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6:00 AM ET, March 4, 2008

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Charles Wiles / Official Google Mobile Blog:
Shifting Google Gears to mobile  —  Ever use a mobile web application and suddenly lose your cell connection?  That's happened to me many times.  If you've shared my pain, you'll be excited to know that we've launched Google Gears for mobile, which lets users access Gears-enabled mobile web apps offline.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Silverlight Goes Mobile With Nokia  —  Nokia has signed up to use Microsoft's Silverlight platform for its S60 and S40 mobile devices as well as its Nokia Internet tablets, marking the first mobile win for the Redmond giant's rich media development framework.
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Microsoft to take Silverlight offline eventually, says exec  —  There are a number of software projects that enable Web applications to run offline, including Adobe's AIR, Google Gears, and the Mozilla Foundation's Prism.  What about Microsoft and its Silverlight browser plug-in?
Google Gears API Blog:
Google Gears in Your Pocket
Discussion: TechCrunch and Mashable!
Raju Vegesna / Zoho Blogs:
Zoho Writer Extends Mobile Support, Adds Offline Capability …
Discussion: Zoli's Blog
IEBlog:
Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8  —  We've decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can.  This decision is a change from what we've posted previously.  —  Why Change?  —  Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles.
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Sanity prevails: IE8 will default to standard-compliant mode  —  In an impressive volte-face, Microsoft has decided that Internet Explorer 8 will default to being compliant with web standards after all, and will not, as previously announced, require web pages to explicitly opt in to conforming behavior.
Discussion: Forever Geek and The Tao of Mac
Microsoft:
Microsoft Expands Support for Web Standards
Discussion: Microsoft Watch and Mashable!
Msantjer / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Gates on Yahoo, Google and the next president  —  Guest post from P-I reporter Joseph Tartakoff:  —  At his speech this morning to the thousands gathered for the SharePoint Conference at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates took some questions …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Back on the Beat: Introducing OStatic, the Open Source Blog  —  I have spent the past two months recuperating from my medical setback - reading, rebuilding my physical strength and of course, writing an occasional blog post or two.  My doctors have given me permission to work — four hours a day …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
GigaOm Launches Ostatic Resource For Open Source Community  —  GigaOm (Om Malik's blog network) just launched a new open source software focused blog called Ostatic.  The goal, Malik said today in an interview, is to track news around the world's 150,000+ open source projects.
Ina Fried / Webware.com:
Microsoft's telescope centers on Windows  —  REDMOND, Wash.—When Microsoft releases its WorldWide Telescope this spring, the program will be a Windows-only download.  —  Much of the astronomical community, however, uses Macs and other Unix-based hardware.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Ubergizmo
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FastCompany.TV:
Exclusive First Look: WorldWide Telescope
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Channel 10
Sean Ammirati / ReadWriteWeb:
What Stanford Learned Building Facebook Apps  —  Dr. BJ Fogg and Dave McClure taught a class last semester at Stanford on Building Facebook Applications.  In 10 weeks, the 80 students had created 50+ applications and in total had over 20 Million installs - with 5 having more than 1 million users.
Discussion: Web Strategy, eWeek and All Facebook
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Exclusive preview: Delicious Monster's Delicious Library 2.0  —  Back in 2004, shortly before the release of Mac OS X Tiger, Delicious Library 1.0 arrived as a slick looking inventory cataloging application designed to manage listings of books, videos, albums and other media.
Discussion: MacUser and The Tao of Mac
Claudine Ryan / ABC News:
Blogging boosts your social life: research  —  Blogging can help you feel less isolated, more connected to a community and more satisfied with your friendships, both online and face-to-face, new Australian research has found.  —  The research, from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Blogging Is Good For Your Social Life: Study
Discussion: broadstuff
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Netvibes Ginger goes live, still no Web drive  —  The latest version of customizable start page Netvibes, nicknamed “Ginger” will be open to everyone as of Tuesday morning.  We gave it a thorough look back in late January, and Rafe and I have been using it on a daily basis to keep up with various feeds and use it as a Widget engine.
Discussion: CenterNetworks and Mashable!
The Steampunk Workshop:
Dave Veloz's Steampunk Remake:  —  A Steampunk Monitor and Keyboard for a Mac mini  —  There is nothing in the world that I like better then receiving pictures of things that people have been inspired to build by my projects.  When I opened my mail and discovered these photos I squeed like teen on LJ!
eWEEK.com:
Semantic Web Brings Change to SOA  —  It's impossible to underestimate the impact that SOA, or service-oriented architectures, has had on enterprises and business integration.  Whether or not a business has implemented a full-fledged SOA platform, there is still a very good chance …
Discussion: broadstuff and The Semantic Web
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
10-K Watch: Getty, WPP, IAC, Valueclick, Akamai, Navteq, Media General  —  The world's going crazy with 10-K's...and we're making it easy for you.  Our motto, just in case you didn't know: We kill ourselves, so you don't have to.  —  Some of the main ones below with some relevant points culled out:
Discussion: ReveNews and Clickety Clack
 
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Design and Make Your Own OpenMoko Phone
Discussion: textually.org and Gadgetell
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Why blogging isn't big in Ireland
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Optimus Maximus keyboard for laptops? Yes, please.
Daniel Langendorf / last100:
NIN releases new CD on Internet, experiments with alternative …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
US government forces military secrets on Brit webmaster
Discussion: Techdirt
Microsoft:
Bill Gates: SharePoint Conference 2008
Discussion: CNET News.com
Sean Ammirati / ReadWriteWeb:
The Future of Social Networks at Graphing Social Patterns
Timothy Lee / Techdirt:
Scott McNealy Has Apparently Never Heard Of AOL Time Warner
 Earlier Items: 
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
AOL's new strategy: Quantity over quality?
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
VideoEgg Dumps Video Hosting Clients
Juan Carlos Perez / PC World:
YouTube to Improve Usage Metrics
Discussion: Beet.TV and Mashable!
Doug Caverly / WebProNews:
Mullenweg Indicates Over 30 Percent Of Blogs Are Spam
Discussion: Mashable! and Photo Matt
Yukari Iwatani Kane / Wall Street Journal:
Toshiba's Plan for Life After HD DVD
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Atom inside: Intel announces ultramobile processor brand
Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Apple falls short of 1,000 movie rentals
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC