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Mike / CrunchNotes:
TechCrunch Bashing Heats Up — The last two weeks has brough a fresh wave of TechCrunch hate. I've learned to avoid responding to this stuff in the past because it just draws more attention to it, but tonight a reporter from the Syndey Morning Herald named Asher Moses emailed me and said …
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Tinfinger, Things That, Deep Jive Interests, ALLIED, Bourland.com, The Blog Herald, robhyndman.com, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web and digg
Staci D. Kramer / paidcontent.org:
News Start-up Daylife Raises First Round; NYTCO Leads Investors — You're reading it here first ... After a year of mostly veiled references and speculation fueled by the involvement of Jeff Jarvis as an adviser and Craig Newmark as an investor, Daylife, the distributed news platform founded …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Scrybe Syncing Calendar Has Launched In Beta — Scrybe, the online/offline calendar and organizer with the awesome YouTube demo video we wrote about earlier this month, has launched into beta tonight. We've kicked the tires and can report that the parts of the service available now do deliver as advertised (see video again below).
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Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:Scrybe is Flash and it sets a new bar for web applications
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CyberNet Technology News
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Charles River Ventures introduces friendly "convertible" seed round — Charles River Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm, has launched a new investment strategy, offering rapid but tiny $250,000 checks to Internet start-ups. — The program, called QuickStart, recognizes times have changed …
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USA Today:
AT&T cable plan includes wireless — SAN ANTONIO - Mobile phones figure prominently in AT&T's (T) attack plans as it prepares to take on the big cable TV operators. — "Wireless is at the top of our list," says Scott Helbing, AT&T executive vice president of entertainment …
Pieter Hintjens / Free Software Magazine:
What's wrong with software patents? — I know that many people come to the FFII—as I did—because they feel a deep sense of injustice at how the smaller players in IT are consistently squashed by special interests and monopolists. But I'm going to look at our core concern—software patents …
Matt / Signal vs. Noise:
It's the content, not the icons — What's with all the social bookmarking icons at the bottom of every single friggin' blog post out there? — Given the Ebola-like spread of these things they must be really effective, right? Not so much. Zero out of Technorati's top 10 blogs feature those icons.
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SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog, ProBlogger Blog Tips, Deep Jive Interests, Bourland.com and JD on EP
Business Wire:
Thumbplay Announces $15 Million in New Funding — Bain Capital Ventures Leads a $10 Million Series C Round Combined with a New $5 Million Bank Facility with SVB Silicon Valley Bank — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Thumbplay Inc., www.thumbplay.com, the leading online retailer of mobile entertainment content …
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Business Wire:
Facebook® Enables Users to Share Video, Photos, News, Blogs and More From Anywhere on the Web — Leading Websites Tap Into the Viral Sharing Among Facebook Users — PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Facebook, the Internet's leading social utility, today announced that for the first time people …
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Mashable!
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Cingular teaming with Napster and Yahoo to roll its own music service? — According to The Wall Street Journal, those in the know are predicting Cingular to announce a music service for its cellphone network as early as tomorrow. It seems that despite rampant rumoring of an iPhone …
KPIX-TV:
Bomb Explodes At eBay PayPal Headquarters In SJ — (CBS 5 / BCN) SAN JOSE An explosive device left at the eBay-owned PayPal headquarters in San Jose exploded Tuesday night, shattering a plate-glass window on the four-story building. — Some 26 employees were working inside the building at the time of the explosion.
Rluzinski / Another Baseball Blog:
Pacman Arcade Costume — After being invited to an 80's themed Halloween Party, I spent weeks (OK, minutes) trying to come up with a cool idea for a costume. Sure, I could go as He-man or Punky Brewster, but I wanted to make it something that had to be built, incorporated some technology and might be a bit of a challenge.
Gizmodo:
Sony Vaio G1: Sub 2-Pounder, Carbon Fiber Goodness — Sony's smashed the 2-pound barrier with its Sony Vaio G1, a 1.98-pound carbon fiber laptop that the company calls "the lightest fully usable notebook ever produced." Despite that feather weight, it still has a 12.1-inch display, 1.5GB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive.
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Skyhook AIMs at Location Market — WiFi location startup Skyhook Wireless, which has the marketing-friendly browser plug-in Loki, has been making some pretty good progress since we last spoke to them in June. The Boston-based startup, which has raised $8.5 million from Bain Capital Ventures …
Timboy:
Search engine optimization (SEO) from black to white — In one of my favorite Saturday Night Live skits, "Tom Ridge" explains the U.S. terrorist-threat color codes: … Here's my attempt to give SEO's more than just two or three colors. — Background: A naive (non-SEO) …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Elephants and Evolution - How the Landscape is Changing for Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe — Written by John Milan and edited by Richard MacManus. John is Senior Software Architect and founder of TeamDirection. — The days of purely desktop-based applications are clearly numbered …
Matt / MobileCrunch:
Motorola Prepping Linux-based RAZR Smartphone? — We got word of these presentation photos of what appears to be Motorola's new RAZR PDA. That's right, a smartphone in the RAZR form factor, because the world needs another RAZR like it needs touchscreen voting machines.
Newsday:
How iTunes saved 'The Office' — It takes a lot of love to download a TV show on iTunes. The process is time-consuming (10 minutes or so for a sitcom). The screen image - by necessity - is ant-sized. The picture gets the yips. And worst of all, the thing hogs a vast chunk of memory.
Mike Shields / Adweek:
Viacom, YouTube Strive for Accord — NEW YORK After Viacom sent YouTube a letter last week asking the video-sharing site to remove some of its copyrighted content, the two companies appear to have reached an understanding. — The letter requested that YouTube remove some Viacom proprietary content …
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Download Squad, Deep Jive Interests, Techdirt, Mashable!, Mathew Ingram, broadbandreports.com and TechBlog
Live Search's WebLog:
Add Search to Your Site with the Live Search Box — (And, yes, it supports Firefox too!) — Today, we're proud to announce the launch of the Live Search Box, to bring the power of search to your Web site or blog through a cool widget. Check it out: — When the user enters a query …
