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News from the big boys:

May 23, 2007 by Michael Boyle

News from the big boys:

Google has bought Feedburner for $100M, according to Michael Arrington at TechCrunch. This deal has been rumoured for a while, but apparently now it’s a done deal.

I’m a Feedburner user, but frankly I have no real opinion about this news. I don’t think Google can change a lot about the terms of service – I doubt they could block feed-ads from other services, for example – so the move will likely go mostly unnoticed by users except for the superior integration we’ll see with Google’s other services for web publishers. Time will tell…

Tags: Arrington, Google, TechCrunch

Scott Rosenberg has published

May 23, 2007 by Michael Boyle

Scott Rosenberg has published

a great new interview with Howard Rheingold in AssignmentZero.

Tags: Media, Rheingold

Daring Fireball:

May 22, 2007 by Michael Boyle

Daring Fireball:

Enjackass. John Gruber nails the post-mortem on Engadget’s erroneous report about delays for both iPhone and Leopard. The short version: Engadget was wrong to have posted anything, because the supposed “internal email” referred to a published press release that should have been trivial to find and against which to fact-check.

Tags: Daring Fireball, Error, iPhone, Media

Salvador Dali

May 15, 2007 by Michael Boyle

Salvador Dali

on YouTube from What’s My Line in the 50s. The ongoing whispered negotiations between Dali and the host are very funny.

Tags: Arts

I still miss

May 15, 2007 by Michael Boyle

I still miss

blo.gs. Earlier: April 27, 2006, September 2, 2005, June 14, 2005.

Tags: Blo.gs, Yahoo

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