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1:40 PM ET, December 10, 2007

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Mario Sundar / The LinkedIn Blog:
Announcing LinkedIn News, Redesigned Homepage & more  —  The past few weeks have seen the release of a slew of features that have helped augment your experience of LinkedIn; features ranging from refined network updates to the ability to add a photo to your profile.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
LinkedIn launches platform — a better business social network  —  LinkedIn has just launched its own developer platform and a new design that promises to make it more useful to its millions of business users.  —  Earlier this year, many have wondered if social network Facebook …
Anne Zelenka / GigaOM:
LinkedIn Needs to ReachOut  —  Professional networking service LinkedIn wants to emulate Facebook's success by drawing users and applications through the use of a similar portal strategy.  But LinkedIn's best chance at success lies in doing just the opposite: reaching out to other web sites and applications.
Lucian Beebe / The LinkedIn Blog:
LinkedIn's Intelligent Application Platform  —  Several months ago, we announced we are working on APIs and a platform strategy for software developers to integrate with LinkedIn and display their application within LinkedIn.  With the OpenSocial announcements, you can now see a lot …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
LinkedIn Announcement: The Good News and The Bad
Discussion: CenterNetworks
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
LinkedIn and Facebook: Collision course?
Discussion: Mashable!
Randall C. Kennedy / InfoWorld:
Microsoft Office Live Workspaces misses the mark  —  San Francisco - After an excruciatingly drawn-out development process, Microsoft???s Office Live Workspaces — the company???s attempt to marry Microsoft Office to the emerging Web services ???cloud??? — is finally upon us.
Discussion: eWEEK.com and Computerworld
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Delivers Office Live Workspace Beta  —  Microsoft Office Director of Consumer and Small Business Product Management Kirk Gregersen discusses the public beta of Office Live Workspace, an online extension to Office that provides new Web storage and collaboration capabilities.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Office Live Workspace (Beta) Finally Goes Live. Still Needs Work.
Discussion: BetaNews
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:   Microsoft's Office Live Workspace: What it is and isn't
Elsa Wenzel / Webware.com:   Office Live Workspace (almost) brings Office 2007 online
Azadeh Ensha / New York Times:
Yahoo to Start Internet Program for Technology Investors  —  Yahoo, which already owns one of the most successful financial sites on the Web, is putting the final touches on a new online program for technology investors that is scheduled to begin next month.
Christopher Helman / Forbes:
The Second Coming  —  Michael Dell is back in charge of the troubled computer company he founded 23 years ago.  He's already shaken things up.  But can he bring back the magic?  —  His first official day back as chief executive, after stepping away for two and a half years, was Feb. 2.
Discussion: CNET News.com
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Is Dell readying a new mobile device?
Discussion: Portfolio.com
Toshiba:
Toshiba Launches High Performance Solid State Drives with MLC Devices  —  TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation today announced its entry into the emerging market for NAND-flash-based solid state drive (SSD) with a series of products featuring multilevel-cell NAND flash memories.
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Electronista:   Toshiba enters solid-state with 128GB drive
Microsoft:
MSN Mobile Launches Advertising and Premium Content  —  Microsoft extends mobile display leadership with premier advertisers Paramount Pictures and Jaguar.  —  Mobile display advertising is now available on MSN Mobile for the first time, Microsoft Corp. announced today.
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Chris / LiveSide:
Microsoft launches mobile advertising on MSN Mobile
Oliver / StarrTrek:
In Memoriam: Marc Orchant  —  I received the news around 3PM today that my closest friend, business associate, co-conspirator, sometime mentor, sometime  —  protege and full time confidante had passed away a week after suffering a massive heart attack at his home in New Mexico.  He was 50 years old.
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Nokia Pushes to Regain U.S. Sales in Spite of Apple and Google  —  ESPOO, Finland — When Google announced plans in October to revolutionize the software of cellular phones, few were more eager to hear the details than the industry veterans at Nokia.  They still are.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
50 Cent Is The Latest Artist To Understand The Economics Of Music  —  More and more musicians seem to be recognizing what fans have been trying to tell them since Napster first came on the scene nearly a decade ago: it's not file sharing that hurts the music business, it's treating your fans badly that hurts the business.
Discussion: CrunchGear and 901am
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Subdomains and subdirectories  —  Towards the tail end of PubCon, I noticed a spate of articles talking about subdomains and subdirectories in Google, and I wanted to talk more about this subject in case I was unclear.  —  Historically, it's been kind of a wash about when to use subdomains vs. subdirectories.
Matt Hickey / CrunchGear:
Panasonic HDTVs + Panasonic Blu-ray players = Hot holiday bundles  —  If you're in the market for some serious home theater action, Panasonic, of all companies, has just announced a bundle worth looking into.  Starting next week, retailers will be selling Panasonic plasma HDTVs bundled …
 
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Maria Aspan / New York Times:
TiVo Shifts to Help Companies It Once Threatened
Discussion: Engadget
Electronista:
IBM intros 32nm processor technology
Discussion: The Register
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Wiimote repurposed for multi-point interactive whiteboard
Discussion: Opposable Thumbs
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
NYTimes Surges, Cnet Slumps
Discussion: 24/7 Wall St.
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Ultra-Portable MacBook Rumor Roundup
Darren Waters / BBC:
'Digital locks' future questioned
Chris Williams / The Register:
Virgin Media eases off bandwidth throttling
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
VIA's ARTIGO Pico-ITX ultra-compact barebones
Discussion: PC World
 Earlier Items: 
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Bankrate Unveils Two Acquisitions; Citi Upgrades
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Ad Agencies Show Willingness To Forgive Facebook's Beacon Missteps
Discussion: Mediaweek and The Laboratorium
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
T-Mo launches Samsung Katalyst with HotSpot @Home
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
AGLOCO Doesn't Pay To Surf, Joins Deadpool
Clint Boulton / eWEEK.com:
Online Ad World Gets Wider with Widgets
Discussion: Read/WriteWeb and Mashable!
Lifthill:
Epcot's Spaceship Earth reopens, Steve Jobs pics
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
CDNs Are Big Business, EdgeCast Get $6 Million
 

 
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