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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Yahoo allows outsiders to innovate on Yahoo e-mail — SUNNYVALE, California (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) is set to allow outsiders to create new services using the world's most popular consumer e-mail program, in the broadest move the Web has yet seen to enlist independent programmers …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
All Women Team Takes Yahoo Hack Day Top Prize — Yahoo opened its corporate headquarters to hordes of hackers, press and others on Friday and Saturday for its open Hack Day. After 24 hours of hacking (with a break for a private Beck concert in the Yahoo courtyard the first evening) …
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Chad Dickerson's blog, Search Engine Journal, Just Shelley, VentureBlog, You've Got Ismail!, ProgrammableWeb and GigaOM
Jeff / The Jeff Pulver Blog:
With Some Startups, "Parents Just Don't Understand" — After spending the past week reading various perspectives on some of the recently funded (mostly) mobile focused VoIP startups, I find it amazing how some members of the Blogosphere feel as if they have an inside track to the future success of one or more of these startups.
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Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Being On The Inside — Jeff Pulver has made some very valid points about the blogosphere being a bit less enthusiastic about companies like RebTel (which I like) and Jajah where I just aired my views below. — I completely agree with Jeff that lots of very smart people are behind some of these ventures …
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Alec Saunders .LOG
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox — SAN DIEGO—The open-source Firefox Web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said Saturday afternoon. — An attacker could commandeer a computer running the browser simply by crafting a Web page that contains …
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ResourceShelf:
The Word "Mashup" Key to Newly Registered Google Domain Names — The new domain names keep pouring out of the Googleplex and this time they all use the word "mashups." Not for maps or another Google service but search. — Like we always do, we'll set aside some space …
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
And if You Liked the Movie, a Netflix Contest May Reward You Handsomely — Netflix, the popular online movie rental service, is planning to award $1 million to the first person who can improve the accuracy of movie recommendations based on personal preferences.
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Hacking NetFlix
Anything But iPod:
Cowon iAudio N2 - PMP GPS DMB With Windows CE Running on AMD — The Cowon iAudio N2 is a series piece of hardware packed with a ton of features and is far from your typical portable media player. First off the N2 runs Windows CE 5.0 on an AMD Alchemy 500MHz processor with 128MB of ram.
Jake Ludington:
Zune and iPod Photo Comparison — I got face time with a Zune this weekend and decided to look at how the form factor compares to the 80GB iPod I picked up a few days ago. The Zune weighs considerably less than the iPod, although I didn't have a scale on hand to get exact comparison.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Controversial PayPerPost Raises $3 million — We first covered PayPerPost on the day it launched - June 30, 2006. — The service is a marketplace for advertisers to pay bloggers to write about products for a fee. Commenters to our original post wee polarized into those violently for and those againt the product.
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The Blog Herald
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Technorati Intros Smarter Blog Search Feeds — Technorati has opened up RSS feeds for keyword and URL searches to all users. You no longer need to register for an account and set up watch lists. (Technorati is an Edelman partner.) You couldn't do this prior to now.
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duncanriley.com
ntt.co.jp:
14 Tbps over a Single Optical Fiber: Successful Demonstration of World's Largest Capacity — Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, President and CEO is Norio Wada) has successfully demonstrated the ultra-large capacity optical transmission of 14 Tera bits per second …
InfoWorld:
The Screening Room #9: Windows Live Writer — The September episode of The Screening Room, with J.J. Allaire and Jack Ozzie, introduces Windows Live Writer, discusses Live Writer plugins, and illustrates how the plugin architecture is being used to add support for microformats and Live Clipboard.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft: 60,000 Vista biz seats to be deployed on launch day — While Microsoft is still over a month away from its expected business launch of Windows Vista, company officials are starting now to make the case for why business customers should upgrade to the next version of Windows.
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Chris Saad / APML Blog:
APML - OPML for Attention — Today Faraday Media (Creators of Touchstone) announce a new initiative to work with the community in order to design and implement "Attention Profiling Mark-up Language" or APML. — APML will allow users to export and use their own personal Attention Profile …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Look For Netvibes — Netvibes quietly released an updated look and feel this evening. Read about the release on the Netvibes blog here and here. — Key additions to the service include: — Module search — New web/blog /video search with results within netvibes
