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Business Week:
Valley Boys — Digg.com's Kevin Rose leads a new brat pack of young entrepreneurs — It was June 26, 4:45 a.m., and Digg founder Kevin Rose was slugging back tea and trying to keep his eyes open as he drove his Volkswagen Golf to Digg's headquarters above the grungy offices of the SF Bay Guardian in Potrero Hill.
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Joe / Techdirt:
Forget Paper Millionaire, Digg Founder's A Vapormillionaire — from the bet-this-story-won't-get-dugg dept — We've become very accustomed to stories about how this or that startup could be worth $x billion, though they typically offer little justification for that price tag.
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Jaime Espantaleon / Associated Press:
Apple defends iTunes-iPod compatibility — AUG. 2 7:01 P.M. ET Apple Computer Inc. has struck a defiant stance with Scandinavian regulators, staunchly defending its right to make its iPod the only portable music player compatible with songs purchased from the company's iTunes music store.
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Michele Gershberg / Reuters:
Apple in deals to connect iPod in new car models — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL - news) on Thursday said it has teamed up with three major automakers to link its popular iPod music player with car stereos, laying down a new challenge to a fragmented radio industry.
David Berlind / Between the Lines:GM, Ford, Mazda, to drive acceptance of Apple's C.R.A.P. Coke …
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Sara Kehaulani Goo / Washington Post:
AOL Plans to Cut 5,000 Jobs, Some in Virginia — AOL said yesterday it planned to lay off more than a quarter of its workforce — including hundreds of employees in Northern Virginia — over the next six months as the company restructures its business to focus on online advertising instead of dial-up subscriptions.
Tony Mobily / Free Software Magazine:
Why Red Hat will go bust because of Ubuntu — I don't like writing controversial editorials. Controversy is an effective means to get a lot of accesses: most people seem to enjoy reading controversial articles, maybe because they like torturing themselves. (And yes, I used to read a lot of Maureen O'Gara's articles myself!).
Melanie Colburn / John Battelle's Searchblog:
FINDING YOUR SEARCH BUDDIES — There's a new social service that pairs search users in part by their similar queries, as well as pages visited in web browsing and preferred interests. Others Online stands out from many social sites with its browser toolbar that when activated passively records demonstrated interests.
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Erik Sass / MediaPost Publications:
Market for Online Video To Increase 10-fold By 2010 — THE GLOBAL MARKET FOR ONLINE video content will expand tenfold by 2010, topping 130 million households, according to a new report titled "Online Content Aggregators—AOL, Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Apple—Slowly Defining the Future of Television …
Business Week:
What Constitutes a Click? — As part of an effort to combat advertising fraud, Google and other search engines are searching for a standard definition — Even the bitterest of enemies can find common ground when reputation is on the line. That helps explain why Web-search rivals Google …
Alice Hill / Alice Hill's Real Tech News:
Trend Alert: The External Graphics Card — A few years ago, I proclaimed this the decade of the external device. Once it became easier to plug in an external hard drive (or three) and simply move your data to your next PC, it seemed inevitable that the days of opening the case …
Guardian:
Is Sony fighting a losing battle? — Sony is facing a struggle over its PlayStation 3, with critics concerned about the processor and the price. Jack Schofield reports on the next stage in the console wars — At the E3 games trade show in Los Angeles in May 2005, Ken Kutaragi …
Yahoo! Search blog:
What's cooking at del.icio.us — It's been a busy few months for the del.icio.us team — building new features, scaling-up our infrastructure to meet growing demand, and working with our Yahoo! and MyWeb colleagues to share ideas and integrate our technologies.
Peter Cohen / Macworld:
'Cider' makes Windows games run on Intel Macs — Coming soon: Windows games that will run on Intel Macs thanks to TransGaming's new Cider software. There's no rebooting involved and no separate Windows partition to be installed. It all happens transparently.
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
The Technorati dance — I have been using Technorati since it was running on servers powered by Dave Sifry's hamsters, and it remains an essential part of my blogging existence. The company recently rolled out a spiffy new design for its service. Hooray. — But: Why are the results still so...unstable?
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Ian Austen / New York Times:
Was It Done With a Lens, or a Brush? — Like many amateur photographers, Joe Dejesus posts his photos online and compares them to the work of others on the photo-sharing site Flickr. At some point last year, a number of landscape photos caught his eye with their vibrant tones and colors.
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Doc Searls Weblog:
As we were flying from L.A. to Boston today, we diverted north to avoid weather, having already been told that Boston was, like the whole East Coast, in an awful heat wave. Somewhere over Wyoming we turned east. And then, near Toronto, the pilot came on and said "The Weather has turned.
