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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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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Venture Firm Is Giving Loans a Try — Charles River Ventures, one of the nation's oldest venture capital firms, has come up with an unusual program to attract promising entrepreneurs: It will offer loans of up to $250,000 to help them turn their ideas into fledgling businesses.
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Fractals of Change
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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Rational rants, Mathew Ingram, Business Logs, Things That, Tinfinger, ALLIED, Bourland.com, The Blog Herald, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, robhyndman.com and digg
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Tony / Deep Jive Interests:Mr. Arrington "Discloses" Blogging's Heart of Darkness
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Mark Evans
Marsha Walton / CNN:
Web reaches new milestone: 100 million sites … (CNN) — Are your Web surfing fingers getting tired? — There may be a reason. Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company that has tracked Web growth since 1995, says a mammoth milestone was reached during the month of October.
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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 …
Drivl.com | Front page:
The Seven Phases of Owning an iPod - An Illustrated Journey — PHASE 1: This is the "OH MY GOD IT'S SO SMALL AND SHINY" phase. You marvel at how small and shiny it is, stealing glances whenever you can. — PHASE 2: This is the phase where all your friends say "OH MY GOD IT'S SO SMALL AND SHINY" and you're like, totally over it.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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) …
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 …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Breaking: UTube Sues YouTube — Remember that company Universal Tube that owns the domain UTube.com? A release on one of the press wires says that UTube is now suing the video sharing site, demanding that YouTube stop using their name. Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation of Perrysburg …
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.
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
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Ask.com To Power Lycos Search & Search Ads — Reuters reports that Ask.com has reached a deal with Lycos to power their search engine and search ads. Lycos is the 5th "most popular U.S. Web portal." Ask.com will provide Web search, image search, zoom search and ppc ads for the Lycos Network.
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Traffick
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Spock offers an ambitious "people" search engine — Spock, a secretive Menlo Park start-up incubated with $1 million from Clearstone Venture Partners, will unveil a search engine for people by the end of the year. — From a demo we've seen, we think it could be a powerful addition.
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Bourland.com
Bill Wise / MediaPost Publications:
How Google Wins By Losing — PERHAPS THE BIGGEST HOT-BUTTON QUESTION in search is whether Google will continue rising forever, or if it will bust. Last week saw indicators both ways. On Monday, Standard and Poor downgraded Google's ranking from "hold" to "sell," cautioning against …
