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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.
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Scobleizer, Read/WriteWeb, Neowin.net, Windows Vista Team Blog, Alex Barnett blog, CNET News.com, Colinizer and Mashable!
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
MIX07: Q&A with Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie — After demos of Silverlight to the MIX07 crowd, Techcrunch founder and editor Mike Arrington interviewed Ray Ozzie, chief software architect, and Scott Guthrie, general manager of Microsoft's developer platform.
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.
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Googling Google, InformationWeek, PC World: Techlog, parislemon, Google Operating System, WebMetricsGuru, Search Engine Land and digg
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Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Google To Viacom: Sorry, You're All Wrong — This won't come as a surprise to anyone, but today Google filed an answer to Viacom's copyright lawsuit against Google and its YouTube video sharing service. As one person at Google put it, the answer to the $1 billion suit, filed in mid-March, basically says "Deny, deny, deny."
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Google Files Response To Viacom Lawsuit; Denies Claims; Seeks Jury Trial — The legal to-and-fro between Google/YouTube and Viacom continued today when the search company planned to file its response to the media company's $1 billion-plus claims of copyright infringement.
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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Valleywag:
Informed Speculation: Jason Calacanis' next venture — Jason Calacanis, the publishing entrepreneur who sold a group of weblogs to AOL for $25m, has enjoyed sewing confusion about his plans. We've been fooled ourselves. There was the rumor run by Valleywag that the avid podcaster intended …
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.
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CenterNetworks, Podcasting News, The Social Web, rexduffdixon.com, Somewhat Frank, Webware.com, Startup Meme and bytes|genes
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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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Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:Industry Moves UK: Bebo Hires Ex-MTVN Exec Gambino As Music VP …
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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 …
Dpblogs / ADO.NET team blog:
Project Codename "Astoria" - Announced at Mix 07 — Today at Mix 07, the ADO.NET team will speak for first time about an incubation project that they have been working on, Project Codename "Astoria". — With the announcement of Microsoft Silverlight and technologies like AJAX …
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All about Microsoft, People Over Process, Raw, Alex Barnett blog, OakLeaf Systems and Julie Lerman Blog
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Peter Gabriel shakes the tree, ad-supported MP3s fall out — Peter Gabriel is one of the founding investors of a new music download service that offers tracks for free to users who are willing to listen to ads. The service, called We7 for some reason, offers MP3 versions of tracks with advertising attached to the beginning of songs.
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 …
Fernando Cassia / Inquirer:
One man writes Linux drivers for 352 USB webcams — Face to Face Michel, the pipe-smoking French Linux guru — A LONE HOBBYIST programmer sitting at his home in France is responsible for adding 352 USB webcams to the list of those supported by Linux. He tells the INQUIRER about this often unknown and unrecognised achievement.
