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Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Web 2.0 Service Mark Controversy (Tim responding this time) — A lot of people have been waiting for a statement from me (Tim O'Reilly) about the Web 2.0 service mark. I'm back, and here it is. This is a long post, because the issues are complex, and I hope people will read to the end.
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Ouriel Ohayon / TechCrunch:
SixApart To Launch Comet, Renamed Vox, on June 1 — San Francisco based SixApart, which owns the Typepad, MovableType and LiveJournal blogging platforms, will start letting users test their new Vox (formerly Comet) hosted blogging platform on Thursday, June 1.
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Jaron Lanier / edge.org:
DIGITAL MAOISM: — The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism — An Edge Original Essay — In "Digital Maosim", an original essay written for Edge, computer scientist and digital visionary Jaron Lanier finds fault with what he terms the new online collectivism.
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Xbox 360 Camera Release Date Announced: September 19th — Xbox 360 Camera Release Date Announced: September 19th — READ MORE: CAMERA, HOME ENTERTAINMENT, XBOX LIVE, XBOX LIVE VISION, XBOX 360 — Lieutenant Commander Nelson let flow the mango-kiwi juice of information …
David Cohn / Wired News:
Strap Up and Jump Like Mario — NEW YORK — Mario can jump four times his height, and soon so could you. — The Nintendo Amusement Park is a project by three New York University students who want to create a life-size obstacle course based on Super Mario Bros. that lets players strap …
iab.net:
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES CLOSE TO $4 BILLION FOR Q1 2006 — New York, NY (May 30, 2006) - The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising revenues reached a new record of $3.9 billion for the first quarter of 2006.
Tom Evslin / Fractals of Change:
FeedBlitz — Phil Hollows, founder and CEO of FeedBlitz LLC, announced today that I made an angel investment in his company and have become a board member. Phil's done a great job with the company so far: almost half a million people use FeedBlitz to get email updates from their favorite blogs and websites.
Patrick Baltatzis / Business 2.0:
Searching for the Google of cell phones — Can startups like 4Info and Promptu challenge the Web search giants in the mobile market? — SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - On the Web, Google may have search all wrapped up. But search on cell phones is still a wide-open …
Ina Fried / ZDNet:
Vista revs up peer-to-peer engine — Whenever Windows Vista computers arrive, they will have their own special way of talking to one another. — Microsoft's new operating system, which won't arrive for consumers until early next year, has a new collaboration feature that allows laptops …
Mark Peplow / Nature:
Simple sounds make for sound investments — Easily pronounced stocks do better on the market. — For those of you struggling to pick a winner in the complex world of stocks and shares, help is at hand. A psychology study has found that, at least in the short-term, stocks with names …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Delivers First Desktop Designed Exclusively for Mac Users — Ultimate desktop performance, comfort and design to meet Mac users' needs. — REDMOND, Wash. May 30, 2006 Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of the Wireless Laser Desktop for Mac, its first Mac-specific desktop complete …
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Mark / mpolino.com:
Weekend with the Q1 — The Q1 and the Slingbox arrived on Thursday, just in time for the long Memorial Day weekend. I had taken Friday off because we were going to the beach, so I had a really long weekend ahead. I got most of my installs done Thursday night but I had a few left to do on the road.
Shane / Aeropause:
Game consoles and all their dimensions — Do you care to know the size of every current and next gen console out there? I know I do! Like how big is a 360 to a PS3? This is important data and must not be overseen. It looks like the PS3 is the winner by an over aged gamers nose hair …
Darren / Digital Photography School:
How to Hold a Digital Camera — Get Free Weekly Digital Camera Tips via Email — One of the common problems that many new digital (and film) photographers have is 'camera shake' where images seem blurry - usually because the camera was not held still enough while the shutter was depressed.
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Bill Gates kicks of the "D" conference — Updated 11:50 PM PST: Bill Gates held court at the D (all things Digital) conference at the Four Seasons in Carlsbad, Calif., touching on the usual topics (Vista, Office, Google, Xbox) during a Q&A with hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
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Leander Kahney / Wired News:
Making the IPod More Sensitive — Apple Computer and Nike's new iPod-sneaker combination for monitoring exercise could be just the first of several activity-aware applications for the iPod — and maybe even a new gesture interface that uses movement to select songs or adjust the volume.
