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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project — The rumor last week was that Google (as well as Verisign and IBM) were mulling over the idea of joining the OpenID 2.0 single sign-on framework. But the real news comes today, as Yahoo and its roughly 250 million user IDs officially jump on the bandwagon.
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ReadWriteWeb, Between the Lines, The Social Web, AppScout, Jeremy Zawodny's blog, Mark Evans, Plaxo's Personal Card, Google Watch, Compiler, BetaNews, InfoWorld, TECH.BLORGE.com, Search Engine Journal, Zero Day, Traffick, The Real McCrea, Search Engine Land, Marc's Voice, unstruc chitchatting …, CyberNet, Identity Woman, Signal vs. Noise, VentureBeat, paidContent.org, 901am, Basement.org, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Furrier.org, WebProBlog, WeBreakStuff, The Progress Bar and Mashable!
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Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Announces Support for OpenID; Users Able to Access Multiple Internet Sites with Their Yahoo! ID — Yahoo! Support Triples Number of OpenID Accounts to 368 million — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced its support for the OpenID 2. digital identity framework …
Google:
Google.org Announces Core Initiatives to Combat Climate Change, Poverty and Emerging Threats — Reveals its plans for philanthropy; announces new grants and investments — In its continuing effort to use the power of information and technology to help people better their lives …
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Google Watch, Official Google Blog, Portfolio.com, CrunchGear, Tech Confidential, Mashable! and Earth2Tech
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
All-You-Can-Eat Broadband Is Dead: Time Warner to Charge by the Byte — Reason number 149 I won't move to Texas: Time Warner confirmed it'll be testing a new pricing plan in Beaumont that's based on how much bandwidth you eat up. That's right, hard caps. Totally made-up example …
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Associated Press:
Time Warner links web prices with usage — Time Warner links web prices with usage — NEW YORK - Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet access later this year, charging customers based on how much data they download, a company spokesman said Wednesday.
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Video Killed the Broadband Buffet — Time Warner Cable this week said it will move away from the “buffet” model of broadband and start experimenting with a “metered” model. The cable operator is rolling out a trial program in Beaumont, Texas, in which customers will be charged based on the amount of bandwidth they use.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Confirmed: Change Your System Time, Watch Your iTunes Rentals Forever — Update: That was fast. It's busted—or fixed, depending on your POV. See the jump. Movie rentals from iTunes 7.6? Awesome. That pesky 24-hour viewing window once you've started the film? Not so much.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Exonerated RIAA defendant scores double victory in court — A US District Court judge in Oregon has reaffirmed a magistrate's award of attorneys' fees and the dismissal of exonerated RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen's counterclaims against the RIAA without prejudice so that her class-action lawsuit …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Survey finds Apple users have sense of superiority — no wait, hear us out — Wait up, hang on here — you're telling us a personality profiling conducted on 7,500 people at Apple's biggest tub-thumping event of the year, Macworld, yielded results that would suggest Apple users “are more liberal …
Anna Pickard / Guardian:
Are you suffering from password pressure? — Few things make you feel more helpless than sitting blank-faced at a screen, looking at a flashing cursor and a message saying “PASSWORD INCORRECT” in a disapproving tone. But that was the one for your bank, wasn't it? Or was it?
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violet blue:
so, everyone's asking what happened between me and steve jobs today... Update 01.16: this is now on Digg, “Steve Jobs tells off fan, calls her 'rude': Blogger and podcaster Violet Blue approached the Apple CEO on the Macworld floor to ask for a photo — and got completely blown off.".
Tim Wu / Slate:
Has AT&T Lost Its Mind? — A BAFFLING PROPOSAL TO FILTER THE INTERNET. — Chances are that as you read this article, it is passing over part of AT&T's network. That matters, because last week AT&T announced that it is seriously considering plans to examine all the traffic it carries …
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CNET News.com, p2pnet, mathewingram.com/work, IP Democracy, DSLreports, Valleywag, Mark Evans, VoIP Blog, Memex 1.1, Boing Boing Gadgets, Silicon Alley Insider, Boing Boing, Slashdot and Digg
Max Freiert / Compete Blog:
Sink or Swim? The Top Moving Sites Of 2007 — At Compete we frequently write about monthly traffic volume and site popularity, but the focus is usually on the ten or twenty sites that enjoy monthly visitors in the tens (or even hundreds) of millions. While it's important to investigate these sites …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AMD loses $1.77 billion in December quarter — AMD on Thursday reported a fourth quarter net loss that equaled its revenue total. — AMD reported a net loss of $1.77 billion, or $3.06 a share, on revenue of $1.77 billion. Revenue was up 8 percent from the third quarter and was flat from a year ago.
