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Paul Boutin / Valleywag:
Denton to pay bloggers based on traffic — Gawker Media dark overlord Nick Denton (pictured) has launched a new pay system for all Gawker Media blogs, after testing it at four of his leading sites. Denton's goal is to discourage “self indulgent” posts and “mind-numbing frequency” in favor of …
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Can Pay-For-Performance Improve The Quality Of Content On The Web? — Nick Denton and Gawker Media are wrestling with the problem of content quality on the web — specifically, how to give bloggers incentives to create content that drives traffic based on quality rather than quantity.
Sydney Morning Herald:
Ten things that will change your future — So Google and Wikipedia took you by surprise? Nick Galvin looks into his crystal ball and explains what you need to know to survive the next decade. — Think back to the days before the network we call the internet existed.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Survey: Mac OS hit record 7.3% share in December; iPhone up 33% — Reflecting strong holiday sales of both MacBooks and iPhones, Apple's (AAPL) market share grew sharply in December, as measured by a Net Applications survey released today. — The Mac hit a record 7.3% share, up from 6.8% last month.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without — This will be the third annual post on “Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without." The first post, for 2006, is here. The 2007 post, written a year ago, is here. — This is a list of the products I tend to use daily.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Artificially Promotes Recent Web Pages — Google paid a big price when it started to index pages faster and show them in the search results minutes after they're published. The problem is that you can't rank a page that has just been created because it has no backlinks …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Predictions for 2008? — Engadgetdamus bids you greetings. With MMVII in the can, we can only direct our ponderations to what fantastical gadgets and events await in the new year. We beseech you, foretell the year's events and present your predictions. Will Android be an out of the gate success, or a slow starter?
Casey McNerthney / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Computer glitch interrupts Needle fireworks — A computer glitch led to a delayed fireworks show at the Seattle Center on Monday night as partiers waited to ring in the new year. — The show started on time at 11:59, said Mary Bacarella, spokeswoman for the Space Needle …
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
A Complete List of the Many Forms of Web Marketing for 2008 — This is an updated revision of the 2007 version, which was one of the top viewed posts for the entire year. I've added quite a few new forms as they've emerged or come to maturity over this last year. — Summary and Audience
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Shankar Ganesh / MakeUseOf.com:
5 Packs to Transform Windows to other OS — It's a new year, why not give your years old XP operating system a new look? If you're bored of having to look at the same kind of icons and eyecandy everytime, you can download and install these free transformation packs, and transform XP to look like any other OS.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Electronic Passports Raise Privacy Issues — The federal government will soon offer passport cards equipped with electronic data chips to U.S. citizens who travel frequently between the United States and Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean. The cards can be read wirelessly from 20 feet …
Jason Striegel / Hackszine.com:
Eavesdropping on Bluetooth headsets — Here's a short video in which Joshua Wright demonstrates how a Bluetooth headset can be hijacked, allowing audio to be captured or sent to the device: … All that is necessary is knowing the device address, which can be easily sniffed, and the secret pin, which defaults to 0000.
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Ben Edelman:
The Sears “Community” Installation of ComScore — Late last month, Benjamin Googins (a senior researcher in the Anti-Spyware unit at Computer Associates) critiqued a ComScore installation performed by Sears' “Sears Holdings Community” ("My SHC Community" or “SHC").
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Andrew Chen / Futuristic Play:
Public and private spaces, and why YouTube comments are so awful — Why do Reddit and YouTube comment areas suck so bad? — Have any of you guys read YouTube comments lately? They are just really awful - just click through to the YouTube site and read them.
