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Matt Biddulph / hackdiary:
The BBC's programme catalogue (on Rails) — Ever wondered what's in that archive? Who looks after it? It turns out there's a huge database that's been carefully tended by a gang of crack BBC librarians for decades. Nearly a million programmes are catalogued, with descriptions …
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Ruby on Rails chases simplicity in programming — Can one man and a mantra of "radical simplicity" change the world of Web development? — David Heinemeier Hansson, a 26-year-old Copenhagen native, has built a "framework" to help Web developers be more productive and has released the package of tools through an open-source project.
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Ben Hammersley:
Hot BBC Archive Action — Once in a while, I do a project whose long term implications make me want to cry. This month's little extravaganza is just such a thing. As Matt Biddulph explains here, I'm helping out with a special black-ops development project for the BBC.
Mike / Techdirt:
SBC: We Own The Internet, So Google Should Pay Up — from the uh-oh.—trouble-coming. dept. — It's become pretty clear that Kevin Martin's FCC has no problem considering "competition" in the broadband space to mean incumbent telcos vs. incumbent cable companies.
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Mark Russinovich / Mark's Sysinternals Blog:
Sony, Rootkits And Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far — Last week when I was testing the latest version of RootkitRevealer (RKR) I ran a scan on one of my systems and was shocked to see evidence of a rootkit. Rootkits are cloaking technologies that hide files, Registry keys …
Amy Gardner / apple.com:
iTunes Music Store Sells One Million Videos in Less Than 20 Days — CUPERTINO, California—October 31, 2005—Apple® today announced that iTunes® Music Store customers have purchased and downloaded more than one million videos since they debuted on October 12.
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
The Internet and the future of TV — Imagine a day when you would be in total control of creating your own TV channel lineup. — Instead of subscribing to a service from a cable, satellite or phone company that might offer you hundreds of channels you'll never watch …
Michael Singer / ZDNet:
Dell's third-quarter earnings slip … Dell announced on Monday that third-quarter revenue will fall well short of expectations due to sluggish consumer sales and a faulty component in its OptiPlex desktop PC. — The Round Rock, Texas-based computer maker said it expects revenue …
Society for New Communications Research:
Society for New Communications Research Launches — International, Multidisciplinary Consortium to Study the Impact of New Media & Participatory Communications — The Society will study the impact of emerging modes of communication such as blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, videocasts …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Google throws bodies at OpenOffice — Google plans to hire programmers to improve OpenOffice.org, a demonstration of its affinity for open source initiatives and one the company believes also shows sound practical sense. — OpenOffice has its roots in Sun Microsystems' StarOffice suite of programs.
Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Print Debate on Farber's IP List — Over the past couple of days, there have been quite a few interesting postings about the Google Print controversy over on Dave Farber's IP List. There's a lot of the usual back and forth, but a couple of postings that give some background on possible legal precedent.
The Register:
Telefonica grabs O2 from under T-Mobile's nose — It isn't exactly a secret to anybody who has watched the routine visits between O2 directors and Telefonica - the Spanish telecoms giant has been reluctantly courting the former BT subsidiary for a year or more, simply to keep the Spanish Government happy.
John Borland / ZDNet:
Ad dollars for the Star Wars Kid? … Forget Google. The Internet's real killer app has always been the strange little amateur videos, like the Star Wars Kid or the Numa Numa Dance, that find explosive popularity almost overnight. — A new company launching Monday in Los Angeles …
Ross Fadner / MediaPost Publications:
'05 Proving To Be Worst Newspaper Year Since Recession — IT'S OFFICIAL: 2005 WILL BE the newspaper industry's worst year since the last ad industry recession. And things aren't looking much better for next year either, according to a top Wall Street firm's report on newspaper publishing.
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