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Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
Record Labels Sue Web Site Operator — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Several major record labels sued the operator of the Russian music Web site AllofMP3.com on Wednesday, claiming the company has been profiting by selling copies of music without their permission. — The lawsuit was filed …
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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Censored 'SNL' Sketch Jumps Bleepless Onto the Internet — The nearly three-minute digital film, shown on "Saturday Night Live" last Saturday, was a parody of two boy-band singers (including one played by the real Justin Timberlake) crooning a holiday song about making a gift to their girlfriends …
Nick Bradbury:
Desktop Software is Paralyzed by Fear — Despite the power and rich UI that desktop applications offer, it's obvious that the move to Web applications is accelerating. For many people, the ability to access your data through any browser clearly outweighs the benefits of desktop software.
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JD on EP
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Don Box / Don Box's Spoutlet:
Google Search API? — Several people have forwarded me pointers to Google's move from a SOAP-based access mechanism for search to an AJAX-based one. — The O'Reilly coverage starts to detail what's going on, but I think there's more here than meets the eye.
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Paul Mooney, ProgrammableWeb, Manthan, John Battelle's Searchblog and Software as services
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Michel Marriott / New York Times:
At the Heart of the Wii, Micron-Size Machines — EVEN before its release last month, Nintendo's latest video game console, the Wii, was getting a lot of attention for its wireless motion-sensitive controllers. Swing the controller and — crack! — hit a virtual home run in a virtual ballpark, for example.
Deusx / del.icio.us:
tagometer: badges badges badges badges BOOKMARKS BOOKMARKS — Being a blogger, one of my long-standing wishlist items for del.icio.us has been to find some way to get more of what's going on here to show up out there. Instead of just simple links, I've wanted to get a bit of peek through …
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Mark Glaser / pbs.org:
WSJ Gets Comfortable with Blogs, Wants to Boost Community — Historically, the august Wall Street Journal's website has been the antithesis of Web 2.0 and online innovation. The Journal's site, WSJ.com, costs money to access, even if you already pay for the print edition.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Google drops beta tag from Blogger — The beta version of Google's popular blogging service, Blogger Beta, quietly shed its "beta" tag today. The switch came without much fanfare, only noted by the loss of the "beta" tag and the introduction of "the new Blogger" on the main Blogger web site.
Mike / Techdirt:
Google Misses Another Chance To Be The Web Platform — from the strategic-errors dept — A few people have submitted various stories on the web about how Google has killed off their SOAP Search API in favor of their AJAX API, which is much more limited. Some are saying that this is more …
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
EFF taps e-voting security guru Ed Felten for board — Princeton's Ed Felten will be joining Lawrence Lessig, John Gilmore, Brewster Kahle, and other prominent technology activists, researchers, and scholars on the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
OpenID on the Upswing — OpenID is a lightweight, decentralized identity system that has been gaining prominence. I expect this upcoming year to be a big year for OpenID — and not just because of the Google trend chart with the recent uptake in search query share.
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Phil Windley's Technometria
Fred / A VC:
Web 2.0 Is A Gift, Not A Threat, To VCs — It's Christmas time and I've been thinking about gifts. In this case, I've been thinking about what a gift the evolution of the web from its first generation to its second generation has been to the venture capital business.
Inside Google Desktop:
Holiday Gadgets — We've released some very fun and festive gadgets just in time for the holidays! Try these out: — Christmas Tree by EK Chung and James Yum [USA] — A tree that you can decorate. Choose lights, bows, stockings, and ornaments for your tree to add distinctive holiday cheer.
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Download Squad
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
FeedSky, China's Version of Feedburner - But With Bigger Numbers — By Read/WriteWeb's China correspondent, Gang Lu — FeedSky is the largest Chinese feed management provider and has just launched its Beta 3. CEO Xinxin Lv described it to me as "mainly a UI update with some performance enhancement".
Joey deVilla / Global Nerdy:
RSS is "The Next Big Thing" — and Has Been for the Past 3 Years — We got a sense of deja vu when we saw that the first item in Read/Write Web's Predicitions for 2007 was "RSS will go mainstream in a big way. A quick look back to their predictions for 2006 told us why …
