LINKS FROM November 2005
Readers around the world were polled and the winners have been announced.
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Somebody created a subway service advisory about their crush.
A good List Apart article explaining (with examples) how to make a very functional 404 page.
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Seth Godin writes about the pickle bar at Harold's.
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Douglas Rushkoff: "Pretending that each aspect of your existence or your enterprise can be compartmentalized is, itself, a product of the Industrial Age"
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Garrett Dimon: "With big and simple, it’s about removing the noise, and making the important stuff standout."
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If It's After Midnight, Then It's Time to Market to Young Men
The Oxyride campaign gets another New York Times mention, this time talking about marketing after hours.
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PR blogger Steve Rubel lists his ten favorite Bloglines hacks.
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"Why should successful companies be losing their best people this way? I think there are several factors involved, but perhaps the overriding factor is the energy and creativity of formidable employees chafing against company inertia and close-mindedness.
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Home Alone? How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content
Joshua Porter: "With all these aggregators providing new places to start our searches for content, what will become of the home page?"
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Companies I'd like to Profile (but don't exist)
Michael Arrington from TechCrunch thinks about the companies he'd like to see sprout up around the net. Lots of good ideas in this one.
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Does Pre-Roll Video Change Traditional Online Media Buying?
"The growth of video content online and its various distribution opportunities make any particular Web site almost irrelevant. This means that the way that pre-roll advertising is bought and sold must be radically changed."
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The boom in the intellectual property market will not reap rewards for us all
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Key Points of Creating Viral Advertising
Some fairly amusing, and a few good, pointers for creating that perfect viral ad.
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Shopper's eye view of ads that pass us by
"Only by getting to know consumers better can advertisers cut through the clutter, he believes. "We really need to go back to basics to understand that people don't want 3,500 media messages every day. You probably only want three that are relevant to you
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"in a networked world, when you consume something, your consumption has an externality: I generally know how much satisfaction you got."
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Google's Shopping Service to List User's Local Stores
Merchants will be able to feed Google Base their inventory, which will be integrated with Froogle to give local results.
"It then dawned upon me that the intellectual approach to simplicity is to reduce details, whereas the intuitive approach to simplicity is to add subtlety."
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Important questions from My Blog is Poop
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"Put a fork in it; the blockbuster is done."
"The new effort -- again citing Haque -- is to use our resources to generate the "Snowball Effect," something that costs much less money and takes advantage of the structure and systems of new media, especially the Internet's long tail."
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"His goal was to make it simple to use and a joy to look at. He succeeded. The result was the iPod"
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Step-by-step instructions for using Mac the Ripper and DVD2oneX to rip and burn DVDs.
"Googling here of course returns an ordered list. A list of the most popular web plugins it turns out. Adobe Acrobat comes in first."
Blogging as Attempts at Understanding
Blogging "has the potential to help us create . . . communities of learners who approach learning as engagement with epistemic texts, learners who see writing and reading as cognitive tools, who understand the value of thinking through texts."
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Designing in Hostile Territory
"You don't need anyone's permission to think like a designer. But there are five things you need to do if you want to be effective in a "design-unfriendly organization.""
Yotophoto is the first and only internet search engine for finding free-to-use stock photographs and images
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Semantic Typography: Bridging the XHTML gap
Using a real estate listing to explain how semantic XHTML should work.
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“Just to make everyone happy,� said the Lord God, “today I’m thinking oceans, for contrast.�
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Why didn't I think of it? Why why why?
The five stages of dealing with The Million Dollar Homepage
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"Why are we doing this? Because we want to foster innovation, and because we want to see your ideas about new ways of displaying news and information on the Web."
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Scott Rafer: "A Prediction: The second DotCom Bubble will inflate and burst no later than mid-2009."
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Everything you need to have in a Web 2.0 app
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Gary Stein: "I think Root is an interesting experiment: will players (especially consumers) be interested in participating in this sort of market place? We'll have to wait and see."
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grey goose's good tastin branded entertainment
"Iconoclasts, Grey Goose vodka's venture into branded entertainment, debuted last week on the Sundance Channel."
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Bill Simmons has discovered his voice as a reader's buddy
Danah Boyd: "Below are directly relevant papers and their abstracts (or a brief excerpt); full citations can be found on my papers page."
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How the founders of a hot young photo-sharing site are helping to change the focus of the search engine giant -- and turning its fight with Google into a battle of man vs. machine.
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How feeds will change the way content is distributed, valued, and consumed
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A great quote from Invention and Evolution: Design in Nature and Engineering by M.J. French
"Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!"
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Attention, Buying a Car, and Control
Joshua Porter puts AttentionTrust in terms of buying a car.
Media Futures: From Theory to Practice
Seth Goldstein explains how AttentionTrust and /ROOT came to be.
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A new method for marketing? "intrigue (among a small group) - co-option - investigation - consideration/opinion - publicity"
" Fuss. Do Sweat The Details. The devil may be in the details, but a Divinely Good product requires attention to detail."
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Adaptive Path: "Every large corporation has a marketing strategy that outlines what it wants to say to customers, but many of them still aren’t using their homepages effectively to highlight that message."
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Hacking the Human OS: How we learn
" According to Richard E. Mayer, before any message or new idea will be fully understood, a person must go through three learning phases: I like to call them select, construct, and connect."
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Exclusive: Full text of Gates email, Ozzie memo
Leaked copies of both emails detailing the changes Microsoft must make to keep up with the "OO"ses
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A plant that grows with a word on it. If you buy 5,000 you can get any word you want.
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The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles
"Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollarsâ€â€it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. Yet the success of one inventor's quest to dye a simple soap bubble may change the way the world uses color"
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Systems Engineer "Ray Digerati" enjoys fixing computers and having sex. So he combined the two.
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The Top 40 Bands in America Today - 2005 Edition
"I emailed over 40 "music/MP3 bloggers" (since we are our own genre now) and asked them to send me a list, ranked 1-10, of the 10 best American bands that they've seen or heard in the last year."
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Actually, this is Largehearted Boy's top 10 with free MP3s.
A ruby RSS scraper to install on your server.
The Case For Intelligent Design: Spaghetti as the Creator
Bobby Henderson is getting an $80,000 advance to write The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
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Negroponte: Laptop for Every Kid
An interview about the $100 laptop program.
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"Welcome to a new "Wild West", where formats, delivery and opportunity are now only limited by the creativity and imagination of the content distribution channel and the advertiser."
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Da Bears blog is number 3. Hell yeah.
Dynamic Resolution Dependent Layouts
"You can change 3-column layouts to 2-column layouts, provide appropriate font-sizes to increase legibility, and even reward higher resolution viewers with extra content and larger images."
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Google Base goes live - it's more than just about classifieds
Forrester analyst Charlene Li discusses her thoughts on Google Base.
Reasons Bloggers Hate the Mainstream Media.
McSweeney's: "Bloggers got stood up at prom. By the MSM."
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With an enviable track record in newspapers, books, TV and film, the News Corp. chief pushes his chips toward his latest passion: the Internet.
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Portfolio of Eduardo Recife.
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"Unnecessary details can put the brakes on innovative thinking. Better to focus on big picture up front. The details will follow naturally."
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"For those of you who have expressed confusion over the many forms of diet and sugar free cokes now available to you, I offer an explanation, because I was confused so I did the research"
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From Communication Nation: "Here's a compilation of "how-to" posts from this blog that can help you be more effective in business situations:"
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Simon Williams: The 10 New Rules of Branding
"The marketing community needs a new set of branding rules, says Simon Williams, chairman of New York-based branding consultancy Sterling Group. And he’s more than happy to supply them."
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Amazon, excess and the future of navigation...
"A massive explosion in trustworthy ways of exploring through your data is how you turn a business from a repository or a directory into a web native, 21st century operation."
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On the Value of Design: A look at Stationery Package Creative Fees
"It is up to the creative community to stand their ground and educate and/or reinforce the value that design and creativity brings to the table."
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"ColourMod originally made its deput as a web-based DHTML Dynamic Colour Picker. Since the inception of the newest OS from Apple, OS X Tiger, ColourMod has been ported to the Dashboard interface."
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Predictions for next year from Renegade president Drew Neisser.
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The Art of Business: Marketing Smart
"Nine top ways to make your marketing fast and effective."
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Six Apart does their customers right
Asks customers to let them know how much the downtime has effected them by choosing how many days of free service they should receive.
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Google launches a free analytics program with lots of goodies.
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Newsvine and How Big Companies Can Innovate
Kareem Mayan, who has and still does work at a big company, considers why they have so much trouble being innovative.
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"That’s really what interests me the most: making dense and complicated information applications usable and pleasing for real people; it’s how I define the term “design.�"
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"They may not tell you, but clients expectâ€â€even demand things from the creative firms they work with. Learn how to meet and exceed those expectations."
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Pizza Flyers: The Height of Good Graphic Design?
"The fact is, pizza flyers set up precisely the right expectations about the product and the service: cheap, cheerful and quick."
Generation Y: They've arrived at work with a new attitude
""They've grown up questioning their parents, and now they're questioning their employers. They don't know how to shut up, which is great, but that's aggravating to the 50-year-old manager"
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"I’ve realized that the basic corporate design model for Web and application design is broken. This article will share some of the conclusions I’ve drawn and propose some better approaches for designing successful applications."
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Coudal Partner's 12 minute short film.
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A couple of days ago we had a forum entry on how to create badges, like those used on Bartelme Design to indicate new entries. So here is a short description of how to create them using Adobe Photoshop.
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"With MonitorThis you can subscribe to 15 different search engine feeds at the same time. Enter a search term and click the 'make monitor.opml' button to get a list of rss feeds in OPML format."
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"CEO Jason Fried's startup philosophy can be summed up in three short words: Keep it simple"
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Typography Crash Course Roundup
"The following resources are comprised of some of my favorite articles on the subject and some sites that should give most a great head start."
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"Founded on the premise that the consumer has the right to her data, ROOT Markets is the first financial exchange for consumer leads."
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AttentionTrust - Returning Attention to its Rightful Owner: You
Joshua Porter gives a great description of what AttentTrust is and what it aims to do.
Some great URLs including the one for Pen Island (penisland.com) and Mole Station Native Nursery (molestationnursery.com)
"On the occasion of today's gruesome statistics on the continuing fall of newspapers, here's an updated look at mainstream entertainment and media in decline"
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Growing up with the wired generation
"Today's teenagers use technology to stay in touch with friends at all times - turning their bedrooms into 'connected cocoons'"
Insights and inspiration for the user experience community
"Clear, concise design is a key factor in the success of all user interfaces, especially when you consider the amount of information we’re all required to parse in today’s digital world."
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"A global TV guide, Torrent tracking, your favourites and recommendations plus an innovative social layer to hang it off. You want it, we want it, let's build it."
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" New visual strategies are connecting brands to consumers at a visceral level via stripped-down brand identities and communications."
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"CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously."
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Seen On The Streets of Bushwick (New York)
Some beautiful street art from Brooklyn.
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Comments from 2001 about the iPod release
Boy, those are a bunch of upset Apple fans. I expect they're eating their words at this point.
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"SuprGlu is about bringing the pieces of your web content together into one central place for you, your friends, and maybe even your friends to-be."
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The Remarkable Opportunities of Unbundled Media
As part of the Media in a Postmodern World series, Terry Heaton thinks about the opportunities that await as media continues to move in an unbundled direction.
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"This is a pure CSS image switcher that is lightweight and standards-compliant. It could be used for a gallery or any similar function."
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"Parasite is an independant projection-system that can be attached to subways and other trains with suction pads. Using the speed of the train as parameter for the projected content, the projection starts with the train moving inside a tunnel."
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The Secret Life of a Restaurant Critic
"Sure, it's a fun job. But when an owner threatens to get a gun because of my review, that's not so fun."
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"The purpose of this site is to aid new switchers in jumping straight to a lot of the amazingly good stuff that's available. All of the applications that are mentioned in the Quick Looks are used by me on a day to day basis."
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How to cut through the info blitz and actually get some work done
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10 Ways to Please Us, the Customers
David Pogue's 10 commandments to electronics makers
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Covering Teen Wolf: One Coach's Guide.
"What follows is the best strategy my staff and I have come up with to limit Teen Wolf's effectiveness on the court."
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"In the first study of its kind, researchers have found that peyote -- for now, the only legal hallucinogenic drug in the United States -- doesn't rob regular users of brain power over time."
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We assembled some of the smartest people we know to identify the trends that are most likely to affect our future. What we got was a fascinating discussion about religion, technology and politics and why no one's golf scores seem to be getting any better.
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Teen Content Creators and Consumers
"Teen Content Creators and Consumers: More than half of online teens have created content for the internet; and most teen downloaders think that getting free music files is easy to do"
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The Lives of Teenagers Now: Open Blogs, Not Locked Diaries
""The more kids are involved with digital content creation, the more thinkers will emerge that will eventually produce tomorrow's innovative products," said Brendan Erazo, a 15-year-old."
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How to spend your marketing and ad budget
"Is there something you can do that might be more creative and, in many cases today, at least--if not more--effective?"
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Thinking Sideways: Exploring pattern recognition acceleration
An interview with Malcolm Gladwell about Blink and the topics within.
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flagrantdisregard.com Flickr Toys
A whole bunch of cool little apps for Flickr photos.
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Geek to Live: Write effectively for the Web
"From Lifehacker’s very own internal editorial style guide, today we’ll go over some simple guidelines for writing on the Web that will help you get your message across and elicit the best responses."
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"A Movable Type plugin for listing entries included in the primary category of the current entry."
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A whole gallery full of vintage wallpaper patterns. Mmmmmm . . .
"Digg, Memeorandum, Findory, Blogniscient, and other startups promise to manage news overload on the Web."
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One concerned Godmother writes a letter to the local newspapers about her Godson's possible addiction to 'camel toad.'
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An Open Letter to the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney.
"But you and I together can continue the struggle for which Scooter Libby has become a martyr. Between us, we can shove the timid Colin Powells to the side until, as my future girlfriend Ann Coulter said the other day, "it's morning in America again!""
"Here are some of the endless numbers of activities that can stimulate your brain. The one key ingredient is to have an open mind."
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A gallery full of screenshots and links to good blog design. It's in Spanish, by the way.
Why people believe in alien abductions
When compared with regular people, most abductees scored higher in belief in the paranormal and a tendency to hallucinate. Uhh . . . . duh.
Texting teenagers are proving 'more literate than ever before'
"The most comprehensive comparison made of exam papers of the past 25 years has discovered that the writing ability of 16-year-olds has never been higher."
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Alito or Scalito? If you're a liberal, you'd prefer Scalia.
"When Antonin Scalia starts looking good, you know you're in trouble."
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Skewering Tradition to Sell a New Battery to the Young
"The Oxyride campaign is indicative of increasing efforts from mainstream advertisers to expand beyond traditional media like television and newspapers."
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Wired to Open Gadget Store in NYC
"The purpose of the store would be to give shoppers a chance to see the latest technology and gadgets up close."
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Read/Write Web: "My Day 1 impressions of Windows/Office Live are positive and I think Microsoft is taking up the challenge of an increasingly Web-based software world"
"In an exclusive book excerpt from the general manager of Ideo, we meet the personality types it takes to keep creativity thriving--and the devil's advocate at bay."
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Panasonic Targets Power-Hungry Device Users
"Afterhourscity.com is run by a handful of bloggers in five target markets, with Oxyride along as a sponsor with no editorial control over the blog's content, Murano said."
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ITunes Video Sales Top 1 Million
"Apple Computer Inc. said Monday that iTunes users have downloaded more than 1 million videos since they were made available on Oct. 12."
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