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Paolog / Revolving World:
FIREFOX 2.0 ALPHA IS HERE! — Revolved by Paolo Gagliardi in Flammable on 19/03/2006 — Mozilla is about to gift us again with a faster, more stable and generically better Firefox major release. Please note that it's still a Alpha version, which means it does not contain all new expected features …
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David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Firefox 2.0 alpha released — DownloadSquad has noticed that an alpharelease (read: not stable) of Firefox 2.0 is live, available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and waiting foryour clicks. I'm having ahard time tracking down any kind of official list of what's new in this next major point release …
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.
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Publishing 2.0, Kareem Mayan's Weblog, Life On the Wicked Stage, Damien Mulley and ben barren
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"?
MobileTracker:
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 …
Joanna Glasner / Wired News:
Satellites Will See More, Faster — Critics of overhead imagery services like Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth generally fall into two categories: government agencies who say the services show too much, and users who lament they can't see more. — As the next generation …
Joshua / del.icio.us:
private saving ryan — Because many of you have asked for it, we have just rolled-out a beta of our private saving feature. To try it out, go to "settings" and click on "private saving" to activate; you'll then see the new option whenever you save a page.
James McGovern / Enterprise Architecture:
More Thoughts on Ruby and Why it isn't enterprise ready! — I previously blogged on Large Enterprises and why they don't care about Ruby and was rightfully accused of bashing folks in the Ruby community but not providing the answer to my original statement. Figured I would set things right...
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Think the Internet will replace TV ? Think again — Craig Moffet of Bernstein Research was asked to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee on the subject of Net Neutrality. His comments were of course right on the money. The interesting conclusions that can be drawn from his testimony …
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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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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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 …
