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2:11 AM ET, December 13, 2006

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Nicole Simon / cruel to be kind:
Loic Lemeur: Betraying 1000 attendees for his own political ambitions?  —  Last year at Leblogs we had the problem of being promised a high profile event, like *the* major event in this regard and got took by surprise how the audience was not really even.  A lot of more geeky people …
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Sierra / sierralog:
LeWeb3 is political propaganda  —  No I am not happy to have Mr. Sarkozy here.  I don't care if Nicolas Sarkozy changed all his schedule just for you or this conference to be here.  He is a politician, he knows his schedule, you surely informed him about the event - hey you two are best friends as it seems.
Shane Richmond / Telegraph Blogs:
Why are they here?  —  "I don't mean to be rude," …
Discussion: Joho the Blog
Ben / Ben Metcalfe Blog:
LeWeb3: calling bulls**t on the politicians from the finger-channel
Discussion: Tom Morris and Scobleizer
Peter / blog.forret.com:   LeWeb3 is actually "Loic for president"
Annys Shin / Washington Post:
FTC Moves to Unmask Word-of-Mouth Marketing  —  The Federal Trade Commission yesterday said that companies engaging in word-of-mouth marketing, in which people are compensated to promote products to their peers, must disclose those relationships.  —  In a staff opinion issued yesterday …
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Mike / Techdirt:   Just Because You Get Others To Do Your Deceptive Advertising For You …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Finance Overhaul  —  As anticipated, Google Finance launched a fairly extensive redesign and feature changes today.  There is much more information included on the home page v. the old layout.  Comparison charts can now be created for multiple stocks.  Top stocks can be sorted by market cap, price, search popularity, etc.
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Vishesh Kumar / TheStreet.com:
Google Finance Upgrade on the Money
Silicon Valley Watcher:
New: Ajax13 rounds out online suite with new Powerpoint app  —  By Tom Foremski for Silicon Valley Watcher Hisham El-Emam tells me that his team at Ajax13 has just added ajaxPresents, a Powerpoint-like online application.  The company's suite also includes ajaxWrite, ajaxSketch, ajaxXLS, and ajaxTunes.
Discussion: Technically Speaking
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:   Social Scraps: Wrike, Ajax13, Spresent, Hobnobster, Zemble Updates
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Laser etching coming to a laptop near you  —  If you can't stand the idea of a cookie cutter laptop and you live in New York, there's a new option: laser etching.  —  Phil Torrone, an editor at Make magazine, and Limor Fried, a former fellow at the tech-focused art studio Eyebeam R&D …
Valleywag:
SECOND LIFE: A story too good to check  —  CLAY SHIRKY — Second Life, the much-hyped virtual world backed by Benchmark Capital, is heading towards two million users.  Except it isn't, really.  We all know how this game works, and has since the earliest days of the web:
Chuqui 3.0:
Kevin Burton's Feed Blog: Craigslist Goes Evil  —  Kevin Burton's Feed Blog: Craigslist Goes Evil: … This started with Wikipedia, and Jason Calcanis ripping them for "leaving money on the table".  —  Now, that's back, only this time, it's Craigslist.  —  When did it become evil to choose …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
RIM sues Samsung over BlackJack name  —  Research In Motion is suing Samsung, claiming that the name of the company's new BlackJack smart phone is too similar to that of RIM's own BlackBerry devices.  —  The suit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Official Google Blog:
About Transferable Stock Options  —  We work hard to attract and retain the world's best talent in a number of ways, and a part of that is offering competitive compensation packages.  We offer standard things such as competitive salary, cash incentives, restricted stock units and stock options.
Business Wire:
Intalio to Release Entire BPMS Under Open Source License  —  Intalio/BPMS to Be Released Under Mozilla Public License With Attribution  —  REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Intalio, Inc., The Open Source BPMS Company, today announced that Intalio/BPMS Community Edition will be released under …
Bruce Johnson / Google Web Toolkit Blog:
GWT 1.3 Release Candidate is 100% Open Source  —  Today is quite a milestone for Google Web Toolkit: with the GWT 1.3 Release Candidate, our team is very happy to announce that all of GWT is open source under the Apache 2.0 license.  There's a lot to say, but let's start with our mission:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
It's Official(ish): MySpace Is Biggest Site on Internet  —  The November Comscore numbers show the inevitable: Fox Interactive (mostly MySpace) now has more page views than the combined Yahoo sites, taking the no. 1 spot for the first time.  This was less to do with MySpace growth …
Arik Hesseldahl / Byte of the Apple:
Who Says Macs Aren't Used In Businesses?  —  I was at the Hewlett-Packard analyst's meeting today and a funny Mac-related thing happened.  I happened to sit right behind a four people folks from Soleil-Cross Research, three of whom were typing notes on MacBook Pros.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Founders Fund hires Sean Parker as partner, to launch second fund  —  The Founders Fund, the venture firm led by former PayPal chief executive Peter Thiel, has hired Sean Parker, the controversial entrepreneur, who has just turned 27, as a managing partner.  —  Parker somehow attracts attention wherever he goes.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
A reprieve until April  —  A lot of people are going to say "I told you so."  —  So, to those, enjoy!  —  I'm going to keep this blog going for a while longer, Murphy-willing, at least until April next year, its 10 year anniversary.  It'll be the first blog to make it to 10, and that's a nice round number.
Discussion: CrunchNotes
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Viddler and GlanceTV Launch - YouTube, What Have You Started?  —  In case you hadn't noticed, 2006 has been the year for video.  In fact, there are so many startups piling into this space - literally hundreds - that I'm sure we can expect a fallout at some point.
 
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Out the social news scammers (and take a C note off the table)
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YouTube, Southwest Launch TV Ad Contest
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ClipSync Launches - YouTube Meets Live Chat
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
From Reuters, Automatic Trading Linked to News Events
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Dragon Quest IX is heading to ... the DS? WHOA
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iTunes Revenue Not Rockin'
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Google Maps Plus Box : Local Meets Organic Search
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Constance Loizos / Mercury News:
Some venture capitalists switching sides
Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils VoIP Solution as Part of Desktop Communications
Darren Murph / Engadget:
iTunes sales "collapsing," blanket licensing to succeed?
Gizmodo:
Laptop Covers for Dummies
Discussion: Digital World and I4U News
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
TV prices dropping too fast, Sony says
PR Newswire:
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