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Linked List: October 12, 2005

Wednesday, 12 October 2005

iTunes Volume Song Purchases 

Get a discount when you purchase 10,000 or more songs at a time. It’s intended for contests and schools, not for spendthrifts.

WordPress.org Charging $20,000 a Day for Text Ads? 

This has to be a joke. Well, I guess it doesn’t have to be, but if it isn’t, as Kottke says, “This Web 2.0 math makes 0.0 sense.”

Apple’s Profit Quadruples, Yet Stock Falls 

Even though it was the best quarter in Apple’s history, their stock fell 10.5 percent after announcing their statement because iPod sales weren’t as fantastic as analysts had hoped.

Last Minute Word on Special Event 

So here’s what I hear, as of 1:00pm ET:

  • This photo shows the new iPod.
  • The new iPod plays video.
  • Apple’s rolling out a video content service, including music videos and single episodes of network television shows. (ABC?) But not motion pictures.
  • New four-CPU PowerMacs.
  • New iMacs.

I’ve heard nothing about new PowerBooks, but damn, that line-up is getting old.

Update: Right, right, right, wrong, right.

Remember the Milk 

Interesting new web-based to-do list app. (Via Andy Baio.)

iLounge Snaps Picture of New iPod Ad 

Not a photo of the new iPod itself, but a photo of an ad with an illustrated iPod. The screen is clearly wider and larger than on current iPods. iLounge.com is getting hammered, so here’s a local mirror. Credit to Larry Angell and iLounge.

Update: iLounge publisher Dennis Lloyd has a shot of the full ad on Flickr. (Thanks, Jesper.)

Adium 0.85 

Includes an improved libgaim library, which significantly improves Adium’s ability to send file transfers over AIM.

Nate Mook, BetaNews:

Microsoft and Yahoo are set to announce on Wednesday a blockbuster interoperability deal that will reshape the landscape of the fragmented instant messaging market. The companies will connect their IM networks so users on each can communicate with one another using text and voice chat free of charge.

Blockbuster indeed. They’ll have more combined users than AIM.

Google.org 

Sergey Brin and Larry Page:

We hope that someday this institution will eclipse Google itself in overall world impact by ambitiously applying innovation and significant resources to the largest of the world’s problems.

Microsoft Team RSS Blog: The Orange Icon 

I can’t wait to show this to Bryan Bell.