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1:15 AM ET, December 9, 2007

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Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
Valleywag confession: We're frigtards  —  Nick Denton, who still claims he's the world's greatest investigative journalist even though he twice incorrectly identified Fake Steve and swore both times he had me dead to rights, is determined to make a go of this Valleywag gossip blog.
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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!
Computerworld:
Image Gallery: The Loneliest Place on Earth  —  Get this white paper now!  —  (Source: CIENA) Protecting your data, achieving regulatory compliance, and ensuring high availability have one thing in common - a secure, high-performance network that connects your data centers locally (MAN) …
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 …
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Wikia looking to topple Google, but will fail miserably  —  The CEO of Wikia, a search engine launching soon with an open algorithm, has been talking big for a long time now.  Unfortunately for Gil Penchina, not much scares Google — they will just get more aggressive.
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 …
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.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Social Websites As Games - How to Win at Digg, YouTube, Facebook  —  In a comment on our recent post The Digg Effect, C. Weng pointed to an e-book he has written called The Web: Hidden Games.  It is available for free on Lulu.com.  Weng commented that his book reveals "how websites such as Digg …
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.
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