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12:45 AM ET, February 9, 2008

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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Actually, It's Not Quite Over Yet for Yahoo  —  While everyone is putting a fork in Yahoo and calling it done, it might take a bit longer for the troubled Internet company's goose to be fully cooked.  —  Yes, the Yahoo board will be meeting today to formally discuss the Microsoft unsolicited bid of $31 a share.
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Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Considers Google Defense  —  Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors discussed its options Friday in the face of Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited offer to buy the Internet company, including an advertising-outsourcing pact with Google Inc., people familiar with the matter said.
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
An Open Letter to Steve Ballmer  —  I know you want to make your mark on Microsoft, but you should stop trying to be all things to all people.  Take a tip on focus from that other Steve  —  Dear Steve,  —  Let's talk over this Yahoo! (YHOO) thing before you move ahead.  It's a profoundly bad idea.
Discussion: The Mac Observer and Valleywag
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Report: Yahoo board talks but makes no decision on Microsoft  —  One week after Microsoft publicly bid to acquire Yahoo, the takeover target's directors held a conference call and still haven't decided what to do, according to The Wall Street Journal.  —  The Yahoo directors discussed outsourcing …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Yahoo Updates: Another Board Meeting Wednesday: New Banker; Google Outsourcing Discussed  —  More on the Yahoo board meeting discussing the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) offer and other options:  — Kara reports it was not an in-person meeting but on the phone, and that the board will meet again …
Discussion: Financial Times
David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Yahoo Investor Wants More Microsoft Money
Discussion: Marksonland
Assetbar:
Twitter-proxy: Any Interest?  —  The stories of twitter going down frequently don't need repeating here.  Instead, I want to ask the community if there is any interest in addressing the problem.  —  As many are aware, Twitter's problem with scaling is not RoR, it's not [Joyent] NTT, or …
Discussion: The Last Podcast
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louisgray.com:   AssetBar Proposes Solution to Twitter Scaling Problem
comScore:
U.S. Internet Users Viewed 10 Billion Videos Online in Record-Breaking Month of December, According to comScore Video Metrix  —  Writer's Strike May be Contributing to Surge in Online Video Viewing Activity  —  comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Comscore: Online video traffic surged in December — mostly to YouTube  —  Online video sites saw more growth in December, according to Comscore, gaining more than 2.5 million unique viewers over November to reach nearly 141 million people in the US.  YouTube once again sucked up the majority …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
TorrentFreedom Offers 100% Anonymous and Unrestricted BitTorrent  —  With a militant style more associated with the crew of The Pirate Bay, TorrentFreedom promises to put the user back in control, by offering a new BitTorrent-optimized, zero-logging, 100% anonymous VPN service, guaranteed to punch a hole through throttling ISPs.
Discussion: Digg
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Visualizing Social Media Fatigue  —  Our attention is stretched so thin these days that there are times when I have actually tried to register for what I thought was a new service only to realize later that I already had an account — it just got lost in the shuffle.
Discussion: The Social Times
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louisgray.com:
Warning: Google Reader Congestion of Up to Five Hours  —  Recently, Google's gained a lot of good feeling in the blogosphere for how rapidly they are indexing blog posts as part of their universal search.  But while their search side is getting quicker and quicker, it can sometimes …
spicu.com:
The look & design of the new Apple Macbook Pro 2008 series  —  The new Macbook Pro is coming the next days!  —  Apples special event is upcoming this month and what everybody expects is the new Macbook Pro that we are all are waiting for!  —  Till now nobody knows how the new Macbook Pro will look like …
Brian Solis / bub.blicio.us:
Alltop Has All the Tops Stories, and Egos, Covered  —  I was just alerted by a good friend that I have been included in the Alltop index of top sites on the Web.  Wow, thank you!  It's a pretty incredible group of voices and I'm more than flattered to be included.  —  Introducing Guy Kawasaki's latest startup, Alltop.
Jon Udell:
Mythbusting the ‘Google generation’ report  —  Hugh McGuire recently pointed to a New Scientist blog entry that begins: … The link points to a press release, entitled Pioneering research shows ‘Google Generation’ is a myth, which summarizes a 35-page report in PDF format.
Discussion: Jeremy Zawodny's blog
 
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Brian Braiker / Newsweek:
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Discussion: Digg
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
City Council Forces Forum Offline; Claims Debate Should Take Place At Meetings Only
Richard McRoskey / Silicon Alley Insider:
Publisher: Kindle Not Igniting E-Book Sales (AMZN)
Discussion: Gadget Lab, TeleRead and Valleywag
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Ideate This: Dell Takes a Swipe at IBM in Funny Web Video
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Visions of an online music cartel?
Chris Kohler / Game|Life:
EA's CEO: How I Learned To Acquire Developers And Not Screw Them Up
Discussion: Ubergizmo
Chris Soghoian / CNET News.com:
The day the wiretaps go dead
 Earlier Items: 
Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:
Microsoft helps nab $900M piracy ring
Discussion: CNET News.com
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Comcast alters its TOS, traffic ‘shaping’ now acknlowedged
Electronista:
Analysts: Microsoft should keep XP until 2009
Discussion: PC World
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
EarthLink's citywide Wi-Fi biz for sale
James Sherwood / The Register:
Nokia's N95 successor slips out on web
Discussion: GigaOM
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Reuters CEO sees “semantic web” in its future
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Is mobile really a sure thing for Google?
Discussion: Insider Chatter