‘Lobbyconners’ crash tech conferences to schmooze, cut deals  —  Some of Silicon Valley’s digerati don’t let $3,600 admission prices keep them from attending technology conferences.  —  They simply loiter in the venue’s lobby - without paying - in hopes of mingling with other entrepreneurs, collecting business cards and cutting deals.

Source:   San Francisco Chronicle
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When Does a Social Network Become a “Publicity Network”?  —  Over the last week or so, Robert Scoble has mentioned several times that Facebook currently limits him to 5,000 “friends” and that the limit should be lifted.  If we check his Twitter account, currently he has 6,500 friends.

Source:   CenterNetworks -
Author:   Allen Stern
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OpenOffice 3.0 Wants to Compete with Outlook  —  I was just over at the OpenOffice site browsing through some of their marketing materials to see if there was anything interesting.  I came across a presentation that was given on September 19th at the OpenOffice 2007 Conference.

Source:   CyberNet
Author:   Ryan
Link:   http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/13/openoffice-30…

How many Google Reader subscribers do you have?  —  Darren Rowse on ProBlogger showed me how to look up how many subscribers I have on Google Reader.  —  So, I went looking for some numbers.  —  Keep in mind that these are ONLY for Google Reader, which is only a small percentage of subscribers (although […]

Top Blogs On Google Reader  —  So Google recently made it fairly easy to determine the number of Google Reader subscribers around a particular blog.  Gabe Rivera at Techmeme did a little work on excel and came up with an unofficial list of the top blogs and the number of subscribers each blog has on […]

Gmail Mobile 1.5 Released  —  There’s a new version for Gmail’s Java application for mobile phones.  Gmail Mobile 1.5 makes it easier to access your contacts by adding an option in the menu.  If you click on a contact, you’ll see the same information available in Gmail’s desktop interface …

Source:   Google Operating System
Author:   […]

Black Palm Centro on Sprint.com, red one coming soon  —  Just a heads up that Palm’s new Centro phone is now available for purchase on Sprint’s website for $99 with a new contract, $399 without.  —  The black version is the only one available for now, but the red version will be available on November […]

Why I’m Not Married… Yet  —  In discussing Twitter as a “chat room”, Jeremiah asked me if I was married.  Here is my reply:  —  I can’t get married yet - I need to find her on Facebook, make sure she has a MySpace page, she will need to tell her friends about the proposal […]

Passwords on the loose  —  An unknown group has caused quite a hassle by publicly posting information about tens of thousands of user accounts.  —  A 4.5MB textfile (passlist.txt) was uploaded to a Finnish website earlier today.  The file contains usernames, email addresses …

Source:   F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog
Author:   Mikko
Link:   http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001293.html

Two Are Sentenced to 5 Years in Pornographic Spam Case  —  Two men who sent millions of unsolicited pornographic e-mail messages have been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison as part of a prosecution under a federal antispam law, officials from the Department of Justice said Friday.

Source:   Associated Press
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/us/14spam.html