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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Techmeme is officially a cesspool — It was intriguing for a day or two, but now it's clear that the Leaderboard was the dumbest idea ever, because now more than ever, people are gaming Techmeme so they can climb the list. — Reminds me of something Ted Turner once said about how the Forbes list …
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Disincentives For Gaming The TechMeme Leaderboard — Every ranking system is at risk for gaming, and the TechMeme Leaderboard is no different, as Dave Winer points out regarding today's pile on to Jason Calacanis Web 3.0 meme. (Ironically, Jason himself anticipated the problem when the Leaderboard debuted.)
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Web 3.0, the official definition. — Some folks have been asking me for the clear definition of the term Web 3.0. — Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Who Spams Digg the Most — On the heels of the recently …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:Jason Calacanis Makes "The World's Greatest Coffee!"
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Microsoft Rolls Out Personal Health Records — Microsoft is starting its long-anticipated drive into the consumer health care market by offering free personal health records on the Web and pursuing a strategy that borrows from the company's successful formula in personal computer software.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft: We're good for your health
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:Microsoft 'Unlocks' HealthVault Search Site And Personal Records Database
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IEBlog:
Internet Explorer 7 Update — Almost a year ago, we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. Since then, IE7 is well on its way to becoming the most used browser in the world, and we've seen lots of evidence that IE7 makes it safer and easier to accomplish everyday tasks online.
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AppleInsider:
Apple announcements brewing for late October [updated] — Apple Inc. has begun preparatory measures for significant announcements to take place during the last full week of October, AppleInsider has been told. — While sources have requested that we not go into detail regarding …
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Think Secret:
Leopard poised to leap last weekend in October — Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard remains on track for an October release on or around October 26, sources report. — That date, the last Friday of the month, is similar to the release date of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, which had been said would debut …
Nick Breckon / Shacknews:
Gears of War PC Release Date Set; Details and Exclusive Screenshots — Have you been holding out to play Epic's latest Xbox 360 "exclusive" on the PC? Get out your calendar: Gears of War for Windows makes its way to stores on November 6th. — The game will feature five new singleplayer chapters …
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Report: 10 percent of September iPhones sold to unlocking teams — Analysts for investment bank Piper Jaffray recently spent more time tracking unit sales at Apple Inc.'s retail stores and reported Thursday that their observations indicate that as many as 10 percent of the iPhones sold …
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Market Wire:
Research In Motion Reports Second Quarter Results — Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (NasdaqGS:RIMM - News)(Toronto:RIM.TO - News), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today reported second quarter results for the three months ended September 1, 2007 (all figures in U.S. dollars and U.S. GAAP).
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:RIM ups third quarter outlook
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Fred / A VC:
The Fiction of 20% — It's a "given" in the venture business that in order to compensate a venture firm for all the time and energy they are going to put into a particular investment, they need to own at least 20% of the company and ideally 30%. — I hear it all the time.
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Sleeper hit of the fall season: "Law & Order: MP3″ — However wrongheaded the recording industry's long and expensive "sue the fan" approach to discouraging file-sharing may be, it looks like it may come out a winner in the first such case to come to trial.
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Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
More Legit 3rd Party iPhone Applications on the Way? — While Apple's official line is that the only 3rd party iPhone development will be on the EDGE-crippled Web 2.0 "SDK", behind the scenes, there is much more going on. Apple has been furiously working with their partners on games …
Larry Magid / New York Times:
The Next Leap for Linux — LINUX runs the Google servers that manage billions of searches each day. It also runs the TiVo digital video recorder, the Motorola Razr cellphone and countless other electronic devices. — But why would anyone want to use Linux, an open-source operating system, to run a PC?
Light Reading:
Level 3 Slashes CDN Prices — Level 3 Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT - message board) is lowering prices for content delivery network (CDN) services to match the same price customers pay for high-speed IP transport. — By matching transport prices, Level 3 is doing away with any premium …
