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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:37:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This one is getting passed around pretty quickly, but as he retires from Microsoft, I couldn't resist highlighting this fantastic internal email from Bill Gates complaining about the usability of some Windows features. It's old -- from 2003 -- but it's difficult to read it and not identify with some of the complaints.

---- Original Message ----

From: Bill Gates
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM
To: Jim Allchin
Cc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:37:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo And Google In Non-Exclusive Search Ad Deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As expected Yahoo has announced a non-exclusive ad pact with Google. In an announcement, the company says it has agreed with its arch rival to run ads against some search queries as well as other of its web properties. From the announcement: âUnder the terms of the agreement, Yahoo! will select the search term queries for which â and the pages on which â Yahoo! may offer Google paid search results.â

The nonexclusive deal is aimed at giving a lift to Yahooâs finances, and the...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:05:41 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Lonelygirl15 Production Company EQAL Gets $5 Million Funding</title>
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<description><![CDATA[EQAL, the new name of the production company behind the pioneering online video series Lonelygirl15, has received $5 million in funding from various investors to develop more shows beyond its first franchise and KateModern in UK. The round was led by Spark Capital, and includes some Silicon Valley heavyweights including Ron Conway and Marc Andreessen, and Georges Harik, a former Google executive. Also investing, Conrad Riggs, a Hollywood producer involved with TV shows such as âSurvivorâ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:57:42 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Google, Microsoft, and two media companies bidding on Digg</title>
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<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch says Digg is now finally serious about selling itself and is gathering bids via Allen & Co. Microsoft, Google, and two media companies (CBS, News Corp.?) are said to be at the table.

The real news, though, is that Digg has apparently cut its price from the $300 million the company originally wanted. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington says Google will bid $200-$225 million and that Digg will likely accept this. Microsoft is expected to bid even less. 100M?

In an interview several...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:09:05 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Why S3 failed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Late last night, Amazon issued a statement explaining the cause of the problem that hobbled its S3 storage system yesterday morning. It was not a hardware failure. Rather, the service's authentication system, which verifies the identity of a user, became overloaded with user requests. As one person explained to me, it amounted to a kind of accidental DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack, and Amazon didn't have enough capacity in place in one of its data centers to handle the...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:58:45 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo and AOL: Desperation squared</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Times is reporting that Yahoo wants to restart merger talks with AOL as a way of avoiding the clutches of Microsoft, a move that â if true â is roughly equivalent to screaming âweâre totally desperateâ from the rooftops of Yahoo headquarters. In this case, of course, itâs difficult to know who is the more desperate of the two, Yahoo or AOL. Neither has what amounts to a viable strategy, and neither has managed to capitalize on any of their vaunted media assets, despite years of...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:06:32 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo may consider Google alliance, source says</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yahoo Inc would consider a business alliance with Google Inc as one way to rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with Yahoo's strategy said on Sunday.

Yahoo management is considering revisiting talks it held with Google several months ago on an alliance as an alternative to Microsoft's bid, that source said. At $31 a share, Yahoo believes the bid undervalues the company, two sources said.

A second source close to Yahoo said it had received a procession...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:53:14 CST</pubDate>
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<title>CIA: Hackers demanding cash disrupted power</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hackers literally turned out the lights in multiple cities after breaking into electrical utilities and demanding extortion payments before disrupting the power, a senior CIA analyst told utility engineers at a trade conference.

All the break-ins occurred outside the United States, said senior CIA analyst Tom Donahue. The U.S. government believes some of the hackers had inside knowledge to cause the outages. Donahue did not specify what countries were affected, when the outages occurred or...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:25:56 CST</pubDate>
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<title>RIAA Website Wiped Clean by “Hackers”</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It started out on the social news website Reddit, where a link to a really slow SQL query was posted. While the Reddit users were trying to kill the RIAA server, someone allegedly decided to up the ante and wipe the siteâs entire database :)]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:51:24 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Digg Caught Red-Handed Censoring Ron Paul Stories</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Apparently the self-proclaimed 'digital democracy' Digg.com has been caught red-handed artificially suppressing and censoring Ron Paul stories by expunging them from the website with just one bury, despite the fact that thousands of other Digg users are voting the stories up.
At exactly 43 votes the story received one bury for spam, and then it completely disappeared from the upcoming sidebar at Digg in its particular category. I ran a search for TechCrunch posts (newest via URL)...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:10:00 CST</pubDate>
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