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Nick / Rough Type:
Long player — I started reading David Weinberger's new book, Everything Is Miscellaneous, this weekend. I'd been looking forward to it. Weinberger has a supple, curious mind and an easy way with words. Even though I rarely agree with his conclusions, he gets the old brain moving - and that's what matters.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Optimus Maximus: 113 keys, ready to pre-order — Ready to move around some funds in your accounts? Take out that loan from your mom? Tell your wife you just don't know why the account's a grand light? The Optimus Maximus is up for pre-order for $1564.37.
Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
Did Microsoft go lose its head over aQuantive? — I've been trying to find a way to illustrate just how screwy Microsoft's $6 billion bid for aQuantive is, and here it is: For $6 billion in cash, Microsoft could have hired, in a single day, 60,000 engineers and salespeople …
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Steven Vass / Scotland Sunday Herald:
Google reach deals with news websites — INTERNET SEARCH engine Google is understood to have reached deals with several large UK news groups over carrying their content on Google News. — The deals are reputedly being kept strictly secret for fear that Google will end up having to pay …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Bright Ideas: Reaping Results: Data-Mining Goes Mainstream — RODNEY MONROE, the police chief in Richmond, Va., describes himself as a lifelong cop whose expertise is in fighting street crime, not in software. His own Web browsing, he says, mostly involves checking golf scores.
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
E-Commerce Report: Bad Hair Days Lead Pair to Web Incubator and Venture Capital — FOR many entrepreneurs in the first dot-com boom, the name of the game was "portal-matic." Spin a wheel, pick a niche interest group, build a comprehensive Web portal aimed at that group's needs and cash a venture capitalist's check.
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Ilana DeBare / San Francisco Chronicle:
Narrowing Online Market Focus — Keywords are key: Small businesses find pay-per-click ads can be economical tool — Howard Mora started buying pay-per-click Internet ads two years ago for his Fremont pet-sitting business, the Animal Nanny. Today he gets about 40 new clients per year …
Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:
Betting on the Future — There's a lot of good reason for gloom and doom in the newspaper business. Unfortunately, that pessimism seems to extend to the potential for online advertising to significantly contribute to revenue and the bottom line. "Heck, the Web is only about 5 percent of revenue today," newspaper executives fret.
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Rumor from across the pond: Yahoo wants Bebo — Acquisition gossip season rolls on. The U.K.-based newspaper The Telegraph reported Sunday that Yahoo is rumored to be eyeing social networking site Bebo for as much as $1 billion. (Compare that to the $580 million that News.
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Michael Fitzgerald / New York Times:
Prototype: Why Work Is Looking More Like a Video Game — WORK is not play. But maybe it should be. — In fact, Paul Johnston has remade his company on the idea that business software will work better if it feels like a game. Mr. Johnston is not some awkward adolescent …
Margaret Webb Pressler / Washington Post:
For Texting Teens, an OMG Moment When the Phone Bill Arrives — Sofia Rubenstein, 17, got in trouble the way a lot of teens do these days. — Her incessant text-messaging racked up a huge phone bill on the family's wireless plan. — "It's whatever pops into my head. There's no stopping it," she said.
Gizmodo:
Gallery: Giz Hearts Maker's Faire — That's Lisa and yours truly at the Flickr/Yahoo! booth, where they'd take a polaroid and scan it using some custom ware on a Sharp photocopier directly to Flickr. — And here's my photo stream of 90 photos from the amazing and completely overwhelming Maker's Faire.
Computerworld:
New and 'improved' Gozi Trojan version on the loose — Stealthier Russian Trojan on the loose since April — Jaikumar Vijayan Today's Top Stories or Other Security Stories — A new, stealthier version of a previously known Russian Trojan horse program called Gozi has been circulating …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MyMiniLife: Your Embeddable Virtual World — MyMiniLife is a Flash based virtual world/social network. Users create and customize a character and then build out a virtual space, adding walls, floors, doors, windows, etc. Users can then add customized goods ranging from lamps to cannons to the space …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Geni: Earning That $100 million Valuation — When genealogy site Geni announced that it had raised a venture round from Charles River Ventures valuing the two month old startup at $100 million, more than a few eyebrows were raised. For the last couple of months, people have referred to …
Mark Helprin / New York Times:
A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn't Its Copyright? — WHAT if, after you had paid the taxes on earnings with which you built a house, sales taxes on the materials, real estate taxes during your life, and inheritance taxes at your death, the government would eventually commandeer it entirely?
