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Richard Siklos / New York Times:
Death by Smiley Face: When Rivals Disdain Profit — THE tectonic changes facing media companies are by now the topic of an often-recited sermon. Put briefly, digital technology is placing control over much information squarely in the hands of consumers and creating all kinds of opportunities …
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A VC, mathewingram.com/work, Paul Kedrosky's …, Cameron's Brain, ben barren and Scott Heiferman's Notes
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Not quite, Times — The Times — like many people in power — seems to have trouble grasping the full impact of the internet handing control over to the people. They have real trouble turning their personal prisms around to look at the world from the bottom up instead of their usual top down.
Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Purpose-Driven Media — Business theorists have started to grasp the risks to established businesses of asymmetric competition. (By analogy to the concept of asymmetric warfare, sometimes companies are competing with rivals whose different business model transforms the nature of the conflict.
Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage:
Tableteers And Bloggers Have Fun With April Fools Day — It is tough to be creative and fun on April Fools Day at the same time as preparing to open a new show. Of course the rest of the blogosphere and a few Tableteers had quite a bit of fun. James Kendrick had this funny take on Apple entering the Tablet scape.
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jkOnTheRun, MakeYouGoHmm, Eric Mack On-Line, A Zulu In Silicon Valley and Incremental Blogger
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Anil Dash:
Your April Fool's Joke Sucks. — Hey, there! I'm your friend, so I didn't want to be the one to tell you. But someone had to: Your April Fool's Day joke sucks. — Really, it does. April Fool's works really well if you're either genuinely funny or if you make something that's plausible enough …
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Harry McCracken / PC World's Techlog:
What Does "Windows Vista Capable" Mean? — Next month, new PCs will show up with stickers identifying them as being "Windows Vista Capable." But "Capable of Running Certain Versions of Windows Vista, But Maybe Not Stupendously Well" might be a more accurate designation, it seems.
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
No Vista, but Vista Capable stickers coming soon — No fooling, Microsoft is prepping new Windows Vista Capable stickers for PCs, in anticipation of the release of the 50 million lines of Vista code to business users (end of 2006) and consumers (beginning of 2007 if all goes well).
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Werner Vogels / All Things Distributed:
AMAZON GETS IM — In order to get closer to their customers, humanize Amazon, increase sales, and stay modern, Amazon.com has decided to make all Instant Messenger (IM) handles of its employees public. This way Amazon.com customers will get unprecedented access to the talented engineers …
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Seth Godin says Squidoo is not MLM — Seth replies to my "Newsvine/Squidoo doing the MLM thing" post. — Seth says "Neal is correct. This isn't MLM, not by any definition (not that there's anything wrong with that.) You are entitled to your opinion, whether I like it or not, but your facts are wrong."
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Web Publishing Blog
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:Squidoo joins Newsvine in the MLM social news model...
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lucent.com:
Alcatel and Lucent Technologies to Merge and Form World's Leading Communication Solutions Provider — Combined company will have strong financial base and revenues of approximately Euro 21 billion (USD25 billion) based on calendar 2005 results — Creates new growth opportunities …
Norimitsu Onishi / New York Times:
In a Wired South Korea, Robots Will Feel Right at Home — SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea, the world's most wired country, is rushing to turn what sounds like science fiction into everyday life. The government, which succeeded in getting broadband Internet into 72 percent of all households …
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Engadget
Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
Web Directories...are They Relevant to SEO? — With Zeal recently closing (I think Looksmart are dumb to have closed it) some people have recently been questioning the value of directories. — $hoemoney recently had a mini interview of a few SEOs asking if they are still relevant.
Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Announcing The Emo Programmer book — I'm pleased to announce the release of my latest book, The Emo Programmer. Most of you all know my co-author David Heinemeier Hansson (aka David HH) as the guy who created Rails to build 37signals loveable Basecamp application.
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cadenhead.org:
RSS: I'd Rather Switch Than Fight — Jason Young posed a question on Workbench recently: … As we work through the long-unresolved issues in Really Simple Syndication and spark up long-smoldering flamewars, people keep asking me why I don't just switch to Atom.
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Smalltalk Tidbits …
Chartreuse:
The Truth About This Blog (or why is Scott Karp always mentioned on this site) — Now I've said from the beginning that this website was an experiment. — There were much bigger plans going on behind the scenes and today I can finally talk about it. — After an extensive campaign …
Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
Yahoo Buys Web 2.0 — Yahoo is tired of buying Web 2.0 companies one at a time. They just want tje whole package. — "We're in the midst of buying Dogg (a Web 2.0 cross between Digg and Dogster "Where Every Dog Has A Webpage"), and you know what? It's a lot of work.
