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Martin / mpwebwizard:
Hints at upcoming Gmail features — I've been listed as a translator for the XX-Hacker (known as l33t to the rest of the world) language on Google for quite some time. The great thing about being a translator for Google is that you get to see some of the upcoming features of Google services.
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Google Blogoscoped:
Google Multi-User Chat? — Martin says he's one of the translators for Google and hit upon the following phrase hinting at a potential multi-user chat for Google Chat (as part of Gmail): — Phrase in English: NAME has joined (...) — Translation Help: System messages when user joined or left a muc conversation
Phil Wolff / Skype Journal:
Skype silences Alpha-blogger — Wow. Talk about a chilling effect. — Skype lawyer Seema Sharma emailed blogger Jan Geirnaert Friday afternoon. She told him his popular skype-watch.com and skype-gadgets.com blogs put him in legal jeopardy. — Jan, an independent IT consultant, took the implied threats seriously.
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Scobleizer, Watching, Testing, Digesting, Digital Common Sense, the j. botter weblog and Roam4free
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Seema Sharma / webtown.com.my:
Start of Quote " — Lester Madden has passed to me a copy of your email below so that I may respond to it. I am an IP lawyer at Skype. — In the first instance, I should like to stress that we work very hard at Skype to prevent third parties from illegally registering and using domains …
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Watching, Testing, Digesting
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Vudu Casts Its Spell on Hollywood — FOR the last two years, the employees of Vudu Inc. have quietly toiled in a nondescript office in Santa Clara, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley. The only hint of the company's plans are black-and-white Rat Pack photos that adorn its walls …
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Wikipedia: Special Treatment for Wikia and other Wikis — Wikipedia: Special Treatment for Wikia and some other Wikis — There was a lot of controversy recently when Wikipedia announced that all outbound links from the online encyclopedia would include the nofollow tag.
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Richard Bloor / SymbianOne:
The S60 Summit - What Was It All About? — With twenty four members of the press and an undisclosed number of bloggers attending, the S60 Summit should have been well covered in online media. So what was this event all about? — Phil Schwarzmann on the See into S60 Blog informed the world …
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Tris Hussey / One By One Media:
The blogosphere has stalled at 15.5 million blogs-So what — Lots of chatter about the this "plateau" in the blogosphere. C|Net was gathering comments from folks like Mark Evans and WebProNews covered it as well. Now the question is, so what? — David Sifry just talked about the …
BBC:
Mouse brain simulated on computer — US researchers have simulated half a virtual mouse brain on a supercomputer. — The scientists ran a "cortical simulator" that was as big and as complex as half of a mouse brain on the BlueGene L supercomputer. — In other smaller simulations …
Daily Mail:
Slaughter: Horror at Sony's depraved promotion stunt with decapitated goat — Electronics giant Sony has sparked a major row over animal cruelty and the ethics of the computer industry by using a freshly slaughtered goat to promote a violent video game. — The corpse of the decapitated animal …
Ryan Stewart:
The Week MTV Dropped Flash — Friday night and I'm reading feeds about RIAs. I'm not sure what that says about me, but hey, what can you do. This one is about the MTV reversion from their touted all-Flash site back to HTML. It's interesting to see things like this happen.
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Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
PIKSPOT LAUNCHES, JOINS MEDIA MASHUP FRAY — Pikspot is a new social network for groups to upload and share media. Each group can create their own themed page, and add various pieces of content like audio, video clips, and images. It's not a P2P network per se, consider it a media hosting site …
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Mashable!
BBC:
Wi-fi laptop fears for children — Computers with wireless internet should not be placed on children's laps, says the head of the government's committee on mobile phone safety research. — Professor Lawrie Challis told the Daily Telegraph children using wi-fi networks should be monitored until research …
Jeffrey Silva / RCR Wireless News:
Illinois House passes handset lemon law — The Illinois House passed a cellphone lemon law, a measure that would allow consumers with defective handsets to break wireless service contracts without penalty. — The House bill, approved by a 72-to-43 margin Thursday, now heads to the Senate for consideration.
