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By Brady Forrest
Ignite Portland is this Thursday evening at Weiden & Kennedy (directions)and the line-up looks great. The RSVPs on Upcoming have been maxed at 325, but as they say in this post it'...

By Andy Oram
I just heard from two contacts in Denmark that their branch of the
International Federation of Phonogram and Videogram Producers (IFPI)
(the equivalent of America's RIAA and MPAA)
has ...

By Brady Forrest
Mikel Maron, the champion of GeoRSS and contributor to the Open Street Map project, can now view OSM tiles on his iPhone. He has replaced Google as the data source on the iPhone's ...

By Peter Brantley
Today the New York Times has a story ("Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web") reviewing the various positions that libraries hold on the digitization of their collections. ...

By Peter Brantley
Via Greg Smith at serial consign, an interview with the Amsterdam graphic information design firm catalogtree.
Catalogtree creates compelling graphics and navigations through co...

By Peter Brantley
Via our friends at if:book, notice that the first machinima contest in Europe just took place at De Montfort University in Leicester 12-14 October 2007.
If:book highlights the w...

By Tim O'Reilly
Maker Faire Austin is in full swing. I'm not there, having just finished up the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, recuperating at home before heading out Monday for a MySQL board me...

By Brady Forrest
At Web 2.0 Summit, Stewart Butterfield announced that Flickr is going to be rolling out a new Maps interface and Flickr Places to highlight their geo-tagged photos. They have an am...

By Sarah Milstein
This afternoon's panel of four Google Alumni ended with an audience question: Was it insane to consider that Google might reach a $1 trillion market cap? (It's now at about $150 ...

By Jimmy Guterman
It's a young crowd at the Web 2.0 Summit. I'm in my mid-40s and I feel unconscionably old here. Safa Rashtchy ran a session this afternoon in which he interviewed a half-dozen Ba...