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Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:
GateHouseGate — I got a call a few weeks ago from a usually smart print editor who was outraged about aggregation sites linking to his paper's content. In his view, the aggregators were “stealing” his content and selling ads against it-even though all the aggregator was doing …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Animoto On The iPhone: Trust Me, You Want It — Yeah, I gush about Animoto (and so do others). And I'll keep on gushing because they are an example of a startup that just focuses like a laser on doing one thing well. In their case, it's creating slideshows for users from their photos.
Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone Nano Concept Photo? — It seems the “iPhone Nano” is the rumor that is going take the spotlight ahead of this year's Macworld, and while MacRumors is publishing these photos and rumors, we have some serious doubts about the likelihood of such a device.
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9 to 5 Mac, CrunchGear, Mobility Site, IntoMobile, Edible Apple, iPhone Savior, Appletell, Gadget Lab and techeblog.com
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
I'm Sorry Robert, But It's Time For A Friendfeed Intervention — I'm a big champion of services like Twitter and the newer Friendfeed (can you believe Friendfeed is less than a year old?). But there's a difference between liking a service and having an addiction.
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CloudAve, ParisLemon, louisgray.com, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, The Blog Herald and Micro Persuasion
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Did I harm my blog by FriendFeeding this year?
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Report Says Twitter Would Take 36 Years to Catch Facebook - If Facebook Stopped Growing Today — Marketing firm HubSpot will publish a report tomorrow on the state of Twitter at the end of 2008, based on user data the company harvested from its controversial app TwitterGrader.
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Mike Volpe / HubSpot's Inbound Internet Marketing Blog:State of the Twittersphere - Q4 2008 Report
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Kevin Purdy / Lifehacker:
Ubuntu Distributor Wants to Overhaul Linux Desktop Notifications — Canonical, the parent company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux system, wants to implement a new (and vaguely Mac-ish) method of user notification in Ubuntu's next release. — You can check out a demonstration …
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Owen Thomas / Gawker:
Google Hands Out ‘Dogfood’ as Christmas Bonus — Groans are issuing from the Googleplex over this year's holiday bonus. In the past, the search engine paid cash — as much as $20,000 or $30,000 per Googler, we hear. This year? A cell phone. — Oh, but not just any cell phone …
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Silicon Alley Insider, Android Phone Fans, Gizmodo, AndroidGuys, IntoMobile, CNET News, Boy Genius Report, WebGuild and Slashdot
Geoff Boucher / Los Angeles Times:
VHS era is winding down — Ryan Kugler, left, president of Distribution Video Audio in Burbank, and his brother Brad, the CEO, have shipped their last truckload of VHS tapes. “Anything left in warehouse, we'll just give away or throw away,” Ryan Kugler said.
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TeleRead, PC World, Switched, Boy Genius Report, Gizmodo, Engadget, TECH.BLORGE.com, Ars Technica, Obsessable, Crave and digg.com
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (961040) — Vulnerability in SQL Server Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability that could allow remote code execution on systems with supported editions of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 …
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The Register, Cheap Hack, InfoWorld, CNET News, Security Watch, ThreatChaos, Computerworld, SANS Internet Storm Center … and Zero Day
PC World:
Intel Counters Apple Stake in Graphics Chip Company (PC World) — One day after Apple took a 3.6 percent stake in Imagination Technologies, the company that developed the technology used in the 3G iPhone's graphics chips, Intel responded by increasing its own stake in the company …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly To Run For California Attorney General — Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly will be announcing his candidacy for the office of Attorney General of California, we've heard from multiple sources. He'll be running in the 2010 election as a Democrat …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Private — There has been much discussion lately regarding the use of private iPhone APIs. First with Google Mobile's publicly acknowledged use of a private API to access the proximity sensor, then again with Landon Fuller's report of having an app rejected from the App Store for appearing …
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
BBC Rolls Out AIR iPlayer, Ditches Kontiki P2P, Proposes Tiered Broadband Services — The BBC has just rolled out a new desktop version of its popular iPlayer service based on Adobe's AIR platform. The new client is available for UK residents as part of the BBC iPlayer Labs beta test …
Music Ally:
Ditch the CD by Christmas 2009, Gartner tells music industry — Could this Christmas really be the swansong of the CD? Analyst Gartner certainly hopes so, having issued a challenge to the music industry to move to a ‘digital first’ strategy by the end of next year, in order to stop being held back by its reliance on CD revenues.
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Intel 160GB X25-M SSD begins shipping — Intel have begun shipping the 160GB version of their X25-M solid-state drive. The new SSD doubles the capacity of the previous model, the 80GB, and is initially only available in the 2.5-inch form-factor; a 1.8-inch 160GB X18-M SSD will begin shipping in January 2009.
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Analysis: RIAA Strategy Shift Mired in Murky Legal Waters — The Recording Industry Association of America's new enforcement strategy is based on a questionable interpretation of what constitutes copyright infringement. And its copyright-detection services remain under a cloud at the center of a class action legal challenge.
Tamsin Osborne / BBC:
The virtual battle of the sexes — Online games' emphasis on combat has led many to paint them as male pursuits — Picture a typical player of a massively multiplayer game such as World of Warcraft and most people will imagine an overweight, solitary male.
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Joystiq
MediaShift:
Can Technorati Beat Google at Blog Search? — “It doesn't matter what Internet business you're in,” Richard Jalichandra, the CEO of blog search engine Technorati told me recently. “You're either going to have direct or indirect competition with Google and that's just the way it is...
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Amanda McElfresh / The Advertiser:
Fiber taking shape — Project moving forward, but few details released — Anyone stopping in Lafayette for a quick visit might not realize that what city officials are touting as a one-of-a-kind fiber network is scheduled to be offered to hundreds of residents sometime next month.
Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
Tech Chiefs See '09 Bright Pockets — Online Software, Mobile, Security Expected to Buck Downward Trend in '09 — The technology industry was dominated this year by the question of whether businesses and consumers would scale back their tech spending. Now that it's clear they are cutting back …
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