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Jon Udell:
A conversation with John Lam about the dynamic language runtime, Silverlight, and Ruby … He's the creator of RubyCLR and, as it happens, he joined Microsoft on the same day I did. John's been running silent since then, but no longer. In this conversation we discuss the dynamic language runtime …
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Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:
The scoop on Silverlight for developers — The speculation is over and today is the day Microsoft takes the developer covers off of Silverlight. There are a bunch of announcements today, so I'll break them down one by one, but for those in a hurry, here's the summary.
Discussion:
Scobleizer, Alex Barnett blog, Neowin.net, Windows Vista Team Blog, Mashable! and Colinizer
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Coming Online Soon: The Five-Minute 'Charlie's Angels' — The question probably never occurred to viewers in the 1970s and 1980s, but suddenly it is highly relevant: exactly how much worthwhile entertainment content was there in shows like "Charlie's Angels," "T. J. Hooker," and "Starsky and Hutch"?
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Terry Semel / Yodel Anecdotal:
Democracy and the online ad — Tonight we're announcing the acquisition of Right Media, which I believe has the potential to dramatically enhance Internet advertising. We hope to revolutionize the way ads are bought and sold on the Internet and, in turn, drive more value for advertisers, publishers, and partners.
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HipMojo.com, Between the Lines, Search Engine Land, VentureBeat, Forrester's Marketing Blog, Right Media Blog, Zenrob, GigaOM, Yahoo!, VC Ratings, PodTech Network, Valleywag, paidContent.org, Sadagopan's weblog …, Digital Daily, Silicon Valley Watcher, Joe Duck, TechCrunch, Google Watch, alarm:clock, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, BloggingStocks, Startup Meme, Download Squad, Guardian Unlimited, Screenwerk, Getting Granular, ben barren, Search Engine Roundtable, TechSpot News, Epicenter, John Battelle's Searchblog, Internet Stocks …, New York Times, WebProNews, Business 2.0 Beta, CostPerNews and Threadwatch.org
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Yahoo-Right Media: Execs Address Questions Of Conflicts, Value — The midnight announcement that Yahoo is acquiring 80 percent of Right Media for $680 million was followed by a call Monday with Yahoo chairman and CEO Terry Semel, Sue Decker, the outgoing CFO who now heads the advertising and publisher group …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Supreme Court ruling makes "obvious" patents harder to defend — In a decision issued today, the US Supreme Court reinvigorated the "obviousness test" used to determine whether a patent should be issued. Ruling in the case of KSR v. Teleflex, the Court found that the US Court of Appeals …
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Dibya Sarkar / Associated Press:
Google nudges states to make records more accessible — WASHINGTON — By providing free consulting and some software, Google is helping state governments make reams of public records that are now unavailable or hard to find online easily accessible to Web surfers.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
eBay Launches "ToGo" Widgets For Any Listing — As you can see with the embedded Flash widget above, eBay is now letting users embed information about any listing or group of listings directly into a website. Their hope is to encourage bloggers and social network users who discuss famous listings …
angel gambino:
BEBO SIGNS NEW GLOBAL HEAD OF MUSIC (lucky me!) — BEBO SIGNS NEW GLOBAL HEAD OF MUSIC — FORMER MTV & BBC EXEC ANGEL GAMBINO TO DRIVE MUSIC STRATEGY FOR GLOBAL SOCIAL NETWORK — Bebo, the leading social networking site, today announced the appointment of Angel Gambino to the newly-created position of Vice President, Music.
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Mashable!
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Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:Industry Moves UK: Bebo Hires Ex-MTVN Exec Gambino As Music VP …
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Colin Colehour / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Personalization Workshop: Gadget Maker and More — Today, Google is having a workshop (along with product news) on Google's personalization services. Colin Colehour will be reporting live from the Googleplex event for us and I'll be updating the post with new info as it comes in.
DigiTimes:
Xbox 360 GPU to go to 65nm in fall, TSMC to see side benefits, says paper — Sources at equipment makers were cited by a Chinese-language Commercial Times report as saying that the Xbox 360 will be equipped with a 65nm-made Xenos graphics processing unit (GPU) in the fall …
BBC:
BBC gets TV on-demand service OK — BBC shows such as Doctor Who and EastEnders are to be made available on-demand after the BBC's iPlayer service was given the green light. — The service - which will launch later this year - allows viewers to watch programmes online for seven days after their first TV broadcast.
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
YouTube Launches Active Share — YouTube announced the addition of a few new features overnight. Here's a summary: — Most importantly, YouTube has added an Active Sharing feature, to let you see who's watching your video, and videos that other users are watching.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / splashcastmedia.com:
Announcing MyPodcastNetwork — We're excited to announce the release of the newest major feature from SplashCast today. We're calling it MyPodcastNetwork. — The basic idea is that it's an easy way to collect all your favorite audio and video podcasts and display them live on your startpage or webpage.
Discussion:
TechCrunch, Mashable!, The Social Web, CenterNetworks, Podcasting News, rexduffdixon.com, Somewhat Frank, Startup Meme and bytes|genes
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Incentives Matter: Why Comments on Digg Are So Bad — Comparing the comments on Slashdot story Seven Reasons Microsoft Loves Open Source to the ones on the Digg story 7 Reasons Microsoft Loves OpenSource on the same topic, it seems that there is a sharp contrast in the quality of the comments posted by the users of the site.
