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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The truth about traffic on the Internet — Ahh, the Guardian got into a little dirty truth about traffic on TechMeme: there isn't many people there. — Every time I get on TechMeme I get 500 to 3,000 visits. That matches what the Guardian and what Nick Carr are seeing.
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Nick / Rough Type:
Techmeme's juicelessness — My name's Nick, and I'm a Techmeme junkie. — Even so, I have to admit that the Guardian's Bobbie Johnson is absolutely right when he says, "for all that Valley-centric news junkies claim Techmeme as a crucial aggregator, it simply doesn't refer much traffic."
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The Open Road
BBC:
On the road with wi-fi and video — On test clockwise from top left: PSP Slim, Archos 605wifi, iPod touch, N800 — Gadget lovers are spoilt for choice when it comes to portable media players, with an increasing number offering web access through wi-fi connections.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
iPhone and iPod touch v1.1.1 full jailbreak tested, confirmed! — We were invited by iPhone / iPod touch file system hacker Niacin (who you might also know for his PSP and MSN TV Linux cluster hacks, etc.) and Dre to test out their new v1.1.1 file system hack.
Schrep / schrep's blog:
Mozilla and Mobile — People ask us all the time about what Mozilla's going to do about the mobile web, and I'm very excited to announce that we plan to rock it. Here's some information about what we're planning to do with hiring, technology, partnerships, and products, and how you can get involved.
Tony Hsieh / Official Google Blog:
Reach out and message someone — Technology has made staying in touch with your friends and family both easier and harder: living a fast-paced, on-the-go lifestyle is easier (and a lot of fun), but it's more difficult to keep track of everyone when they're running around at warp speed.
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Silicon Alley Insider, alarm:clock euro, loose wire blog, Skype Journal, People Over Process, Digital Inspiration, Bits, eWEEK.com, Unbound Spiral, InfoWorld, Rev2.org, Google Operating System, ParisLemon, Scripting News, GigaOM, :Ben Metcalfe Blog, Mark Evans, CNET News.com, Drew B's take on tech PR, ben barren, Insider Chatter, InsideGoogle, blognation Canada, Damien Mulley, blognation USA, SMS Text News, TechSpot News, Bloggers Blog, BetaNews, Between the Lines, alarm:clock, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Salon, Google Blogoscoped, Read/WriteWeb, bub.blicio.us, Gadgetophile, Valleywag, MARS Magazine, AppScout, Epicenter, Computerworld and Googling Google
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Dodgeball? Jotspot? Jaiku!
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Webware.com, EirePreneur, This is going to be BIG., Search Engine Land, TechCrunch and jkOnTheRun
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Platform To Launch Next Week — MySpace is gearing up to launch MySpace Platform, according to a number of third party developers who've been contacted for input on the product. While this has been rumored since June, this is the first indication that the service is preparing to actually launch.
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Read/WriteWeb, MediaBytes with Shelly …, All Facebook, Snipperoo, ParisLemon, Aswath Weblog, ProgrammableWeb and Mashable!
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Bands Rushing To Ditch Labels And Embrace Free; Are The Floodgates Opening? — We've only been predicting that music would eventually go free for about a dozen years, but it feels like we may be nearing a tipping point among musicians recognizing this simple truth as well, kicked off by last week's Radiohead announcement.
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Virtual Economics, Smalltalk Tidbits …, TechWag, Byte of the Apple, Valleywag and The Nine Inch Nails Hotline
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David Gainer / Microsoft Excel:
Calculation Issue Update (Fix Available) — Two weeks ago, we posted about an issue involving the calculation of numbers around 65,535 and 65,536. As of today, fixes for this issue in Excel 2007 and Excel Services 2007 are available for download from the following locations:
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All about Microsoft, Hardware 2.0, Microsoft Help and Support, Channel 9 and Digital Inspiration
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Briefly: redesigned MacBook Pro power adapters on the way — Apple Inc. has halted shipments of MagSafe power adapters for its MacBook Pro notebook line as a result of quality design issues and is presently working on a fix, AppleInsider has been told. — Several people familiar with the matter …
Steve Lohr / Bits:
Free the Avatars — Virtual worlds may be freewheeling environments where cyber-behavior is unconstrained by many terrestrial mores. But they are also gated communities, and the gates keep the digital denizens locked inside. — IBM and Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life, think it's time to free the avatars.
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RealityPrime
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AppleInsider:
Sources: Leopard finalized, 10.4.11 inching closer [updated] — Apple Inc. this week is believed to have wrapped up development of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard while simultaneously pushing out yet another pre-release copy of its final maintenance and security update for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger users.
Rachel Konrad / Associated Press:
EBay launches "Neighborhoods" feature — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hoping to woo shoppers who say eBay Inc. has lost its folksy appeal, the world's largest online auction plans to launch its own version of a social networking service Wednesday and is promising other customer-friendly features by year's end.
InfoWorld:
Samsung reveals latest music phones — San Francisco (IDGNS) - Samsung Electronics has unveiled a refreshed lineup of three new cell phones that are targeted at music lovers. — The handsets have more of an emphasis on music than other phones and are intended to be just as much music player as cell phone.
Rachel Aviv / New York Times:
File-Sharing Students Fight Copyright Constraints — When Zachary McCune, a student at Brown, received an e-mail message from the university telling him he might have broken the law by downloading copyrighted songs, his eyes glazed over the warning and he quickly forgot about it.
