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Think Secret:
Eve of Expo: Rumor recap — January 9, 2006 - With Macworld Expo San Francisco 2006 set to kick off Tuesday, Think Secret presents a compilation of information we have received and reported over the last number of months concerning Apple's anticipated announcements. — Intel and New iBooks
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B2Day, Gizmodo, PC World's Techlog, Daily Wireless, MacInTouch, Good Morning Silicon Valley, The Stalwart, PaidContent.org and rexblog.com
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Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
At Macworld, All Eyes Are on Steve Jobs — Apple Chief Executive Tends to Surprise With Announcement of New Product — As predictably as Santa Claus on Christmas morning, Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs will bring us something new today at the annual Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.
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IP Democracy
Bruce Meyerson / Associated Press:
Verizon's Music Service Hampers MP3 Ability — NEW YORK - The first edition of a new music service from Verizon Wireless hampers a cell phone's ability to play MP3 songs acquired elsewhere, a handicap the company says is purely temporary and unrelated to larger battles over digital copyright restrictions.
John Boudreau / siliconvalley.com:It's a Macworld after all — Now that Google has signaled …
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SiliconBeat
Iancr / Yahoo! Music Blog:
Yahoo! Music Welcomes Webjay and Lucas Gonze — It's with great pleasure that I announce the addition of Lucas Gonze and Webjay to the Yahoo! Music family. — I met Lucas more than a year ago when searching for a suitable default playlist format for the Y! Music Engine and stumbling across his excellent survey of playlist formats.
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The TNL.net weblog:
Yahoo! acquires WebJay — A few minutes ago, I learned that Yahoo! acquired WebJay, a site that allows for categorization, editing, listening, and sharing of playlists online (In a way, it can easily be compared to del.icio.us for multimedia.) WebJay was created in early 2004 as a way to create the internet equivalent of mix tapes.
USA Today:
Teens hang out at MySpace — Shanda Edstrom can't stop herself. Every day — pretty much no matter where she is — she's just gotta go to MySpace. — Her friends are there. Her former high school classmates hang out there. Heck, these days it seems like every teen and twentysomething in the USA is there.
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Duncan Riley / The Blog Herald:MySpace now at [45.5 million users] 47.3 million users
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ben barren
Nat / O'Reilly Radar:
Digging The Madness of Crowds — Earlier today, O'Reilly found itself at the center of a controversy on the popular news site, digg.com. Steve Mallett, O'Reilly Network editor and blogger, was very publicly accused, via a Digg story, of stealing Digg's CSS pages.
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Web 2.0 Explorer, ben barren, Steve's Theft, Venture Chronicles, TJ's Weblog, Geeking with Greg and The New Foo
Shelleyp / Burningbird:
Debate on DRM — Doc Searls points to a weblog post by the Guardian Unlimited's Lloyd Shepard on DRM and says it's one of the most depressing things he's read. Shepard wrote: … Doc points to others making arguments in refutation of Shepard's thesis (Tom Coates and Julian Bond), and ends his post with:
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Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Two new WMF bugs found — Security experts say latest vulerabilities less serious than the one Microsoft patched last week — Just days after Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) Corp. patched a critical vulnerability in the way the Windows operating system renders certain types of graphics files …
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Alice Hill's Real Tech News
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Search Engines As Leeches, The Difference Between Paid & Free Listings & Keyword Price Rises — Jakob Nielsen's just posted a Search Engines as Leeches on the Web article that makes a good point, don't be too search engine dependent. However, he muddles his point by confusing the issue …
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Jason McCabe Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:The stupidest thing I've read in a long time...
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Performancing.com, mathewingram.com/work, The Search Engine Herald, Rough Type and Guardian Unlimited
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
How Apple Could Mess Up, Again — The Innovator's Dilemma author Clayton Christensen outlines his case for why Apple's propietary strategy will soon fail, just as it did before … These days it's hard to find a pundit willing to question Apple Computer's (AAPL) long-term prospects or the calls of its famous CEO, Steve Jobs.
Edward Jay Epstein / Slate:
Hollywood's New Zombie — The last days of Blockbuster. — In 1998, at the dawn of the age of the DVD, Blockbuster made a decision that would change the future of Hollywood. Warren Lieberfarb, who then headed the home-video division of Warner Bros., offered Blockbuster CEO John Antioco …
Munjal / Recognizing Deven:
Going to the Moon — At Riya we have a dream to completely change how people search photos. One day, Riya will help you search and find every digital photo in the world. That day is far off, but today we got the investment we need to get there. — I'm announcing first here on my blog …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Don't Blow Your Beta — I've seen hundreds of new products launch over the last six months, and I think I have some pretty good advice for companies that want to improve their beta release. — In addition to my personal experiences with companies, I recently wrote "What Annoys You Most About Betas? …
Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
TOP TEN BLOGGER LIES — 1. I don't consider myself an A-Lister. — No, but I turn up for speaking gigs at all the big conferences anyway. Uh-huh. — 2. I don't care about traffic. — Of course I don't. Even though I'm a freelance consultant, and my blog is my primary way of marketing myself.
