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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Extends Platform to the Web — I surely did not see this coming anytime soon but Facebook just released their JavaScript client library than enables developers to extend their applications to their own websites. Rather than building your applications strictly within Facebook …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Another Brilliant Facebook Move (Really): Opening to Web — Facebook appears to have taken another small but important step toward becoming the operating system for any application or service that wants to tap into the social graph. Specifically, according to All Facebook …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The shy Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook — Yesterday morning I woke up early. Was sitting in the hotel lobby at 7 a.m. trying to check email when someone tapped me on the shoulder. It was Mark Zuckerberg, founder/CEO of Facebook, which now has 68 million active users (people who've signed on in the past 30 days).
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Thank you Yossi Vardi — Yossi Vardi has made my time here in Davos simply incredible. I am in deeply in his debt for what he's personally done for me. The Shabbat dinner he took me to last night was simply incredible. I filmed an intimate traditional ceremony there.
Joe Gratz:
Federal Court Doesn't Quite Recognize Copyright in C&D Letter — Techdirt has a post on a rather triumphal press release put out by a law firm claiming that “[t]he US District Court for the District of Idaho has found that copyright law protects a lawyer demand letter posted online by the recipient.”
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Court Says You Can Copyright A Cease-And-Desist Letter — from the free-speech? dept — Back in October, we wrote about a law firm that was claiming a copyright on the cease-and-desist letters it sent out, and insisting that it was a violation to repost them.
PRWeb:
Dozier Internet Law: Federal Court Recognizes Copyright Rights In Cease And Desist — US District Court decision threatens common practice reports Dozier Internet Law. — Glen Allen, VA (PRWEB) January 24, 2008 — The US District Court for the District of Idaho has found that copyright law protects …
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Freed From the Page, but a Book Nonetheless — PRINTED books provide pleasures no device created by an electrical engineer can match. The sweet smell of a brand-new book. The tactile pleasures of turning a page. The reassuring sight on one's bookshelves of personal journeys.
Reuters:
Deutsche Telekom says has sold 70,000 iPhones — COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - German telecoms operator Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Saturday it had signed up 70,000 iPhone customers in the 11 weeks since November 9, 2007. — Deutsche Telekom's mobile …
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Matt Hickey / CrunchGear:
Deutsche Telekom hits the 70,000 iPhone mark in just eleven weeks — It's been eleven weeks since the iPhone invaded Germany, and in that time Deutsche Telekom has sold 70,000 units. That comes out to almost 40 an hour, if they were selling 24/7, which, given German efficiency, they likely were.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
The Midas List — deconstructed — Each year, Forbes publishes the list of top 100 investors, called the Midas List (see our coverage, and full list). — It is closely watched by venture capitalists eager to see where they are in the pecking order. Forbes writer Erika Brown …
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Anonymous Hackers Shoot For Scientologists, Hit Dutch School Kids — Dutch schoolchildren may be the first collateral damage of an online war being waged against the Church of Scientology by a motley crew of internet troublemakers who call themselves Anonymous.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Are we in a recession? — It's interesting to hear different people's opinions at the World Economic Forum about what the economy is going to do this year. Most people here believe we're in the midst of a recession, which technically is two quarters of negative growth.
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Benwilson / iPhone Atlas:
Warning: Current iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak may prevent official third party apps — You might want to think twice about applying the current iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak “soft-update” (Mac or Windows) that was released (but not solely developed) by “Nate True." We've received word that the method …
