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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's "Project Fraternity" Docs Leaked — Rumors about the possible acquisition of Facebook, usually with Yahoo as buyer, have been around for most of this year. Not that Yahoo or Facebook have asked for this attention, but the media is getting antsy. Robert Young put it best last week …
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VentureBeat, PE HUB, Valleywag, TechEffect, Search Engine Journal, Joe Duck, ben barren and Technically Speaking
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Fred Stutzman / Unit Structures:
The Problem with Yahoo's Facebook Numbers — There was a nice little scoop on Techcrunch this morning - Michael Arrington got his hands on some revenue projections concerning Yahoo's purchase of the Facebook. I've spent a little time parsing the numbers, and the projections look sound, if not overly optimistic.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
RIM sues Samsung over BlackJack name — Research In Motion is suing Samsung, claiming that the name of the company's new BlackJack smart phone is too similar to that of RIM's own BlackBerry devices. — The suit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
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Jim Allchin / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Setting The Record Straight — As part of one of Microsoft's on-going lawsuits, a piece of email that I sent to Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates recently became public. It was a rant encouraging a change to the way we were building Windows at the time. In the email, I made a comment for effect …
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Global Nerdy, MacUser, InsideMicrosoft, PC Pro, InformationWeek Weblog, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog and CrunchGear
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
IE7 promo page — I was going to read some Penny Arcade, but Robert Scoble invoked me. Jeremy points out that Google had an IE7 promo page that looked remarkably similar to a Yahoo! IE7 promo page. — I can only speak for me personally on this. If Jeremy looked into it and says that …
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Search Engine Land, Business 2.0 Beta Blogs, AccMan, Google Blogoscoped, SitePoint Blogs, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, Joe Duck, Download Squad, Glass House, Search Marketing Gurus, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, WebProBlog, CenterNetworks, Googlified, The Blogging Times, Online Marketing Blog, InsideGoogle, Scobleizer, TechCrunch, THE BLOGGING JOURNALIST, Web Strategy, Technically Speaking, Mathew Ingram, Sadagopan's weblog … and digg
Microsoft:
Q&A: Microsoft Delivers Voice Technologies in Unified Communications Platform — The head of Microsoft's Unified Communications Group tells how the company is simplifying the ways in which people work by bringing voice technologies to Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007
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PR Newswire:
Yoqoo.com Receives US$12 Million in Funding from Sutter Hill, Farallon Capital and Chengwei Ventures — BEIJING, Dec. 12 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ — Yoqoo.com, a leading online video sharing and distribution platform in China, today announced it has completed a US$12 million round of private equity funding …
Bruce Johnson / Google Web Toolkit Blog:
GWT 1.3 Release Candidate is 100% Open Source — Today is quite a milestone for Google Web Toolkit: with the GWT 1.3 Release Candidate, our team is very happy to announce that all of GWT is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. There's a lot to say, but let's start with our mission:
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Ed Burnette's Dev Connection, Monkey Bites, Official Google Blog, Google Code and Slashdot
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Report: MySpace Passes Yahoo in Page Views — Yahoo's page views were down 9 percent month-over-month in November, allowing MySpace owner Fox Interactive Media to take the overall lead in that category for the first time, according to comScore data highlighted in an emailed note today from UBS Investment Research.
Business Wire:
Intalio to Release Entire BPMS Under Open Source License — Intalio/BPMS to Be Released Under Mozilla Public License With Attribution — REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Intalio, Inc., The Open Source BPMS Company, today announced that Intalio/BPMS Community Edition will be released under …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Laser etching coming to a laptop near you — If you can't stand the idea of a cookie cutter laptop and you live in New York, there's a new option: laser etching. — Phil Torrone, an editor at Make magazine, and Limor Fried, a former fellow at the tech-focused art studio Eyebeam R&D …
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Valleywag:
SECOND LIFE: A story too good to check — CLAY SHIRKY — Second Life, the much-hyped virtual world backed by Benchmark Capital, is heading towards two million users. Except it isn't, really. We all know how this game works, and has since the earliest days of the web:
Supadupagama / videogamesblogger.com:
Sony pays PR firm to lie about wanting a PSP for Christmas (terrible rapsong video included) — I hate that it's popular in the media nowadays to bash the black sheep PS3. It's true that Sony made almost every mistake they could make in the release of the PS3, but I don't think any one game company deserved …
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
digg users are getting paid—just not by digg — Update: If you know of someone doing this let me know and get a C-Note. — Update2: The first tip is in, and *if* it is correct someone paid off the number five digg user this week. — I know these reports have been going around …
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InformationWeek Weblog, Deep Jive Interests, Frank Barnako, Glass House, Web Strategy and Search Engine Journal
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
2006 Web Technology Trends — It's December already and so it's about that time to reflect on what has happened in Web Technology during 2006 - and ponder what 2007 may bring. Over the next few weeks Read/WriteWeb is going to publish some in-depth posts analyzing the trends and new products we've seen …
Paul Kapustka / GigaOM:
Chambers: Video is the 'killer app' — SAN JOSE, Calif. — 8:50 a.m. PST — Cisco CEO John Chambers just said that "if there is a killer app, it is video," as part of his keynote speech kicking off the Cisco C-Scape analysts conference here. — "Things like YouTube are just the baby steps …
Annys Shin / Washington Post:
FTC Moves to Unmask Word-of-Mouth Marketing — The Federal Trade Commission yesterday said that companies engaging in word-of-mouth marketing, in which people are compensated to promote products to their peers, must disclose those relationships. — In a staff opinion issued yesterday …
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Deep Jive Interests
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Welcome To Search Engine Land! — It's official. Search Engine Land has now formally launched. I know, I know — we've been posting for over a week here. But now our new design is (mostly) in place, so it's time to declare ourselves fully operational.
