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IEBlog:
Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8 — We've decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we've posted previously. — Why Change? — Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles.
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Sanity prevails: IE8 will default to standard-compliant mode — In an impressive volte-face, Microsoft has decided that Internet Explorer 8 will default to being compliant with web standards after all, and will not, as previously announced, require web pages to explicitly opt in to conforming behavior.
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Forever Geek
Msantjer / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Gates on Yahoo, Google and the next president — Guest post from P-I reporter Joseph Tartakoff: — At his speech this morning to the thousands gathered for the SharePoint Conference at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates took some questions …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft: Storage unification still somewhere out there — Microsoft customers are still in search of that elusive goal: a single, unified storage system to simplify the deployment and management of Microsoft's enteprrise wares. And Microsoft officials are still promising it will happen …
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Charlene Li At Graphing Social Patterns — Today and tomorrow I will be at the Graphing Social Patterns conference in San Diego. There are a lot of great speakers speaking at the event. If you are here, definitely stop by and say hello! Right now Charlene Li of Forrester Research is speaking on stage.
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Woz finds flaws in Apple's latest offerings — Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, in Sydney today. — Asher Moses — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak heaped less than lavish praise on the company's iPhone, MacBook Air and Apple TV products when visiting Sydney this morning.
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Dan Warne / APC:Steve Wozniak's frustrations with iPhone, Apple TV and MacBook Air
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Engadget, TGDaily.com, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Crave, Macsimum News, Electronista and All News Feeds
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
VideoEgg Dumps Video Hosting Clients — VideoEgg's conversion from a video aggregator to hosting service to ad network hasn't been without its victims. Publishers with video still served by VideoEgg are getting Dear John letters, informing them that they've got 90 days to find a new video host.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC — If you hadn't guessed from the headline, and as rumored just an hour ago, there's 9-inches of LCD on this thing. Actually, 8.9, but who's counting? We found out that and a few other little tidbits about this Eee PC “New Generation” at the ASUS booth just now …
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DailyTech, Crave, jkOnTheRun, Eee Site, TECH.BLORGE.com, Gadgetell, dailywireless.org, Electronista, TGDaily.com, Gizmodo and Instapundit.com
Timothy Lee / Techdirt:
Scott McNealy Has Apparently Never Heard Of AOL Time Warner — At a conference last week, former Sun CEO Scott McNealy offered some unsolicited advice to telecommunications companies: “look into acquiring Internet destination sites that are heavily trafficked.”
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Exclusive preview: Delicious Monster's Delicious Library 2.0 — Back in 2004, shortly before the release of Mac OS X Tiger, Delicious Library 1.0 arrived as a slick looking inventory cataloging application designed to manage listings of books, videos, albums and other media.
The Steampunk Workshop:
Dave Veloz's Steampunk Remake: — A Steampunk Monitor and Keyboard for a Mac mini — There is nothing in the world that I like better then receiving pictures of things that people have been inspired to build by my projects. When I opened my mail and discovered these photos I squeed like teen on LJ!
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Infinite Loop, MacUser, Gizmodo, MAKE Magazine, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, CrunchGear, Engadget, Apple Gazette and Digg
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Microsoft to take Silverlight offline eventually, says exec — There are a number of software projects that enable Web applications to run offline, including Adobe's AIR, Google Gears, and the Mozilla Foundation's Prism. What about Microsoft and its Silverlight browser plug-in?
Juan Carlos Perez / PC World:
YouTube to Improve Usage Metrics — New data about Google's YouTube video viewership will be available to marketers. — Google's YouTube will soon give marketers more data about viewership of its videos, so that they have a better understanding of clips' reach and effectiveness at boosting brand awareness and sales.
Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Apple falls short of 1,000 movie rentals — Apple fell far short of its goal of rolling out 1,000 movies for rent through the iTunes Store by the end of February. — Macworld's Christopher Breen checked in Friday on Apple's promise, and found that just 351 titles are available to rent through the latest version of Apple TV.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Microsoft flirts with “cloud"-based applications, still making billions off Earth-bound variety — Though they squabble over things such as the rights to control parts of Facebook and Yahoo, the real battle between Microsoft and Google is only just beginning to show itself as the two jockey …
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Digital Daily, Valleywag, Software as Services, One Microsoft Way, Good Morning Silicon Valley and TGDaily.com
Claudine Ryan / ABC News:
Blogging boosts your social life: research — Blogging can help you feel less isolated, more connected to a community and more satisfied with your friendships, both online and face-to-face, new Australian research has found. — The research, from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne …
