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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Loren Feldman Trashes Seesmic; Founder Loic Le Meur Takes The Bait — People who don't follow Loren Feldman are usually surprised when he takes aim at their startup and lets loose. He combines valid points with a highly confrontational approach (he once called me a "pompous elitist a**hole" and I still consider him a friend).
Dan Tynan / PC World:
The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007 — These much-ballyhooed products, sites, and services, it turned out, left much to be desired. — Recommend this story? — Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do? — It's not that Vista is awful.
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Dash Express finally shipping — I've been following the Dash Express — the "flocking" GPS device that tells other Dash devices in its vicinity about traffic problems and can connect to WiFi to look up addresses — for over a year now and every time I've met with them they've been pushing back the ship date.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Dash Express beta hands-on — We recently got to take a Dash Express beta unit for a spin, and while they're still gluing all the software together behind the scenes in anticipation of launch, we did spot the makings of a few obvious and ridiculously useful features new users can expect in February.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
A Familiar Editor for Gawker — Nick Denton, the entrepreneur who has built Gawker Media into a formidable blog brand, said two weeks ago that he wanted the new editor of his flagship site, Gawker.com, to oversee its evolution toward a more traditional news operation.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Is All About Large Amounts of Data — In a very interesting interview from October, Google's VP Marissa Mayer confessed that having access to large amounts of data is in many instances more important than creating great algorithms. … Marissa Mayer admitted that the main reason …
Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:
On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data — Each day about 1,700 juniors at an East Coast college log on to Facebook.com to accumulate "friends," compare movie preferences, share videos and exchange cybercocktails and kisses. Unwittingly, these students have become the subjects of academic research.
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Gregory Bonnell / Canadian Press:
Facebook suing Ontario porn firm — Alleges firm hacked into its system to get personal data — A Canadian company specializing in Internet porn is being sued by Facebook amid allegations it hacked the popular social networking website's computers and tried to access the personal information of users, court documents show.
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
IDEELI: IT'S WOOT.COM MEETS 'THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA' — If you read that chick-lit classic Bergdorf Blondes (I'm proud to admit that I did), you'll probably recall the scene in which the shopaholic female protagonists hold a military-style planning session in advance of the legendary Chanel sample sale …
Jorn Barger / Wired News:
Top 10 Tips for New Bloggers From Original Blogger Jorn Barger — Jorn Barger of Robot Wisdom coined the term "weblog" Dec. 17, 1997 — 10 years ago Monday — to describe the daily list of links that "logged" his travels across the web. — In the decade hence, Barger feels that he's gained some wisdom of his own about blogging.
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Mozilla Labs Blog:
Personas for Firefox — Personas for Firefox is a extension that adds lightweight theming to your browser. — Personas is a prototype that builds upon the ideas that: — themes today are too hard to find, install and use — graphic designers should be able to style the browser without having to code
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Wikia's Got A Truck Full of Servers — 1,000 To Be Exact! — Over the past week, one of the messages on the Wikia search mailing list I am on asked for an update on the Wikia search project. To which Jimmy Wales replied with, "On track, we are hard at work right now..." and displayed the image below.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft in Denial: Google Threat is Classic Disruption — To understand why Google is such a threat to Microsoft—and why Microsoft's pooh-poohing of this threat is, at best, a smokescreen—you need to understand how technology disruption works. — Disruptive technologies do not destroy existing market leaders overnight.
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evhead:
Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea — I've been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I've been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here's a first attempt at defining that. It's not as clear as I'd like it to be.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Find Your Gmail Contacts in orkut — It's not clear whether the fact that Gmail automatically adds to the address book all the people you've ever sent messages makes it irrelevant or comprehensive. It's not clear whether orkut will ever become a respected social network in other places than Brazil and India.
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