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John Gaudiosi / Next Generation:
Research Findings Put PS3 Way Ahead — New research has shown massive consumer belief in the PlayStation 3, and waning interest in Xbox 360. — According to the study by Los Angeles based Interpret, 8.9 million U.S consumers 'are prepared' to pay full price ($500 or $600) …
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Kotaku, Blackfriars' Marketing, Cathode Tan, Scobleizer, Microsoft News Tracker, Joystiq, You NEWB and Go Nintendo
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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.
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.
RawmeatCowboy / Go Nintendo:
UPDATE WITH SCAN* It's official - GameStop/EB Games taking Wii preorders on Friday — 100% CONFIRMED - SCAN BELOW — I made a trip out to the mall to see what was up with these EB Games/GameStop preorders. Now I can finally put an end to all these rumors.
USA Today:
Product placement — you can't escape it — NEW YORK — To hype the fall TV season, CBS plastered pictures of its shows' stars on postage stamps and across the insides of elevator doors. It laser-coated its eye logo on more than 35 million eggs, and carved the name of a new program, Jericho, into a 40-acre Kansas cornfield.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is Facebook worth as much as YouTube? — I was reading Steve Ballmer scratching his head in BusinessWeek where he was wondering about the valuations that are getting paid out for companies like Skype and YouTube. — Good to hear that Ballmer's leadership on the social software industry …
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O'Reilly Radar, Don Dodge on The Next …, Business Week, Mark Evans and David "Dsquared" Dalka
seagate.com:
SEAGATE STRENGTHENS ITS MAXTOR ONETOUCH AND MAXTOR SHARED STORAGE PRODUCT FAMILIES — Award-Winning Solutions Offer New Capacity Points and Simple Automatic Backup, Giving Consumers More Choices to Store, Share, Carry or Protect their Digital Life — Addressing the rising need for more space …
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple's missing "Home on iPod" feature resurfaces in filing — Apple Computer has been granted a patent for a pretermitted feature of Mac OS X that would have allowed users to sync their home directories to an iPod and then use the data stored on the player to securely log into any supported Mac.
qualcomm.com:
QUALCOMM Launches Project in Collaboration with Mozilla Foundation to Develop Open Source Version of Eudora Email Program — Open Source Version of Eudora will be Free of Charge; Final Commercial Versions of Classic Eudora for Windows and Mac Available Now — QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq …
Elisabeth Osmeloski / Search Engine Watch:
The Ongoing Struggle of Free vs. Fee — Does information really want to be free? If so, how can traditional information publishers and aggregators deal with shifting value propositions and revenue models of premium content and survive in the era of free web content?
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Ask Mobile Search Launches — Ask.com has launched a mobile search product at m.ask.com or mobile.ask.com. First, Ask Mobile is optimized for mobile devices and uses Skweezer throughout to improve readability and download speed on your mobile device. Navigating Ask Mobile was a pleasure on my Treo …
Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo's Talks With Facebook Get Bogged Down — Days after Google Inc. announced a $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube Inc., rival Yahoo Inc.'s efforts to extend its Web reach through an acquisition of Facebook Inc. aren't making much progress, say people familiar with the matter.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
The Social News Faceoff — Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. — This post looks at the main players in the Social News space, to try and identify their characteristics and understand the dynamics of the market. The sites we analyze are digg, Netscape, Newsvine, and Reddit.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Office? How About Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Now Launched — Google's taken its Writely online word processor, combined it with the Google Spreadsheets product released in June and put the two out in a combined new service called Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
IGN:
PS3 Bundled With Composite — Sony goes low tech with the wiring. — HDMI port, Blu-Ray drive, Cell processor — the PS3 will ship with everything needed for high definition playback. Everything except for high definition cables, that is. — The latest issue of Famitsu contains …
