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4:50 PM ET, January 10, 2008

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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Trent Reznor: Why won't people pay $5?  —  UPDATE at 8:55 a.m.: The headline of the story was changed to reflect more broadly what Trent Reznor said during the interview.  As some readers noted, the original headline put too much emphasis on one of Reznor's statements.
Discussion: Podcasting News, Dembot and Digg
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:   Hey Trent — a music tax is a dumb idea
Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
Steal This Wi-Fi  —  Whenever I talk or write about my own security setup, the one thing that surprises people — and attracts the most criticism — is the fact that I run an open wireless network at home.  There's no password.  There's no encryption.  Anyone with wireless capability …
BBC:
Americans turn to online videos  —  Online video sharing sites are reaping the benefits of the ongoing writers' strike in the US.  —  According to net measurement firm Nielsen Online, some online video sites have doubled their audience since the strike began at the end of October.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
LinkedIn, SixApart and Flickr People Join DataPortability.org: Is This Stuff For Real?  —  The Data Portability Working Group is announcing today that key people from LinkedIn, Flickr, SixApart and Twitter are joining the group.  These new names are just the most visible part of a groundswell …
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Steve Ganz / The LinkedIn Blog:
Who Owns Your Data? (hint: you do)  —  Data portability is on a lot of people's minds right now.  You don't need to be an A-list blogger trying to export your massive friend list to know that your address book is your own, nor to recognize that toting around your network can be cumbersome.
Discussion: Insider Chatter
Fred Vogelstein / Wired News:
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry  —  The demo was not going well.  —  Again.  —  It was a late morning in the fall of 2006.  Almost a year earlier, Steve Jobs had tasked about 200 of Apple's top engineers with creating the iPhone.
Wall Street Journal:
Wsj.com/opinion  —  Everyone knows that Joseph Schumpeter's “creative destruction” is roiling the newspaper world, and today we'd like to announce something on the creative side.  We're rolling out a new Web site for the Journal editorial page offering free access to all of our editorials and op-eds, video interviews and commentary.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
WSJ.com Merges OpinionJournal With Subscription Content For Free …
Discussion: Mashable!
Variety:
Blu-ray could win high-def battle  —  HD DVD backers could switch sides soon  —  The two remaining studios backing HD DVD could switch sides soon, ending the high-def format war instantly.  —  Daily Variety has confirmed that Universal's commitment to backing HD DVD exclusively has ended.
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
FACEBOOK TOPS ONE LIST OF ‘SLOW AND INACCESSIBLE’ SOCIAL NETWORKS  —  On Thursday, Web site-monitoring firm WatchMouse released the results of a study about the performance of 104 social-media sites—social networks, blogging communities, bookmarking sites, and the like—and boldly deemed them to be overall “slow and inaccessible.”
Discussion: WebProNews and All Facebook
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
3 Important Facebook Updates Coming Soon  —  Here's a quick look at some important Facebook updates that are expected to launch in 1Q 08:  —  1) Friend Lists Privacy Controls  —  A few weeks ago, Facebook took the first step toward enabling more efficient friend management with the release of Friend Lists.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Webware.com and Mashable!
AboutUs.org Weblog:
We're Launching Three New Services!  —  We're excited to announce the availability this afternoon of three new services for the AboutUs community.  You may have noticed already that there are three new tabs up in the top right corner of each page on the wiki.
DealBook:
Logitech Shares Jump on Microsoft Bid Rumors  —  Shares in the Swiss-based computer peripherals maker Logitech International rose more than 12 percent on Thursday amid speculation Microsoft would make a takeover bid, traders told Reuters.  Spokesmen for Logitech, the world's largest maker of computer mice …
Discussion: Engadget and Between the Lines
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Google Neglects Jaiku So Users Switch to Twitter  —  Over at ars technica, there's talk of Jaiku users fleeing to Twitter due to the lack of any innovation since being acquired by Google. … I can attest to the poor performance of Jaiku.  After the acquisition, I remembered that I had signed up for Jaiku many months before.
Frank Watson / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Entertains Real Estate Industry At NYC Offices  —  The Real Estate Connect conference is in New York this week and participants were invited to hang out at Google HQ East last night, Their invitation says it all:  —  Google would like to invite you to an evening at our New York office.
Discussion: Mashable!
 
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Smashing Magazine:
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Discussion: Digg
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Weather Channel Adds Weather to Google Maps
Discussion: WebProNews and CenterNetworks
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Reports Apple To Dump Akamai As CDN For Google-Run CDN Are Simply …
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Deleted but Not Erased: Photos Reborn
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Network Solutions defends frontrunning—to stop frontrunners
Discussion: DSLreports, eWeek and Gadgetopia
Sean Cooper / Engadget:
Samsung surprises on the last day of CES with the SGH-F490
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
OLPC spin-off plans $75 laptop
Alistair Croll / GigaOM:
Big Social News Sites Need to Outsmart the Subverters
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Business Wire:
MySpace Launches New Content Channel: MySpace Celebrity(TM)
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Is Piracy The Leading Indicator Of Innovation?
Rick Broida / Crave: The gadget blog:
Bump your notebook to 2GB of RAM for $26.99 after rebate
Katie Capps Parlante / The Chandler Project Blog:
OSAF Transitions  —  OSAF and the Chandler project are going through some big transitions.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft to Buy Yahoo Again!
The Microsoft Office Live Small Business Blog:
Exciting Changes Coming Your Way
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
MICROSOFT DEAL KING TO LAUNCH OWN FIRM
Discussion: HipMojo.com and WinBeta
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
What's the best Web site for geotagged photos?
 

 
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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”

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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