Techmeme: Torvalds takes bite of Mac mini (Hardware News)

11:25 PM ET, October 11, 2006

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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Blog: Please Get Descriptive With Your Headlines!

We're Facing a Monster: Will Someone Please Step Up and Say It? — In the midst of the dot-com-bubble-style euphoria triggered by Google buying YouTube (a $1.65 billion stock transaction), I see very little criticism leveled at Google over this deal. But not everyone is happy.

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Merlin Mann / 43 Folders:

Merlin's top 5 super-obvious, "no-duh" ways to immediately improve your life — How to get organized and stay that way — When I was up in Toronto last week, I was interviewed by Samantha Grice from the National Post about 43 Folders, productivity stuff, and the sad sorry state of my own day-to-day productivity.

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Jeff / Venture Chronicles:

Teqlo: What It Means for Customers — A little over a month ago I left SAP for a startup and at the time I declined to name the company I was joining. I would like to say that this was part of some brilliant marketing plan but the fact is that I joined a very early stage company …

Discussion: AccMan, EarlyStageVC and Between the Lines

Benjamin Edelman / BenEdelman.org:

False and Deceptive Pay-Per-Click Ads … Read Google's voluminous Adwords Content Policy, and you'd think Google is awfully tough on bad ads. If your company sells illegal drugs, makes fake documents, or helps customers cheat drug tests, you can't advertise at Google.

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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:

Coghead Goes Live: Build Applications Visually — The online application building space is one that is getting more interesting by the week. We have previously reviewed a number of apps in this space (sometimes referred to as the 'online access' space, a reference to Microsoft Access) including Dabble DB, Zoho Creator and WyaWorks.

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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:

Gootube - The End of DRM ? — Power to the People ! The union of Google and Youtube has been described as a triumph of the consumer's interests over corporate control. The big media entities, as evidenced by all the deals cut with Google and Youtube, CBS, WMG, Universal, et al, really gets it this time.

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Darren Waters / BBC:

Warning over 'broken up' internet — The internet could one day be broken up into separate networks around the world, a leading light in the development of the net has warned. — Nitin Desai, chair of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), set up by the UN, warned that concerns over the net's future could lead to separation.

Discussion: GigaLaw.com Daily News

Sara Kehaulani Goo / Washington Post:

YouTubers Ponder Google — On YouTube, where members are encouraged to express themselves through amateur video, it took only a few hours before they started chiming in on Google's $1.65 billion acquisition of the popular online video site. — Dozens of YouTubers turned their cameras …

Discussion: Good Morning Silicon Valley, Valleywag, Tech Confidential Blog and digg

Hardware News:

Torvalds takes bite of Mac mini — Linus Torvalds has picked up one of Apple's new Intel-based Mac minis to play with, but the Linux creator still prefers Apple's old PowerPC architecture for his primary desktop machine. — "I'm actually still running a G5, but I also have a Mac mini," …

Discussion: Infinite Loop and digg

Light Reading:

Google: Dark Fiber Story Not So Dark — Google (Nasdaq: GOOG - message board) head of special initiatives Chris Sacca went into spin cycle last week while explaining his company's dark fiber investments to Light Reading. (See Google's Own Private Internet.) — "I've bought a lot of fiber for Google," Sacca says.

Discussion: GigaOM and dailywireless.org

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