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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
How to avoid sounding like an monkey — A few weeks ago a well-respected developer wrote a blog post about something he called the "social graph." A graph, to most people, is a diagram like the one on the right, which plots the value of a stock over time. For 99.99 percent of the people this is what a graph is.
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Nick / Rough Type:
Thank you, Dave Winer — I tried to ignore the term "social graph" when it first started popping up a few weeks ago. For one thing, it sounded like some sort of embarrassing disease; for another, the idea of having to figure out some arcane new Web 2.0 term was depressing.
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Smart Mobs
Mark Veverka / Barron's Online:
Google Could Trip Over the Mortgage Mess — IS GOOGLE TRULY IMMUNE TO THE SUBPRIME-MORTGAGE MORASS? — Ever since Google (ticker: GOOG) whiffed on its second-quarter earnings, fans and critics alike have been entertaining this critical question. — Critics such as Barron's Roundtable …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
The XP alternative for Vista PCs — update While Microsoft is still pushing Vista hard, the company is quietly allowing PC makers to offer a "downgrade" option to buyers that get machines with the new operating system but want to switch to Windows XP. — The program applies …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Microsoft giving Vista Business / Ultimate users 'downgrade' to XP option — It's no shock that Windows Vista isn't, shall we say, universally loved, and it's also unsurprising that a plethora of businesses have voiced their preference to keep on runnin' their operations on Windows XP.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Google to Envelope All Knowledge on November 5th, 2007 — Michael Arrington has convinced several high level sources to disclose discussion at a top secret Google meeting where the company discussed plans to release on November 5th a new set of APIs. Those APIs will make access to the data …
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Matt Peckham / Game On:
Sony PSP Vaults Past Nintendo DS in Japan — This is why Sony may yet rule the console-verse in spite of all its missteps and bungled first-gen games and cynical press. Because pretty much out of the blue, a game like Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII can come along in the right market (Japan) …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Symantec issues bogus warning of full-scale Internet meltdown — False alarm result of 'product testing,' says company an hour later — Symantec Corp.'s early warning system gave its enterprise customers a brief scare late Friday when it erroneously sent an alert that said an Internet-crippling attack was in progress.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Techmeme and Google Shared Stuff: WTF? — Update: — It seems to be gone from Techmeme now — but still. Very weird. — Original post: — Tony Hung at Deep Jive Interests has mentioned this too, but I'm not sure whether the problem is Techmeme's or something that has gone squirrely with Google's Shared Reader.
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Bkp / The Pirate Bay:
TPB files charges against media companies — Thanks to the email-leakage from MediaDefender-Defenders we now have proof of the things we've been suspecting for a long time; the big record and movie labels are paying professional hackers, saboteurs and ddosers to destroy our trackers.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook's Impact on the Widget Economy — Last night I attended a technology event, Refresh DC. Refresh DC provides local companies with the opportunity to speak for an hour about a topic of their choice. Last night's event was sponsored by Clearspring and the topic of discussion was widgets.
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Open Source Is the Big Disruptor — Continued acceptance will drive down prices and force proprietary software vendors to change their business model. — Gartner declared open-source software the biggest disruptor the software industry has ever seen and postulated it will eventually result …
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The Open Road
PR Newswire:
DEMOfall 07 Conference Releases List of Participating Demonstrators — DEMOfall 07 Logo. Event produced by Network World Events & Executive Forums. (PRNewsFoto/NETWORK WORLD EVENTS) — SOUTHBOROUGH, MA UNITED STATES — 69 Innovations to Debut at Conference
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Seth Rosenblatt / Webware.com:
Presenting: µBitTorrent — If you use torrents frequently, then you'll remember December 7, 2006, as a day that will live on in infamy, a day that teh Interwebs broke in half—just a little. That was the day that BitTorrent, Bram Cohen's torrent progenitor, announced it had bought µTorrent …
