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Richard Siklos / New York Times:
Waiting for the Dough on the Web — NOW and then, an executive whose brain I'm siphoning will turn the tables and pose a question. And lately, I've been getting a few versions of this: "You talk to a lot of the traditional media companies. Who do you think has got this Internet thing figured out?"
WinFS Team / What's in Store:
WinFS Update — It's been nearly a year since I wrote my entry about WinFS Beta1, but rest assured, we have been working furiously since then. Today I have an update about how we are delivering some of the WinFS technologies. It represents a change to our original delivery strategy …
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Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET - Windows Vista Edition — A .NET Developer's Perspective on the Windows Vista Experience — WinFS Project Ends, No Beta 2 Release — In the post that is sure to be slashdotted all to hell in the coming days, Quentin Clark of the WinFS Team posts of the projects demise.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Production values debate breaks out during videologger session — I just listened to the video blogging session at BloggerCon. — In the discussion it was clear that there is a coming conflict between people who "do it for love" and those who are doing video to build an audience …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Look, New Name For Gada.be — Tag metasearch engine Gada.be (TechCrunch posts describing the service are here) is getting a name change and a redesign at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle later this week (Chris Pirillo founded the company and also runs the conference).
msdn.microsoft.com:
ADO.NET Tech Preview: Entity Data Model — Applies to: — ADO.NET — Entity Data Model — Summary: Review a precise and complete definition of the Entity Data Model (EDM). (35 printed pages) — Introduction — Basic Concepts — EDM Instances — EDM Primitive Types
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Translating and Transcoding the Feedosphere — I have arrived safely, but groggy in Paris where it's now late morning and rainy. In leading up to my visit here, I have started reading some French blogs in my RSS reader, such as Marketing Alternatif - a great resource on street marketing.
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AppleInsider:
Apple's Leopard has its eye on Redmond — For the second time in as many years, Apple Computer is looking to outshine rival Micrsoft Corp. in the inevitable battle between the two companies' software operating systems. — There's still over a month to go before Apple will take the wraps off Leopard …
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Trinity Rubicon:
The jig is up... I'm going to be honest here: When I posted those Leopard screenshots on Blogger, I was never expecting quite the popularity it ended up acheiving. For it to get on the front page of digg is one thing, but to have it get commented on 200 times is pretty surprising to me.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sidekick 3 Sells for $4050 on eBay — Now some of us have been lucky enough to test out the Sidekick 3 - for instance, The Engadget Boys and Phone Scoop Gang - but even they could not have predicted the mad dash for the new Danger Hiptop, aka T-Mobile Sidekick 3. — One of these puppies just sold for a whopping $4050 on eBay.
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Kathleen Craig / Wired News:
BloggerCon Boosts the Blog Boom — SAN FRANCISCO — When the blogosphere's leading lights gather for a two-day "unconference" on the art and science of blogs, you're sure to get one thing: lots of blog posts about blogging. — In fact, if you didn't make it onto the signup list …
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Computer Guru / The NeoSmart Blog:
Windows Vista Build 5456 Released — Microsoft has just released a new build of Windows Vista for technical beta testers. Windows Vista Build 5456 offers many security, functionality, and performance advantages over the previous build (Beta 2 - build 5384.4).
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The long goodbye — Today started quite with a shock. Maryam called. She yelled into the phone "we got it!" — She didn't want me to blog it, she thinks it'll jinx it. But looks like we'll be headed toward Half Moon Bay if all the inspections work out.
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
Pandora's New Feature: Backstage — Pandora, the excellent internet radio service, rolled out a great new feature last week: Backstage. The new service is powered by All Music Guide and lets you research the bands you're listening to - over 20,000 artists are listed.
Chris Pirillo:
Freedbacking — Just had my session on Users at Bloggercon. I wasn't sure how it went, but several people came up to me afterwards and told me that they really appreciated that - it was a psychotherapeutic session, enabling users to complain about software (why it doesn't work, why it's messed up, how they wish it could be better).
