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WordPress.com:
Introducing Prologue — We're fans of Twitter around here, in fact many Automatticians have accounts, but while the format appealed to us it really just whetted our appetite for something more, like a way for each of us to share short messages about what we're doing or working on internally, or private messages between groups of folks.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Irregular Enterprise, Joseph Scott's Blog and bijansabet.com
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Wordpress pays homage to Twitter — A Twitter post (fittingly enough) caught my eye and sent me to a Wordpress post in which newly-enriched founder Matt Mullenweg announced a Twitter-style group blog theme for Wordpress called Prologue. Although I'm sure some will see this as Automattic …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:“Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey goodbye” Says WordPress To Twitter
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TechCrunch
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Windows 7 isn't headed for 2009, says Microsoft. More like 2011. — Hey, it's not Microsoft's fault that 2011 sounds like the realm of jet pack VR massage cars, but it's certainly a long ways away any way you slice it. Contrary to previous rumors of Microsoft planning a Windows 7 release sometime …
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Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Software Tool Strips Windows Vista To Bare Bones — vLite is a free download that can cut the operating system's size by half or more. — A free software tool that promises to strip down the Windows Vista operating system — which even some Microsoft officials have called “bloated” …
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Steve Jobs to Apple investors: ‘hang in there’ — In a private communication last week, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs acknowledged the beating his company's shares have taken during this time of economic uncertainty, but remained confident that investors would inevitably recoup their losses and then some.
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:Steve Jobs reassures investors, employees over stock drop
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MacRumors
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple's $300 million gray market dilemma — Having stirred up a hornet's nest with his first take in the so-called missing iPhones, Bernstein Research's Apple (AAPL) specialist Toni Sacconaghi has taken a second look at the discrepancy between the number of iPhones Apple sold …
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Tim Hames / Times of London:
Music file-share site Qtrax forced into humiliating U-turn — Jonathan Richards, Dan Sabbagh and Adam Sherwin in Cannes — A website which promised to give music lovers the world's first legal file-sharing service was forced into a humiliating climbdown today after it emerged that the company …
Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Docs Offline Access — In a post Philipp made last week about writing a book in Google Docs, he said: — Working with Google Docs requires an internet connection. In my case, I need this internet connection anyway [...] your mileage may vary (and who knows, Google …
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InfoWorld, ProgrammableWeb, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, jkOnTheRun, Googling Google and Steve Sloan …
Andrew Hogue / Official Google Blog:
Introducing new search views — Introducing experimental views for search results — There have been a lot of recent improvements to web search, but the appearance of results themselves has been pretty constant — 10 or so web pages in a vertical list. Frequently this is exactly the right format …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
First Proof Apple Making Near Zero on AppleTV (And Big Bucks on iTunes) — That sweet $70 price chop Steve announced for the Apple TV had to come from somewhere (a question smartly raised by CW) and we know the only thing Apple guards more than closely than its secrets is its bottom line.
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
How Much Money Are Facebook Apps Making? Not Much Apparently — VideoEgg has announced that its ad network for Facebook applications - eggnetwork - has pulled in around $1.5 million in ad revenue over the past five months. — While the company is touting the news as a “million-dollar pay day” …
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Zibri's Blog:
Major iPhone breakthru ! — 42 COMMENTI: — bliss_charles ha detto... FlYaSS ha detto... Asbjorn ha detto... Neshill ha detto... Michael ha detto... DreamGuy ha detto... Zibri ha detto... a.Shustov ha detto... Jean Marie ha detto... Mauro Widman ha detto... Neshill ha detto...
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ParisLemon, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Engadget, The Boy Genius Report, CrunchGear and Slashdot
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Gore-Backed Current TV Files For $100 Million IPO; $63.7 Million 2007 Revs; Losses Mount — A first look into the books of Al Gore's cable network: Current Media (parent of Al Gore-backed Current TV) has filed for a $100 million NASDAQ IPO, trading under the ticker “CRTM”.
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ReadWriteWeb, Epicenter, Techdirt, CNET News.com, Joe Duck, Tech Trader Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, PSFK, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Mashable!, Valleywag and bub.blicio.us
Jessica Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Liberty Media Takes Action To Force Diller Out of IAC — Liberty Media Corp. took steps Monday to seize control of IAC/InterActiveCorp from IAC Chairman Barry Diller. — Liberty, which owns a majority voting stake in IAC that has long been voted by Mr. Diller under a longstanding proxy agreement …
Thomas Hazlett / Financial Times:
US v Microsoft: who really won? — Before he became Mother Teresa, Bill Gates was Darth Vader. As captain of the Evil Empire, he and his minions dominated PC operating systems, vanquishing all rivals. In May of 1998, the US Department of Justice struck back.
