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5:05 AM ET, March 4, 2008

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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.
Discussion: Forever Geek and The Tao of Mac
Microsoft:
Microsoft Expands Support for Web Standards
Discussion: Microsoft Watch and Mashable!
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 …
Peter Galli / eWeek:
Gates: Google Does Not Understand Business Needs
Discussion: Microsoft Watch
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Silverlight Goes Mobile With Nokia  —  Nokia has signed up to use Microsoft's Silverlight platform for its S60 and S40 mobile devices as well as its Nokia Internet tablets, marking the first mobile win for the Redmond giant's rich media development framework.
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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?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
GigaOm Launches Ostatic Resource For Open Source Community  —  GigaOm (Om Malik's blog network) just launched a new open source software focused blog called Ostatic.  The goal, Malik said today in an interview, is to track news around the world's 150,000+ open source projects.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Back on the Beat: Introducing OStatic, the Open Source Blog  —  I have spent the past two months recuperating from my medical setback - reading, rebuilding my physical strength and of course, writing an occasional blog post or two.  My doctors have given me permission to work — four hours a day …
Ina Fried / Webware.com:
Microsoft's telescope centers on Windows  —  REDMOND, Wash.—When Microsoft releases its WorldWide Telescope this spring, the program will be a Windows-only download.  —  Much of the astronomical community, however, uses Macs and other Unix-based hardware.
Discussion: Ubergizmo and ReadWriteWeb
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FastCompany.TV:
Exclusive First Look: WorldWide Telescope
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Channel 10
Sean Ammirati / ReadWriteWeb:
What Stanford Learned Building Facebook Apps  —  Dr. BJ Fogg and Dave McClure taught a class last semester at Stanford on Building Facebook Applications.  In 10 weeks, the 80 students had created 50+ applications and in total had over 20 Million installs - with 5 having more than 1 million users.
Discussion: Web Strategy, eWeek and All Facebook
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.
Discussion: MacUser and The Tao of Mac
Charles Wiles / Official Google Mobile Blog:
Shifting Google Gears to mobile  —  Ever use a mobile web application and suddenly lose your cell connection?  That's happened to me many times.  If you've shared my pain, you'll be excited to know that we've launched Google Gears for mobile, which lets users access Gears-enabled mobile web apps offline.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Blogging Is Good For Your Social Life: Study  —  A new study has found Bloggers are better adjusted and live healthier, happier social lives.  —  The research, from Swinburne University of Technology found that “people felt they had better social support and friendship networks than those who did not blog” …
Discussion: broadstuff
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Claudine Ryan / ABC News:
Blogging boosts your social life: research
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!
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Netvibes Ginger goes live, still no Web drive  —  The latest version of customizable start page Netvibes, nicknamed “Ginger” will be open to everyone as of Tuesday morning.  We gave it a thorough look back in late January, and Rafe and I have been using it on a daily basis to keep up with various feeds and use it as a Widget engine.
Discussion: CenterNetworks and Mashable!
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
AOL's new strategy: Quantity over quality?  —  Since its 2001 acquisition of Time Warner, AOL has struggled to maintain its brand on the Internet with the rise of first Yahoo and then Google.  Now the company has a new strategy to get their traffic numbers up: build more sites.
 
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Optimus Maximus keyboard for laptops? Yes, please.
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
10-K Watch: Getty, WPP, IAC, Valueclick, Akamai, Navteq, Media General
Discussion: Clickety Clack and ReveNews
Dan Goodin / The Register:
US government forces military secrets on Brit webmaster
Discussion: Techdirt
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Eyes-on ASUS' first gaming desktop: ARES CG6150
Discussion: Gadgetell, Gizmodo and Gadget Lab
Microsoft:
Bill Gates: SharePoint Conference 2008
Discussion: CNET News.com
Sean Ammirati / ReadWriteWeb:
The Future of Social Networks at Graphing Social Patterns
Timothy Lee / Techdirt:
Scott McNealy Has Apparently Never Heard Of AOL Time Warner
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
MySpace gets its own MTV show, but only in the U.K.
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
VideoEgg Dumps Video Hosting Clients
Juan Carlos Perez / PC World:
YouTube to Improve Usage Metrics
Discussion: Beet.TV and Mashable!
eWEEK.com:
Semantic Web Brings Change to SOA
Discussion: The Semantic Web
Doug Caverly / WebProNews:
Mullenweg Indicates Over 30 Percent Of Blogs Are Spam
Discussion: Mashable! and Photo Matt
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Atom inside: Intel announces ultramobile processor brand
Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Apple falls short of 1,000 movie rentals
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC
Sydney Morning Herald:
Woz finds flaws in Apple's latest offerings