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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Web Bubble 2.0 — Well, maybe it is a bubble. But out in Silicon Valley, they don't think of that as a bad thing at all. — T — he Silicon Valley venture capitalist Michael Moritz is kinda-sorta the West Coast version of New York's own Steve Rattner.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Web 2.0 World is Skunk Drunk on Its Own Kool-Aid — This is a sad time for the web. It's as almost somber as the time just before the last bubble burst in 2000. I was working in PR with dot-com startups at the time and the way I feel now is how I did back then. I wish I didn't, but I do.
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Gmail 2.0 Screenshots — Google during the recent Analyst Day announced they want to release an updated version of Gmail that's supposed to be faster than the current one, thanks to a JavaScript back-end rewrite. Also, the new version aims to improve contacts management.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Gmail's New Version Is Now Available — The new version of Gmail I was talking about the other day is already available in some Gmail accounts. If you see a link to an "older version" at the top of the page, that means you can enjoy the new features: mail prefetching, updated contact manager and other small updates.
Robby Stein / Official Gmail Blog:Code changes to prepare Gmail for the future
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Can a Google Phone Connect With Carriers? — Google Inc. is close to unveiling its long-planned strategy to shake up the wireless market, people familiar with the matter say. The Web giant's ambitious goal: to make applications and services as accessible on cellphones as they are on the Internet.
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Apple:
Apple Sells Two Million Copies of Mac OS X Leopard in First Weekend — Apple® today announced that it sold (or delivered in the case of maintenance agreements) over two million copies of Mac OS® X Leopard since its release on Friday, far outpacing the first-weekend sales of Mac OS X Tiger …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Plentyoffish: 1-Man Company May Be Worth $1Billion — We've written before about PlentyOfFish, a leading online dating site that is run by a single person and is raking in money. Markus Frind is the singular force behind PlentyOfFish. At the time of our last review, June 2006 …
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Cookie tracking: How Facebook could be worth $100 billion? — When Facebook launches its "SocialAds" advertising product on November 6th, the technology will reportedly rely on cookies — unique identifiers sent to each user's computer from Facebook, and returned to Facebook when they visit sites …
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Chris Williams / The Register:
Whois database targeted for destruction — The long-running attempt by privacy advocates to bin the Whois database will be up for vote at the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles tomorrow. — Cheerleaders for the six-year-old "sunset proposal" say people shouldn't be required to give …
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BBC:
PC stripper helps spam to spread — A virtual stripper is helping to defeat anti-spam security checks. — Spammers have created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an accompanying image. — The scrambled text images come …
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Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Virtual Art Gets Body — A Silicon Valley start-up and MySpace are hoping to move the "user-generated content" revolution off computer screens and into the physical world. — Zazzle.com Inc., of Redwood City, Calif., and News Corp.'s MySpace social-networking unit have reached an agreement …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
WSJ Publisher: Under NWS, We'll Have The Best-Paid Journalists — WSJ publisher Gordon Crovitz steps in for a Q&A with Staci Kramer at the FOBM. You'll never guess what the first question is...will WSJ.com go free? — Gordon, as he always does, notes that News Corp. deal isn't done.
Dan Mitchell / New York Times:
Not All Is Gloomy in Real Estate: A Blog Network Attracts Capital — The residential real estate market may be troubled, but property-focused Web sites are still attracting visitors and investors. — Curbed.com, a popular real estate blog network with sites in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles …
Zillow MediaRoom:
Zillow.com® Launches Suite of Tools for Advertisers to Target Homeowners in Ways Never Before Possible — Zillow Home Direct Ads offers advertisers the ability to reach homeowners on a home by home basis, at the right moment of purchasing intent — Leading real estate Web site Zillow …
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
The Future of Business Media - Consumer Business Magazines — Part 1 coverage here. — I grew up reading business magazines: Fortune, Business Week, Economist and to a lesser extent Forbes. Then the Web's explosion got me to read Fast Company, Business 2.0, Red Herring and company, so I was looking forward to panel #2 with:
Damien Stolarz / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Video download is patent infringement, and there's a price to pay — I used to keep a patent watch blog that tracked peer-to-peer (P2P) technology patents. Basically, when you start a company, you're expected to patent your technology, either offensively or defensively, whether you think it warrants it or not.
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