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Peter / The Local Onliner:
Management Team Quits BackFence — The management team of BackFence has resigned en masse from BackFence, including CEO and CoFounder Susan DeFife, and VPs Amanda Graham and Bob Kelly. "Ultimately, we did not share the same strategic vision for the company as the Board of Directors," says DeFife.
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Frank Barnako, MediaVidea, Search Engine Watch Blog, media blog, Kelsey Group Blogs and Digital Markets
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Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
CEO Leaves Local News & Community Startup Backfence; Other Layoffs — Perhaps symptomatic of the difficulties in developing the local news, community and citizen journalism ventures as a business, especially a venture backed on: Backfence, the local news venture, has seen its co-fouder …
Stefan Constantinescu / Ring Nokia:
Nokia N800 Internet Tablet Unboxing! — Don't want these hogging up all my bandwidth by being on the front page so just click "continue reading" below to look at 14 pictures of this little beauty! — Here is one image to get your mouth watering:
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Rupert Murdoch Doesn't Read This Column — This is my 2007 predictions column, where I first examine my predictions from 2006 to see how well or poorly I did (my multiyear average is around 75 percent) then provide a list of predictions for the current year that are sufficiently vague …
Lyndonantcliff / Cornwall SEO:
IS THIS THE THING THAT WILL DESTROY DIGG? — Digg has spawned a number of clones. some offering interesting and unique information. Others duplicating existing sites. — With a CMS such as Pligg you can quickly and easily set up you own Digg type site. It took me a couple of hours to knock up my own Pligg test here.
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Will digg die the death of 1,000 cuts? — Someone speculates today that digg is going to take a hit from the hundreds of smaller sites that are going vertical in the social news market place. They make a really nice long list of all the social news sites (let's not call them digg-clones …
New York Times:
Companies Pay Dearly for Tech Trade Show — For a small technology company called Digeo, the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is one of the biggest opportunities of the year. For the next few days, the city will be jampacked with potential customers, partners and press — but the price of participation is daunting.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft pulls four planned patches — Microsoft has pulled four bulletins from its announced list of Patch Tuesday fixes, but did not specify why it was backpedaling on the security releases. — It now plans to issue four security bulletins on Tuesday, rather than the eight originally announced …
Valleywag:
PUBLIC RELATIONS: Dangle scoops before Michael Arrington — Michael Arrington is sometimes so refreshingly blunt that one can forgive him his over-compensating aggression, and sanctimonious contempt for those, such as mainstream journalists, who just don't get it.
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globelogger.com:
Technology: Whom to Blame When Your 2.0 Infrastructure Fails? — Web services are cheap, fast, and convenient. But when they die, things can get ugly. — Yesterday Amazon's S3 service suffered an outage that lasted more than long enough to miss the company's self-imposed goal of 99.99% availability …
Wagner James Au / GigaGamez:
Second Life: People Light, Cash Heavy? — Analysis — Om just passed on a fascinating entry from the blog of Tristan Louis, an application development VP with financial giant HSBC. Inspired by Clay Shirky's scathing (and somewhat disputed) takedown on the media hype surrounding Second Life …
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3pointD.com, NevilleHobson.com, MediaVidea, VTOR, Mickeleh's Take, WebProNews and Reuters/Second Life
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Music Fans: Dismantle DRM — New lawsuits are using antitrust law to challenge media giants' music download policies, claiming they unfairly restrict users' purchases — When it comes to legal action over downloaded music, the defendants are often individuals: The lone user downloads …
Jim Ellis / Associated Press:
Most teens are responsible online, study shows — MIAMI — Most underage users of MySpace.com don't display information or photos that could attract pedophiles, but a sizable percentage still post potentially provocative photos, a new study concludes. — The popular social networking site …
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Mashable!
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Gizmodo:
CES 2007: Xbox 360 Announcements Leaked: IPTV, DVR, VOD — Xbox 360 Announcements Leaked: IPTV, DVR, VOD — Dean T. of the Mercury News just made an oops and leaked some Xbox 360 announcements Microsoft was planning on dropping next week at CES. Not only does he mention the improved Xbox 360s …
Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
E-Paper Display Company Plastic Logic Receives $100 Million Funding — In one of the biggest venture capital rounds ever in Europe, UK electronic paper display technology company Plastic Logic has received $100 million in venture funding. The new round was led by Oak Investment Partners and Tudor Investment Corporation.
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