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Jon Pareles / New York Times:
2006, Brought to You by You — IMAGINE paying $580 million for an ever-expanding heap of personal ads, random photos, private blathering, demo recordings and camcorder video clips. That's what Rupert Murdoch did when his News Corporation bought MySpace in July.
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Virtual World Currency Deflates a Real One? — At a fundamental level, all money is virtual. (If it's no longer tied to a precious physical product like gold, that is- but then, what currency is, nowadays?) At root, its worth depends on the value a group invests in it, whether it's made of paper, metal- or binary code.
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Reuters:
TV networks reportedly discussing YouTube rival — News Corp.'s Fox, Viacom, CBS and NBC Universal are in talks about creating a video Web site to compete with Google's YouTube, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. — While a deal is still far off, the four media companies envision …
Chikai Ohazama / Official Google Blog:
Opening my eyes to a whole new world — Every once in a while you come across a piece of technology that instantly grabs you and you can't stop saying "Oh my god!" When I bought my 12" Mac Powerbook, for instance, just opening the box was an experience. Each item was laid out perfectly …
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Gizmodo:
Fletcher Capstan Table: Dinner Party Transformer — This is the first time in my life that a table has invoked feelings of carnal attraction from deep within my loins. With a simple 30-degree rotation, the Fletcher Capstan Table expands by 73%, growing from a capacity of 6 to 12 people in seconds.
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Simplicity — Donald Norman concludes that simplicity is overrated: "But when it came time for the journalists to review the simple products they had gathered together, they complained that they lacked what they considered to be 'critical' features. So, what do people mean when they ask for simplicity?
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Gadgetopia
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Looking for a Gambit to Win at Google's Game — There is a lot about the way Microsoft has run its Internet business that Steve Berkowitz wants to change. But he is finding that redirecting such a behemoth is slow going. — "I'm used to being in companies where I am in a rowboat and I stick …
Keith Teare / edgeio:
De-portalization and Internet revenues — This post is a little more philosophical than most that you will see here. It provides a little bit of background as to why edgeio is in the business of bringing together, organizing and distributing listings to the edge of the network.
GigaOM:
Can Personal Cellular Sites boost cell service? — By Allan Leinwand — Mobile operators are on the verge of asking you to help them solve one of their biggest problems - how to get more signal strength where you need or want it most. Their plan? Allow end users to buy personal devices …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Uh Oh, Gmail Just Got Perfect — Google quietly added a small feature to Gmail this week called Mail Fetcher. When that feature launched, Gmail became perfect. — Mail Fetcher allows users to access non-Gmail email accounts from within the Gmail interface.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
YouTube allows users to record directly to site — YouTube quietly added a new feature today to its popular user-generated video site today called Quick Capture, which allows users to record video directly to YouTube from webcams plugged into their computers.
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Lifehacker:
Find a deal with WiiSeeker — Looking for a good Playstation 3 or Wii deal for the holidays? Check out PS3Seeker, a nifty map mashup that helps you locate the best game system deals not only in your local brick and mortar, but also on Amazon and eBay. — Updated about every five minutes …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
John Dvorak is wrong again — this time about "death" of FrontPage — He says blogging killed FrontPage. — The thing that really killed FrontPage? Microsoft's marketing team tested the name on a range of developers and Web designers/builders. They all derided it.
Steve O'Hear / The Social Web:
Was I just censored by Digg? — After the recent discussion about companies offering bribes to Diggers, I thought it would be interesting to run a poll asking if it's time for the top users to be paid by the social news site itself. I was interested to hear the views of the wider Digg community so I 'dugg' the post too.
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Lifehacker:
Search tags with TagBulb — Search through tags from multiple sources via TagBulb, a tag search aggregator. — You've got a lot of choices here: you can search through various categories such as Images, Jobs, Podcasts, etc., and within each of those categories, you've got …
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