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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
In Raw World of Sex Movies, High Definition Could Be a View Too Real — The XXX industry has gotten too graphic, even for its own tastes. — Pornography has long helped drive the adoption of new technology, from the printing press to the videocassette. Now pornographic movie studios …
Randfish / SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog:
Wikipedia Finally Makes the Right Decision — It may seem odd coming from someone who practices link building and whose clients require the service, but I'm gald to see that Wikipedia has shifted back to nofollow on all outbound links. What surprises me is that a relatively small …
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Dan Warne / APC:
10 reasons you should get Vista — My colleague Ashton Mills published the top 10 reasons you shouldn't get Vista this morning. — I see his point on some fronts — admittedly, Microsoft's official publicity material hasn't done a great job of explaining the basic benefits of Vista.
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Ashton Mills / APC:
10 reasons not to get Vista — It's all too easy to get caught up in the million dollar marketing engine as we approach the consumer release of Windows Vista, so lets not forget that it isn't the second coming, and by all counts is an upgrade you can do without.
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Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
I.B.M. to Introduce Workers' Networking Software — And you thought social networking was all about text-messaging among bored teenagers. — I.B.M. has another take on it. Today the company plans to announce a set of social software tools that will bring the kind of blogging …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft to use comics in antipiracy campaign — Microsoft is expanding its fight against software piracy with a new educational effort that includes comics. — The online campaign, set to start on Monday, is meant to tell people the benefits of using properly licensed software.
David Kirkpatrick / Fortune:
Windows on the Mac changes everything — The kind of software sold by the formidable Parallels is transforming computing and challenging Steve Jobs, says Fortune's David Kirkpatrick. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — The lines between the Mac OS and Windows are starting to blur.
Dominic Rushe / Times of London:
Google plots e-books coup — GOOGLE and some of the world's top publishers are working on plans that they hope could do for books what Apple's iPod has done for music. — The internet search giant is working on a system that would allow readers to download entire books to their computers …
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Work from bed with the Ergopod — The Ergopod 500 is a clever system for supporting a PC, mouse, keyboard and work-areas, intended for use by heavy computer users, particularly those with special physical needs. One of its many adjustable modes is a "work supine" and "work in bed" …
Darren / DarrenBarefoot.com:
My Project Du Jour: GetaFirstLife.com — Hey you, get a first life, eh? — First off, I am not a Second Life hater. Let me say that again: I am not a Second Life hater. I'm on record as saying that there's something important going on inside the game.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
SmugMug: The (Anti) Web 2.0 Company — SmugMug CEO Dan MacAskill, who has said "maybe I just don't get this 'Web 2.0′ term" in the past, is proceeding to teach those of us who claim to know exactly what it means a thing or two. The company launched a suite of stunning new features tonight.
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Geraldine Fabrikant / New York Times:
Once Given Up for Dead, Comcast Defies Its Obits — THREE years ago, with the cable television industry in the doldrums, the Comcast Corporation's chairman, Brian L. Roberts, approached Mel Karmazin, then the president of Viacom, with a modest proposal: give Comcast the right to show programming …
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New York Times:
Gambling Subpoenas on Wall St. — The Justice Department has issued subpoenas to at least four Wall Street investment banks as part of a widening investigation into the multibillion-dollar online gambling industry, according to people briefed on the investigation.
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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
A new crop of kids: Generation We — When Amy Jo Kim's son Gabriel says he wants to "watch videos," she knows he doesn't mean DVDs or television. He wants YouTube. — Gabriel, an intensely curious kid who's about to turn 8, has been fascinated by everything from skateboarding and basketball …
Mike / Techdirt:
MPAA Finally Agrees To Make Small Changes To Movie Rating Systems — from the about-time dept — While they insist that last year's movie that blew the lid off the highly secretive process of movie ratings, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, (which of course received an NC-17 rating) …
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Aaron Brazell / Technosailor:
10 Things You should Know About WordPress 2.1 — Back in December of 2005, I was filling in for Darren Rowse at ProBlogger and I wrote an entry that was very highly read and commented on. The topic was 10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.0. The occasion was the release …
