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Erik Sofge / Slate:
THE CASE AGAINST THE WII. — I'll admit it—I was in love with the Nintendo Wii long before we'd ever met. And then, a few seconds after I touched those strange, new motion-sensing controllers, months of giddy anticipation vanished. I've played and won 14-hour-long Halo tournaments.
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Chris Suellentrop / Slate:
Wii Is the Champion — NINTENDO'S NEW CONSOLE BESTS THE PS3 AND THE XBOX 360. — In a great video game, the narrative is secondary to the game's central appeal: satisfying my desire to be an NFL quarterback, a Jedi Knight, and a martial-arts wizard (though not—yet—all at once).
Toni / Toni's Garage:
KnowNow + WP = enterprise blogging — Fortune 500 companies are discovering WordPress. They are figuring out that blogging is a great tool for fostering more open and active collaboration with customers and between employees. This trend was anticipated in several places …
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knownow.com:
KnowNow and Automattic Offer Enterprise-Class Blog Authoring and Intelligence Tools — KnowNow WordPress Enterprise Edition combines RSS and personal publishing platform to help enterprise work forces organize, filter and aggregate information for effective collaboration
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:Wordpress Takes On SixApart With Enterprise Edition and Wordpress.com
Muhammad Saleem / The Mu Life:
Limitations of Socially Driven News — A number of my friends from Digg pointed out a story to me today that epitomizes several very important limitations to socially driven news. — The following story made it to the front-page of Digg.com within 2 and a half hours of being submitted …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Webshots Adds Video — CNet's photosharing service Webshots is adding video sharing capabilities today, something that has been expected since at least August when the service underwent a drastic redesign. There's not a lot of information on the site yet about the new feature …
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Reuben Schwarz / Stuff.co.nz:
Police and Weta eye 3D scanner — Industrial Research has developed a hand-held scanner that quickly creates realistic 3D models of crime scenes, movie sets and large objects, garnering interest from the police and Weta Digital. — The Scene-scanner can be waved over a scene or object …
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Jennifer Granick / Wired News:
Second Life Will Save Copyright — Businesses in Second Life are in an uproar over a rogue software program that duplicates "in world" items. They should be. But the havoc sewn by Copybot promises to transform the virtual word into a bold experiment in protecting creative work without the blunt instrument of copyright law.
Jeffrey M. O'Brien / Fortune:
The race to create a 'smart' Google — Everything you buy online says a little bit about you. And if all those bits get put into one big trove of data about you and your tastes? Marketer's heaven. Fortune's Jeffrey O'Brien reports. — The setup — (Fortune Magazine) …
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Ron Hovsepian / novell.com:
Open Letter to the Community from Novell — On November 2, Novell and Microsoft announced a significant, multi-part agreement to work together to improve the interoperability between Linux and Windows and for Microsoft to redistribute more than 350,000 subscriptions for SUSE Linux Enterprise …
mobile-review.com:
Review of Windows Mobile 6.0 for PPC (Crossbow) operating system — Before starting the review, we have to make a short note in order to prevent an avalanche of letters similar to what we experienced after publishing the article on Windows Mobile 5.0. The crew working for Mobile-Review.com …
IT Security:
Hacking Email: 99 Email Security and Productivity Tips — Everyday, and some not everyday tips, on how you can keep your email safe and secure. — HACKING EMAIL: 99 TIPS TO MAKE YOU MORE SECURE AND PRODUCTIVE — When people read out a phone number, they use "phone rhythm."
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Market Wire:
Nielsen//NetRatings Announces September U.S. Search Share Rankings — Nielsen//NetRatings reports October 2006 data for the Top U.S. Search Providers. — Top search providers, ranked by total searches. Searches represent the total number of queries conducted at the provider.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Yahoo, Saved by the Bell — It was five years ago today when Yahoo signed a deal with SBC Communications, then the second largest phone company in the US. It was a sign of the times - a decidedly hip Yahoo was teaming up with the dowdy phone company, in a bid to over come the downturn.
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John Chow / John Chow dot Com:
New Google Ad Placements — I just received an email from Google about a new feature they have enabled on my account call Ad Placements. It's designed to help advertisers target a specific ad on your site. … A check of my Google AdSense control panel shows I have a new Ad Placement check box under my custom channels.
