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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Feedburner bad for us? — Munir Umrani says: "I read the [Dave Winer] post twice and could not understand why Feedburner is trouble." — The post he's talking about? Dave Winer, who wrote "Why Feedburner is trouble." — That caused a bunch of conversation over the weekend.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why Feedburner is trouble — When Feedburner first came online I warned that there was danger in giving so much power to one company. They argued that they were just a little company, struggling to make a go of it, and no one should fear them. Some of them even took the predictable political tactic …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The FCC Needs To Listen To Google — I was very pleased to see Google publicly wade into the upcoming FCC auctions for the 700MHz spectrum that will occur early next year. Should all go well, the new spectrum could be used to create a new open-access wireless broadband "pipe" into people's homes and devices.
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Jon Pareles / New York Times:
The Once and Future Prince — I'VE got lots of money! " Prince exults in "The One U Wanna C," a come-on from his new album, "Planet Earth" (Columbia). There's no reason to disbelieve him. With a sponsorship deal here and an exclusive show there, worldwide television appearances and music given away …
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Google's View of D.C. Melds New and Sharp, Old and Fuzzy — As you take a bird's-eye tour of downtown Washington, compliments of Google Maps' updated satellite feature, you hit a haze over the Mall. — Suddenly, instead of crisp, yellow taxis, white buses and red pickup trucks, the vehicles look like little blobs.
Sean P. Aune / Mashable!:
Work Together: 60+ Collaborative Tools for Groups — With businesses and families spread out more and more, we've dug up 60+ sites that will help everyone be on the same page. — Business Productivity — 37Signals.com - Maker of collaboration tools including Basecamp (others listed below).
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Ten P2P Distribution Platforms for Online Video Makers — P2P is where it's at for online video these days. Not a week goes by without an announcement of a new P2P platform or distribution deal. It's easy to see why folks are excited about this: distributed data delivery can save you a lot of money …
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Rex Hammock / rexblog.com:
Dear Facebook Friends, If you add this application to your account, you're no friend of mine — One of the worst things I believe to ever to happen to blogging, Pay-Per-Post, has created a beach-head application on Facebook. My complaint with pay-per-post schemes (and not just the company of that name) …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Search Engines and Favoritism — While most search engines say they return unbiased results, it's interesting to compare how well the services of a company perform in the search engine of the same company and other competing search engines. I chose the top three search engines: Google …
Ryan Lenz / Associated Press:
School conducts anti-phishing research — EVANSVILLE, Ind. - The e-mail appeared to be a routine correspondence between two friends. "Check this out!" it read, then listed a Web address. — But the note was fake, part of an online ruse called phishing that has become a scammer's favorite …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Social Network Hi5 gets $20 million — Social Networking world these days may seem like all-Facebook-all-the-time, but there are other social nets that are gaining traction, and are drawing interest from the venture capital community. Hi5, a San Francisco-based social networking start …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Read/WriteWeb's New Comments Feature: SezWho — At the beginning of this week we introduced a new comments feature on Read/WriteWeb, called SezWho. Basically it introduces comment rating, reputation and filtering to this blog. SezWho was created by one of our occasional writers, Jitendra Gupta - whose team installed it onto R/WW.
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Pixeleen Mistral / Second Life Herald:
Are Furries Doomed? — Fallout from enforcing bans on "Broadly Offensive" behavior may threaten furry avatars … Great Britain had many rules on the books for many years that it didn't enforce in the American colonies. They were there, sure, but they were largely ignored.
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Ian Murdock / Ian Murdock's Weblog:
How package management changed everything — What's the single biggest advancement Linux has brought to the industry? — It's an interesting question, and one that in my opinion has a very simple answer: Package management—or, more specifically, the ability to install and upgrade software …
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Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Africa, Offline: Waiting for the Web — ON a muggy day in Kigali in 2003, some of the highest-ranking officials in the Rwandan government, including President Paul Kagame, flanked an American businessman, Greg Wyler, as he boldly described how he could help turn their small country into a hub of Internet activity.
