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Dave Sifry / The Technorati Weblog:
Technorati turns 3, rolls out a major update — After months of work and weeks of testing, we just released an updated version of technorati.com. I hope after spending some time with the updated service, you'll join me in celebrating its release. — For those of you with ADD …
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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:Technorati redesigns for the MySpace crowd
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Earthling
Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Kazaa, Skype, and now "The Venice Project" — Serial entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again, this time with a venture for distributing TV and other video over the Net — Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the entrepreneurs who created the pioneering Web applications Kazaa and Skype …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype Founders Take on TV — Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again. After disrupting the music and voice cartel's operations, the duo is taking on television. It shouldn't come as a surprise. I had reported on that as part of the Business 2.0's June 2006 cover story, The 50 Who Matter Now.
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VoIP Watch
David Berlind / Between the Lines:
In marriage of 'CPUs and GPUs,' ATI snapped-up by AMD. Is NVidia next? — In another one of the worst kept secrets in the technology industry, AMD has shelled out $5.4B for Canada-based video and graphics solution provider ATI Technologies. According to the aforelinked Reuters news story:
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amd.com:
AMD and ATI to Create Processing Powerhouse — NEW YORK — July 24, 2006 —AMD (NYSE: AMD) and ATI (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) today announced plans to join forces in a transaction valued at approximately $5.4 billion. The combination will create a processing powerhouse by bringing AMD's technology leadership …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
MySpace returns after power outage — A record-breaking heat wave that crippled power systems throughout California shut down MySpace.com for nearly 12 hours, starting Sunday night. — The popular social-networking site, which recently topped Yahoo Mail as the most-visited Web site in the United States …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Gotuit Launches Broadband Video Portal — Gotuit Media, an established player in on-demand video, today announced the launch of its new broadband video portal - Gotuit.com. I got a sneak peak of the new portal and spoke with Mark Pascarella (president of Gotuit Media) and David Laubner …
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
The Movie Business Challenge — This is an open challenge. You come up with a solution, you get a job. Seriously. — This is the problem that consumes me more than what Free Agent we are going to sign. How to get the NBA to get their act together. Which 7-11 Im going to run by to get a sandwich.
networkworld.com:
Start-up testing auto-aiming antenna for wireless nets — Purdue profs say technology could improve mobile access to 'Net. — WEST LAFAYETTE, IND. — A group of Purdue University professors has launched a start-up to create an auto-aiming wireless antenna system that reliably links users on vehicles and boats to the Internet.
Bob Garfield / AdAge:
Wal-Mart's New Online Children's 'Hub' a Real Bomb — A Poorly Executed Project With Writing That Makes Us Cringe — You think this job is easy? — Walk a mile in AdReview's shoes. Try to find something different to say week after week for 20 years. Try to be simultaneously serious and entertaining.
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ben barren
socialtext.com:
Socialtext Releases First Commercial Open Source Wiki — Socialtext, the first Wiki company, releases Socialtext Open at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). Available for immediate download, Socialtext Open is the first open source wiki with a commercial venture as its primary contributor.
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Venture Chronicles, Ross Mayfield's Weblog, Joho the Blog and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Aman Batheja / Dallas Star-Telegram:
Tech companies hope to cash in on Web 2.0 — Out of a second-floor office in Southlake Town Square, 26-year-old Josh Williams is taking on the likes of Microsoft and Oracle. — Williams and his staff of seven at Firewheel Design are making a name for themselves among small-business customers …
bLaugh:
YouTube Sues Boobs — Well over a dozen people tuned into NBC's Sunday night prime time lineup, shattering the network's previous record of 10. Since the advent of the Internets, fewer intelligent beings have found themselves interested in what Hollywood has to offer.
Dan Warne / apcstart.com:
Inside Vista's new image-based install — Vista's installation process is dramatically different to any previous version of Windows: rather than being an 'installer', the install DVD is actually a preinstalled copy of Windows that simply gets decompressed onto your PC. — So how does it adjust to your hardware?
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Do Google Ads belong on a company desktop? — A start-up called Spiceworks is testing whether Google Ads—commonly seen on blogs and other public Web sites—can finance a software company that sells to businesses. — On Monday, Spiceworks is expected to launch a beta of its namesake software …
Gizmodo:
LG MFFM20 Flash MP3 Player — LG serves up a little mystery with its latest MP3 player, offering the MFFM20 in 512MB and 1GB sizes, and including a capability called "music therapy." The company's keeping quiet about that feature, saying only that it will reduce stress levels. Is it a vibrator?
Wade Roush / Technology Review:
The Internet Is Your Next Hard Drive — New Web-based services don't just store your data online — they keep it synchronized across your laptop, desktop, and mobile phone. — The forecast for the future of the PC: partly cloudy. — Online storage systems that can automatically synchronize …
