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Kat Herding / all noise all the time:
re Kathy Sierra's allegations — Well, the s**t has hit the fan this time to be sure. Those of you who plan to read what I've written here should first go read this post by Kathy Sierra. — As you can guess, I've been getting "interesting" email since that was published yesterday …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Taking the week off — I'm physically ill after reading what happened to Kathy Sierra. Maryam and several others here at PodTech asked me about it and are concerned since the same sites that are attacking Kathy also mentioned me and Maryam. Maryam is really freaked out about it. So am I.
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HorsePigCow, mathewingram.com/work, PSFK Trend: PSFK, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, ongoing, Valleywag, engtech, Feld Thoughts, IP Democracy, CCUCEO, Micro Persuasion, Ben Metcalfe Blog, parislemon, Maryamie, the Constant Observer, Climb to the Stars, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Eric Rice, Message, Licence to Roam, Global Nerdy, Worker Bees Blog, Josh Bancroft's …, Vecosys, Journalistopia, One By One Media, Bloggers Blog, Ted Leung on the Air, Logic+Emotion, Napsterization, O'Reilly Radar, Backup Brain, Search Marketing Gurus, Guardian Unlimited, duncanriley.com, InformationWeek Weblog, Mark Evans, MSDN Blogs, Cost Per News, Jim Kukral Online …, Life On the Wicked Stage, PR 2.0, Global Neighbourhoods, THE BLOGGING JOURNALIST, Creating Passionate Users, Search Engine Roundtable, Better Living through Software, Rex Hammock's weblog, edu.blogs.com, 901am, mamamusings, Damien Mulley, Windows Admin Wench, blackrimglasses.com and digg
Frank Paynter / Listics:
Mere anarchy … MeanKids was purposeful anarchy. I thought the people at MeanKids would create art and criticism, pointed and insulting satire, but not foster a climate of fear. Misogynistic postings at MeanKids.org led me to try to moderate, but indeed the group there was of the …
BBC:
Blog death threats spark debate — Prominent blogger Kathy Sierra has called on the blogosphere to combat the culture of abuse online. — It follows a series of death threats which have forced her to cancel a public appearance and suspend her blog. — Ms Sierra described on her blog …
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Steve Poland / TechCrunch:
Web Services Coming To Twitter — Earlier this year we talked about the usefulness of a simple command line to query multiple web services via a set syntax. Yubnub, one of the web services we discussed, does just that. Enter "Weather 90210″ into Yubnub and get the weather from Weather.com.
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The Bivings Report, This is going to be BIG., Dumpster Bust, Techquila Shots and Scripting News
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Nik Cubrilovic / New Web Order:
Twitter as a Communications Platform — Today Techcrunch reported that Twitter will be releasing extensions to their API that will allow applications to receive private messages from users. Currently the API allows you to post messages, get a list of your friends and to query the public messages …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo to Offer a Network for Web Ads on Cellphones — Yahoo is moving to secure a position on the next Internet battleground: Web search and advertising on cellphones. — The company plans to announce on Tuesday that it is creating a mobile advertising network that will allow marketers …
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Speakeasy:
Best Buy Acquires Speakeasy — Addition of VoIP Communications Provider Gives Small Businesses — a Single Source for All of Their Technology Needs — Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) has agreed to acquire Speakeasy, Inc., one of the largest independent broadband voice, data and IT service providers in the United States.
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bizjournals:
Netflix CEO joins Microsoft board — Netflix Inc. Chief Executive Reed Hastings joined the finance committee of Microsoft Corp.'s board of directors, the company said Monday. — The addition of Los Gatos-based Netflix's (NASDAQ:NFLX) CEO expands to 10 members the size of Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) board.
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Spins Off ZenZui, Mobile Browsing Via Widgets — Microsoft-backed ZenZui launched this morning. It's a new mobile browser that aims to make surfing the web on your mobile device easier through widgets. The application that lets you surf over a 6×6 grid of website widgets by panning and zooming around the grid.
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Download Squad, MoCoNews, alarm:clock, The Next Net, Monkey Bites, franticindustries, MobileCrunch and Microsoft News Tracker
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Samsung:
SAMSUNG Introduces 1.8" - Type 64GB Flash-based Solid State Drive — Taipei, Taiwan - March 27, 2007: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced at its annual Mobile Solution Forum in Taipei that it has developed a 1.8"-type 64 Gigabyte (GB) flash-solid state drive (SSD).
Ars Technica:
Apple TV — System requirements: Television with component or HDMI support — At Macworld in January of this year, Apple formally announced the Apple TV (previously known as the "iTV"), an iTunes-compatible streaming media device meant to revolutionize the way we watch television.
Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Bertelsmann Reaches Deal With EMI Over Napster — Bertelsmann, the German media giant that provided financial backing to Napster when it was an unauthorized file-sharing service, has agreed to settle with the last of the major record companies that had sued it for copyright infringement.
Robert Young / NewTeeVee:
Did Murdoch just KO Google? — When one is asked about Google's incredible success to date, and what they did so right, the obvious answer will likely involve an explanation of the brilliant technologies that make up PageRank and Adwords. — But if one looks under the hood …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
John McCain's MySpace Page Hacked — Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCain's staff is going to be in trouble today. They used a well known template to create his Myspace page. The template was designed by NewsVine Founder and CEO Mike Davidson (original template is here).
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Molly Graham / Official Google Blog:
Walking, Talking, Searching, Finding. — Posted by Yael Shacham, Product Manager, Mobile Team — For the last few weeks, some of our users have been test-driving our new mobile search and providing us with feedback so we can make it better. Now, we've actually been using your feedback to improve our mobile search since 2001.
