Part of Longhorn is Wallop, where you can share photos, blog, and interact with your friends. It’s invite only and I do not have an invite. :( This project was presented by Lili Cheng at the PDC. It is part of MS Reasearch’s Social Computing Group. Scoble? Any help?

On Friday Lions Gate Films will release Shattered Glass, a movie about Steven Glass and The New Republic. To quote Charles Lane : “For the press, truth is, or should be, an absolute value.” Steven Glass fabricated sources and therefore stories for TNR. The best known case is “Hack Heaven” from the May 18, 1998 issue. Forbes broke the original story.

Borrusia Dortmund averages nearly 78,000 fans a home game. WOW. The average crowd in Germany is 36,492. In England 34,816. In Spain 29,345. In Italy 26,084. In the United States the MLS averages 14,677.

Today’s Dallas Fort Worth Star-Telegram has an article about women sports idols, specifically in the WUSA. Before WUSA there were leagues in Japan and Norway that provided opportunities after college if any players were interested. The idols were there, just not in person.

MIT Technolgoy Review profiles Intentional Software, a new company funded by Charles Simonyi. They aim to make writing code as easy as a PowerPoint presentation.

Got FoO is the coolest weblog design I have seen!

The Economist : How good is Google? “Craig Pisaris-Henderson…reckons that Google’s operating margins on sites other than its own must be much worse than FindWhat.com’s (23%) or Overture’s (12%) because it has been wooing advertisers away from Overture by being more generous to webmasters.”

New York Times article today about Microsoft pursueing a buyout of Google. If I had $50 billion I would try to invest in Google too. If the deal goes through I wonder what will happen to Linux within Google. Dump your vi, we are a Visual Studio company now!

Does Your Code Think In Ink? If so, Microsoft and PC Magazine might pay you $15,000 or other prizes.

Westinghouse has a new alarm clock coming out in mid-November. You can set it based on your calendar information, it runs on Windows CE .Net. $500 was the best price I found though. It would have been a lot easier for Microsoft to start with a SPOT alarm clock instead of a watch. I need a new alarm clock!