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Re: Afternoon sellout notes

Dave Winer praises Dropbox technology and goes further by suggesting that everyone should be able to run their own private servers: (…) the technology that Dropbox has mastered is so important that there should be an open source equivalent that … Continue reading

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For free? Why?

Great post by Pedro Pinheiro about making a business around art. I particularly like this excerpt: For free? Why? Because the money to be earned is not on things that can be copied. That’s a lost battle. If you’re a … Continue reading

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Re: Twitter URLs: Are Microformats The Answer To A Real Problem?

Stowe Boyd writes about a possible approach to address different user profiles on different clients. After exposing a possible microformats based approach he talks about a microsyntax solution to the problem: A microsyntax approach would be something visible in the … Continue reading

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Re: Bing Tries To Buy The News on TechCrunch

In order to actually make a dent in Google’s market share, Bing would have to pay such exorbitant sums to so many different news companies that it would be difficult to recoup its investment. Bing certainly get some marketing buzz … Continue reading

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Re: More On Cross-Platform Tumbling: Following Is Mostly RSS on /Message

You say: My sense is that cross-platform following can mostly be achieved by RSS subscription, although following does include a notification aspect. For example, in both Typepad and Tumblr I can expose the list of those that I am following, … Continue reading

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