Build 1: Think Different.  —  Well, we always said that we would never ‘port’ Trillian to OS X. And now we’re excited to announce that we haven’t!  Instead, after many support/feature-request tickets asking for an OS X port… we wrote a new Trillian UI from scratch.

Source:   Cerulean Studios’ Blog
Link:   http://blog.ceruleanstudios.com/?p=205

Rumor: Tagged Platform will mimic Facebook Platform APIs  —  Shortly after Facebook launched the Platform in May of this year, LinkedIn announced that would be offering its own platform in “9 to 12 months”.  Since then, expectations have grown that many of the major social networking services will build their own platforms as well.

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Web Startups Are A Commodity  —  Paul Graham has written a very provocative essay on The Future Of Web Startups in which he argues that like computers, and many technological developments before them, web startups themselves are commodifying.  Paul says: … Paul is right about this.

Source:   A VC
Author:   Fred
Link:   http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/10/web-startups-ar.html

iPhone Password Manager  —  Since before the iPhone was released, passionate 1Password users have been begging us to support it.  As Canadians we couldn’t even get one, so Roustem and I travelled to Chicago to purchase a few for development.  —  After several grueling weeks …

Source:   Switchers’ Blog
Author:   David Teare
Link:   http://switchersblog.com/2007/10/05/iphone-password…

Securing Very Important Data: Your Own  —  AS long as we are willing to relinquish some personal data, Web applications have long allowed us to create virtual identities that can conduct most of the social and financial transactions that typify life in the real world.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Denise Caruso
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/technology/07frame…

Google Book Search Improved(?)  —  According to the Google blog ‘Inside Google Book Search’ they have recently made some changes to Google Book Search, so I took this as my cue to go and visit to check these out.  To say that I was disappointed is to put it mildly, and if you don’t have […]

On-campus Mac users quadruple  —  I never thought I’d switch to a Mac.  After all, I have used PCs since I was 5 years old.  I carried around my old Dell Inspiron 8000, a bulky nine-pound beast of a laptop, throughout high school, and it never suffered from any hardware problems over its five-year lifespan.

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Facebook’s Core College Student Users Laugh At Attempts To Use It For Business  —  When I argued that Facebook is NOT for business, that assertion was roundly dismissed by Facebook’s tech fan club, determined to prove (with Mark Zuckberg gleefully rooting them on) that Facebook is a serious business tool.

Source:   Publishing 2.0
Author:   Scott […]

iPod nano, classic 1.0.2 Updates change video, Cover Flow  —  Apple has released iPod Software 1.0.2 for the iPod classic and third-generation iPod nano, generically noting only that the release contains “bug fixes.”  However, changes to both devices’ handling of video-out …

Source:   iLounge
Author:   Jeremy Horwitz
Link:   http://ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/ipod-nano…

The Facebook Application Platform  —  An O’Reilly Radar Report  —  $149.00, PDF + 2 updates (because the Facebook platform is changing so rapidly, you’ll get 2 additional updates to this report, with fresh data and commentary)  —  Facebook bet that opening its Application Platform …

Source:   O’Reilly Radar
Link:   http://radar.oreilly.com/research/reports/facebook…