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New York Times:
Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft — A CEREBRAL computer-scientist-turned-executive, Eric E. Schmidt has spent much of his career competing uphill against Microsoft, quietly watching it outflank, outmaneuver or simply outgun most of its rivals. — At Sun Microsystems …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft in Denial: Google Threat is Classic Disruption — To understand why Google is such a threat to Microsoft—and why Microsoft's pooh-poohing of this threat is, at best, a smokescreen—you need to understand how technology disruption works. — Disruptive technologies do not destroy existing market leaders overnight.
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Google vs. Microsoft = Microsoft vs IBM 30 years ago — This battle of the titans has been brewing for 5 years or more. It is inevitable. Not because of animosity between the companies, but because of underlying business and technology trends driven by new customers and technology advances.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Profiles — They're coming and it will be difficult to get away without having one. Google Profiles will be integrated in most Google services so you have a coherent identity and a simple way to manage your contacts. — "A Google Profile is simply how you represent yourself on Google products …
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bub.blicio.us, Download Squad, The Social Times, Zoli's Blog, BloggingStocks, ParisLemon, Marc's Voice, Mashable! and Digg
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google Starts Rolling Out Centralized Profiles — Google is rolling out a centralized profile system that will provide personalized information to each Google product you use. The unimaginatively named Google Profile will share information across all Google products, unifying often disparate Google systems …
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:
Photographer takes down Bubble 2.0 fun — Recently I posted Bubble 2.0, the video, a very funny song by Richter Scales. However, if you click the YouTube link now you'll find it's no longer available. It's been taken down by YouTube because a photographer, Lane Hartwell …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Misunderstanding Copyright Law And Ruining Everyone's Fun — So the Richter Scales video that everyone has been talking about is history (mostly - good old Daily Motion tends to ignore the take down notices, so I was able to embed it above). It is the victim of a bullying tactic by a photographer and her lawyer.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Is All About Large Amounts of Data — In a very interesting interview from October, Google's VP Marissa Mayer confessed that having access to large amounts of data is in many instances more important than creating great algorithms. … Marissa Mayer admitted that the main reason …
evhead:
Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea — I've been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I've been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here's a first attempt at defining that. It's not as clear as I'd like it to be.
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Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Battle of the next-gen: FireWire S3200 versus USB 3 — The IEEE 1394 Trade Association has announced a new FireWire specification that the group claims is capable of delivering up to 3.2Gb per second of throughput. The new interface (officially known as S3200) is directly based upon …
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Hannah Montana Tickets on Sale! Oops, They're Gone — HANNAH MONTANA has made 2007 a very bright year for various business interests, but especially for StubHub, the online ticket exchange site. — Though the year is not yet complete, StubHub announced on Dec. 5 that its concert ticket sales …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Find Your Gmail Contacts in orkut — It's not clear whether the fact that Gmail automatically adds to the address book all the people you've ever sent messages makes it irrelevant or comprehensive. It's not clear whether orkut will ever become a respected social network in other places than Brazil and India.
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orkut Blog
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Wikia's Got A Truck Full of Servers — 1,000 To Be Exact! — Over the past week, one of the messages on the Wikia search mailing list I am on asked for an update on the Wikia search project. To which Jimmy Wales replied with, "On track, we are hard at work right now..." and displayed the image below.
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Online ad sellers out-local the locals — In a historic first, online media companies collectively will sell more ads in local markets this year than such individual hometown media as newspapers, broadcasters and yellow pages, says an independent research firm.
