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Lev Grossman / Time:
Person of the Year: You — Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world. — The "Great Man" theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men."
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Josh Quittner / Time:
Web Boom 2.0 — Dotcoms are hot again. But this bubble is different from the last one. Here's how — Technology, San Francisco Bay Area old-timers tell me, blooms in four-year cycles. When I first moved here in 2002 to edit a biz-tech magazine, that was still open to debate.
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
Web Boom 2.0 is Okay: Wrong — Josh Quittner is wrong in his Time magazine paean to all thing Web 2.0. Far from being different from the prior dot-com boom, this boom is achingly similar, with the main difference being that it is cheaper this time to get yourself in just as deep …
John Cloud / Time:
The YouTube Gurus — How a couple of regular guys built a company that changed the way we see ourselves — Let's say you're in your 20s and you start your first Internet company. Let's say 21 months later you sell it for $1.65 billion. What happens next? — At first, not much.
Josh Hallett / hyku | blog:
'You' Named Time's Person of the Year — You, me, us...we're all Time's Person of the Year. Well, technically speaking not all of us (more on that in a bit). Time has selected, 'You' as Person of the Year because of the revolution in user-generated-content that is increasingly influencing society.
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Micro Persuasion
David Smith / Observer:
The future for Orange could soon be Google in your pocket — Google is on the move. The internet giant has held talks with Orange, the mobile phone operator, about a multi-billion-dollar partnership to create a 'Google phone' which makes it easy to search the web wherever you are.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Forget iPhone, Think Google Phone — The Observer of London is reporting that Google might be working with HTC and mobile/telecom giant Orange to build a Google Mobile Phone, which could possibly have Google software inside the device, and would be able to do many of the web tasks smartly.
ARRL Amateur Radio News:
End of an Era: FCC to Drop Morse Testing for All Amateur License Classes — In an historic move, the FCC has acted to drop the Morse code requirement for all Amateur Radio license classes. The Commission today adopted, but hasn't yet released, the long-awaited Report and Order (R&O) in WT Docket 05-235, the "Morse code" proceeding.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
From the Lips of Children, Tips to the Ears of Investors — Wanted: investment adviser, the younger the better. — In a nod to the wisdom of youth, many wealthy, highly connected and well-educated technology investors are taking counsel and investment tips from their children, summer interns and twentysomething receptionists.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Preparing For Apollo — 2007 will bring the launch of the much anticipated Adobe Apollo platform, a cross platform run time that will allow developers to take rich internet applications, whether they be built on Flash, HTML, JavaScript and/or Ajax, and turn them into desktop applications.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Goodbye to the embargo — I read on Frank Shaw's blog that Nick Denton thinks that embargoes will soon be a thing of the past. I think this is a good thing, even though I fully understand why big companies like Microsoft (Shaw's client) have attempted to orchestrate product rollouts in the past.
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Scobleizer
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
PayPerPost Does Something Right — PayPerPost, a marketplace for advertisers to pay bloggers to write about their products, will make a significant policy change on Monday: Bloggers will now be required to disclose that they are being paid for their posts. This looks to be at least partially due …
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Hackers Selling Vista Zero-Day Exploit — Underground hackers are hawking zero-day exploits for Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system at $50,000 a pop, according to computer security researchers at Trend Micro. — The Windows Vista exploit—which has not been independently verified …
Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
Sam Sethi — I would like to address this issue immediately before I post my feelings about the conference. Please also read Michael Arringon explanations. —exhausted after the conference, I saw Sam's post, I also notice it was posted on the first day of the conference …
Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Tech t-shirts aren't sexy enough — I've been to seven JavaOne conferences. I've paid more than $10,000 of my own money, just for the attendance fee. You'd think—just once—they'd give me a show shirt that didn't hide the fact that I have, say, breasts.
