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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 brain moving - and that's what matters.
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Link By Link: Firefox and the Anxiety of Growing Pains — IF the open-source software movement were an upstart political campaign, Chris Messina would be one of its community organizers — the young volunteer who decamps to New Hampshire, knocking on doors, putting up signs.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Who Will Buy Facebook? — Last week billions of dollars changed hands in online related acquisitions. Anything that is worth buying is being bought. — The rumors that Yahoo is in talks to acquire Bebo for $1billion may have seen wild 2 years ago, but in today's online market compare favorably price wise.
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:Rumor from across the pond: Yahoo wants Bebo
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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?
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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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Wi-Fi: a warning signal — Britain is in the grip of a Wi-Fi revolution with offices, homes and classrooms going wireless - but there is concern the technology could carry health risks. — The Government insists Wi-Fi is safe, but a Panorama investigation shows that radio frequency radiation levels …
Michael Flaherty / Reuters:
TPG, Goldman unit, to buy Alltel in $25 billion deal (Reuters) — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wireless company Alltel Corp. (NYSE:AT - news) said on Sunday it had agreed to be bought by TPG Capital and the buyout arm of Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS - news) for about $25 billion, making …
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
How Does Windows Vista Rate? … The expedition really started two weeks ago, when my sister shopped for a new notebook. A week before her return to Guatemala, her Sony VAIO VGNS-S160's hard drive drove into oblivion. Because of the age of the Sony laptop and the risk hard drive replacement might lead …
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.
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.
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Virtual World Population: 50 million by 2011 — When technology analyst group Gartner recently asserted that "80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 companies) will have a 'second life', but not necessarily in Second Life" by 2011, a lot of people jumped the gun and assumed 8 …
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 …
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Evan Blass / Engadget:
Sony announces 80GB PS3...for Korea — Well we have to admit, we sure didn't see this one coming. There have been rumors of a higher capacity PlayStation 3 for several months now, but no one figured that the first 80GB model would drop not in Japan or the US, but South Korea.
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 …
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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