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Eric Schmidt (Who?)

11.08.06: At Web 2.0, Schmidt denies legal fund rumors, competition with MSFT (Silicon Valley Watcher--reporting on the business and culture of innovation)

By Richard Koman for SiliconValleyWatcher We're not at Web 2.0 (at least I'm not, I'm happily sitting on a love seat with a view of a lovely November morning) but many people are, so we offer up a mishmash of blog posts on the conf so...

Google's Schmidt denies YouTube litigation reserve (Blogging Stocks)

Web 2.0 Con: Liveblogging the "Conversation with Eric Schmidt" (Valleywag)

Welcome to the big Con: How the Web 2.0 Summit works (Valleywag)

Eric Schmidt At Web 2.0 On YouTube & Other Issues (Search Engine Watch Blog)

(Sort Of) Straight Talk From Google ( Forbes.com Technology News )

Michael Copps (Who?)

The FCC's 'Inattention and Muddling' - Copps Washington Post editorial (broadbandreports.com)

"America's record in expanding broadband communication is so poor that it should be viewed as an outrage by every consumer and businessperson in the country," writes Democratic FCC commissioner Michael Copps in an editorial in the Washington Post. The traditional topics get discussed, such as the FCC's low...

FCC Commissioner Copps Out With Broadband Strategy Suggestion (Techdirt)

Paris Hilton (Who?)

TIME Best Invention of the Year : YouTube (Quick Online Tips)

TIME presents is list of Best Inventions 2006 and the top slot of Invention of the year goes to YouTube. This popular video sharing service was recently acquired by Google and has made celebrities out of common people (like Noah and Ahreelee). “A robot learned to ride a bike. Somebody...

Like.com : Celebrity Look a Like Search and Commerce (Search Engine Journal)

Like.com: Be Like Anyone (CrunchGear)

Riya’s Like.com Is First True Visual Image Search (TechCrunch)

Bill Gates (Who?)

While you were sleeping: Here come the "0verstock" jokes (Valleywag)

Bill Gates goes in with a Saudi prince to offer $3.7 billion for the Four Seasons. Or as someone put it on Reddit, "Gates uses monopoly money to buy hotels." [Washington Post]Newsflash! USA Today says that in this world of increasing gadgetitude, people don't like tech support! Actually, the...

Gates says Russia is progressing on software piracy (RSS Top Stories -- SiliconValley.com)

IT Worker Shortages Everywhere (Slashdot)

Gates Unloads 2 Million Microsoft Shares (TechWeb)

12-year old programmer creates a web browser (digg / Technology)

John Battelle (Who?)

Web 2.0 Con: Liveblogging the "Conversation with Eric Schmidt" (Valleywag)

4:20: The grand ballroom for the welcome message and a talk by Google CEO Eric Schmidt was packed; I skipped upstairs to a swank overflow room catered by Google. Remember those Google snack rooms? They turned this room into one of them. 4:21: O'Reilly (owner of...

Welcome to the big Con: How the Web 2.0 Summit works (Valleywag)

Web 2.0 Con: Liveblogging Vint Cerf vs. Robert Pepper on Net Neutrality (Valleywag)

Eric Schmidt At Web 2.0 On YouTube & Other Issues (Search Engine Watch Blog)

250 servers X 20 Gigs of RAM X 4 cores = cool new thing (Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger)

NY Times to expand citizen journalism (InfoWorld: Top News)