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Windows Live Spaces - It's Here! — Hey Spaces Fans! — We're thrilled to announce that Windows Live Spaces has just released and we hope you're loving it! We've talked about some of the cool new features of Windows Live Spaces, but if you're not sure where to start, here are a couple of tips:
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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Windows Live Spaces launches — Windows Live Spaces has just launched, tying new social networking features into the blogging service. The new release features an integrated friends module tied into your contacts defined in Messenger and elsewhere, and adds new customization options using Microsoft Gadgets.
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Corey Spring / Newsvine:
Stephen Colbert Causes Chaos on Wikipedia, Gets Blocked from Site — odd-news, humor, wikipedia, citizen-journalism, comedy-central, stephen-colbert, vandalism, wikiality — On Monday night's episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert addressed the online resource Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that anyone can read or edit.
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Andrew / tawkerblog:
I blocked Stephen Colbert on Wikipedia — Yes, that's right. I blocked the defender of truth, Stephen Colbert (or at least an impostor... people are arguing if it was him or not) tonight on Wikipedia. Yes, I am Wikipedia Tawker and yes, I blocked. That "joke" used way too much of my bandwidth, my poor Tawkerbot4 couldn't keep up!
Mike / Techdirt:
How Truthiness And Wikiality Helped Colbert Take Down Wikipedia — from the the-revolution-will-not-be-verified dept — Since The Daily Show has been getting so much love from the tech crowd lately, with their recent discussions on net neutrality, spinoff show The Colbert Report had to really step things up to top its parent show.
Dina Bass / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Businesses in no hurry to buy Vista — 'Let somebody else work out the bugs' in Windows update — Microsoft Corp. may have to wait at least a year for most U.S. companies to switch to the new version of its Windows operating system, according to a survey by JupiterResearch.
SeekingAlpha Media Stocks:
Sirius Satellite Radio Q2 2006 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (SIRI) — Executives — Jim Meyer - President, Sales and Operations — Analysts — Presentation — Operator — Good day, everyone, and welcome to the Sirius Satellite Radio second quarter 2006 earnings conference call.
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Mylene Mangalindan / Wall Street Journal:
Web Start-Ups Lure Executives At eBay, Yahoo — After six years at Yahoo Inc., including a stint as vice president of the company's successful online-shopping business, Rob Solomon wanted a new challenge. — Last year, he was offered the job of chief executive at Internet travel start …
Tor Thorsen / GameSpot:
Confirmed: No Unreal Tournament 2007 till 2007 — Midway says the PC edition of its much-awaited shooter won't ship until "first half" of next year; PS3 version still TBA, more Xbox 360 hints dropped. — In October 2003, Atari announced that Unreal Tournament 2004 had been delayed...until 2004.
Nicki Dugan / Yodel Anecdotal:
Yet another self-serving corporate blog! — Oh, yes, we're going corporate. But please don't hold that against us. It's a good thing, really. After the successful launch of a dozen or so Yahoo! product blogs, we thought it was time to create an überblog of sorts so we can cover …
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Manfred Dworschak / Spiegel Online:
How Google Earth Is Changing Science — Biologists, epidemiologists and disaster control experts are discovering Google Earth as a powerful tool in their work. The success of the digital globe has reawakened interest in computer mapping models. — Erik Born constantly keeps tabs …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Bloglines wants to block private feeds from search — "Everything you blog goes on your permanent record!" How many times have we heard that lately? From employment to family situations, many people have been frustrated to find out that things they intended to write for a personal audience …
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Dan Bell / CD Freaks.com:
IP address not legal evidence identifying file sharers — mrdataNY used our news submit to tell us: "I never could see how RIAA could prove who within IP address could be proved to have done "the deed"." — For years, the RIAA has claimed that having the IP address of a computer …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Gesture Firestorm Hits — This morning started with an alarming email from Rick Goff titled: — Paradise Valley Fire. … It sure was. Just a short distance away. I quickly wrote a note to our friend there, got confirmation that my mom's house wasn't affected (it isn't easily reachable by fire) …
Tony Smith / The Register:
Nvidia unwraps 64x SLI monster GPU rig — What do you get for the graphics buff who has everything? How about Nvidia's Quadro Plex 1000, a racked collection of GPUs in their own box, together capable of rendering 80bn pixels every second and powering monitors with a combined resolution of up to 148 megapixels.
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
iTunes + Coke = happy Apple, happy users — Coca-Cola, which one ran its own music download service in the UK, recently closed down mycokemusic.com because of sharp decline in its marketshare due to, undoubtedly, much stronger competitors such as Napster and iTMS pushing them out of the market.
PR Newswire:
Gannett, McClatchy and Tribune Reach Ownership Agreement on CareerBuilder, ShopLocal.com and Topix.net — Gannett, Tribune Increase Stakes in CareerBuilder to 42.5%; McClatchy Retains 15% Stake; McClatchy Affiliates Newspapers with CareerBuilder, ShopLocal.com and Topix.net
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investor.verizon.com:
Verizon Reports Continued Strong Quarterly Results — 440,000 net new broadband connections, including 111,000 FiOS Internet customers; 6.1 million total broadband connections, up 47.9 percent from second quarter 2005 — Data revenues of $4.0 billion, up 89.8 percent from second quarter 2005 …
Official Google Video Blog:
New Feature: Embed videos with a specific start point — We've always tried to make embedding a video as easy as possible. Recently, we added the ability to link to a specific point in a video, but it wasn't clear how to embed with a specific start point.
