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Louise Story / New York Times:
How Many Site Hits? Depends Who's Counting — How many people visited Style.com, the online home of Vogue and W magazines, last month? Was it 421,000, or, more optimistically, 497,000? Or was the real number more than three times higher, perhaps 1.8 million?
Ivar Ekman / New York Times:
Google's Purchase of Jaiku Raises New Privacy Issues — Google's acquisition of Jaiku, a small Finnish start-up active in the obscure field of microblogging — a word most often associated with the better-known company Twitter — might not appear to be an earth-shaking event.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Has The MySpace To Facebook Switch Begun? — If hype was the only indicator of marketshare in social networking, Facebook would be the winner by a mile, and yet for all the talk of Facebook's greatness, MySpace remains the most popular social networking destination.
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Julian Lee Marketing / Sydney Morning Herald:
MySpace slips to middle-of-road as Facebook surges ahead — MYSPACE, the website that redefined the meaning of friends in cyberspace, is showing signs of fatigue, with latest figures indicating that Australians - or at least hip ones - are deserting it for rival Facebook.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
How To Bypass Comcast's BitTorrent Throttling — Comcast is using an application from the broadband management company Sandvine to throttle BitTorrent traffic. It breaks every (seed) connection with new peers after a few seconds if it's not a Comcast user inside your community boundary.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Comcast traffic blocking: even more apps, groupware clients affected — Last week, we reported on mounting evidence that Comcast is targeting and disrupting BitTorrent traffic on its network. Further digging by interested parties has turned up more indication that BitTorrent …
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Online Video: NBC pulls YouTube channel — NBC pulls YouTube channel — NBC Universal has quietly pulled the official channel on YouTube the two companies established last June. Of course, that was a long time ago, in Internet years, and the relationship had run its course.
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Sam Zuckerman / San Francisco Chronicle:
Yes, some blogs are profitable - very profitable — In 2005, when Silicon Valley entrepreneur Michael Arrington started TechCrunch, his popular blog on Internet startups, he saw it mainly as a chance to indulge his obsession with young technology companies. — But it turned out that Arrington had latched onto something big.
MSFTextrememakeover:
What if Microsoft wasn't a screwup? — I had coffee with a friend last week who is ex-MSFT. He follows my blog and asked why I hadn't posted recently. I told him that I'd actually penned three different posts but decided not to publish any of them. — The first touched on Vista's challenges …
David Kravets / Wired News:
Exclusive: I Was a Hacker for the MPAA — Promises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young hacker to betray former associates in the BitTorrent scene to Tinseltown's anti-piracy lobby, according to the hacker. — In an exclusive interview with Wired News, gun-for-hire hacker Robert Anderson tells …
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Core of "Windows 7" taking shape: meet the "MinWin" kernel — Eric Traut, one of Microsoft's chief operating system design engineers, gave a fascinating demo (WMV) recently at the University of Illinois, where he talked about where the Windows core is going and ended with a sneak peek …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
MySpace original series 'Roommates' debuts Monday — MySpace.com is testing out the director's chair with a new Web-based series, Roommates, which debuts Monday at 1 p.m. PDT. Through December 21, a new three-minute episode of the show will be available each weekday on the MySpaceTV portal and through the Roommates profile page.
Computerworld:
IBM Uses RFID to Track Conference Attendees — IBM used RFID technology to track the movements of attendees at its Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas. — SERVERS & DATA CENTER / more stories... Experts say proposed security standards for power grid not enough
Damien Mulley:
Facebook stats for Ireland - 131,660 Ireland based people on it now? — Using the live details from the advanced flyer option in Facebook, you can see some stats and facts on people on Facebook. — Update: This makes Techmeme already? — From location Ireland we get the below stats.
