Top Items:
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Well, well, Dell — So Dell is starting a blog. — Ha. Heh. Ho ho ho. — It's a blog in content management system name only. — The subtitle is "direct conversations with Dell" but this is as much a conversation as yelling at a brick wall. There is not one link there.
Discussion:
Publishing 2.0, Scobleizer, Micro Persuasion, one2one, MediaShift | PBS, GottaBeMobile.com, raving lunacy, Hardware Stocks and The Browser
RELATED ITEMS:
Nick / Rough Type:
Dell's unorthodox blog — A few days ago, Dell quietly launched a corporate blog, called one2one. Mixing words and video, it's designed to let various Dell employees talk about Dell products and services - and to share their enthusiasm for the company with customers.
Discussion:
Hacking Cough, BuzzMachine, Between the Lines, Business Filter, Web Strategy and Perceptric Forum
Wired News:
Condé Nast Buys Wired News — Lycos is selling its Wired News unit to Condé Nast Publications for $25 million, Lycos parent Daum Communications announced in Korea late Tuesday, a deal that brings Wired.com and Wired magazine under the same owner after an eight-year separation.
RELATED ITEMS:
Bill Tancer / Hitwise US:
MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites — Today Hitwise issued a press release reporting that for the first time, www.myspace.com has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users. To put MySpace's growth in perspective …
RELATED ITEMS:
Jessica Lee / Google Maps API Official Blog:
Zoooooooom! — Today we're enabling some new zoom features on Google Maps. We're making these features available to API v2 users as well, so please test them out and send us your feedback! — Double-click to zoom. Instead of double-clicking to recenter the map …
Mark Ward / BBC:
Microsoft shuts down Windows 98 — Technology Correspondent, BBC News website — Microsoft is urging an estimated 70 million users of Windows 98 to upgrade as it ends support for the software. — From 11 July, Microsoft will no longer help users over the phone with any problems they have with the ageing operating system.
RELATED ITEMS:
Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Continued CRM Momentum and Outlines Roadmap for New Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live Service — New software-as-a-service offering will further extend the power of choice for CRM customers and partners. — BOSTON — July 11, 2006 — Building on the market success …
Associated Press:
Gates: Vista likely to be ready in January — Microsoft chief says 80 percent chance new OS software will be available — CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday there was an 80 percent chance the company's next-generation operating system, Windows Vista, would be ready in January.
Robert Young / GigaOM:
Rise of the Socially-Integrated Media Empire — Rupert Murdoch built his media empire, News Corp, the old-fashioned way... by vertically and horizontally integrating deep and wide into the layers of the media industry (e.g. from production to distribution).
Jgovernor / James Governor's MonkChips:
My First Gartner Cease And Desist: the missing link — James Governor's MonkChips: On Sample Sizes for Magic Quadrants — Its about time, I guess. Last Thursday I received an email, strangely enough from Gartner's Vendor Relations department, asking me to remove a link from monkchips …
Staci / paidContent.org:
NYTimes's Personalized Service "My Times" Debuts In Limited Beta — One of the linchpins of the new NYTimes.com design is slipping into place finally ... personalization feature My Times is now in limited beta for 5,000 registered NYTimes.com users who showed early interest (Some screenshots here).
Discussion:
TechCrunch
Stephen Bryant / publish.com:
The Long Tail vs. Pirates of the Caribbean — Opinion: Chris Anderson says the success of Pirates II doesn't contradict his Long Tail thesis, but some critics aren't so sure. — "If you don't know Keira Knightly, she's basically a slightly more mannish version of Orlando Bloom."
Discussion:
Barnako.com, Anil Dash, Shore Communications Inc., The Long Tail, TypePad Featured Blogs, Screenwerk, InterMedia and paidContent.org
Associated Press:
Hackers target State Dept. computers — Widespread break-ins appear aimed at HQ, East Asian office — WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is recovering from large-scale computer break-ins worldwide over the past several weeks that appeared to target its headquarters and offices dealing …
Discussion:
Realtime-ITCompliance
Sid Yadav / rev2.org:
33 Places to Hangout in the Social Networking Era — Update: Someone dugg this list (thanks krazydog!) Click here to digg it if you find it useful. — Social networks have had giant growth spurts over the past couple of years, and it seems there's one for everyone: from dogs to moms to book-worms to shoppers.
Nate Mook / BetaNews:
Firefox Usage Passes 15 Percent in US — Mozilla's Firefox browser continues to post gains in market share, according to Web analytics firm OneStat.com, while usage of Internet Explorer has fallen more than 2 percent since May. Opera, meanwhile, has surpassed 1 percent market share worldwide.
Discussion:
Download Squad, jkOnTheRun, Mark Evans, duncanriley.com, The Browser, Forever Geek and PaulStamatiou.com
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Microsoft's media player dubbed Zune — Well, the info's finally starting to come in about Microsoft's wireless media player; the project, dubbed Argo, will apparently spawn at very least one device, which we saw yesterday. By way of our trusted sources we now know the device is currently dubbed Zune …
bLaugh:
Friend or Foe? — Millions of fans poured into the streets in celebration late last week, when the social networking megasite Friendster.com was awarded a patent on managing real-life relationships. Until now, relationships have been difficult to maintain - with no effective friendship tool firmly in place.
Discussion:
Chris Pirillo
