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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Seven Technologies That Will Rock 2011 — So here we are in a new decade, and the technologies that are now available to us continue to engage (and enthrall) in fascinating ways. The rise and collision of several trends—social, mobile, touch computing, geo, cloud—keep spitting out new products …
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Fred / A VC:
Predictions and Prognostications — I've read a lot of predictions and prognostications for 2011 in the tech blogs this weekend. My favorite is this presentation that Paul Kedrosky sent me from the big marketing agency JWT. — JWT: 100 Things to Watch in 2011 — View more presentations from JWTIntelligence.
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RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried — Update: Added response from Asa, thanks! Getting a lot of attention now. Stop crying about the title; I've been ill all week. It simply means that “RSS is under threat of becoming irrelevant. The floppy disk is still around, but you don't get many cameras with Floppy drives”.
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parislemon and Kevin Burton's NEW FeedBlog
Yukari Iwatani Kane / Wall Street Journal:
Vizio to Introduce Tablet, Cellphone — Company to Unveil Tablet, Cellphone With Same Strategy as Its Low-Cost TVs — Vizio Inc., which put inexpensive flat-panel TVs in living rooms, now is setting its sights on cellphones and tablet computers. — Vizio, which has vied with Samsung Electronics Co …
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CNET News, Between the Lines Blog, Electronista, MobileBurn.com, PhoneArena, Engadget and Gizmodo
Nathaniel Whittemore / Assetmap:
Let's End the Myth that Ideas are Worthless — I love Silicon Valley. I love the entrepreneurial energy and the blister and pop of passion being painted into reality every day. But if entrepreneurial density is the Valley's greatest asset, it can also, sometimes, be its greatest weakness.
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Ideas matter, great execution of a bad idea = failure — Nathaniel Whittemore wrote an excellent post demolishing the Silicon Valley mantra that “execution” is all that matters. Ideas do matter... a lot. Great execution of bad ideas still result in failure. Pivots and execution are the buzz words in Silicon Valley.
Thanks:kevendones
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Square Starts 2011 with A New Round At A Big Valuation — While much of Silicon Valley spent the last two weeks skiing or otherwise reveling in all that money made this year from acquisitions, partial liquidations and secondary deals, Square founder Jack Dorsey was apparently hard at work.
John Bennett / Against Monopoly:
Against Monopoly: China joins the patent trolls; wake up America — STEVE LOHR claims to examine China's new push on innovation, but it is really about the policy to promote issuing more patents link here. The government is actually providing incentives to increase the annual patent harvest …
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Wall Street Journal:
Google Digital Newsstand Aims to Muscle In on Apple — Google Inc. and Apple Inc. have stepped up their battle to win over publishers, as the two companies vie to become the dominant distributor of newspapers and magazines for tablet computers and other mobile devices.
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SAI, Thanks:richdemuro
Reuters:
China shuts over 60,000 porn websites this year — China shut down more than 60,000 pornographic websites this year, netting almost 5,000 suspects in the process, a government spokesman said on Thursday, vowing no let-up in its campaign against material deemed obscene.
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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
China Actually Brags About How Much It Censors Online
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beyondbrics and The Next Web, Thanks:teawithcarl
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Computers That See You and Keep Watch Over You — Hundreds of correctional officers from prisons across America descended last spring on a shuttered penitentiary in West Virginia for annual training exercises. — Some officers played the role of prisoners, acting like gang members and stirring up trouble, including a mock riot.
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Paul Eckert / Front Row Washington:
Republican puts crosshairs on Holder over WikiLeaks — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder should quit if he can't stop WikiLeaks from disclosing government documents, Darrell Issa, incoming chairman of the House of Representatives Oversight Committee said Sunday on Fox News. — “He's hurting this administration.
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Gawker, Agence France Presse and Fox News
Kellex / Droid Life:
Verizon Drops Galaxy Tab Price to $499, Tosses in $60 in Free Movie Rentals (Updated) — Is Verizon ringing in the New Year with a price drop to its Samsung Galaxy Tab (our review)? According to one of our peeps and that picture above, stores should be changing out displays to reflect a $499 price change …
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Examiner, DRS, SAI, Gizmodo, Phones Review, GottaBeMobile, Liliputing, Android Community, AndroidSPIN, Engadget, Fortune and Erictric
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Electronista:
Verizon cuts Galaxy Tab to $500 to fend off iPad, Droid Xoom
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LaptopMemo, Thanks:jonfingas
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
RunKeeper sprints to the top of the charts with fitness free promotion — Here's a good example of how going free can boost a mobile startup's profile. RunKeeper Pro, a popular fitness app that normally costs $9.99, announced its first free promotion yesterday and saw a huge spike in downloads …
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Android Community and Mashable!
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
FriendFeed Traffic Is Actually Up Since The Facebook Deal; Thanks Largely To Turkey — TFriendFeed. You remember it, right? It was that awesome service that Facebook acquired in August 2009. It was a smart deal all around. Facebook got an awesome team of developers and product people …
