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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Joie De Vivre: The Europeans Are Out To Lunch — I write this from a hotel room at Newark airport in New Jersey. I'm half way home from a wonderful week in Paris at the Le Web conference where I mingled with 1,700 or so attendees. My mood: jetlagged, sated and cranky. — My week was spent in luxury.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple: “the iPhone is a gaming console” — According to extremely reliable and embarrassingly handsome Engadget sources, at an iPhone event held today, John Geleynse (AKA Director of Technology Evangelism at Apple) made some statements regarding the iPhone platform that should seriously raise a few eyebrows.
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Pastebud: It Seemed Like a Good Idea! — Yesterday, I waxed enthusiastic about Pastebud, a new copy-and-paste service for the iPhone that gets around Apple's lack of support for such a feature via a clever end-run that involves transferring text back and forth between Safari and Mail via an online clipboard.
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Google exec Marissa Mayer engaged — It's Silicon Valley's fairytale romance: Girly-girl nerd worth hundreds of millions meets fellow with a job who looks good in a tux. And now Marissa Mayer and Zack Bogue are getting married, a tipster says. — Talk at the Googleplex has it that Bogue …
Chris Heilmann / Ajaxian:
YQL - converting the web to JSON with mock SQL — I like getting data from the web and I love JSON - as it is easy to use. The issue is that not many things on the web come as JSON from the get-go. Hence we need converters. You can use cURL and beautiful soup or roll your own hell of regular expressions.
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Yahoo offers severance with a soft landing — A pink slip for corporate America's newly laid off typically means a severance package and a “see ya.” — But when Yahoo issued its layoff notices to 10 percent of its workforce on Wednesday, it came with a twist, according to several sources.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Testing Enhanced Listings, “Pagelinks” & Auto-Spelling Correction — Google is testing a number of changes to its search results, including a way for select publishers to enhance their page descriptions, a way for searchers to jump to sub-sections of a web page and automatically correcting misspelled queries, to some degree.
Fred / A VC:
There's Plenty Of Oxygen In The Air — I've been reading Steven Johnson's Invention Of Air and I've got images of Joseph Priestley's tubes and pumps in my head. Priestley's experiments with mice and plants in the tubes led to the discovery of oxygen and the realization that plants made oxygen and animals consumed it.
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
MIT students build mobile applications in 13 weeks — MIT professor Hal Abelson started today's final presentation for the school's “Building Mobile Applications” class by saying, “A course like this couldn't have existed ten years ago... maybe not even a year ago.
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Open Gardens
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Ex-Yahoos Weigh in on Their Choices for New Yahoo CEO — With so many more ex-Yahoos out there now that the most recent layoffs have taken place, BoomTown put out feelers to a range of them to ask whom they would like to run the company they no longer work for. — After all, who better than to pick a new CEO than an ex?
myfoxdc.com:
McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry to FOX 5 Reporter — Exclusive FOX 5 Investigation — ARLINGTON, Va. - Private information at bargain prices. It was a high-tech flub at the McCain-Palin campaign headquarters in Arlington when Fox 5's Investigative Reporter Tisha Thompson bought …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Broadens App Store Acceptance, Approves ‘Pull My Finger’ — One of the major criticisms of the App Store has been a seemingly arbitrary rejection policy on the part of Apple. Air-o-Matic was one of the developers rejected by Apple for the reason of “limited utility” for his humor app “Pull My Finger”.
Blog of helios:
Character-Assasinations-Ain't- Us — It never was my intention to attack anyone personally.... My sights were set on correcting some obvious misconceptions. It was a focused attack on ignorance but with some unsolicited commentary on a particular group. — Whether by proxy or focused intent …
internetnews.com:
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla Battle to Disagree — The browser rivals agree on a few things when it comes to browsers and security. — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Three leading browser providers debated security and other Web-related issues at the closing session of the inaugural Add-on Con conference Thursday.
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Profitable Until Deemed Illegal — I was fascinated to discover the auction hybrid site swoopo.com (previously known as telebid.com). It's a strange combination of eBay, woot, and slot machine. Here's how it works: — You purchase bids in pre-packaged blocks of at least 30.
Shiv Singh / Going Social Now:
Razorfish files Patent to measure Social Media. What do you think? — We've talked a lot about social influence marketing over the last year and what it means to account for social influencers. From the trends, to the academic research, our client work and our own experiments we're …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Tech Layoffs Surge Past 100,000 — After a lull around Thanksgiving, December has seen some of the biggest layoffs in the tech industry yet since the economy entered its tailspin in the fall. Our Layoff Tracker is now past 100,000 lost jobs (109,629, as of this writing) …
