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12:40 AM ET, December 2, 2007

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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
NYT: Facebook's Zuckerberg Lied To Us; Coke: Ditto  —  The "Beacon" fallout continues.  The New York Times' Louise Story essentially accuses Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg of lying to her about Beacon's being "opt-in."  Coca-Cola got a similar impression from the company—and, having learned the truth, is holding off on using the program.
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Louise Story / Bits:
Coke Is Holding Off on Sipping Facebook's Beacon  —  At Facebook's Nov. 6 extravaganza to introduce its new social advertising features, I asked the first question after the speech of Mark Zuckerberg, the company's 23-year-old chief executive.  I asked why he thought lots of users …
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Facebook Beacon is Unfixable  —  Earlier this week I wrote a blog post which pointed out that the two major privacy and user experience problems with Facebook Beacon where that it (i) linked a user's Facebook account with an account on another site without the users permission and (ii) …
Discussion: CA Security Advisor … and Digg
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
A Well-Deserved Court Loss For Facebook  —  It should come as no surprise, of course, given it was essentially a legal temper tantrum on the part of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.  —  But a judge in Massachusetts wisely denied an inane request by the Palo Alto, Ca.-based social networking startup …
Umair / Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab:
Industry Note: More Evil Than Evil  —  Facebook is apparently too evil even for Coke.  —  lol - that's not just deeply ironic.  It's also deeply telling.  —  It speaks volumes when an ultra massconomy player like Coke is more concerned about the welfare of consumers than a so-called revolutionary.
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Andrew Miller / Your Search Advisor:
Google Apps Presentation in Ann Arbor  —  I had the privilege to attend a Google Apps presentation in Ann Arbor last night.  The event was hosted by Google in coordination with The Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce at the Boardwalk Creative Center.  The presentation was basically an intro …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Reveals 2008 Plans For Google Apps  —  Google is usually fairly tight lipped about future product releases.  But they were surprisingly revealing about upcoming plans for Google Apps at an event in Ann Arbor earlier this week.  Blogger Andrew Miller took some great notes from a presentation …
Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
One Laptop Per Child orders surge  —  Peru wants 260,000 machines; Mexican billionaire signs up  —  Despite slower-than-expected sales and tough competition from commercial rivals, the One Laptop Per Child Foundation of Cambridge is enjoying a surge of new orders.
Discussion: The Open Road and Digg
Alex Wright / New York Times:
Friending, Ancient or Otherwise  —  THE growing popularity of social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Second Life has thrust many of us into a new world where we make "friends" with people we barely know, scrawl messages on each other's walls and project our identities using totem-like visual symbols.
Discussion: Putting people first
Denise Caruso / New York Times:
Lots of Little Screens: TV Is Changing Shape  —  INEXPENSIVE broadband access has done far more for online video than enable the success of services like YouTube and iTunes.  By unchaining video watchers from their TV sets, it has opened the floodgates to a generation of TV producers for whom the Internet is their native medium.
Discussion: Beet.TV and Off On A Tangent
Randall Stross / New York Times:
For the 2008 Race, Google Is a Crucial Constituency  —  LAST century, General Motors assembly plants were a regular stop on the itineraries of presidential candidates.  This election cycle, Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., has become a favorite destination.
Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer:
WebFives/Vizrea aquired by Microsoft so download your content in the next 30 days  —  I set up a Vizrea account back in 2006 when they launched their service that was going to make it easy to get photos and video off of my camera-enabled phone and onto my PC so I could share it easily with others.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Pogo Stylus Tickles Your iPhone With More Precision [IPhone]  —  Pogo Stylus Tickles Your iPhone With More Precision  —  If you have fingers as big as chorizos and want to click with more precision on the iPhone, here's the Pogo Stylus.  According to the manufacturer the Pogo Stylus …
Discussion: CrunchGear and PMP Today
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Search Engine Land Celebrates Its First Birthday!  —  Happy Birthday to us!  Today, Search Engine Land officially turns one year old.  Below, I wanted to share some thanks to all those who've helped make it such a successful year, and I'm going to save the in-depth "what have we achieved" …
Discussion: Small Business SEM
 
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Social Networks Study Released - MySpace & Facebook Are Different After All!
Discussion: WebMetricsGuru
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
Google Street Views Hides Your Face. What Took So Long?
Guardian:
Teenager arrested over '£9.7m computer hacking ring'
Discussion: DailyTech and TECH.BLORGE.com
Phoenixlinden / Official Linden Blog:
Second Life Viewer Susceptible to Quicktime Security Flaw
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IndieGames / Xbox Team:
December 2007 Video Playback FAQ
Nate Lanxon / Crave at CNET UK:
Creative Zen to come in new 32GB and 2GB capacities
Drew McLellan / 24 ways:
Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Comcast CEO sees 160Mbps internet in 2008
 

 
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