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4:45 PM ET, January 3, 2007

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Mike / Techdirt:
Company Gets Patent On Digital Downloads; Sues Everyone  —  from the great dept  —  There's been quite a trend lately of companies who had otherwise completely failed in the marketplace to suddenly reinvent themselves as "patent licensing firms" and then go and sue everyone who actually was able to successfully innovate in the market.
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:   Intertainer to Web Giants: Pay Up for Our Patents
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Have you ever made a profit from a catering business or dog walking?  Do you prefer to work alone or in groups?  Have you ever set a world record in anything?  —  The right answers could help get you a job at Google.
New York Times:
Protecting Internet Democracy  —  One of the big winners in the last election may turn out to be the principle, known as net neutrality, that Internet service providers should not be able to favor some content over others.  Democrats who are moving into the majority in Congress …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Net neutrality push expected to resume in Congress  —  The nation's soon-to-be largest telephone company may have caved already to certain Net neutrality commitments in the name of a merger blessing, but a renewed push for more sweeping rules could return to Capitol Hill as soon as this month.
MediaShift:
DIGGING DEEPER Nielsen BuzzMetrics Tries to Measure Buzz in Social Media  —  Last year was a watershed for social media, with millions of people creating and sharing their own media on sites such as MySpace, YouTube, and Flickr and turning away from traditional one-way media such as TV, radio and newspapers.
Discussion: cgm and Quick Online Tips
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Andrew Hampp / AdAge:
'Web 2.0' Proves Most Popular Wikipedia Entry
Smaran / Torrentfreak:
BitTyrant: The "Selfish" BitTorrent Client  —  BitTyrant is a new "selfish" BitTorrent client based on Azureus.  The developers claim that it speeds up downloads by up to 70% by connecting to the peers that have high upload speeds, and peers that give you the best send / receive ratio.
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
"The Month of Apple bugs" begins, rationality surrenders  —  Kevin Finisterre and someone we only know as "LMH" have launched the Month of Apple Bugs, a site they dub a 'project' with the supposed goal of publishing bugs, hacks and exploits they have found in [Apple's software] any and all Apple-related software.
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Mitchell / mitchell's blog:
The Mozilla Foundation: Achieving Sustainability  —  Mozilla is a global community dedicated to improving the Internet experience for people everywhere.  We do this by building great software - such as the Mozilla Firefox web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird mail client - that helps people interact with the Internet.
John Mills / plasticlogic.com:
New volume manufacturing facility to ramp-up in 2008  —  Plastic Logic announced today that it will build the first factory to manufacture plastic electronics on a commercial scale.  The facility will produce flexible active-matrix display modules for 'take anywhere, read anywhere' electronic reader products.
Marty Graham / Wired News:
Where to Catch Some Wi-Fi Waves  —  Wi-Fi is like sand — it gets everywhere.  If you're toting your laptop to some sunny paradise this winter, you'll find you can combine body surfing, board surfing and web surfing at hundreds of public beaches all over the world.
Luke Smith / 1up.com:
RARE FOUNDERS LEAVE TO 'PURSUE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES'  —  Chris and Tim Stamper left the company at the end of 2006.  —  Chris and Tim Stamper, two of Rare Ltd.'s (Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark and Viva Pinata) three founders have left the studio.  While the news surfaces in the wake …
Fred Stutzman / Unit Structures:
Social Networking in 2007  —  Over the past few days, I've enjoyed reading lists of tech predictions for 2007.  Some favorites include Mashable, R/W Web, Ypulse, Web+, Lynetter's predictions and Jason Caplain's series of VC Predictions.  A bunch of these lists include predictions about how social networking will change in 2007.
Discussion: The Social Web and Mashable!
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Zephoria / apophenia:
some thoughts on 2007 (advertising, bullying, and mobile)
Discussion: Weblogg-ed and ben barren
Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
The "Dumbness of Crowds"  —  Community.  Wisdom of Crowds.  Collective Intelligence.  The new emphasis on net-enabled collaboration is all goodness and light until somebody gets an I poked out.  Is it merely a coincidence that Apple, run by (as James Gosling put it) "a dictator with good taste" …
Harrison Hoffman / LiveSide:
Nemo surfaces!  Windows Live for TV in the wild  —  Here's a little something to kick off our birthday celebration in style!  Back in October, we reported on Project Nemo, a Windows Live product for Media Center being developed behind the closed doors of Redmond.
Max Wang / DigiTimes:
Apple and HP to launch LED-based notebooks, Taiwan LED makers unlikely to benefit much, say sources  —  Although US-based brands such as Apple and Hewlett Packard (HP) are expected to launch notebooks using LEDs as the backlight source starting from the second quarter 2007 …
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Five Hackers Who Left a Mark on 2006  —  In the security year that was 2006, zero-day attacks and exploits dominated the headlines.  —  However, the year will be best remembered for the work of members of the hacking—er, security research—community who discovered and disclosed serious vulnerabilities …
Discussion: digg
Crave RSS:
Is HP ditching DLP TVs?  —  The end may be near for this DLP set.  —  The 2007 Consumer Electronics Show is still a few days away, but HP quietly announced its new lineup of HDTVs for 2007, and the biggest news is probably that its well-received DLP (Digital Lighting Processing) …
Discussion: Engadget, CrunchGear and Gizmodo
 
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PR Newswire:
Robert Nardelli Resigns as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Holiday 2006 console sales figures erroneous
Clays / Many-to-Many:
The future of television and the media triathlon
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Long-term Fedora Linux support ending
Discussion: Download Squad
Tony Smith / The Register:
Shuttle launches second-gen mini PC
Mike / Techdirt:
RIAA Pulling Out All The Stops To Keep Its Wholesale Digital Download Prices Quiet
Jason Clarke / Download Squad:
Adding Search functionality to Google Reader (or any other RSS reader)
Discussion: Lifehacker and InsideGoogle
PR Newswire:
SIRIUS Exceeds 6 Million Subscribers and Achieves First Cash Flow …
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techulate.com:
Why Digg is and should be in Google's search results
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Music industry softens on podcasts
Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
It's Not That Easy Being Green, but Techs Are Trying This Year
Discussion: Kevin Maney
Allan Leinwand / GigaOM:
Bringing the Net to Your Home Phone
Discussion: Screenwerk
cellular-news:
Huge Potential for Apple Phone: Study
Discussion: hypebot and digg
Kotaku:
Sean Hannity Loves the Wii
CheapyD / Cheap Ass Gamer:
CAG's Five Most Under Appreciated DS Games of 2006