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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Microsoft's Mesh Revealed—Sync All Apps And All Files To All Devices (As Long As They're Windows) — Ray Ozzie first hinted at it during a keynote speech last March. But tonight Microsoft is finally launching a preview beta of Live Mesh, a new Windows Live platform for syncing files and …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh — Microsoft took the wraps off Live Mesh at 9 p.m. PDT on April 22, just ahead of the service's official debut at the Web 2.0 Expo this week. — (Here's a bunch of screen shots of what testers can expect to see when Microsoft kicks off its Live Mesh tech preview later this week.)
Dan / Channel 9:
Ray Ozzie: Introducing Live Mesh — In his first Channel9 interview, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect sits down with Jon Udell to talk about Live Mesh, a new technology and platform that enables synchronization and storage “to the cloud.” You'll hear about the history of Live Mesh …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Ray Ozzie delivers with Live Mesh — Microsoft's fans are delivered to the promised land. — For three years now I've wondered “what is Ray Ozzie up to?” And with this announcement you see just why he's Microsoft's CTO. Yeah, there are about 100 smart people working on Microsoft's new …
Nic Fillingham / Channel 10:
Hands on with Live Mesh — Have you ever had to email yourself a file or found that you had four different versions of the same document on four different PC's? Wouldn't it be awesome if you had a synchronized copy of all your important files on each of your devices and access to them at any time via nothing more than a web browser?
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Mashable!, Windows Live Dev, The Seattle Times, //steve clayton, Channel 9, Live Mesh, Why does everything suck? and Ubergizmo
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Ozzie Memo: Software is Dead, Long Live the Web — After a few years of trying to fill Bill Gates' shoes as Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie is starting to hit his stride. In a remarkable strategy memo to employees (embedded below), Ozzie essentially shifts Microsoft's mission …
Forbes:
Apple Buys Chip Designer — Apple has agreed to spend $278 million in cash to buy a boutique microprocessor design company that could create a chip for its flagship iPhone, and possibly iPod products as well. — The 150-person chip company, P.A. Semi, was founded in 2003 by Dan Dobberpuhl …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:With Future iPhones In Mind Apple Buys A Chip Start-up
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
EBay Files Suit Against Craigslist — SAN FRANCISCO — All is not well in eBay's extended family. — EBay, based in San Jose, Calif., filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the state of Delaware against Craigslist, the online classified advertising company in which it owns a minority interest.
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Jim / craigslist blog:Tainted Love — Ebay has filed suit against craigslist and its board of directors:
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Joi Ito's Web:
Twitter Japan is a go! — In January, my company Digital Garage invested in Twitter and announced plans to work together with Twitter to create a Japanese version of the service. That service just went live. — It's still part of the main Twitter service, but the UI will be in Japanese.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
DRM sucks redux: Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys — Customers who have purchased music from Microsoft's now-defunct MSN Music store are now facing a decision they never anticipated making: commit to which computers (and OS) they want to authorize forever, or give up access to the music they paid for.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo's first quarter good; Not good enough for a higher Microsoft bid; Yang wants more — Updated: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said he was “open to all and any alternatives including a sale to Microsoft” following the company's first quarter results. The brief comments indicate Yahoo hasn't ruled …
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Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
Microsoft releases two more Ultimate Extras — Back in July 2007, Microsoft apologized for the lack of Ultimate Extras, but the line went dead after that. Sure, Microsoft released a few things since, but Windows Vista Ultimate users had absolutely no idea what Microsoft was up to.
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Daniel / Disqus:
Connecting Conversations with Disqus and Plaxo — We're very excited to announce our integration with Plaxo, a step in the right direction regarding the defragmentation of comments and web discussion. But, first, some background: — A little over a week ago, there was some chatter …
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StreetInsider.com:
Sony Corporation of America to Acquire Gracenote — Sony Corporation of America (SCA) announced today that it has signed a merger agreement with Gracenote, Inc. Sony will pay approximately $260 million plus other contingent consideration. — “Gracenote is a global leader in technology …
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Philip Linden / Official Second Life Blog:
Announcing our New CEO! — I said a month ago that I was looking for a new CEO to lead Linden Lab, and we've found one! His name is Mark Kingdon, and his Second Life name is “M Linden”. — As you might imagine in a new leader of Linden Lab, there are lots of great things I could say about him …
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Sean Percival:
Mahalo Adds Microformats — At Mahalo we just rolled out rolled out Microformats for relevant search result pages. So what does this mean, and what are Microformats? Well, they are data classes that help machines and people identify and export information.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Making Money, the How-To Way — Learning how to turn a flashlight into a laser is not a top priority for most people. Yet Kip Kedersha's step-by-step instructional video that teaches how to do just that has been seen online by more people (1.88 million) than live in Manhattan (about 1.6 million).
