Microsoft and Yahoo are dead, over, done, in the ground, and Yahoo has moved on to Google, and that's the end of it. Or is it!? Also today, spitting crosses the line, cell phones cause serious (like, for real) addiction in some Spanish teens, Metallica retracts its redaction of some blogger reviews, and MySpace is getting a new design. Phew. Finally.
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EPISODE 745 |
Analysts don’t rule out a Microsoft-Yahoo deal just yet
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9967862-7.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080612-microsoft-yahoo-deal-really-seriously-dead-this-time.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/our-agreement-to-provide-ad-technology.html
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?&ReleaseID=316450
Potential MySpace redesign leak hints at new features
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/06/potential-myspa.html
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9967731-2.html
comScore: Facebook matches MySpace
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/06/13/comscore-facebook-matches-myspace
Metallica retracts retraction
http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=600942
Spit will be worse than spam
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/12/136232
Mod chips legal in the U.K.
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/06/12/2037223.shtml
Universal to appeal promo CD ruling
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/06/universal-to-ap.html
Spain treats child phone addicts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7452463.stm
Real racing in the virtual world
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7440658.stm
Final Skynet satellite launched
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7451867.stm
‘I’m NOT the 'Wii Fit' girl!’
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9967527-1.html
Screen grab: Woz hacks Kathy Griffin’s iPhone… on TV
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/video-woz-hacks-kathy-griffins-iphone/
VOICE MAIL
Alex
Molly cursed me!
Paul Verizon
Here's our data plan?
Eric Michigan
About the paperclip.
FORUMS
IMPORTANT Q: …are we electing a Mayor yet?
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6035_102-0.html?forumID=97&threadID=297787
My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nothing.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/science/orderingplanets.htm
--Brian
Damn, seems our government wants to be just like yours…
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/12/tech-copyright.html
--Dave
hi Buzz Crew,
Tom, the theory of your “cycles” you’ve been talking about on past 2
or 3 episodes it’s one of the basic theries in economics and it’s
called “business/economic cycles”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_cycle - here you can red more
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Cyclee.jpg - and a
nice graph
Greetings
--Thomas the programmer from Poland
http://www.subbrilliant.com/blog/?p=104
Hello BOL crew,
I just viewed the "poster" for the BOL meetup tonight at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/780695...And I just gotta say, I am a little frightened because it reminds me too much of this...
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5509/bolzombiesew6.jpg
Maybe it's just me. Anyways, thanks for the great podcast!
--Alfred Hom
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