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Adam Curry Caught in Sticky Wiki — Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in its creation. — When someone edits Wikipedia without logging …
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research.microsoft.com:
SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder, from Microsoft Research — Overview — Microsoft Research's Community Technology presents SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder. — SNARF was built around the notion that social network information that is already available …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
SNARFing your way through e-mail — With the world's in-boxes overflowing with unread messages, researchers at Microsoft are offering up a tool they hope will help people sort through the morass. — The software maker this week released a free utility that aims to sort e-mail in a new way …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
RIM gets good news in patent case — Battered by two recent setbacks in court, Research In Motion won a round in its long-running patent fight against NTP on Thursday when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected one of the claims by RIM's adversary. — Patent-holding firm NTP contends …
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Om Malik on Broadband:
The Truth About Ala Carte Cable — Oxymoron of the day: AT&T backs a-la-carte cable. — No Kidding.... This Is Surprising? — MSNBC/Motley Fool has this op-ed about how FCC is looking out for consumers. News flash guys .... no. Its looking out for the phone companies.
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michael parekh on IT, cabledatacomnews.com, Things That, Joseph Laszlo, TechBlog and business2blog
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Mike / Techdirt:
There Goes The Other Reason eBay Bought Skype — from the two-strikes-and-you're-out dept. — Back when eBay bought Skype for $2.6 billion (potentially $4.1 billion), the company tried to justify the decision with a variety of vague statements. However, two specific rationales stood out …
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Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
Video Phones Offer Face Time, Even if Consumers Aren't Ready — George Jetson, his boy Elroy, Dick Tracy and Capt. James T. Kirk have used video phones for decades, calling people across the universe with unselfconscious ease. — But Americans have never embraced the technology which …
Reuters:
Yahoo using online behavior to target ads — NEW YORK—Yahoo aims to boost the effectiveness of its advertising—and rates—by targeting ads to users based on their surfing behavior on its site, the company's advertising sales chief said on Thursday. — "The new, new thing at Yahoo …
BBC:
Xbox 360 sells out within hours — The Xbox 360 has virtually sold out in the UK as gamers rushed to snap up Microsoft's next generation games console, say retailers. — Dedicated fans queued overnight or in the early hours of the morning in the light of limited stocks.
linuxdevices.com:
LinkSys courts Linux hackers with WRT54G"L" — LinkSys last month switched the standard model of its ubiquitous WRT54G wireless router from Linux to VxWorks, starting with the "series 5" version. Now, LinkSys is shipping a Linux-based WRT54GL model that it says it created specially for Linux hobbyists, hackers, and aficianados.
Nitin Badjatia / Download Squad:
Ten things we love about Microsoft — Here at Download Squad we know that the holiday spirit means more than just shopping for the coolest gadgets (you know, for others on our list). The holidays are also a great time to be thankful for all that we already have.
Yahoo! Search blog:
Y! Q in Firefox, and Hacks Galore — Back in August, we announced that Y! Q had been integrated into Yahoo! Toolbar for Internet Explorer, enabling Toolbar users to select text on any Web page and get related search results on the spot — the latest embodiment of Y!
Susan Mernit / Susan Mernit's Blog:
Inside Craig: SFWeekly writer profiles The Listman — Ryan Blitstein's done a lovely job profiling Craig Newmark in SF Weekly, digging into both Craig's smart simplicity and the profound disruption his efforts have caused. — Favorite snippets: — Describing Craig monitoring CL …
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Seth Shostak / space.com:
SETI and Intelligent Design — If you're an inveterate tube-o-phile, you may remember the episode of "Cheers" in which Cliff, the postman who's stayed by neither snow, nor rain, nor gloom of night from his appointed rounds of beer, exclaims to Norm that he's found a potato that looks like Richard Nixon's head.
Brandon Schauer / adaptivepath.com:
Experience Attributes: Crucial DNA of Web 2.0 — essay archives — The industry has spent a lot of time defining Web 2.0 and mapping its DNA. But as we attempt to emulate the fast-growth success of the Web 2.0 darlings, we need to zero in on the parts of the DNA that actually create this noteworthy new value.
