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Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Flock Lands To Cheers & Jeers — TechCrunch reported this morning that Flock was launching publicly today, in about four hours or so. Apparently it was out on the filesharing networks, prompting the company to pull back the curtain and let the beta out of the bag.
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Mark Evans, Micro Persuasion, Views, VoIP and ENUM, Paul Kedrosky's …, Metafilter, TechCrunch and The Social Software Weblog
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ZDNet:
Advanced browser gives taste of Web 2.0 — A cutting edge Firefox-based Web browser dubbed 'Flock', which integrates next-generation Web technologies such as RSS content feeds, blogs and bookmark and photo sharing, was launched today. — The browser was developed in California by a small team …
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Read/Write Web, Solution Watch, The RSS Weblog, Google Blogoscoped and ThePodcastNetwork
Fred / WeBreakStuff:Flock? Okay, but wait a second
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Open Source, cubicgarden.com, web2.wsj2.com, Shore Communications Inc., PC World's Techlog and ben barren
Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
NEW GOOGLE ADWORDS KEYWORD SUGGESTION TOOL — A while ago I reviewed a ton of keyword research tools, but most of them are lacking in serious user data, which makes them top heavy, and forces people to only see the most common terms. — For the longest time it seemed as though Google …
Alexandros Roussos / macosXrumors.com:
Exclusive: Leopard to feature a totally redesigned Finder, based on Spotlight — To date, the only information Apple has provided about Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is that it will come sometime between late 2006 and 2007 and that it will be Intel compatible. Meanwhile, anonymous sources revealed …
Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Releases Q3 2005 Earnings — Google has just released their Q3 2005 earnings, as covered in this press release. … From The WSJ/Dow Jones … From the Google News Release — + GAAP net income for the third quarter was $381 million as compared to $343 million in the second quarter, an increase of 11%.
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BBC:
Sony wins major DVD studio ally — Sony's Blu-ray DVD technology has won over another heavyweight supporter in the battle to be Hollywood's format of choice for the next generation of DVDs. — Film studio Warner Bros has said it will release DVDs in the Blu-ray as well as Toshiba-backed HD DVD formats.
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Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
My New iPod: Video Podcasting Is Going to Be BIG — I couldn't resist - I got the new 30GB White iPod yesterday and it completely rocks. Apple did a great job with this gadget. Much thinner than previous iPods, super-fast syncing over USB, and the screen is *great*.
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Cliff Notes From the Blog World — Blog addicts overwhelmed by information may have found their savior. — Memeorandum, which started with a focus on political blogs in 2004 and launched a technology version just weeks ago, aims to be the automated newspaper of the online world.
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Like It Matters
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Architecture Astronauts Are Back — I'm starting to see a new round of pure architecture astronautics: meaningless stringing-together of new economy buzzwords in an attempt to sound erudite. — When I wrote my original complaint about architecture astronauts more than four years ago, it was P2P this and messaging that.
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Gadgetopia
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
Pheedo Tests Multi-Channel Ads — Blog and RSS feed advertising network Pheedo has begun testing a program to make it easier for advertisers to create integrated, multi-channel campaigns across blogs, Web feeds and podcasts. — "If your ad message is only in one of these channels …
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The Voice of Online …
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
IE 6 Gets IE 7 Phishing Filter — Microsoft Corp. has quietly backported one of the security improvements slated for the new Internet Explorer 7 browser into IE 6.0, but the giveaway comes with a small catch. — The Microsoft Phishing Filter, which is being embedded into IE 7 …
kottke.org:
Book author to her publishing company: your lawsuit is not helping me or my book — I got an email this morning from a kottke.org reader, Meghann Marco. She's an author and struggling to get her book out into the hands of people who might be interested in reading it.
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O'Reilly Radar, Google Blogoscoped, Search Engine Watch Blog, MeghannMarco.com and Boing Boing
The Odeo Blog:
Podcasting for Regular People — There are a lot of reasons to be excited about podcasting. — There's the fact that radio producers have moved to podcasting at a rapid clip and made tons of great content that was only available in certain locations at certain times downloadable and enjoyable at the listener's demand.
Jodi S. Cohen / Newsday:
Missed class? Try a podcast — Digital recordings of lectures allow college students with MP3 players to catch lessons or just catch up wherever and whenever they want — When Purdue University senior Marcos Kohler skipped a physics class to attend a concert in Chicago, he didn't have to borrow a classmate's notes to catch up.
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Techdirt
Stephen Shankland / ZDNet:
Andreessen: PHP succeeding where Java isn't — The simplicity of scripting language PHP means it will be more popular than Java for building Web-based applications, Internet browser pioneer Marc Andreessen predicted Wednesday in the US in a speech in California at the Zend/PHP Conference.
Marc McEntegart / Inquirer:
Jack Thompson calls for a truce — While still spitting venom — JACK THOMPSON - we're sure you'll all remember him - has sent a letter to the Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) and the Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association (IEMA) declaring that he'd like to meet to settle differences.
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Joystiq
Ted Leung on the air:
Aperture induced ponderings — My drooling over Aperture produced some other thoughts. — In the wake of this month's Web 2.0 conference, there's been yet another round of "all applications are moving to the web". Aperture is an application that would be very hard to do on the web.
