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10:35 PM ET, December 8, 2007

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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Mark Zuckerberg cashes out?  [Scoop]  —  Venture capital's ancien régime is on the verge of being overturned.  We hear Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, may have cashed out — before an IPO, before a sale, and before his investors.  In the company's recent financing round …
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Facebook founder faces shareholder revolt [Followup]  —  I was duped on a scoop.  Word had reached me, from multiple sources, that Mark Zuckerberg had sold $40 million worth of shares in Facebook's $300 million financing round.  Not so, we hear: All of the $300 million Facebook raised …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook's Zuckerberg Doesn't Take $40 Million Off Table  —  UPDATE: Valleywag's Owen Wilson now says that his earlier report was wrong, and that Zuck hasn't cashed out at all.  —  [Valleywag reports more evidence that Mark Zuckerberg is no dummy: $40 million of the $300 million of stock sold …
Chris Ayres / Times of London:
One step from the top, Essex boy who reached Apple's core  —  The designer has come a long way — from a technophobe at a British polytechnic to being mooted as the US giant's next CEO  —  He holds one of the most powerful corporate jobs in America.  His admirers (and customers) include Bono, George W. Bush and the Queen.
Patrick Seitz / Investor's Business Daily:
Apple Macintosh Computers Likely To Gain Market Share  —  Apple's (AAPL) Macintosh computers are poised to make sizable market share gains in the coming months, according to a research firm that tracks PC purchase intent.  —  ChangeWave Research says it sees continuing momentum …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Starts to Index Images Uploaded to Blogger  —  Even if this sounds hard to believe, Google Image Search started to index images uploaded to Blogger in December 2007.  Until this month, all the images were prevented from being indexed by search engines for unknown reasons.
Discussion: WebMetricsGuru and Mashable!
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
50 Cent: File Sharing Doesn't Hurt Artists  —  The music of performer 50 Cent has zero appeal to me, but the man is undoubtedly smart, as the following words (via TorrentFreak) attest: … The key parts: file sharing doesn't hurt the artist, concert and merchandise sales are the key to profiting from music …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Pass The Bong, It's Another Whacky Zune Commercial  —  We first covered the rather different advertising campaign for Microsoft's iPod wannabe MP3 player the Zune in November.  Enamored perhaps by the surrealism presented in the original campaign, Microsoft has sponsored a project called Zune-Arts …
Louise Story / Bits:
Facebook Members Sell Their Own Ads  —  More than 1,500 Facebook users have started placing advertisements on their own profile pages-despite the social networking site's rule against such ads.  —  They are posting them with the help of a Montreal-based company called Weblo …
Charles Babcock / InformationWeek:
Verizon Sued Over GPL Code In Its FiOS Router  —  The Software Freedom Law Center is taking issue with the Actiontec MI424WR wireless router, which may include open license-infringing BusyBox software.  —  The Software Freedom Law Center on Friday filed suit against Verizon …
Sam Sethi / blognation:
The Funding Took Longer Than I Thought, Sorry Team  —  Reading the blogopshere you are probably aware that blognation has sadly had more of its internal private communications published.  —  Setting up a new company is at the best of times hard for any entrepreneur let alone in the public glare of the blogosphere.
Discussion: TechCrunch
David / weblog.rubyonrails.org:
Rails 2.0: It's done!  —  Rails 2.0 is finally finished after about a year in the making.  This is a fantastic release that's absolutely stuffed with great new features, loads of fixes, and an incredible amount of polish.  We've even taken a fair bit of cruft out to make the whole package more coherent and lean.
Associated Press:
CompUSA to close all of its 103 stores  —  The consumer electronics store will run store-closing sales during the holidays to get rid of inventory.  —  DALLAS (AP) — Consumer electronics retailer CompUSA said Friday it will close its stores after the holidays following sale of the company …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Warning sounded over 'flirting robots'  —  Those entering online dating forums risk having more than their hearts stolen.  —  A program which can mimic online flirtation and then extract personal information from its unsuspecting conversation partners is making the rounds in Russian chat forums …
 
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Andy Oram / O'Reilly Radar:
An editor critiques the publishing industry's Automated Content Access Protocol
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Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Novell, Red Hat and Gartner war with Facebook for PR flop award
Discussion: The Open Road
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Crapgadget: nano knockoff (with a camera), Millennium Falcon joystick, Fly Bar pogo
InfoWorld:
First Passport, now fraud: ex-MS employee charged
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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