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Google Blogoscoped:
Inside Google Spreadsheets — Thanks to Sam Davyson, I was able to take a first look at the new Google Spreadsheets. At this time, Google is sending out invites to the first people who signed up for what must be the 15th or so product launch this year. See movie 1 [WMV] …
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Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:Google Spreadsheet and Google's Microsoft Obsession
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Newsome.Org
Thomas Mennecke / Slyck:
AllofMp3.com Breaks Silence — AllofMp3.com. The very name conjures up either great respect or distain. Copyright holders continue to pressure the Russian government to obliterate this music service; while consumers enjoy high quality music at a cut rate price.
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Bleeding Edge
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BBC:
Warning over 'illegal' MP3 site — Britons using bargain music download website allofmp3.com have been warned that they are breaking the law. — Record industry trade association the BPI said consumers were breaking UK copyright law because allofmp3.com was not licensed to sell recordings.
Don Marshall / online-publishers.org:
OPA Press Release — ONLINE PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION MEDIA USAGE STUDY SHOWS THE WEB NOW RIVALS TV IN REACH AND EXTENDS THE IMPACT OF ALL MEDIA — NEW YORK, NY — June 6, 2006 — The Online Publishers Association (OPA) today announced the results of a new research project, "A Day in the Life …
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Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:
The programmer as journalist: a Q&A with Adrian Holovaty — Washingtonpost.com's Web tech guru answers questions about programming's role in news reporting and presentation. … OJR: I think one can safely assume that everyone in the news business understands how one "does journalism" through writing or photography.
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Terry Heaton's Weblog
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Microsoft vs. Google: Who's greener? — As Google and Microsoft battle for the hearts and minds of Internet users, a new question has cropped up: Which one can better save planet Earth? — Being portals and search engines, the companies are likely among the worst energy users …
Tolles / Topix.net Weblog:
TOPIX.NET FOR SALE — On Saturday, Steve Rubell outed our Classified System, which we've been quietly baking on our local news pages for about a month. While we still think it's a bit premature to crow about this, given that a classified system is only as good as the ads it gets …
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Hack Attack: Turn your $60 router into a $600 router — Of all the great DIY projects at this year's Maker Faire, the one project that really caught my eye involved converting a regular old $60 router into a powerful, highly configurable $600 router. The router has an interesting history …
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Picasa Web Albums Coming? — Picasa is Google's desktop photo management software - something like Yahoo's Flickr, except it's not on the web. However, online photo management is a big pie of "making the world's information accessible"... and consequently, a new product appeared linked …
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TechCrunch, Googling Google, Mathew Ingram, CyberNet Technology News and duncanriley.com
Ted Bridis / Associated Press:
Brin says Google compromised principles — WASHINGTON - Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged Tuesday the dominant Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
'Second Life': Don't worry, we can scale — Last March, Cory Ondrejka, the chief technology officer at "Second Life" publisher Linden Lab, bet a symbolic quarter that his virtual world would within two years have more users than the wildly popular online game "World of Warcraft."
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Joystiq
Sarah Lacy / Business Week:
Novell's Fight for Respect — Ron Hovsepian explains how his outfit aims to regain investors' confidence and turn the tide against Linux leader Red Hat — In many ways, Novell is a lot like many other midsize software companies. All are struggling to reinvent themselves in a world …
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Open Sources
Peter Clarke / EE Times:
Analyst predicts Intel price war, profit warning — LONDON — Reading the runes on the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics numbers for April, Bruce Diesen, analyst at Handelsbanken Capital Markets, predicted a profits warning would soon be forthcoming from Intel Corp. where he said processor …
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TechSpot
Joshua Schachter / joshua's blog:
Spreadsheets are remarkably flexible things. They are probably the single most common vector for "citizen programming" in the world at large, and they can easily do simple databaselike tasks, as well as their intended calculation roles. That said, I find it surprising that Excel looks so very much like its ancient ancestor, Visicalc.
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GigaOM
BBC:
French book publisher sues Google — A French publishing group is to sue Google for publishing book excerpts online without permission. — La Martiniere accuses the technology company of "counterfeiting and breach of intellectual property rights" by digitising about 100 of its titles.
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Search Engine Watch Blog, The Unofficial Google Weblog, ResourceShelf, TeleRead and MobileRead Networks
Bruce Stewart / O'Reilly Emerging Telephony:
My 666 Story - Mark of the Babies — I was amused to read this article in the Register recently about the big bucks generated in Qatar for an auction of the mobile phone number 666-6666 (over 2.5 million dollars!), and it seems only fitting that on 6/6/06 I share my own experiences with the prefix of the beast...
