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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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The Social Customer Manifesto, John Furrier, Life On the Wicked Stage and Alec Saunders .LOG
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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
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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Insider Chatter
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google To "Out Open" Facebook On November 5 — Yesterday a select group of fifteen or so industry luminaries attended a highly confidential meeting at Google's headquarters in Mountain View to discuss the company's upcoming plans to address the "Facebook issue."
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Google Operating System, Insider Chatter, Webomatica, Geek Speaker, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Startup Dunia, Chuqui 3.0.1 Beta, ParisLemon, Master of 500 Hats, Valleywag, Rev2.org, Deep Jive Interests, All Facebook, Mashable!, Marc's Voice, UMBC eBiquity, Googling Google, Between the Lines, Damien Mulley, The Praized Blog and Digg
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.
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 …
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Internet Outsider
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Techmeme and Google Shared Stuff: WTF? — 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. A post entitled "Full Video of Ukraine Air Show Disaster 2002&Prime …
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Hightouch
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) …
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.
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.
Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
Citigroup Customer Data Leaked on LimeWire — Citgroup has confirmed that it's investigating a data breach involving the names, Social Security numbers and credit information of 5,208 customers leaked by an employee of its ABN Amro Mortgage Group unit onto the LimeWire peer-to-peer file-sharing network.
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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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Valleywag
Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
Blaupunkt dumps CDs in new car stereo — It was bound to happen eventually and, in fact, it's surprising that we haven't seen this sooner. — Blaupunkt's "Melbourne SD27" is the first car stereo that shuns CDs, according to SCI FI Tech, instead playing MP3 and WMA files with a front-loading SD card.
