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8:05 AM ET, November 27, 2007

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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
As Google readies "GDrive", will Microsoft lead, or follow?  —  Some seemingly non-news coming out of the Wall Street Journal tonight, saying that Google is readying their online storage product, commonly referred to as GDrive.  The Journal doesn't offer any really new information, saying only in the publicly accessible copy:
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Some Thoughts on the Facebook Beacon  —  Recently I've read a number of negative posts about the Facebook Beacon which highlight how easy it is for a company to completely misjudge the privacy implications and ramifications of certain features in social software applications.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:   Facebook Privacy Issue Won't Die
Nick / Rough Type:
Understanding Google  —  Any understanding of Google as a business has to begin, I'm convinced, in the idea of complementary goods.  In The Google Enigma, an article in the new issue of Strategy & Business, I argue that the wide scope of Google's interest and activity is a natural …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Screenshots And Details On Upcoming MySpace "News Feeds"  —  A Reuters article earlier today gave a few details on MySpace's upcoming "new feeds" product (which is what Facebook calls their similar product launched a year ago.  We spoke to MySpace and got a much deeper look at the product, as well as screenshots of how it will look.
Discussion: VentureBeat
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Cory Doctorow / InformationWeek:
How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook  —  Columnist Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you're looking to avoid.  —  Facebook's "platform" strategy has sparked much online debate and controversy.
Business Wire:
Intuit to Acquire Homestead Technologies  —  Expanding Small Business Offerings to Include Web Site Creation and E-commerce Solutions  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq:INTU) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Homestead Technologies Inc. …
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Jskitch / CEO Unplugged:
Intuit and Homestead join forces
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Intuit Finally Buys Homestead for $170m
Discussion: Mashable!
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple acknowledges some MacBook hard drive problems  —  Apple is investigating whether or not faulty Seagate hard drives are to blame for data loss on some MacBooks.  —  Retrodata, a U.K. data recovery firm, reported earlier this year that certain 2.5-inch Seagate drives used in MacBooks …
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Online investigations into job candidates could be illegal  —  Companies could be infringing privacy if they dig up information about job applicants from social networking websites, an internet expert has warned.  —  John Carr, chairman of the UK Children's Charities' Coalition on Internet Safety …
Discussion: michael parekh on IT
Stephanie Kang / Wall Street Journal:
Fine-Tuning Cable Audiences  —  Software Monitors  —  Favored Viewers,  —  Shifts Commercials  —  When real-estate company RE/MAX International advertises with local cable operators, it typically asks them to air its commercials during home-improvement shows like A&E's "Flip This House" and HGTV's "House Hunters."
New York Magazine:
Universal Music CEO Doug Morris Speaks, Recording Industry in Even Deeper S**t Than We Thought  —  In the December issue of Wired, Seth Mnookin sits down with Universal Music Group CEO/supervillain Doug Morris for a pretty excellent profile (which is, tragically, not yet online).
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
News Corp builds online ad network  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Internet division plans to launch an online network to sell advertising across Rupert Murdoch's sprawling empire and even to other media companies as early as the first half of next year.
Eric Lai / Computerworld:
South Africa, Netherlands and Korea striding toward ODF  —  But France is still making the strongest move to ODF and its native office suite, OpenOffice  —  As Microsoft's Office Open XML document format remains in ISO limbo, a trio of countries are pushing forward an adoption …
Discussion: Slashdot
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
The next step in Digg clones  —  On Saturday I wrote a post asking for private email from people who are working on Digg clones.  I got about a dozen responses, they all look good.  I think any of them could work for the project I have in mind.  —  This left me with a vexing problem …
Discussion: ParisLemon, Scobleizer and Compiler
Alistair Croll / GigaOM:
Are Hackers Exploiting WordPress Themes?  —  WordPress is growing quickly - both as a hosted platform and also via standalone blog installations.  The rapid growth and its open, flexible approach to blog design, means it may become a target for hackers who embed malicious code within themes they distribute.
Discussion: Derek Punsalan and Digg
 
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
BBC, ITV, Channel 4 to launch joint on-demand web TV
Discussion: The Register, Guardian and BBC
USA Today:
Net shoppers tread treacherous water
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Wired Staffs Up for Video Push
Discussion: Mashable!
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
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ZDNet:
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Dell's 15.4-inch XPS M1530 multimedia powerhouse available on-line
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Luke O'Brien / 02138mag.com:
Poking Facebook  —  Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg created …
Discussion: VentureBeat and Valleywag
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Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
YAHOO WORKING ON A UNIVERSAL IM APP
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Hackers will feed on Vista in 2008, says McAfee
InfoWorld:
Gartner: x86 servers gain as Unix shipments fall
Discussion: The Register and IT Facts
Tim Lee / Techdirt:
Universal Music Working Hard To Alienate Its Biggest Stars
Discussion: Gizmodo
Chris Matyszczyk / Between the Lines:
Is Facebook banking that you're a beacon of egomania?
Rich Ericson / Computerworld:
Review: Sony's flash-based notebook — a road warrior's dream
Ben Kuchera / Opposable Thumbs:
Xbox 360 Fall Update includes social networking features
 

 
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