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Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Web 2.0, Community & the Commerce Conundrum — Nicholas Carr has an uncanny ability of saying things that manage to upset many, if not most people. His original essay, IT Doesn't Matter, managed to get under the skin of Silicon Valley insiders, who tried to dismiss him with a flick of their collective wrists.
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Read/Write Web, Get Real, Blogging about Incredible …, The PC Doctor, Rough Type, Online News Squared, Threadwatch.org and Scobleizer
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Anil Dash:
The Flip 2K5 — Or, "Yahoo bought everyone on my buddy list, and all I got was this t-shirt". — Following up on the discussion about Web 2.0 from last week, the only thing as glaring as who was missing from the room was the talk of a new bubble. I can't even count how many blog posts …
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JD on MX
Jeff Clavier / ZDNet:
Innovation 2.0: Why Web 2.0 companies might have to flip to avoid being flopped — The question of "What is Web 2.0" has been debated at length in the blogosphere and in the alleys of the eponymous conference a week ago (and I am not sure that we have come to any agreement yet).
Eric A. Taub / New York Times:
McDonald's and Nintendo in Wi-Fi Deal — Would you like Mario with that Big Mac? — Nintendo of America is expected to announce today that it will offer free wireless Internet access for its Nintendo DS portable game system at McDonald's restaurants. Customers will be able to play select DS games …
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Stuart Miles / pocket-lint.co.uk:Nintendo offers free wi-fi at MacDonalds in US
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Second Life Future Salon
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems — Yes it's garbage, but it's delivered so much faster! — Encouraging signs from the Wikipedia project, where co-founder and überpedian Jimmy Wales has acknowledged there are real quality problems with the online work.
Mike Wendland / Detroit Free Press:
MIKE WENDLAND: Microsoft has a winner with Tablet PC operating system — Not to be a name dropper, but when Bill Gates spotted me last week at a news conference in Ann Arbor his face broke into a big grin and he greeted me with something to the effect of "Hey, Mike, my favorite reporter!"
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Randy Charles Morin / The RSS Blog:
State of the Splogosphere — The topic of the day, is Blogspot splogs. I gotta admit, my own RSS reader is giving me more SPAM than anything these days. Many in the blogosphere have pointed the finger at Google and want Blogspot taken down until they can fix the splog program. This is very short-sighted.
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Chris Carle / filmforce.ign.com:
Doom — Review: The best videogame-to-film adaptation yet. — October 17, 2005 - Obviously, there will be two camps of people attending Doom: those who have played an installment of the storied (and at times much-maligned) game franchise, and those who have not.
Yahoo! Search blog:
Yahoo! and Whereonearth Get More Relevant Together — In an offline world 80-90% of purchases happen within 8-10 miles of your home. We believe this will carry over into the online world and in an increasingly personalized internet, users should expect their search results to reflect their lives more precisely.
microsoft-watch.com:
Father of Wiki Quits Microsoft; Moves to Open-Source Foundation — Ward Cunningham, one of Microsoft's high-profile hires, is leaving the Redmond software company to join the open-source tool group, The Eclipse Foundation. — Microsoft has lost one of its high-profile hires to an open-source consortium.
Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter:
Links are dead, Doc — Good grief. My friend Doc Searls has reacted big time to my suggestion that links are dead. OK, I was going to sugercoat it but if you insist…. — Doc, last in first out. Links have leverage, attention doesn't? Well, every singloe new search play …
Jason White / CNN:
Wireless technology changing work and play — (CNN) — Geoffrey Bowker, executive director of a research institute at Santa Clara University, remembers a time when going to academic conferences meant leaving office concerns behind, hearing provocative lectures and getting to experience a new city.
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Between the Lines
Matt Cutts:
More info on updates — I've already talked about index updates some in the past. These days rather than having a large monolithic update, Google tends to have smaller (and more frequent) individual launches. So I think my Sept. 8th, 2005 post on the subject of non-updates was just mentioning …
EFF: Breaking News:
Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You — Tiny Dots Show Where and When You Made Your Print — San Francisco - A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document.
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Freedom to Tinker, Engadget, Copyfight, hack a day, Between the Lines, Boing Boing and TechBlog
