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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Microsoft Rolls Out Personal Health Records — Microsoft is starting its long-anticipated drive into the consumer health care market by offering free personal health records on the Web and pursuing a strategy that borrows from the company's successful formula in personal computer software.
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Web 3.0, the official definition. — Some folks have been asking me for the clear definition of the term Web 3.0. — Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform.
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Fred / A VC:
Web 3.0 Nonsense — Jason Calacanis defines web 3.0 as Mahalo.com, predictably. — I don't like the term web 2.0 and I sure hope we don't perpetuate this nonsensical versioning much further. — What's coming is the programmable web, the semantic web, and the social web.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Calacanis: Web 3.0 is whatever I say it is — Humpty Dumpty: "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." — Alice: "The question is, whether you can make words mean so many different things." — You have to hand it to Jason Calacanis …
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AppleInsider:
Apple announcements brewing for late October [updated] — Apple Inc. has begun preparatory measures for significant announcements to take place during the last full week of October, AppleInsider has been told. — While sources have requested that we not go into detail regarding …
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Think Secret:
Leopard poised to leap last weekend in October — Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard remains on track for an October release on or around October 26, sources report. — That date, the last Friday of the month, is similar to the release date of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, which had been said would debut …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Inevitable March of Recorded Music Towards Free — 2007 is turning out to be a terrible year for the music industry. Or rather, a terrible year for the the music labels. — The DRM walls are crumbling. Music CD sales continue to plummet rather alarmingly.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
In Facebook, Investing in a Theory — The Facebook frenzy is spreading. — Thousands of software developers are creating features for Facebook, the rapidly growing social network, many hoping to strike it rich alongside Facebook's own employees. — Facebook, based in Palo Alto, Calif. …
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David F. Gallagher / Bits:
Your Moment of Facebook Zen — The Facebook applications frenzy that Brad Stone writes about today has a side effect: clutter. The proliferation of wacky apps has led to something of a backlash from Facebook users who are not keen on information overload or, um, alternative aesthetics.
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Martin Varsavsky:
Introducing the BT FON Community — Yes, you read it correctly: BT stands for British Telecom!!! — Ever since we started building FON, the largest WiFi community in the world, I have been explaining how FON is great for telcos and ISPs. BT, one of the world's leading and most innovative telcos …
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Between the Lines, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, blognation, Connected Internet, GigaOM, MarketWatch, TechCrunch UK, jkOnTheRun and The Register
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Larry Magid / New York Times:
The Next Leap for Linux — LINUX runs the Google servers that manage billions of searches each day. It also runs the TiVo digital video recorder, the Motorola Razr cellphone and countless other electronic devices. — But why would anyone want to use Linux, an open-source operating system, to run a PC?
Reuters:
Google says closing gap with China rival — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Web search leader Google Inc said on Thursday it is closing the gap with rival Baidu in China, after years of trying to increase market share in the world's second-largest Internet arena. — Google has gained more market share …
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Fred / A VC:
The Fiction of 20% — It's a "given" in the venture business that in order to compensate a venture firm for all the time and energy they are going to put into a particular investment, they need to own at least 20% of the company and ideally 30%. — I hear it all the time.
IEBlog:
Internet Explorer 7 Update — Almost a year ago, we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. Since then, IE7 is well on its way to becoming the most used browser in the world, and we've seen lots of evidence that IE7 makes it safer and easier to accomplish everyday tasks online.
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All about Microsoft, Channel 9, CyberNet, Morning Paper, Mashable! and GottaBeMobile.com
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Halo 3: Does Success Push Bungie Out Of The Game? — So staggering in fact that the game title alone might be enough to push Microsoft's — [MSFT Loading... (%) ] Xbox 360 into the black for the first time in its history, a neat trick considering that Microsoft loses a dollar …
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Financial Times:
News Corp warns Google over copyright — By Aline van Duyn and Joshua Chaffin in New York and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Google 'could do a better job' at preventing illegally copied video from appearing on its YouTube site, Peter Chernin, president and chief operating officer of News Corp …
