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Newsburst. CNET's new centralized RSS reader, Newsburst, is unremarkable except for the fact that it's a reader that's branded by a leading news organization that's also a leading supplier of news via RSS. As a piece of software, it's very unimpressive, and even as a power play, it's unimpressive. But the potential is there, and other news organizations should be thinking seriously about following suit, and upping the ante.
Imagine putting your best news, with links to pages with your ads on it, in the right column of a River of News style aggregator with all your competitors' news on it (and weblogs of course, thank you). Now the readers no longer need to go to your competitors' home pages, you've just given them an incentive to come to you to get news from them.
All of this is perfectly legal in the world of RSS, and it's likely to cause some serious rock and roll in the news business when one of these guys steps out and gets gutsy, and offers the users something really tasty and useful. If you want to do this, let me know.
(Hint: I'll be pretty close to Atlanta on Monday.  ) [Scripting News]
3:39:00 PM 
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Google Maps is a web of linked XML documents. Lots of people have been noticing cool things about Google Maps: large and readable maps, image dragging, dynamic updating, integration with local search, clean URLs for bookmarking, local XSLT processing, transparent PNGs. Then, today, somebody1 this article pointed out something that just knocked my socks off. You can append "output=xml" to any Google Maps URL and receive raw XML. Here's a trivial use of that feature:
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10:47:58 AM
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*Novell Linux Desktop 9: Grabbing a Part of the Enterprise*. Novell's Linux Desktop distribution was widely expected last year. When it finally got released in December 2004, it had to compete with Red Hat's own Enterprise Desktop solution and Novell's very own SuSE. So, how does Novell Linux Desktop 9 (NLD) fairs? Read more on this exclusive OSNews article... [OSNews]
10:44:20 AM
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Control-Option-Command-8. Via Stefan and John, Tom Yager: When I use my PowerBook in dark spaces like conference sessions, I find that even the dimmest backlight setting is too bright. Control-Option-Command-8 switches the display to greyscale, then inverts it (in other words, black text on white becomes white text on black). The... [vowe dot net]
10:42:23 AM
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