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Matt Raymond / Library of Congress Blog:
My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven — If you're reading this, then chances are you already know about Web 2.0. Even if you don't know the term itself, you're one of millions worldwide who are actively creating, sharing or benefiting from user-generated content that characterizes Web 2.0 phenomena.
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Techdirt, mathewingram.com/work, Compiler, CNET News.com, WebProNews, Flickr Blog, Joe Duck, Joho the Blog and This Old Network
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Library of Congress Teams with Flickr — The Library of Congress and photosharing site Flickr today announced a partnership that will put photos from the LoC's collection online in a social environment and users to interact with them. The Library is home to more than 14 million photographs …
Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Blog:
Helping Dolphins Fly — We announced big news today - our preliminary results for our fiscal second quarter, and as importantly, that we're acquiring MySQL AB. — If you're interested in the financial details for the quarter, tune in to our conference call (see details on sun.com) today …
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CNET News.com, Microsoft Watch, SpringSource Team Blog, InfoWorld, Ed Burnette's Dev Connection, TheOpenForce.com, Between the Lines, ZDNet.com.au, Kaj Arnö, Brier Dudley's blog, InformationWeek Weblog, Compiler, Slashdot, Kevin Burton's NEW FeedBlog, Web Worker Daily, Money Out Blog, p2pnet, rc3.org, TechFold and BetaNews
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Sun Microsystems:
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World's Most Popular Open Source Database — Sun Growth Strategy Accelerates With New Position in $15 Billion Database Market — Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement …
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HipMojo.com, Associated Press, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Valleywag, Seeking Alpha, The Tech Report, OSDir.com, The Open Road, Computerworld and The Register
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
REPORT: FACEBOOK THREATENS TO BAN GAWKER'S DENTON — This post was updated at 9:11 a.m. PST with comment from Nick Denton. — Facebook isn't too happy with Gawker Media founder Nick Denton over some screenshots of a member's profile that he posted on Gawker.com on Tuesday, Portfolio.com reports.
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Facebook bullies writers, not its engineers, to keep data private — My boss, Nick Denton, may be banned from Facebook, for posting photos of Emily Brill, daughter of entrepreneur Steve Brill. Insiders at the social network tell me that they have considered similar sanctions against me …
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
Is MacBook Air Worth the Money? Five Slim Laptops Face Off — Updated with battery life stats, by popular demand. We can all agree that the MacBook Air is a slick-looking little laptop. It's so thin! You can't argue with that! But if you're in the market for a small, high-performance laptop, is it the best option?
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Paul Boutin / Slate:
WHY I'M DISAPPOINTED IN APPLE'S ULTRASLIM NEW LAPTOP. — Also in Slate, Harry McCracken explains why Apple's Macworld Expo is a better place to see the future of electronics than the massive Consumer Electronics Show. — Apple's new super-extra-ultraslim MacBook Air laptop is undeniably sexy.
John Markoff / Bits:The Passion of Steve Jobs
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TeleRead, Gizmodo, Forbes, Crave, The Technology Chronicles, Electronista, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, Epicenter, mikecane2008.wordpress.com, MacRumors, CyberNet, Engadget, Gadget Lab, TECH.BLORGE.com, InformationWeek Weblog, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Valleywag, MacDailyNews and Incremental Blogger
BBC:
Facebook asked to pull Scrabulous — Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by the makers of Scrabble. — The Facebook add-on has proved hugely popular on the social network site and regularly racks up more than 500,000 daily users.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Does Twitter have to be industrial strength? — One of the sidenotes of Steve Jobs' Macworld keynote was Twitter's performance problem-especially since some folks were depending on it to live blog. The incident raises a question about Twitter: Does it have to be industrial strength to be taken seriously?
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Times of London:
Microsoft seeks patent for office ‘spy’ software — Post your comments at the bottom of this article — Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker's productivity, physical wellbeing and competence. — The Times has seen a patent application filed …
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CNET News.com, InfoWorld, WebProNews, Techworld.com, Channel 9, Tech Tracks and Life On the Wicked Stage
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:OK, Now This Is A Little Scary: Microsoft Biometrics
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Channel 9
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
iTunes movie rentals vs. Netflix: It's Apples (Jobs variety) and oranges — Apple makes a big plunge into the movie rental business and almost instinctively folks dust off the “Netflix is screwed” line. However, you may want to hold of f on that Netflix obituary (again).
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Bits
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Ryan Block / Engadget:iTunes and Apple TV rentals and purchases: what you can (and can't) do
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Good Morning Silicon Valley
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
What's Up With FLEX? — Something is bothering holders of Flextronics (FLEX) shares today. — There's no obvious reason; I find no major news or analyst calls. But it might have something to do with this morning's announcement of results at Sony Ericsson (SNE, ERIC).
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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple PC Sales Jump 30% in Q4, Gartner, IDC Say — Hot off the presses and over the transom comes this afternoon's PC market share report from Gartner and from International Data Corp., which shows Apple (AAPL) increased its unit sales in the U.S. by 28% in the fourth quarter from the same period …
DSLreports:
Time Warner Cable Eyeing Overage Charges? - Memo says trial will determine national deployment... Time Warner Cable may be exploring the possibility of implementing overage charges for its RoadRunner cable broadband service. According to excerpts from a leaked internal memo posted to our forums …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Why we're going to FastCompany.tv — Ahh, Andy Plesser broke my career news again (he was the guy who broke my news about leaving Microsoft too). Louis Gray got the story first, though, I think, although I told dozens of people at the BlogHaus last week at CES.
