finishing its October issue. — As we wrote in July, executives at Time Inc. were weighing whether to shutter the seven-year old business …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Time Inc. to Close Business 2.0 — The latest dot-com casualty comes from the newsstand, not the Internet. — Business 2.0, a monthly magazine about the new economy, will be shut down rather than sold, its owners at Time Inc. have decided. The publication, which has been suffering …
CNNMoney.com:
NBC TV shows on Amazon — NBC content downloadable on Amazon.com. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — NBC Universal and Amazon.com announced Tuesday that the online retailer's digital download service, dubbed Amazon Unbox, is now offering NBC television content in a variety of packages for download onto customers' computers.
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The Official Palm Blog:
A Message to Palm Customers, Partners and Developers — As many of you are aware, we are in the process of building our next generation software platform. We are very excited about how this is coming together. It has a modern flexible UI, instant performance, and an incredibly simple and elegant development environment.
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Daniel Drew Turner / eWEEK.com:
Apple Event May Ring In New iPods, iPhone Upgrades — Apple watchers predict that new iPods, new iPhone features and iTunes Beatles content may be in the offing. — Apple watchers are speculating that the company may introduce new iPods, Beatles content for Apple's iTunes store or perhaps …
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Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web — A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web — Authored by Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, and Michael Arrington — We publicly assert that all users of the social web are entitled to certain fundamental rights, specifically:
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Business Wire:
Yahoo! Announces Agreement to Acquire BlueLithium — Important Next Step in Yahoo!'s Mission to Lead the Transformation of How Advertisers Connect To and Engage With Their Customers — SUNNYVALE, Calif. & SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News) …
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Zune Insider:
Price Drop — Some of you may have already heard, but tomorrow we're dropping the suggested retail price for Zune to $199. It's part of the normal product lifecycle, something we've had on the books for months. We just got some research back and customer satisfaction with the 30GB device is really high …
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Colin Smillie / Inside Facebook:
Following your money in Facebook — While the Facebook platform has taken off over the last three months, few personal finance apps have emerged with much early adoption. While a few big brands have gotten into the game with basic portfolio tracking tools, most of the attention has been paid to lending, bill splitting, and games.
