Five Reasons Why Web 2.0 People Need to Shut The F**k Up about the Mobile Web  —  Actually, I’m not going to give five new reasons, I just wanted a catchy title when I responded to this moron who has absolutely no f**king idea what he’s talking about.  —  1) 3G is slow?

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Why does Apple get a free ride?  —  I really don’t want to get into the usual pissing match that seems to occur whenever someone fails to bow down and worship Steve Jobs’ every move, but I can’t help myself.  Why aren’t we seeing more outrage — okay, even a little bit of outrage …

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MIT students turn famed Harvard statue into ‘Halo’ chief  —  It goes without saying that in addition to a stellar reputation for academic innovation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is renowned for its geeky pranks.  The best-known of these was perhaps the time when students decorated …

Source:   Crave: The gadget blog
Author:   Caroline McCarthy
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Growth of web applications in the US: Rapid adoption, but only when there’s a real benefit  —  Status and implications for the tech industry September 25, 2007 Summary: Adoption of web applications is moving faster than most observers realize The rise of web applications …

Source:   Rubicon White Papers
Link:   http://www.rubiconconsulting.com/thinking/whitepaper…

Five Reasons Why The Mobile Web Sucks  —  I’ve had it with all the hype about mobile being the next big thing — more to the point, I’ve had it with the mobile web.  Here are five reasons why the web on the go still has a long way to go.  —  1. Wireless carrier […]

Yahoo! to Close Its Podcasting Site  —  Two years to the month after launching its large podcast search and listening site, Yahoo! has announced that Yahoo! Podcasts will cease operation on Halloween, October 31st.  The site never came out of Beta before the plug was pulled.

Source:   Read/WriteWeb
Author:   Marshall Kirkpatrick
Link:   http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives…

Surprise: MSN Has Built the Video Site of the Future  —  There are big changes underway over at MSN Video, some of which represent a real look forward for the industry.  It’s hard to believe, and it isn’t pretty, but this is a site you’ve got to check out.  The site’s design, full screen player […]

HuffingtonPost Raises Another $5 Million; Same Investors Including Pittman  —  HuffingtonPost, the uber-blog, has quietly raised another $5 million in a second institutional round of funding.  The round included all previous investors: Softbank Capital, Greycroft Partners …

Source:   paidContent.org
Author:   Rafat Ali
Link:   http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-huffingtonpost…

When wireless > DSL: Sprint, Motorola show off WiMAX on the Chicago River  —  On a muggy early-autumn evening, I set sail down the Chicago River with a group of Motorola and Sprint executives, marketing people, analysts, and journalists.  Everyone was there to see one thing: Mobile WiMAX …

Source:   Ars Technica
Author:   Eric Bangeman
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Up next for Apple: the return of the Newton  —  Apple Inc, which helped spawn the PDA market with its Newton MessagePad line in the early ’90s, plans to give the concept another go with a modern day reincarnation of the old fan favorite based on the company’s new mutli-touch technology, AppleInsider has learned.

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