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Michael / michael parekh on IT:
ON MYSPACE AND REPUTATIONAL MORTALITY — SLIPPERY SLOPE AHEAD... (Update Below) — It's interesting how MySpace, and it's more grown-up counterpart Facebook, have become the holy grail of Internet trends. Every geek over 35 (investor or not), is desperately trying to "get it" in recent months.
Mike Rundle / Business Logs:
The Decisionmakers and Sucking Down — Venture capitalist and 9rules member Guy Kawasaki just wrote about The Art of Sucking Down, which essentially is how everyone needs to respect those who have power over certain aspects of our lives. Don't piss-off waiters because they handle your food, did you see "Waiting"?
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Marvel Comics: stealing our language — Marvel Comics is continuing in its bid to steal the word "super-hero" from the public domain and put it in a lock-box to which it will control the key. Marvel and DC comics jointly filed a trademark on the word "super-hero."
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Possible Treo 700p info leaks — Interesting information about the Palm Treo 700p showed up this week in a TreoCentral forum thread. The 700p hasn't been announced, but is rumored to be a Palm OS powered smartphone similar in features to the 700w. The thread includes a scanned document purporting …
AppleInsider:
Apple reserves room for changes atop iPod line — Without explicitly stating so, Apple has taken measures to allow itself room to make changes at the top of its iPod product line this spring, if it chooses to do so. — The Cupertino, Calif.-based company recently informed some of its partners …
Anne Fisher / CNN:
Be smarter at work, slack off — In a world of too much work and too much multitasking, the best way to beat the competition may be to do less. — Remember the story of Archimedes lolling in his bathtub? To an observer, he'd have seemed to be wasting time.
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Michael Liedtke / siliconvalley.com:
Web site files complaint against Google — SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s mysterious methods for ranking Web sites came under attack Friday in a lawsuit accusing the online search engine leader of ruining scores of Internet businesses that have been wrongfully banished from its index.
maxconsole.net:
The Xbox 360 Firmware 100% Hacked - PGR3 Back Up Running *Update* Video Available! — Ok a while ago we brought to you news about how the Xbox 360 firmware routines were still intact.. Well The Specialist has followed this up and it looks like months of hard work have come to an end …
Brad Ideas:
The true invention of the internet, redux, and Goodmail/Network Neutrality — I wrote an essay here a year ago on the internet cost contract and how it was the real invention (not packet switching) that made the internet. The internet cost contract is "I pay for my end, you pay for yours, and we don't sweat the packets."
Cameron Reilly / ThePodcastNetwork:
GDAY WORLD! #96 - 2web crew #2 — GDAY WORLD! #96 (MP3 - 21Mb- 59min) — LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE — On today's show, my guest hosts are my co-founding members of 2Web.com.au, Ben Barren, Richard Giles, Martin Wells and our newest member Duncan Riley and we talk about:
Neville / NevilleHobson.com:
Web 2.0 certification — How up-to-the-mark is your site as far as Web 2.0 is concerned? Are you at the bleeding edge with Ajax, tagging, Google maps or community content? Silly or mis-spelled names and rounded corners? — Now you can find out via the Official Web 2.0 Certifyr.
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