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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Meebo Launches Meebo Rooms (oh, and Meebo now has ads) — Web based instant messaging provider Meebo will launch Meebo Rooms tonight. Like MeeboMe, which allows users to embed a widget on a website where visitors can chat with the publishers, this is a significant new product that will appeal to new set of users.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Meebo Rooms Launched - "like a very very rich widget" — Tonight meebo is launching Meebo Rooms, a rich media chat room product that users can put on their blogs and websites. They can be private or public chat rooms, and can feature video content from sources such as youtube and NBC.
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Neil Patel / Pronet Advertising:
Digg is Censoring Content by Burying Stories Internally — We all know that the main reason why stories don't hit the Digg homepage is because they get buried. Some say the buries are caused by specific Digg users who have it out for us while others just blame it on the content saying it wasn't Digg worthy.
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Deep Jive Interests, 901am, parislemon, Threadwatch.org, Cameron Olthuis, rexduffdixon.com and Scobleizer
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
HP'S HALO: NOW THIS IS TELEPRESENCE — Last week I got a chance to test drive HALO, Hewlett Packard's super high-end telepresence application. And all I can say is .... Oooooh, I want one. In fact, I want everyone to have one. — Of course, that's pretty impractical.
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John Letzing / MarketWatch:
Microsoft delves further into manufacturing with Zune plant — Software giant hopes new factory, designs will help player compete with iPod … SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Microsoft Corp., a colossus built on software, is making a new push in hardware manufacturing by building a factory in China to produce its Zune media player.
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The Boy Genius Report:
AT&T iPhone not to be pre-sold — If you have not been able to get your iPhone fix as of lately, this might help hold you over. According to an internal document from AT&T, the Apple iPhone has "advanced software 5 years ahead of any phone". But you already knew that.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Five New MacBook Configurations for Tues, May 15th? — Tuesday, May 15th is the most recent date-on-the-calendar for those awaiting Apple notebook updates. Questionable rumors posted last week indicated that we would see Apple laptop updates this week, while other rumors pointed to "sooner than expected" laptop updates.
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Jeff Ooi / CNET News.com:
Yahoo mobilephone search comes to Malaysia and 6 other Asian countries — News broke yesterday that Yahoo! will introduce OneSearch, a new version of its search engine, for mobile phones in seven Asian countries including Malaysia. — Other countries covered by the service include high …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Things Sure Are Quiet At MySpace News — When the largest site on the Internet announced their new MySpace News service, people expected it to get at least some traction, quickly. But a month later, as former TechCrunch writer Marshall Kirkpatrick noted in Twitter today, the site appears to be nothing more than a ghost town.
Dion Almaer / Google Code:
Introducing the Google Developer Podcast — A fair few Googlers enjoy creating podcasts, and a large number choose to participate in the medium as listeners. — I have really enjoyed creating Audible Ajax, as it gives me a way to get close to the community.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
States Fault MySpace on Predator Issues — Some of the country's top law enforcement officials are charging that the online social network MySpace has discovered thousands of known sex offenders using its service, but has failed to act on the information. — In a letter sent yesterday …
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Rupert Murdoch / Wall Street Journal:
Text of Murdoch Letter to Bancrofts — Below is the text of a letter sent by News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch to members of the Bancroft Family, concerning his $5 billion offer for Dow Jones & Co. — Ladies and Gentlemen: — Please allow me the opportunity with this letter to address …
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Some Community Tips for 2007 — Seven tips on how to run a successful community. — Every year or so I write a long post or do a presentation at a conference on the subject of community. Each time I approach the subject, I take what I've already written and add to it with recent things I've learned …
Business Wire:
Forrester: No Future For Paid Video Downloads — CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The paid video download market is a dead end, according to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Forrester estimates that paid video downloads will peak in 2007, generating $279 million in revenue, up from $98 million last year.
Ranchero Software:
NetNewsWire 3.0a8 Change Notes — This page lists the changes in NetNewsWire since 3.0d62. You can download the current shipping version via the NetNewsWire home page. You can download the current pre-release version here. — NetNewsWire 3.0a8 is not even a beta. It has bugs.
Angus Kidman / ITWire:
Facing the full horror of Windows Vista — So far, Transit has been using Vista Business full-time for a fortnight. And so far, we've found nothing that works better than in Windows XP, dozens of things that are annoyingly different without being a functional improvement …
Bruce Lowry / NOVELL: Worldwide:
Fortune Magazine article — There's an article out in Fortune Magazine talking about Microsoft, intellectual property and open source. Because of our interoperability agreement with Microsoft, which includes a patent element, Novell is featured in the story.
Adam Kalsey / Crying Out Loud:
Feed Crier climbs into bed with IMified — For the last couple of months, we've been talking to IMified, sharing war stories, and helping them out with some ideas on how best to manage the signed on bot portion of the service. The more we've talked, the more we've liked each other.
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
How I write a Presentation — While going thru the process of putting the presentation for my China trip (and describing it to a friend part way through the process), it occurred to me that I have a specific method that I seem to follow each time. — Before I describe it …
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