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Valleywag:
Valleywag Release Candidate 2 — Some changes, today, on Valleywag, in design, personnel, and mission. Obviously, there's a new design. Nick Douglas, editor since launch earlier this year, is leaving. And we're going to change the mix of stories, slightly. — 1. Design.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Installing the Zune... sucked — When it comes to the hardware, we're pretty much set; we all now know the Zune inside and out. But how it interacts with the software, the marketplace, etc. — that's where the magic happens. Or doesn't. We really wanted to give the Zune the benefit of the doubt.
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Gizmodo:
Zune Software Plays Nicely With iTunes — After a relatively painless installation—it didn't recognize the Zune because we forgot to reboot—we set to work on the Zune software. We weren't exactly sure what Microsoft meant when they said that Zune Marketplace would import music automatically from iTunes …
Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog:
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats — A rising tide lifts all boats. If there were ever a philosophy that guided our decision making at Sun, it's that - the notion that an internet connected by freely available standards is more valuable, to Sun and our customers, than one defined by dependencies on proprietary technologies.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Sun's Second Life gimmick — Memo to Sun: Stop trying to be so damn trendy. Taking Java open source is a big development, but then you muck it up with having a developer Q&A in Second Life. No parallel Webcast. No conference call dial-in. No alternate means to drop in.
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O'Reilly Radar
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Confabb: Find, Track and Review Conferences — Confabb is a new service launching today that offers a centralized place to find information about all kinds of conferences. The site offers everything from speaker and event reviews to photos of the events after the fact through integration with Flickr.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Confabb opens to conference attendees, speakers, planners (video)
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ScobleShow
Robert Scoble / ScobleShow:Behind the scenes of "zero cost" new startup: Confabb
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Marc's Voice
Cary Sherman / CNET News.com:
Perspective: The farce behind 'Digital Freedom' — perspective Last month, the Consumer Electronics Association and other groups announced a "Digital Freedom" campaign that latches onto the concept of fair use—supposedly to benefit consumers. — Seems like a worthwhile effort.
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Washington Post:
For Ted Leonsis, a Quest to Find Himself Faster Online — For a man who's often in the public eye, Ted Leonsis didn't like what he saw when he Googled himself last year. — Leonsis — vice chairman of AOL, majority owner of the Washington Capitals hockey team and the Mystics of women's basketball …
Kevin J. O'Brien / TechNewsWorld:
Gates: Internet Bubble Is Back — "We're back kind of in Internet-bubble era in terms of people thinking: 'O.K., traffic. We want traffic. We want traffic,'" Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said. "There are still some areas where it is unclear what's going to come out of that."
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Bill Gates says we're back in a bubble — kind of
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Howard Lindzon
Phil Wolff / Skype Journal:
TalkPlus demo : Call to echo123 from a mobile without a Skype client — I shot this demonstration on Halloween, 31 October 2006, in the offices of TalkPlus in San Mateo, California. The video is uncut, no editing at all, including about five seconds in the beginning of Jeff Black, TalkPlus CEO and founder, warming up.
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
Pre-Roll Not the Answer for Online Video — The growth of online video this year has been staggering, but marketers are still struggling to find ways to effectively monetize the channel. According to a new report from eMarketer, as well as comments of several speakers at the Ad:tech …
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Tony Ruscoe / Tony Ruscoe's Blog:
Google Calendar: Search Public Events and Internal IP Visible Info? — I just signed in to Google Calendar and saw this: — And here's the code that generated those links. — There are two things worth mentioning here: — Search Public Events - perhaps this is a new feature they're planning to add soon.
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Googling Google
Dan / .:UNEASYsilence:.:
Hacking the XBox 360's HD-DVD for the PC — Double Double toil and trouble, well more accurately it's Torx 5 Torx 7 toil and lots trouble. Enticed by the $199 price, we set ourselves on a mission to find out if the Microsoft's XBox 360 HD-DVD player could work on a normal PC.
Google Blogoscoped:
Popular Blog Posts — I asked several bloggers about their most popular, or one of their most popular, blog posts - the kind that made an impact on people, had skyrocketing traffic numbers, or triggered a meme or changes. Here are their answers (please note that I adjusted case for some answers …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
C-SPAN To Launch User Video Site — Public interest TV station C-SPAN and online media storage provider StreamLoad have announced that the two companies will collaborate on a new user submitted video site set to launch later this month and called ViewFinder.
Valleywag:
Battelle gets Farked — Federated Media Publishing, the ad network run by John Battelle, has lost one of the most popular sites it repped, and another may also leave the stable. Fark, the heavily-trafficked humor site run by Drew Curtis, has appointed Maxim, the men's internet and magazine title, to sell its inventory.
