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Linked List: August 24, 2006

Thursday, 24 August 2006

Official Google Blog: Exploring the Scholarly Neighborhood ★

A “more like this” feature for Google Scholar. (Via Jesper via email.)

Another Take on the Mac Wireless Hack ★

Rich Mogull’s alternate theory on the MacBook wireless hack saga. Possible, but in my opinion, not likely.

Lots of bug fixes, but only four new features from CSS 2.1. In my experience — limited these days, thankfully — IE7 isn’t that much easier to accommodate than IE6.

Apple Pays $100 Million to Settle Patent Dispute With Creative ★

Probably more money than Creative ever made selling their players, and a relative drop in the bucket on Apple’s part — even if they’d continued to fight it, they would have spent tens of millions in legal fees, and they would have risked a fiasco like what happened to BlackBerry maker RIM.

“Creative is very fortunate to have been granted this early patent,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “This settlement resolves all of our differences with Creative, including the five lawsuits currently pending between the companies, and removes the uncertainty and distraction of prolonged litigation.”

I love that dig from Jobs in the first sentence. He couldn’t even let the PR go out without making it clear that he hates giving them a nickel for that patent.

GigaOm’s Apple-YouTube Speculation ★

What a dumb idea. YouTube is feared and despised by the record/movie/TV companies that Apple is courting for the iTunes Music Store. I love YouTube, but the simple truth is that their stock in trade is redistributing without permission video clips whose copyrights are held by others. (Also: “Steve Jobs” wouldn’t be the one to buy YouTube; “Apple Computer” would.)

MacNN: Dell Withdraws From MP3 Player Market ★

I love saying “I told you so.”