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Paul Graham:
Microsoft is Dead — A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo. I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of Microsoft. That was why they'd positioned themselves as a …
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Tony / Deep Jive Interests:
Microsoft "Dead"? Please. — Paul Graham, VC, and one of the many men behind Y Combinator, has pronounced that Microsoft is Dead. Well, if this isn't one heckuva piece of linkbait. And on a quiet April weekend, its probably going to reverb until Monday, thanks to getting Techmeme'd.
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Since when does growing $4 Billion a year = Dead? — Paul Graham, founder of Y-Combinator, declares Microsoft is dead. Paul must be living in a cave somewhere, or drunk on the Web 2.0 Kool-Aid. Paul obviously wrote his headline to grab attention and attract links to his blog.
Mark Boslet / Mercury News:
MarketWatch blogger resigns — Step comes after report on conflicts with a startup she founded — The blogosphere has been called the Wild West of the 21st century, a free-wheeling panoply of information from sources trustworthy and not. — This unrestrained environment was evident Friday …
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Washington Post:
Zell Wants End to Web's Free Ride — It's time for newspapers to stop giving away their stories to popular search engines such as Google, according to Samuel Zell, the real estate magnate whose bid for Tribune Co. was accepted this week. — In conversations before and after a speech Zell …
Dwight / TechBlog:
Goog-411: Free business information via phone — Whenever my Lovely Wife gets lost trying to find a business in town, she calls her favorite information service — me. — "Hey, can you look up this address for me?" she'll ask, not having visited Google Maps before she hits the road.
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Leo Laporte / LOL: The Life of Leo:
Goodbye Twitter. Hello Jaiku. — When I talk about Twitter people think I'm crazy. Who would want to be bugged by hundreds of messages a day from your friends telling you what they're up to. Well, as it turns out, lots of us would. Twitter is positively addictive and everyone …
Terje Langeland / Bloomberg:
The maximum mileage — Some hybrid car owners go to great measures to figure out ways of getting as much as possible out of a tank of gas — Toyota Motor Corp. says its Prius gasoline-electric hybrid car gets about 55 miles to the gallon, making it one of the most fuel-efficient cars on the road.
Editor and Publisher:
NYTimes.com Most Popular Newspaper Site — Here Is Top 30 — NEW YORK NYTimes.com kept its strong lead in February as the top newspaper Web site, besting competitors across the country in unique audience, page views, and time spent per person on the site, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Windows XP still starring in HP ad — I was somewhat surprised to pop open yesterday's USA Today and see a nearly full page ad for an HP computer running Windows XP. The PC, a Compaq desktop, is aimed at businesses and is touted for having dual hard drives allowing for redundant backup.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / splashcastmedia.com:
YouTube Launches CitizenTube - Official Political Vlog — YouTube has formally announced a new, official channel of political videos called CitizenTube. Edited by Steve Grove, YouTube's Citizentube/YouTube News & Politics Editor, the channel appears intended to aggregate select political …
Philliptorrone / MAKE Magazine:
DIY old timey Skype phone — Technick29 writes - … instructables : DIY Old Timey Skype Phone - Link.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
AOL TO LAUNCH WHITE LABEL AOL-ONLY ADWORDS MONDAY — This was embargo'd till Monday, but AOL just told me the embargo was broken so I can post it now. AOL has worked with Google to execute a white label version of AdWords that allows AOL advertisers to target only AOL audience members.
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Business Week:
Web Attack — Nastiness online can erupt and go global overnight, and "no comment" doesn't cut it anymore. Here's how to cope — Martin S. Sorrell, CEO of advertising agency WPP Group, sues two blogging ex-colleagues for a Web hate campaign in which, he says, they smeared him and his former lover.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Business 2.0 bloggers get first checks — Writers at entrepreneur-oriented biz magazine Business 2.0 who started blogging earlier this year recently received their first checks based on how many hits their blogs received in the first three months of the year, said editor Josh Quittner.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Inspectors: IRS lost 490 laptops, many with unencrypted data — Every large organization loses laptops, but when those laptops contain the personal tax information of millions of Americans, it's a big deal. Big enough that the Treasury Department's Inspector General for Tax Administration looked …
