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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
A decentralized Twitter? — Andrew Baron is a smart guy, and he's not a techy, so when he explains technical issues he does it in a way non-technical people can understand. — Dembot: “If you hosted your own Twitter, just like you host your own website, you could put your twitter anywhere.”
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louisgray.com:
Can We Talk About Twitter for a Second? — About a year ago, I wrote how I had completely sworn off instant messaging, and how, despite its fast-rising user base, I had no intention of using Twitter. And so far, I haven't given in to the siren song. While I hadn't expected to ever gain …
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Centeralization vs. Decentralization: What's The Value Of Twitter? — Although I haven't had time to use Twitter recently, I've been following all the discussions about Twitter, because it's become a flashpoint for innovative thinking about online communication and media.
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Interview: Sony's Thoughts On the MacBook Air — During the Keynote, Jobs compared the Macbook Air to Sony's TZ ultraportable, implying it had a small keyboard and screen, was too thick, and was not that good. Here's what Sony thinks of the Apple MacBook Air:
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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?
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Salesforce.com To Offer DaaS Service, New Pricing Model, Competition — CRM and SaaS provider Salesforce.com have announced that there Force.com Cloud Computing Architecture (our review here) is to now offer Development-as-a-Service (DaaS), a new pricing structure and a developer competition.
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:SalesForce Updates Force.com Platform and Offers New Pricing …
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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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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Perspective: Myspace Still Kicking Facebook's Ass in Traffic — While the media and Silicon Valley have lost our collective minds over the rise of Facebook over the past year, traffic analysts Hitwise released numbers today indicating that things are not as they might seem.
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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 …
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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 …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
How Do You Say “Fix Your Service” In Japanese? — Twitter is to launch a dedicated version of their growingly popular messaging service for Japan. — The new site is will be developed in partnership with Digital Garage, who as part of the deal has also made an investment in Twitter …
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Savio Rodrigues / InfoWorld:
More thoughts on Sun & MySQL — First off, kudos to Sun for valuing MySQL at this price. The deal represents ~36% of Sun's Cash & Cash Equivalents (of $2.7B) on hand at the end of their last quarter (Sept. 2007). But considering how cheap debt is these days, Sun could probably fund a portion of the deal through cheap debt.
Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:
Internet routing shows growing pains—again — The growth of the Internet — Every conduit can take a 144-fiber cable — Thanks to the virtualy infinite bandwidth of fiber—or rather, the empty tubes that can hold multi-fiber cables—the Internet has continued to get faster for almost four decades …
Mark Glaser / MediaShift:
Digging Deeper:: Traditional Media Ready to Elevate the Conversation Online — with Moderation — Traditional Media Ready to Elevate the Conversation Online — with Moderation — Major media sites have started to get the religion of audience participation, but there's been one big hitch …
Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
Disney delays Stage 9 — Guild concerns may be a factor — Disney's ABC has indefinitely postponed the debut of a unit charged with launching original online series. — The unit, known as Stage 9, planned to distribute its first offering in February with one of four shortform episodic programs scheduled to roll out this year.
Bojan Zdrnja / SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON:
Deja Vu: Valentine's Storm — Yesterday we started receiving another wave of Storm e-mails, this time exploiting our love: you got it, Storm started exploiting Valentine's Day. It looked like they missed the ball for Christmas but now they are certainly back.
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