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Alana Semuels / Los Angeles Times:
Virtual marketers have second thoughts about Second Life — Firms find that avatars created by participants in the online society aren't avid shoppers. — Second Life — a three-dimensional online society where publicity is cheap and the demographic is edgy and certainly computer-savvy — should be a marketer's paradise.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Will The Last Corporation Leaving Second Life Please Turn Off The Light — The LA Times has an interesting article up on the failure of real life businesses in Second Life. — The crux of the piece is that despite the hype, real life businesses are closing down their Second Life outposts due to little to no interest in them.
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Times of India:
Microsoft to set up university in city — 12 Jul 2007, 0453 hrs IST , Mini Joseph Tejaswi , TNN — BANGALORE: Microsoft Corporation has chosen Bangalore for its first-ever exclusive and independent educational venture in the world. The company will set up a university in the city to impart high-end computer education.
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Digital Inspiration
Tunku Varadarajan / Wall Street Journal:
Happy Blogiversary — It's been 10 years since the blog was born. Love them or hate them, they've roiled presidential campaigns and given everyman a global soapbox. Twelve commentators — including Tom Wolfe, Newt Gingrich, the SEC's Christopher Cox and actress-turned-blogger Mia Farrow — on what blogs mean to them.
Mike Schramm / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
On the trail of Fake Steve Jobs — Everybody's favorite anonymous Mac commentator might be a little closer to becoming not-so-anonymous. If you checked out Fake Steve Jobs's site yesterday, you might have seen a short post about a marginally funny iPhone Haiku site.
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Colin Smillie / Inside Facebook:
Vacationing in Facebook - Travel Maps and Many New Apps — It used to be that travel and vacations meant t-shirts and cheesy souvenirs. But with Facebook, you can tell your friends about your trip without all the ugly schwag. Currently, there are over 60 applications in the Facebook Application Directory in the Travel Category.
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Ben Quinn / Telegraph:
Mobile phones 'dumbing down brain power' — An over reliance on technology is leading to a dumbing down of the nation's brain power, according a study published today. — In a society flooded with mobile phones, Blackberry devices and computers of various shapes and sizes …
Valleywag:
Mythbusting: Facebook's fake revenues — Facebook's fake revenues — Everyone's still talking about Henry Blodget's facile guess on his Internet Outsider blog that Microsoft might offer $6 billion for Facebook, the social network of the moment. And Facebook investor Jim Breyer …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
The SunRocket Is Down For The Count — The Sun Rocket it seems, has hit the deck. We had reported earlier that things were getting pretty tenuous at the VoIP services company. The Vienna, VA.-based company stopped taking new orders recently. — The company is said to have had massive layoffs and basically is down for the count.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Microsoft files patent for possible taskbar replacement — "A method for managing windows in a display" would sound particularly familiar to every Windows user as "that strip at the bottom of the screen with the Start button and clock" or perhaps the more formal name, the taskbar.
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Why Congress Needs a Version Control System — I've been thinking lately just how much software developers take the existence of version control for granted, and how, with the notable exception of wikipedia, web 2.0 applications don't offer much in the way of version control functionality.
Matt / Photo Matt:
On PHP — PHP.net has announced that they will stop development of PHP4 at the end of this year, and end security updates on 2008-08. (In 2007, their site still doesn't have obvious permalinks. They do have a RSS 1.0 feed though, remember those?) — PHP 4.0 was release in May of 2000 …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Brief: Microsoft forgets Mac users on Patch Tuesday — Amnesia strikes when it comes to three Mac Office 2004 bugs — For a few days this week, Microsoft Corp. temporarily had Mac amnesia as it omitted mention of the Mac edition of Office in a write-up that accompanied one of Tuesday's security updates.
Beth / Beth's Blog:
Viva the Time on Site, The Page View is Dead! — I'm tracking social media metrics for a variety reasons. Surprisingly, what I'm reading is coming to me via social sharing. What you're seeing above is a visualization of sharing intensity - this was the slide I took out of my presentation …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Live P2P Television: Streaming Now — The demonstration of Microsoft's LiveStation last week shone the spotlight back on the live P2P television market. Whilst P2P on-demand video participants such as Joost and Bablegum gain the most attention in the broader market, the live television streaming market …
Rick Segal / The Post Money Value:
Shortsighted Greed — I recently had a conversation with two 'grand old men' of the VC community regarding an investment they had just completed. It was a small start up which had taken angel money to get going. The terms of that original deal were a simple debt instrument that converted (at a discount) upon the next round.
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