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Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Open-Source Spying — When Matthew Burton arrived at the Defense Intelligence Agency in January 2003, he was excited about getting to his computer. Burton, who was then 22, had long been interested in international relations: he had studied Russian politics and interned at the U.S. consulate in Ukraine …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Gets Trashed By Users — Yahoo took a beating by users angry over the new Yahoo TV product in the comments to their own blog post announcing it. Even a former head of Yahoo Entertainment, Erik Schwartz, chimed in with his own bashing and suggesting that Yahoo has lost its way.
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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Don't F**k With Simple — Especially when "simple" is synonymous with "useful". — Alternative title for this post: Let Users Preview Changes! — If you haven't been following the uproar, Yahoo! TV recently released a new design without offering up a beta test or preview …
Dan Mitchell / New York Times:
A Bubble Watcher Watches Google — COULD Web 2.0 be fast becoming Bubble 2.0? It's hard to say, mainly because of the lack of a yardstick to measure the value of most Internet companies. — Compared with the late-'90s technology boom, there are few initial public offerings and thus …
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
The Economics of Disaggregation — Peter Brantley pointed on a private email list to "a nice article in slate on the disaggregation of content in newspapers, with several nice insights, including a remark on the lack of novelty of some of the problems facing the industry." He quoted:
Ben Harrington / Telegraph:
Hitwise eyes up £180m sale — Website monitoring firm Hitwise, founded by two Australian internet entrepreneurs, is the latest dotcom business to put itself on the auction block for around £180m. — Hitwise is understood to have appointed investment Deutsche Bank to advise on a potential sale.
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Donna Bogatin / Digital Micro-Markets:
Google: $31 billion local winner? — Is Google destined to be the defacto leader in the $31 billion global local search and online classified advertising market opportunity? — Many still believe Google will dominate any opportunity it sets its sights on, and it is eyeing seemingly all of them.
Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage:
The Second Annual Life On The Wicked Stage Ink Blot Awards — In preparing for The Second Annual Wicked Stage Ink Blot Awards, I realized that it would be tough to write anything better about my motivation for creating them than I did in year one. What I wrote then is still …
Roland Piquepaille / Roland Piquepaille's …:
A new wide-angle lens for video surveillance — If you're a photographer, chances are high that you bought one day a wide-angle lens, commonly called a 'fisheye' lens. And if you're like me, you might have used it to take a dozen of pictures before putting definitively the lens into a drawer …
Nick / Rough Type:
The semantics web — A few days ago, Kathy Sierra wrote about the usefulness of jargon, in a post titled "Web 2.0 is more than a buzzword." She pointed out that jargon - good jargon - forms a kind of shorthand for specialists. A complicated idea in a particular domain can be boiled down to a simple term …
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Think Secret:
With Photoshop CS3 just months away, new details emerge — More than one year after Think Secret first reported details of Adobe Photoshop CS3, sources recently disclosed that as development enters its final months features have remained true to what Adobe originally planned.
Paperghost / The SpywareGuide Greynets Blog:
Myspace Phish Attack Leads Users to Zango Content — A while ago on the Spywareguide Blog, I covered a technique being used in Peer to Peer land involving URLs being embedded in Quicktime movies, which would then pop open a website. This has now been taken to the next level …
Cyrus Farivar / Engadget:
LG debuts "ebook" concept laptop with OLED screen, liquid fuel — As much as we like to write about the play-by-play of gadgetry innovation, it's a sad truth that some devices, like laptops, really haven't changed much since their debut in the 1980s. LCDs, a mainstay of all laptops since that period …
Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
Video Visionaries Meld Traditional TV and the Web — Is TV moving onto the Internet or is the Internet moving onto TV? As the lines between the two begin to blur, it's getting harder to tell. — Fans of Comedy Central's "South Park," for example, can still watch the latest episode by tuning in on Wednesday nights.
Cory Doctorow / Forbes:
Giving It Away — I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money. — When my first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, was published by Tor Books in January 2003, I also put the entire electronic text of the novel …
Matthew Hurst / Data Mining:
A Round Trip To Google — If you publish a blog and subscribe to Google's blog alerting, you can - by using the real time option for altering - get an idea of how long it takes Google to get each post. — I posted Weekends At The Movies at 5:18 AM on December the first.
