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Blogging for Dollars — It's not just a hobby — some small sites are making big money. Here's how to turn your passion into an online empire. — (Business 2.0) — Michael Arrington is a partying kind of guy. While showing off his home in Atherton, Calif., he boasts about how he crammed 500 people …
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DealBook:
Should Apple Buy YouTube? — Mergers & Acquisitions, Apple Computer, YouTube — Like a video of exploding Coke and Mentos candies, YouTube just seems to demand attention. — And, in a different way, so does Paris Hilton. — So Tuesday's news that Ms. Hilton is using YouTube …
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support.microsoft.com:
Description of Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta 2 … This article discusses a Beta release of a Microsoft product. The information in this article is provided as-is and is subject to change without notice. — No formal product support is available from Microsoft for this Beta product.
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Declan Kennedy / apc:
How Vista screws dual-booting nirvana — The other day I found myself staring out the window next to my desk. It was around 6.30 in the evening, and the lights had just gone on over Hyde Park. — The whole scene was one of winter serenity, aided considerably by the window sill …
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:Windows Vista Desktop Search Now Available for Windows XP
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GottaBeMobile.com
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
What's new for your Blackberry — When I got my Blackberry, at first it was culture shock, I wanted my Plain Jane Nokia back, but after a while I got used to using it as a phone, then fell in love with it because it did email so well, but I wanted more, I wanted news.
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Read/WriteWeb, paidContent.org, Paul Kedrosky's …, Newsome.Org, Between the Lines, jkOnTheRun and Scobleizer
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Is your blog one in a million? If so VCs may want to talk to you — Paul Kedrosky nailed it! This is exactly the point I was trying to make about VC investment in individual blogs. See Dr. Kedrosky's comment in my previous post. Bloggers are like Open Source projects in that there are millions …
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Scobleizer
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:VC funding for individual blogs?
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CNET News.com, The Post Money Value, Digital Micro-Markets, UMBC eBiquity, Incremental Blogger and Scobleizer
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Qwest calls for mandatory data retention laws — ASPEN, Colo.—Broadband company Qwest Communications International on Tuesday strongly endorsed federal legislation requiring Internet providers to keep records of their customers' behavior, a move that could accelerate efforts in Congress to enact new laws.
Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG:
Hello hullo! — Over the last few weeks I've been playing with the beta of a promising new free service called hullo. Now you can try it too. — hullo bills itself as a personal call manager. The promise is that it will help you stay in touch better than ever before.
SecurityFocus:
Microsoft patch opens users to attack — Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-08-22 — UPDATE: Microsoft continued to work on a fix on Tuesday for an exploitable flaw introduced by the company's latest security update to Internet Explorer. — The flaw, initially thought to only crash Internet Explorer …
Red Herring:
Guba's On-Demand Experiment — Video sharing, downloading startup tests how to get people to buy movies and TV online. — In an effort to jump-start their video pay-per-download service, Guba said Monday it has slashed the prices for buying or renting premium television shows and movies from their site.
Oliver / MobileCrunch:
Nimbuzz Could Change the Face of Mobile Communications: a MobileCrunch Exclusive! — I've had the good fortune to have been given access to Nimbuzz for the last few weeks. My testing has convinced me that once widely deployed, this application has the potential to shake mobile communication service providers to their very core.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Facebook adds blog-like notes feature — A week after winning applause across the blogosphere for taking the big step of opening up its API, social networking site Facebook today launched a new feature called notes - essentially a blogging tool. — The best thing about the new notes tool …
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
Kids Say the Darndest Things in Their Blogs — Like many 21-year-olds, Jared Watts gripes in his blog. He rails against his boss, his job and the misery of dealing with customers at the Cingular Wireless store where he works. — "Enter Middle Aged Wench of Doom," Watts wrote …
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The Blog Herald
Eric Case / Google Code:
New GData API: Google Base — Post by Matthias Zenger, Software Engineer — We're excited to announce the availability of the Google Base data API, which lets you write applications that dynamically interact with Google Base. You can insert, edit, or delete items programmatically …
