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CoCaman / Geekness:
GOOGLE TESTING GDRIVE (CODENAME PLATYPUS) — Okay, Writely accepts new users, no big deal here. And because I am a very interested person, I wanted to know on which system (programming language) it now runs. So I started to append index.jsp, index.py and so on at the URL.
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Google Blogoscoped:
Google Gdrive Surfaces — Corsin Camichel discovered first traces of Gdrive, Google's rumored online storage solution. Corsin was snooping around Google's writely.com, trying out the page name "index.html", when he hit on what looks like a Gdrive download page.
Jim Rapoza / eWEEK.com:
eWEEK Labs Bakeoff: Open Source Versus .Net Stacks — Review: Open-source and .Net zealots can both take away positives from eWEEK Labs testing of various application stacks, but a mix-and-match approach wins the day. Bottom line: Open source and .Net better learn to play nice.
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Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Operations: The New Secret Sauce — I spoke last week with Debra Chrapaty, the VP of Operations for Windows Live, to explore one of the big ideas I have about Web 2.0, namely that once we move to software as a service, everything we thought we knew about competitive advantage has to be rethought.
Matt / Photo Matt:
WordCamp - WordPress Conference — The idea for an event for WordPress users has been bouncing around in my head for a long time, as there is a really interesting group of people around WP but we don't do nearly as many face-to-face interactions as some similar projects.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
At AOL, a Plan for a Clean Break — Should AOL sacrifice its cash cow in hopes of finding a prosperous future? — In two weeks, the board of Time Warner Inc., which owns AOL, will hear a proposal from Jonathan Miller, AOL's chief executive, calling for a near halt in marketing …
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IP Democracy, 21talks, Blogging Stocks, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, Digital Micro-Markets, robhyndman.com and Message
Om Malik / gigaom.com:
SightSpeed Shifting Places — In VoIP + Connected Home + Start-Ups + Place Shifting — A few days ago I read something about ABC trying to out-hustle the DVR technology. I found it amusing because these studio guys are sooooo late to the game always. DVR as a technology is at a point …
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VoIP Watch, Aswath Weblog, Alec Saunders .LOG, Realtime-VoIP and O'Reilly Emerging Telephony
Peter Branton / itp.net:
Wealth of experience — The rich are different from you and me" the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is said to have once remarked to his friend Ernest Hemingway. " Yes, they have more money," Hemingway replied. — Larry Ellison, founder and CEO of software giant Oracle, certainly has more money …
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Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Shopping by Phone, on the Move — SOMETIMES it seems hard to figure out whether younger consumers enjoy shopping more than using their cellphones, or vice versa. Soon, readers of a Condé Nast magazine will be invited to do both at once. — The magazine, Lucky …
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paidContent.org, MocoNews.net, dailywireless.org, Rex Hammock's Weblog and The Pondering Primate
Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Argo aims guns at more than iPod — Microsoft is indeed developing a digital-media player to compete with Apple's iPod, and there's much more to the story. — A few details trickled out last week from music companies that Microsoft is lining up to support the device.
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Engadget, PVR Wire, Gizmodo, AAPL - Blogging Stocks, Kotaku, Gearlog and Microsoft News Tracker
Associated Press:
Student, Phone Home — CINCINNATI — For Ron Chicken and other freshmen at Montclair State University, the new freedoms that presumably came with college age included a mandatory cell phone with which the school could pinpoint their whereabouts on or off campus.
BBC:
'Magnetic memory' chip unveiled — A microchip which can store information like a hard drive has been unveiled by US company Freescale. — The chip, called magnetoresistive random-access memory (Mram), maintains data by relying on magnetic properties rather than an electrical charge.
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Old Media, Not New, Is World Cup Winner — On the playing field, the World Cup soccer tournament produced only one winner. In the marketing arena, however, it created many opportunities for glory — as well as a few disappointments. — France's surprising run showed that "old" …
Mack Collier / The Viral Garden:
Coke boldly goes where every other clueless control-hungry company has gone before — Well it seems that Coke pulled a fast one on us. After first saying that they didn't approve of the Mentos-Diet Coke experiments, they are now telling their community that it's ok to enjoy their product.
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Online Movie Tickets a Still-Evolving Force — THE Web has helped make concert ticket lines all but obsolete. Why, then, were people still waiting around the block during the weekend to watch Johnny Depp swashbuckle his way across the big screen? — Because of user fees and a confusing tangle …
