Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
6:10 PM ET, December 26, 2007

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Google ruining Christmas?  Get a grip  —  Since I'm full of the milk of human kindness after a wonderful Christmas, I've been trying to remain calm in the face of all the Google Reader hysteria about shared items and so on — but wiping out on some ice yesterday and landing on my ass …
RELATED:
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Is Google Reader Sharing Too Much?  —  A small privacy debate is igniting over a new sharing feature in Google Reader.  A couple weeks ago, Google turned on a new feature in its feed reader that lets you share posts with anyone in your Gmail or Gtalk contact list (assuming you use either of those other Google services as well).
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google Reader needs GPC  —  Oh, man, is the Google Reader team under attack for its new social networking features.  —  There's a few ways I could take this.  —  1. I could call people idiots for not understanding the meaning of the word “public."  —  2. I could call the Google Reader team idiots …
Jason Lee Miller / WebProNews:
Google Reader Becomes Holiday Snitch
Discussion: Consumerist
Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:   Google Reader: Naughty or Nice? Santa Safe!
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Google Readers' Social Flaws Have Users Up In Arms
Discussion: Googling Google
RELATED:
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Online Holiday Cheer
Discussion: Gizmodo
Mac Os / PC World:
Apple's Record Breaking Year
Discussion: ParisLemon
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Radiohead: Free New Year's Web Concert, Amazon Beats iTunes To ‘In Rainbows’  —  Alterna-rockers Radiohead will stream a free, hour-long concert of their latest album, In Rainbows, on Monday, New Year's Eve, via their Web site, Current TV, and Current.com.  “This is a wee celebration …
RELATED:
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:   Radiohead To Promote Album With New Year's Eve Concert on Current TV
Tamar Weinberg / techipedia:
Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007  —  Last year, I ended 2006 with a great (and still pertinent) list of blog posts and articles that I felt were really the best in their class in the area of Internet Marketing.  This year, I present you my favorite timeless posts of 2007 …
Discussion: Joe Duck
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Masterful Web Entrepreneurs Hit a Snag in Miami's Condo Market  —  Jim Clark and Tom Jermoluk cut a swath through Silicon Valley in the 1990s with companies like Silicon Graphics, Netscape and WebMD.  But they are finding that it is a lot harder to maneuver through the real estate market than to master the Internet.
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Russian GPS alternative near completion, Putin and dog celebrate  —  Russia has announced the successful launch of three additional GLONASS navigation satellites on Christmas Day, bringing the total number of functional units to 18, and reportedly scaring the beejezus out of Santa and his reindeer during liftoff.
Discussion: Associated Press and Slashdot
RELATED:
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Predictions for Google's 2008  —  Some of these items are obvious, others are mostly wishful thinking.  —  1. Google will try to unify its application and transform them into a big social network.  The Maka-Maka project (or Google's activity stream) will enhance the already existing profiles.
Elaine C. Kamarck / Boston Globe:
Increasing Internet capacity  —  ARE YOU one of the over 63 million people who watched the “Evolution of Dance” on YouTube?  Did you download the latest version of “The Colbert Report” on your iPod?  Instead maybe you were stuck somewhere in Asia on business and you watched the final game of the World Series online?
Discussion: Aswath Weblog and VoIP Watch
CNN:
Nokia says door open for cooperation with Apple on web portal Ovi - Vanjoki  —  Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) — Nokia's (NYSE:NOK) doors are open for Apple Inc to sell its music via the company's planned Ovi web portal, management board member Anssi Vanjoki told Berliner Zeitung.
Seeking Alpha:
Details of Apple's Mysterious New Portable Device  —  I have been working on gathering more information about a new Apple (AAPL) portable device from several different sources during the past 6 months.  I have pieced together the puzzle which portrays a picture of what can be perhaps best described …
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:
Information Overload Costing $650 Billion  —  Information overload is being called the 2008 “Problem-of-the-Year” by research firm Basex.  —  Information overload reduces employee efficiency and overall productivity and has been flagged as a key challenge for companies that operate in the knowledge economy.
Discussion: Ars Technica
Sarah Fallon / Wired News:
Confessions of an Online Scrabble Cheat  —  Dear Scrabble Word Finder: We have to break up.  It's not you, it's me.  Well, FWIW (sorry, I know you hate it when I use abbreviations), it's the way we are together.  —  Back when I first added Scrabulous — Scrabble plus fabulous, get it? …
Discussion: Switched
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 6:10 PM ET, December 26, 2007.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Airtable:
What's the ROI on AI?  That's the trillion dollar question.  —  Learn why Airtable's the enterprise operating system for the AI era, delivering enterprise-grade security, privacy and governance.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter  —  Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact.  We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Zoho:
Zoho Sign supports Saudi Arabia's digital transformation with legally-compliant digital signatures  —  As-salamu alaykum!  The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is on a journey to become a modern, economically vibrant nation …
Notion:
Get up to 6 months free of Notion with unlimited AI  —  Notion is trusted and loved by thousands of startups as their connected workspace—from building product roadmaps to tracking fundraising.  Build and scale your company with one tool!
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Fareastgizmos.com:
NEC Hello Kitty laptop LaVie G decorated with Swarovski Crystals
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
Om Malik / GigaOM:
GigaOM Interview: Dr. Mendel Roseblum, Chief Scientist, VMWare
Oldnewthing / The Old New Thing:
Microthink: If you can't measure it, then it doesn't exist
David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Ola! Craigslist Goes Bilingual
Discussion: Mashable!
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Christmas At The Apple Store: Very, Very Crowded
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Canon, Panasonic and Hitachi Join Up, Dig In for Flat-Panel War
Discussion: Ars Technica
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
2007 In Numbers: Low Traffic Is One Problem Yahoo Doesn't Have
Discussion: Digg
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Study: Ads in online shows work better than ads on TV
Discussion: Techland
 Earlier Items: 
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
FCC Leaks Details on the Motorola ROKR E8
Josephine Lien / DigiTimes:
NAND flash market sees worsening oversupply
Google Watch:
Google Taps NTT DoCoMo in Mobile No-Brainer
Discussion: Mashable!
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
First look: Qt 4.4.0 with Phonon and WebKit
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Update: Like Gaboogie, Foonz Losing Its Voice Too
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
CTO Session: Nortel's Roese Speaks Out
Discussion: All About Nortel
P2P Blog:
IFPI wants ISPs to block The Pirate Bay, filter P2P traffic
Matthew Hurst / Data Mining:
IceRocket Relaunch?  —  I'm sure I'm very late in noticing this …