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9:15 AM ET, January 3, 2008

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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Facebook disabled my account  —  If you are trying to contact me on Facebook, please don't.  My account has been “disabled” for breaking Facebook's Terms of Use.  I was running a script that got them to keep me from accessing my account.  I'm appealing.  I'll tell you what I was doing …
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Rodney Rumford / Facebook Applications Reviews …:
Facebook Bots Disable Robert Scoble  —  Facebook Bots Disable Robert Scoble's Facebook Account.  Apparently Robert broke facebooks terms of service.  He was being totally cool about how it happened.  I am sworn to secrecy by Robert about exactly what he was doing.
Discussion: Technobabble 2.0
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Updated: Facebook blocks Scoble for downloading his contacts, sparks revolt  —  Data portability from social networks is going to become a huge tech industry issue in the new year.  Why?  Because well known tech blogger Robert Scoble has had his Facebook account disabled after he tried …
Skrentablog:
Why Search?  —  I've gone and founded a search startup... you can read it about it in this write-up in TechCrunch.  But I get asked - why do search?  —  Simple - the idea that the current state-of-the-art in search is what we'll all be using, essentially unchanged, in 5 or 10 years, is absurd to me.
Discussion: WebProNews and Insider Chatter
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Next Google Search Challenger: Blekko  —  Rich Skrenta, who created the first computer virus (Elk Cloner), co-founded the Open Directory Project, and co-founded online news site Topix, may have bitten off the biggest challenge of his career - taking on Google.  In search.  —  Skrenta left Topix last June.
MacScoop:
Next iPhone software update to allow copy-paste  —  Apple will release an iPhone software update during MacWorld Expo 2008, well informed sources confirmed MacScoop.  But it appears that the unpolished iPhone sofware version recently leaked on the Internet doesn't include all the features of the final release.
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:   It's Back: iPhone 1.1.3 Copy Paste Rumor
Arn / MacRumors:   iPhone 1.1.3 to Include Copy/Paste?
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Netflix Partners With LG to Bring Movies Straight to TV  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix, the DVD-by-mail company with more than seven million customers, has a new strategy that may one day make those red envelopes obsolete.  —  The company wants to strike deals with electronics companies …
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Sue Zeidler / Reuters:
Netflix, LG to offer movie set-top box
Glenn Derene / Popular Mechanics:
Macworld 2008 Prediction: Apple's MacBook Plus Tablet Laptop  —  In his biweekly trends column, PM's senior tech editor forecasts what he thinks Steve Jobs will show the computer world at this year's Apple developers conference: a touchscreen “MacBook Plus” to enter the growing tablet market.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Plaxo's For Sale  —  Plaxo, the Sequoia-backed start that transformed itself from a hated spam monster into a mild mannered and interesting business social network, has started a sale process according to a source.  They've hired an investment bank, Revolution Partners, who are spearheading the sale effort.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Social Net Site Is Said to Be for Sale
Discussion: Valleywag
Damien Katz:
New Gig  —  Great news!  —  I've accepted a permanent, full-time job with IBM.  My primary duties are (drumroll....) CouchDB!  So all the stuff I've been doing up until now for free I'll be doing full time and be getting paid for it!  Yee Haw!  —  All the code will be Apache licensed …
Discussion: SmoothSpan Blog and Ajaxian
CNET News.com:
Dual-boot Windows and Linux, step 1: Get Ubuntu  —  This is the year I kiss Windows good-bye.  Well, maybe not entirely, but the writing is on the wall for Microsoft's flagship operating system, and all other desktop bloatware: The future of PC software is open source.
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Free WSJ.com Would Need 12x Traffic To Offset Loss; DJ Buy To Shave A Penny From NWS: Analyst  —  Turning WSJ.com into a free site would require a 12x increase in traffic growth to offset the lost revenue, according to a new report from Bear Stearns analyst Spencer Wang.
Megan McCarthy / Epicenter:
Facebook Ads Make You the Star — And You May Not Know It  —  Have you used Facebook to give a shout-out to businesses you like?  Best make sure your profile picture catches your best side, because you might be an unwitting star in those businesses' next Facebook ad campaigns.
Discussion: Consumer Passion
Nick Carr / Guardian:
The big switch may turn off jobs  —  Computing is now a resource like electricity - but where the arrival of grid power expanded the middle classes, the internet is making fewer people richer, says Nick Carr  —  A hundred years ago, a new network - the electric grid - allowed people to abandon …
Discussion: MediaVidea
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Apple Docking Patent Works Perfectly with Ultra-Slim MacBook  —  This Apple docking station patent shows a screen base in which you can slide in a MacBook through its side.  While this would be difficult to do with current MacBook models, it fits perfectly with the idea of the ultra-light …
Discussion: Gadget Lab and technabob
 
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Darren Waters / BBC NEWS | dot.life:
How to survive CES  —  The Consumer Electronics Show starts next week …
Torgo χ:
Everything old  —  So, to commemorate the passing of Netscape …
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped
Kevin Heisler / Search Engine Watch Blog:
SEO Company CEO Arrested, Jailed: Accused of Foreclosure Scam
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Washington Post sticks by RIAA story despite evidence it goofed
Bill Ray / The Register:
Nokia snaps up Apertio for €140m
Discussion: TechCrunch
Robert Birming / GeekAlerts:
Star Trek Air Horn
Discussion: Crave and Gizmodo
Mark Ward / BBC:
Cyber thieves target social sites
Ryan Block / Engadget:
LG.Philips announces 14.3-inch flexible e-paper display for CES
Discussion: Gizmodo
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Chain Said to Seek Bids for Weather Channel
John P. Falcone / CNET News.com:
HP bows updated MediaSmart TVs
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Lenovo lets loose three IdeaPads
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Coming soon: A notebook with a terabyte
Yahoo! Picks:
Yahoo! Picks  —  We're sorry to say that Picks has stopped updating.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
A reverse engineer finds Kindle's hidden features
Discussion: Ubergizmo
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Sears: Come see the softer side of spyware
The Boy Genius Report:
Jay-Z launching record label with Apple
 

 
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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”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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