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Rafat / PaidContent.org:
Exclusive: Weblogs Inc Being Bought Out By America Online : [by Rafat Ali] As usual, you read it here first: Weblogs Inc, the blog media company founded by Jason Calacanis (pictured at We Media conference today) and Brian Alvey, is being bought by America Online, paidContent.org has learned from multiple sources.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
AOL Buys Weblogs Inc. - Report — At today's WeMedia event Rafat Ali whispered to me to hit his blog at 8 p.m. for a big scoop and boy was he right. PaidContent.org (ahem - source them please CNET!) is reporting that Weblogs Inc. has been sold to America Online.
Jeff Clavier / Software Only:M&A News: AOL acquires Weblogs Inc - Wondir bought by a new Steve Case's startup
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Rob Hof / Business Week:
Flock, the New Browser on the Block — The latest challenger to Explorer and Firefox aims to beat the big guys by emphasizing blogging, networking, and online communities — Web browsers don't look much different than they did a decade ago, when Netscape Communications's initial stock …
Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
October 12 Apple event to usher in new Power Macs, PowerBooks — October 5, 2005 - Select members of the industry and media received invitations Tuesday from Apple to a special event taking place one week from today at the California Theater in San Jose. The event, Think Secret has learned …
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Fred / A VC:
Point Solutions vs End to End Solutions — I wrote this on the flight out to the Web 2.0 conference. I hope it stimulates some interesting conversations. — One of the central tenets of Web 2. thinking is that lightweight "point solutions" that can be stitched together by the consumer …
Dave Winer / reallysimplesyndication.com:
Re: Comment on post 992 — Editorial: Google diversifies, opportunity for upstarts — Prev/Next: — 1009/1011 — Reads: — 984 — A rough design for RSS integration in search engines.... 1. Suppose I search for "Rex Hammock" on site:scripting.com (that is …
google.com:
Google Appoints Shirley M. Tilghman, Ph.D., to its Board of Directors — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - October 5, 2005 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton University's President and Professor of Molecular Biology, was unanimously elected to join Google's Board of Directors.
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Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
Philadelphia to Be City of Wireless Web — Philadelphia yesterday announced a plan to build the biggest municipal wireless Internet system in the nation, the latest of a growing number of cities to treat high-speed Web access as a basic municipal service like water, electricity and trash collection.
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Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Why WiMax Could Hit the Hotspot — The technology for delivering fast Web access over large areas could help upstart communications outfits nab share from established players — Wi-Fi has changed the way people navigate the Internet, and in record time. The technology, which is used …
linuxdevices.com:
Wind River flows into mobile Linux maelstrom — Wind River Systems Inc. today launched a version of its commercial embedded Linux distribution targeting mobile phones, set-top boxes, PVRs (personal video recorders), and other small-footprint consumer electronics devices.
Jeff Clavier / Software Only:
Web 2.0: VC2 2.0 Panel — Because of 1) traffic, and 2) massive overflow at the registration desk, I ended up arriving to the first workshop 30 mins after it started. — I decided to attend the "VC 2.0" panel, featuring Paul Graham, Fred Wilson, and my friends Ross Mayfield and Steve Jurvetson.
Harry McCracken / PC World's Techlog:
Hey, Let's Speculate Idly on Apple's Next Announcement! — As my colleague Narasu Rebbapragada noted earlier today, Apple is holding an event one week from Wednesday in San Jose. The invite uses the phrase "One More Thing..."—which is the Columbo-esque phrase that Steve Jobs uses towards …
