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[image] Deborah Gage / San Francisco Chronicle:
Microsoft tries to explain Seinfeld ad  —  Did you “get” the new Microsoft commercial?  Apparently, some people didn't, so Microsoft officials were calling reporters Friday to explain it.  —  The Redwood, Wash., company started airing a commercial Thursday night in which comedian Jerry …
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[image] [image] Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Microsoft Works to Perfect Windows Vista  —  An advertising blitz intended to help Microsoft polish the tarnished brand of its Windows Vista operating system began this week with a head-scratcher of a commercial.  —  The ad features Jerry Seinfeld flexing some new shoes, Bill Gates adjusting his shorts and no mention of Vista.
Discussion: Technologizer
[image] Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Ads: First Phase To “Engage Consumers, Spark Conversation”
Discussion:
Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:   New Windows Ads: WTG or WTF?
JR Raphael / E-Commerce Times:   What's Up With the Ad About Nothing That Has Everyone Talking?
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:   Guys, That's Unlikely to Perfect Windows Vista
Steven Hodson / Mashable!:   There's Something In All That Nothing
Philip Michaels / PC World:   The Bill and Jerry Show
Ryan / CyberNet:   Did Microsoft Fail with New Windows Ad?
Austin Modine / The Register:   World goes mad as Bill and Jerry eat churros
Zachary Rodgers / ClickZ News Blog:   Seinfeld Plays Opposite Man of Silicon in New Windows Spots
Ross Rubin / Out of the Box:   First Microsoft Seinfeld ad wins on a few fronts
Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:   Reality Check: The Seinfeld ad was superb
The Mac Observer:   First Seinfeld Microsoft Ad Airs, Thin on Content
John Biggs / CrunchGear:   Bill Gates/Jerry commercials: Raisin' rhetoric
Josh Pigford / The Apple Blog:   Windows ad featuring Jerry Seinfield airs
Seeking Alpha:   New Seinfeld Microsoft Ad Runs, Is About Nothing
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:   Poll: Is Microsoft's new ad working?
Wolfgang Gruener / TG Daily:   Microsoft: The Windows story is ... complicated
Meghan Keane / Epicenter:   What's With the New Microsoft Ads?
MarketingVOX:   Microsoft Ad Campaign Stirs Wrath of Blogosphere
Angela Natividad / Adrants:   Microsoft SVP Clarifies Goals of Off-Putting Seinfeld Campaign
James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants:   Tip for MS: Fire the Advertising Agency
Benjamin J. Romano / Tech Tracks:   Microsoft launching Windows ad campaign at 5:15 p.m. with spot …
[image] Microsoft:
Microsoft Kicks off new Windows Campaign with Star Power
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:   So Much Hate For Microsoft's Seinfeld/Gates Buddy Ad
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:   Show of Hands: Love or Hate the New Microsoft Ad?
Maria Russo / Web Scout:   Seinfeld and Gates' Microsoft misfire
Kevin McLaughlin / ChannelWeb Complete Feed:   Microsoft Tech ‘Gurus’ To Hone Windows Retail Pitch
Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:   First Gates-Seinfeld ad leaves us scratching our heads
Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing:   First Microsoft ad with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld
Pthurrott / SuperSite Blog:   Telling the story of Windows
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:   Is Windows Marketing Nothing or Something?
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:   It's official- Tablet PC is just a feature of Windows
Warner Crocker / GottaBeMobile:   Microsoft's Image Enhancement Rollout Needs A New Voice
Benjamin J. Romano / Tech Tracks:   Internal Microsoft memo describes initial Windows ad as ‘icebreaker’ …
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:   New Windows Ad Just an “Icebreaker”
Dave Jeyes / TECH.BLORGE.com:   Microsoft's first Seinfeld ad: Deliciously awkward
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:   Forget “The Conquistador”: When Is Microsoft Going to Drop …
Mr. Besilly / iPhone Savior:   Seinfeld Microsoft Ad Rambles On About Nothing
Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:   White Inspiron Mini Costs $25 More
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:   Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:   Microsoft Memo: New Windows Ad “An Icebreaker”
David Hunter / Microsoft News Tracker:   New Microsoft Seinfeld-Gates ad campaign starts with a dud
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:   Microsoft Seeks to Revive Windows With Seinfeld Ads
[image] Om Malik / GigaOM:
Joost To Kill Desktop Client  —  Exclusive: In what is likely to be a major shift in the company's strategy, peer-to-peer startup Joost is going to stop making its desktop client.  The decision to suspend the client is likely to be announced soon, I am told.
Discussion:
Daniel Langendorf / last100:   Will it be enough?  Joost to ditch desktop client in favor of Web-based player
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:   The New Joost: Like Hulu, But Social
Emily / WatchingTV Online:   THE NEW JOOST: LIKE HULU BUT SOCIAL
Don Reisinger / TechCrunch:   Breaking: Joost Turns to the Web for Help
Brad Linder / Download Squad:   Joost to kill desktop client, provide browser-based video player?
Avatar / Widgets Lab:   Joost to abandon desktop client to go web based, Joost Widgets to die too?
Chris Crum / WebProNews:   Joost Trying to Play Catch Up
Jackson West / Valleywag:   Joost finally abandons desktop app
Greg Sandoval / Download.com editors:   About time: Joost to launch browser-based player
Electronista:   Joost moving video from desktop to web?
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:   Embrace the Browser? Joost Do It
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:   Joost's desktop client is toast
Ian Lamont / Industry Standard:   Web-based Joost player in closed beta, no word on public release date
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:   Joost to euthanize desktop client
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:   Joost Tries to Remain Relevant; Will Nix Desktop Client
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:   Joost Does The Right Thing: Killing Desktop Version; Focusing On In-Browser
Effective Cpms / Clickety Clack:   Joost Moving Away From Downloadable App, Will Go For Plugin
Amit Chowdhry / Pulse 2.0:   Joost Killing Off Desktop Application. Good Riddance!
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:   Joost Killing Off The Desktop Client No One Downloaded
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:   Goodbye Joost client. Hello Joost web service.
Smp / Newest Industry:   Joost: A change to the program
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[image] [image] Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Screenshots And Video Of The New Joost  —  So much for Joost's carefully prepared plans to release a browser version of their TV over IP service later this month.  News leaked this morning that Joost would be abandoning their year old XUL based desktop client in favor of a browser based service that's more like Hulu and YouTube.
Discussion: NewTeeVee, CyberNet and TechSpot
[image] [image] Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Are Demo and TechCrunch50 fragmenting their audiences? … Update, 12:36 p.m. PDT: Business Week now says it is planning to send a reporter from its print side to DemoFall to complement the online reporter it is sending to the TechCrunch50.  —  If you're a fan of high-tech product announcements, next week could well be heaven for you.
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[image] [image] Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPod nano 4G leaked in actual, factual, really-real spy photo  —  Look, you know the drill here.  This may be the painstaking result of some CAD-school-dropout's nights home alone, or the latest in cheapo knock-offs from the Far East.  You may be looking at a Photoshop spackled together …
Discussion: MacNN, MacRumors, iPhone Savior and Digg
[image] [image] Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Twitter added nofollow to “www.” links in their Bio field  —  Yesterday John Battelle emailed me to ask about Rae's post.  This will be a little inside baseball to some people who don't live and breathe search and Twitter, but I figured I'd take what I emailed to John, add some pictures, and post it here.
[image] [image] Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Brave New World of Digital Intimacy  —  On Sept. 5, 2006, Mark Zuckerberg changed the way that Facebook worked, and in the process he inspired a revolt.  —  Zuckerberg, a doe-eyed 24-year-old C.E.O., founded Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard two years earlier, and the site quickly amassed nine million users.
[image] [image] Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Xbox 360 defects: an inside history of Microsoft's video game console woes  —  When his fourth Xbox 360 video game console died in April, Chris Szarek wasn't surprised.  —  The Chicopee, Mass. gamer was accustomed to the hardware failures that became known throughout the Internet as RROD …
Discussion: Kotaku and Slashdot
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[image] [image] Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
First look: Firefox 3.1 alpha 2 officially released  —  Mozilla has officially announced the availability of the second Firefox 3.1 alpha.  This release includes support for the highly-anticipated HTML 5 “video” element and a handful of other features that move the browser forward.
Discussion: ZDNet.com.au, Hardware 2.0 and Digg
[image] Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Analyst braces clients for “underwhelming” Apple event  —  American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu put out a call to clients on Friday, saying they should be prepared for a slight letdown at Apple's event next Tuesday unless chief executive Steve Jobs pulls a rabbit from his black turtleneck.
Discussion: Infinite Loop and Digital Daily
[image] Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Microsoft Missing the Boat on Mobile?  —  Yesterday's Microsoft Watch had an incisive article about Microsoft's failure to compete in the mobile phone marketplace.  Echoing my own assertions that Microsoft's obsessive focus on competition with Google in search is a massive distraction …
Discussion: eWeek
[image] [image] Alana Taylor / MediaShift:
Old Thinking Permeates Major Journalism School  —  “Nowadays it's essential for journalists to blog,” says Professor Mary Quigley to a class of 16 NYU journalism students.  The class is titled “Reporting Gen Y (a.k.a. Quarterlifers),” and it's one of the few NYU undergrad journalism classes that focuses on new media.
[image] [image] Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
How Search Will Revolutionize Social Networking  —  Social networking is on fire. eMarketer predicts that in the US the category will reach 44.3% of Internet users by year's end.  According to Google Insights, related searches are up 3,000% over the last four years.
Discussion: Blog World Expo Blog
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Jacob Morgan / Blog World Expo Blog:   Search and Social Networks
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