Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:20 PM ET, December 14, 2007

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Udi Manber / Official Google Blog:
Encouraging people to contribute knowledge  —  The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities.  But not everything is written nor is everything well organized to make it easily discoverable.
RELATED:
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Knol - Google's Play To Aggregate Knowledge Pages  —  Move over Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, Mahalo, and Squidoo.  Maybe.  That's because Google's testing its own service to let people build a repository of knowledge.  In fact, knowledge forms the core of the service's name: Google Knol.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:   Google Knol: A Step Too Far?
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Google Runs Out of Content to Monetize; Wants You to Build More
Discussion: /Message
Bill Gates / BBC:
The skills you need to succeed  —  One of the most important changes of the last 30 years is that digital technology has transformed almost everyone into an information worker.  —  In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.
Apple:
How to create custom ringtones in GarageBand 4.1.1  —  With GarageBand 4.1.1 you can export your original song, your original audio recordings, or use Apple Loops and iLife jingles to create a custom ringtone for your iPhone.  —  Here's what you need to do it:  — GarageBand 4.1.1 or later
RELATED:
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
iPhone Users Get GarageBand Ringtones [Apple]
eMarketer:
The Promise of Social Network Advertising  —  How much can social networks net?  —  Social networking is an Internet success story.  —  This year, 37% of the US adult Internet population used online social networking at least once a month.  That figure will rise to 49% in 2011.
RELATED:
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Hype Watch: Social Media Revenues a Tiny Sliver of Online Advertising Pie
Discussion: WebProNews
Cying / inside looking out:
What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB  —  Well after being under NDA for so long, I'm glad to be able to say that Amazon SimpleDB has gone into limited beta.  Congratulations to everyone on the SDS / SimpleDB team; their several years of work on SimpleDB (formerly called SDS) is a brilliant piece of engineering.
Discussion: Rough Type, rc3.org and GigaOM
RELATED:
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Amazon rolls out beta of its cloud database
Discussion: TechCrunch
Mike / CrunchNotes:
The Fact And Fiction Of Sam Sethi  —  So Sam Sethi, former TechCrunch UK editor, announced the closing of his Blognation blog network today.  Hey lays 100% of the blame for the failure on me personally.  And while I agree with Mathew Ingram, Techfold and others that it isn't appropriate to lay blame on others for your own failure.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Greedy Webkinz Infuriates Parents, Trashes Own Brand  —  One of the greatest online success stories of the past two years, Webkinz, has suddenly threatened its brand and annoyed its most important constituency (parents) by bombarding kids with ads.  —  The Webkinz model was simple and brilliant …
RELATED:
Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
Microsoft strikes back at Opera antitrust claims  —  Microsoft on Friday denied antitrust claims by Opera Software that the software giant is abusing its dominant market position to lock users into the Internet Explorer Web browser.  —  Opera, based in Norway, announced on Thursday …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
A Year Later, the Same Scene: Long Lines for the Elusive Wii  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Linda Beattie is trying desperately to pay Nintendo $250, but the company is not cooperating.  —  Two weeks ago, Ms. Beattie went to a video game retailer in the Bay Area in search of a Wii, Nintendo's intensely popular video game machine.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Attack On the Yahoo Vice Presidents: More Exec Departures  —  It's starting to feel like a murder mystery over at Yahoo these days, as one vice president after another drops off the senior management rolls at the Internet giant.  —  Next to go are VP of Media Engineering Bharath Kadaba …
Federal Trade Commission:
Petition Seeking My Recusal from Review of Proposed Acquisition of Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners V, LP (DoubleClick Inc.)  —  This statement responds to the "Complaint Requesting Recusal of the Federal Trade Commission Chairman From the Pending Review of the Proposed Google-Doubleclick Merger" …
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Nintendo's Wii Rainchecks Mean You Get the Console Plus the Agonizing Wait [Nintendo]  —  Nintendo's Wii Rainchecks Mean You Get the Console Plus the Agonizing Wait  —  Kotaku's Brian Crecente is liveblogging a chat with Nintendo US honcho Reggie Fils-Aime, where the first order of business …
Discussion: Electronista, CNET News.com and Kotaku
Mark Halper / Business and financial news:
Mobile makers shake up music biz  —  Nokia and Sony Ericsson threaten cellular carriers with their new music plans.  —  NEW YORK (Fortune Magazine) — Mobile operators are losing their grip on the mobile-music business.  The latest threats: a planned free service from handset vendor Nokia …
RELATED:
Haroon Malik / Gizmodo:
Sony Ericsson Patent Depicts the Auto-Cleaning Future [Patents]
Discussion: Unwired View
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
N-Trig DuoSense in Dell Tablet to Power Other "Major Brand Notebooks" [Exclusive]  —  N-Trig makes the DuoSense technology that powers the Dell Latitude XT's touch-sensitive and pen-enabled display.  This is the only input device in the market that combines a pressure-sensitive pen with multitouch …
Michael Tolosa / The Commute from Hell:
CNET Sweeps  —  A couple weeks ago, Natalie Del Conte announced that she was leaving the Textra podcast (and PodShow in general) to join the New York branch of CNET.  This seemed like a blow to Adam Curry's PodShow company (where my DC Derby iTunes stream is hosted), since it appeared …
Discussion: NewTeeVee and CenterNetworks
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 2:20 PM ET, December 14, 2007.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Tribe AI:
Is AI just hype?  —  Find out how top enterprises use Tribe to get real business results.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more  —  We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics.  Download reports immediately for just $100.
Zoho:
Authy killed their desktop apps.  Time to switch to a reliable authenticator.  Time to switch to Zoho OneAuth.  —  Twilio's Authy recently announced end of life (EOL) for their desktop apps on March 19, 2024—five months ahead of schedule.
Comprehensive.io:
Browse salary data from 3,000 startups for free  —  Click for FREE, immediate access to real-time compensation benchmarking data.  Paid version helps HR automate comp reviews and communicate total compensation to employees.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Danny Mendez / Download Squad:
YouTube adds cool visualization for browsing related videos
The Boy Genius Report:
Verizon Treo 755p coming December 17th
Discussion: Gadgetell and Engadget Mobile
Electronista:
Gateway CEO to resign in early 2008
David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Google Analytics Adds Graphing, E-Commerce
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Eee PC Running Vista Make Us Go Eeek [Asus Eee PC]
Mark Ward / BBC:
Second Life lessons
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Huge Phone Bills And Unsuspecting Customers; When Will Mobile …
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Video: Santa Claus gets a Mac in latest Apple ad
 Earlier Items: 
Verizon:
Verizon Launches FiOS TV in Oregon, Increasing to 13 the Number …
Discussion: DSLreports
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
New Jackass film to receive web premiere
Discussion: Contentinople and WebProNews
James Sherwood / The Register:
Test your liver... with your phone
Discussion: Gizmodo
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Nokia's N-Gage hits the N81 next week in pre-release form
Johnny Vulkan / Business Week:
The Year in Advertising
Discussion: PSFK
Globe and Mail:
How did copyright become cool?
Discussion: p2pnet
Google LatLong:
Confessions of a search box
Clint Boulton / eWEEK.com:
Google Adds Blogs to Universal Search
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Sam Wolfson / The Guardian:
A look at the rise of celebrity-hosted interview podcasts, whose long running times mean guests delve into deep and personal topics, resembling therapy sessions

 
Sister Sites:

Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page