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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.
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Forever Geek
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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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft: Storage unification still somewhere out there — Microsoft customers are still in search of that elusive goal: a single, unified storage system to simplify the deployment and management of Microsoft's enteprrise wares. And Microsoft officials are still promising it will happen …
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.
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Web Strategy
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Woz finds flaws in Apple's latest offerings — Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, in Sydney today. — Asher Moses — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak heaped less than lavish praise on the company's iPhone, MacBook Air and Apple TV products when visiting Sydney this morning.
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Dan Warne / APC:Steve Wozniak's frustrations with iPhone, Apple TV and MacBook Air
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Engadget, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, TGDaily.com, Crave, Macsimum News, Electronista and All News Feeds
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Microsoft flirts with “cloud"-based applications, still making billions off Earth-bound variety — Though they squabble over things such as the rights to control parts of Facebook and Yahoo, the real battle between Microsoft and Google is only just beginning to show itself as the two jockey …
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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.
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.
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
VideoEgg Dumps Video Hosting Clients — VideoEgg's conversion from a video aggregator to hosting service to ad network hasn't been without its victims. Publishers with video still served by VideoEgg are getting Dear John letters, informing them that they've got 90 days to find a new video host.
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!
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MacUser, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Infinite Loop, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, Engadget, Ubergizmo, Apple Gazette and Digg
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
AOL's new strategy: Quantity over quality? — Since its 2001 acquisition of Time Warner, AOL has struggled to maintain its brand on the Internet with the rise of first Yahoo and then Google. Now the company has a new strategy to get their traffic numbers up: build more sites.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC — If you hadn't guessed from the headline, and as rumored just an hour ago, there's 9-inches of LCD on this thing. Actually, 8.9, but who's counting? We found out that and a few other little tidbits about this Eee PC “New Generation” at the ASUS booth just now …
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DailyTech, jkOnTheRun, Crave, Eee Site, TECH.BLORGE.com, dailywireless.org, TGDaily.com, Gadgetell, Electronista, Gizmodo, Instapundit.com and Digg
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.
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ReadWriteWeb
Timothy Lee / Techdirt:
Scott McNealy Has Apparently Never Heard Of AOL Time Warner — At a conference last week, former Sun CEO Scott McNealy offered some unsolicited advice to telecommunications companies: “look into acquiring Internet destination sites that are heavily trafficked.”
Juan Carlos Perez / PC World:
YouTube to Improve Usage Metrics — New data about Google's YouTube video viewership will be available to marketers. — Google's YouTube will soon give marketers more data about viewership of its videos, so that they have a better understanding of clips' reach and effectiveness at boosting brand awareness and sales.
