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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Huffington Post Will Add Original Reporting to Its Blog — The Huffington Post, which started about 18 months ago as a political Web site for celebrity bloggers, is preparing to venture into original reporting, with plans to cover Congress and, already, the 2008 presidential campaign.
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Mathew Ingram, IP Democracy, PaidContent, Frank Barnako, The Blog Herald, Bloggers Blog, The Blogging Times, Business Filter and BuzzMachine
John Markoff / New York Times:
For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs a Big Debate — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When computer industry executives heard about a plan to build a $100 laptop for the developing world's children, they generally ridiculed the idea. How could you build such a computer, they asked, when screens alone cost about $100?
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IP Democracy, TeleRead, Joe Duck, Urlocker On Disruption, Joho the Blog, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Smart Mobs and John Furrier
Raju Vegesna / Zoho Blogs:
Zoho Announcements - How about three of them? — Today, we announce three different additions to Zoho. — 1. Zoho Plugin for Microsoft Office — 2. Zoho APIs — 3. Desktopize for Zoho (Download) — We are very excited about the plugin for Microsoft Office as this extends …
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Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:The Real Office Live: Zoho Bridges Online And Offline Office Apps
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Zoli's Blog
Ellen Lee / The Technology Chronicles:
iPod vs. Zune Update — So how is the Zune, Microsoft's MP3 player, doing so far? — The Zune debuted just before the frenzied holiday shopping season, and so far, it's ranked No. 2 behind rival Apple's iPod, according to statistics released by the NPD Group today.
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Guardian:
Real life crashes into Second Life's digital idyll — Aleks Krotoski — It was three weeks ago that my virtual world disintegrated. I had been struggling with a digital littering problem in my Social Simulation Research Lab and I wanted to automate the cleanup process.
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Rough Type
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Business Wire:
New Jersey Mom Wins Trip to Puerto Rico for Placing 100 Millionth Call to 1-800-FREE411 — New Free Directory Assistance Service Growing Rapidly and Saving Consumers Millions Every Month — MENLO PARK, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—By placing the 100 millionth call to the free directory …
Masaki Kondo / Bloomberg:
Namco Bandai's Takasu Says PS3 Game Titles Must Sell 500,000 — Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) — Namco Bandai Holdings Inc., Japan's second-biggest maker of video-game software, must sell at least half a million copies of a game for Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 console to make money on the title, said President Takeo Takasu.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
HP IQ770 "Crossfire" 19-inch touchscreen Media PC revealed! — Looks like AMD has a sweet new rig they're readying for January launch, and word on the street is Bill Gates wants to launch it personally. It's the IQ770 "Crossfire," the first mass market touchscreen desktop PC we've seen …
Anna Jane Grossman / New York Times:
Here's My Number (for Today) — THERE is no shortage of ways to reach Airin McClain, a singer who lives in Philadelphia. She has a Web site, an instant messenger account, a MySpace page, four e-mail addresses and two mobile phones. — Good luck getting one of those phone numbers, though.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Goodbye Search Engine Watch & Best Wishes! — Today is my last day with Search Engine Watch, with me heading to my new digs at Search Engine Land tomorrow. I wanted to wish Search Engine Watch all the best going forward, plus help readers understand some of the changes that are happening.
Joshua Jaffe / VC Ratings:
Lucky YouTube investor to buy Andre Agassi's estate for $20 million — That was fast. The trickle down effect from YouTube's sale to Google is already being felt. — Stuart Peterson, president of San Francisco hedge fund Artis Capital Management, has purchased one of the San Francisco Bay Area's …
Nick / Rough Type:
SAP's mixed-up confusion — Thomas Otter, a smart technology blogger who works for the corporate software giant SAP in Germany, finds himself baffled and befuddled these days. He can't figure out what "software-as-a-service" means. "For ages," he writes, rhetorically scratching his head …
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Business Two Zero, Software as services, AccMan, Sadagopan's weblog … and Between the Lines
This Is London:
ANGER AT YOUTUBE VIDEOS THAT SHOW HOW TO BREAK INTO HOUSES — Householders were warned today to check their security in an alert sparked by video website YouTube. — Hundreds of videos are available on the site showing users how to pick locks, which experts fear will result in a spate of burglaries.
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
YouTube's Doppelganger — It's getting tougher and tougher to break copyright law on YouTube these days. The site now performs frequent purges of television shows and other proprietary content uploaded by users. But those forbidden files can still be had.
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Why Yahoo is Backing Away from RSS — Has anyone noticed that Yahoo's love affair with RSS seems to be withering? In 2004 and 2005 Yahoo was all over feeds. It was an early leader in driving adoption, as a matter of fact. But in recent months I question whether they remain committed to RSS as a platform.
Microsoft:
Steve Ballmer Kicks Off Most Significant Product Launch in Microsoft's History — Windows Vista and the 2007 release of Office lead the more than 30 new products that will spur the next leap forward in business computing. — At a press conference at NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square …
