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Slashdot | What’s Keeping US Phones In the Stone Age?
“possible explanations for the difference in cell-phone mkts between the US and Japan. He concludes: “It seems more like competition is non-existent and US providers are ramming yesteryear’s designs down our throats while charging us an arm and a leg!” (tags: mobile US business world problems)

Days of Our Lives, the blogosphere edition » mathewingram.com/work
“It wouldn’t be a weekend without some kind of pissing match or emotional upheaval in the schoolyard blogosphere, and the current candidate is a high-profile sparring exercise involving Jason “Mahalo” Calacanis and Dave “I invented RSS” Winer.” (tags: events controversy human+nature problems)

The Long Tail: Wired’s Long Tail web strategy: the Three Cs
“One of the questions I get most often is how I apply the Long Tail strategy to my day job of running Wired. The short answer is what I call the “Three Cs”: Catalyze and Curate Conversations.” (tags: conversational+media publishing business journalism magazines media)

Profilactic.com - preventing an online identity crisis
“Profilactic is a digital life aggregator for anyone who contributes content to more than a few social networking sites. It can be a real chore to keep all of your profiles up-to-date and follow up on all of the content you create or comment on.” (tags: me+collector identity comment+tracking conversational+media tools web2.0)

Rate My Dorm Room « Angela A Thomas
“It’s like the web has now moved so close to reality now that we want reality to be more web-like. Or something.” (tags: media+evolution psychology society human+nature)

Pure Mac: Screen Capture - Software for Macintosh
“Of course the Mac’s built in command-shift-3 and command-shift-4 is satisfactory for most purposes but if you need something more or have a particularly tricky screen to capture, one of these programs might help.” (tags: tools software technology mac screenshot screencasting)

Note to HP: Open Your Garage for next weekend’s BarCamp « Scobleizer
“Next week is a huge event in Silicon Valley. August 18-19. BarCampBlock. They are closing an entire block in Palo Alto to celebrate the birthday of BarCamps worldwide.” (tags: events culture geeks creativity)

Pligg is For Sale (Update: Confirmed)
“Pligg, the business side of the popular open source CMS for building Digg-like sites, is for sale on Sedo. With over 60,000 Sourceforge downloads, it was becoming too big to handle.” (tags: tools software business community)

Google Pack Adds StarOffice, NOT OpenOffice
“While StarOffice does have some proprietary parts, there’s an advantage for those who want it: within Google Pack, StarOffice is free, saving the $70 cost if you buy it from Sun. Perhaps the cost is being covered by Google themselves” (tags: software business)

Facebook Goes Open Source
“Part of Facebook’s source code was exposed to some users this weekend. The blog reposted all the code, which surely ruined Zuckerberg’s weekend. A server misconfiguration, not a hack, is being blamed. Facebook has since confirmed the issue.” (tags: web2.0 business security problems)

300 Search Engines Reviewed … Yes 300, Yes, Reviewed « TWO A DAY
“A search engine’s measure of usefulness is pretty simple: Results are current, accurate, quickly delivered, easy to read/understand. Search bar is easy to find. Paid ads & paid results are highlighted.” (tags: search tools reviews analysis)