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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Getting Naked in Silicon Valley — At about 1 a.m. this morning I was sitting on Michael Arrington's couch talking with the few people who were left over. Topic of conversation: "is this a bubble?" — Yes. Next question. — What kind of bubble is it? — Not an economic one.
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Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy by Jeremiah:
PhotoBlog: Naked Convo Party at TechCrunch House — Went to the techcrunch party for Naked Convos book launch. — Atherton is very dark at night. — Met up with Alexa from Omidyar, she had questions about business blogging, so I bought her a book. — Saw James from feedster, he introduced me to some of his colleagues.
Brian Oberkirch / Like It Matters:
Naked Conversations Interview/Launch Party — Holy Techcrush, were there some folks at Mike Arrington's house last night. Great launch party for *the* book on business blogging, Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble & Shel Israel. I did a podcast interview with them this morning (which I'll detail more later).
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Thank You For Coming to TechCrunch 5 — The Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party is now officially over (except for Stowe Boyd and Jason Roberts who are passed out on my couches). The pictures are here and here (tag: "techcrunch5″). — Thank you to everyone who came.
Rafe Needleman / Rafe's Blog:
Carded — One indication that Bubble 2.0 is getting out of hand: I was walking down the dark Atherton street to Michael Arrington's house for the latest TechCrunch meetup/party, and a guy approached me from across the street. Before I could tell who it was — practically before I could see him, actually — he said, "Rafe Needleman!
Jeff Clavier / Jeff Clavier's Software Only:
Stormhoek wines first tasting — I finally managed to taste South African Stormhoek's wines last night, at the TechCrunch 5 party. These wines have been primarily marketed through blogs, with the help of uber-blogger (and master cartoonist) Hugh McLeod, and are just about to enter the US market.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
PlayStation 3 costs $800, sez Merrill Lynch mob — If there are some people out there rightnow who are in the know when it comes to what the hell is going on — we mean really going on — with Sony,it's those investment firms. But even barring their research analysts getting all kinds …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
PlayStation 3 to be delayed? — The North American launch of Sony's much-anticipated PlayStation 3 could be delayed until next year, according to a research report issued by Merrill Lynch. — In the report (Click here for PDF), the analyst firm proposed the idea that high costs …
Guy Kawasaki / Let the Good Times Roll:
How to Suck Up to a Blogger — Blogging has flipped traditional PR on its head. It used to be that ink begat buzz. Life was simple then: you sucked up to the Wall Street Journal, one of its reporters wrote about your product, and the buzz began. … Nowadays buzz begets ink.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Time to blow up blogs — Blogs have already become prisoners of their format. Time to light some dynamite. — The problem isn't the tools, it's the templates. Blogging tools are merely content management systems without the million-dollar consultants and bills; that's …
Adam Green / Darwinian Web:
Here we go again — "Syndication politics are every bit as twisted as any soap opera you'll see on daytime television. Only without the sex. And with a bunch of bearded fat guys in place of the pretty models. " ( Dave Walker) — As a bearded, person of size, who is involved with RSS, I guess I have a right to chime in here.
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A Blog Without Comments is Still a Blog — Russell Beattie recently removed comments from his blog. Some bloggers (here, here, here, here, here, here and here) think removing comments is not a good idea. Darren Rowse at ProBlogger also has an interesting post about blogs and comments.
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
A Interview with 180Solutions' CEO — What follows below is some of the material that ultimately got cut from my magazine piece on botnets and spyware for space considerations. Here's what I wrote about my visit to 180solutions and subsequent interviews with several company executives:
saschameinrath.com:
Senators for Community Wireless! 2 Bills Introduced on Friday in the US Senate. — Major reform is afoot! — Two bills were introduced on Friday that would radically improve unlicensed wireless access. Both bills would greatly improve the general public's access to the public airwaves.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
BlogBurst Can Save Big (print) Media — Pluck demo'd a new product called BlogBurst at our party last night. The service is live but Pluck has not pushed it out for publicity yet. — BlogBurst is a service that takes topical content from pre-approved blogs and provides it to publishers (online newspapers, etc.) for republication.
