Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:45 AM ET, January 16, 2007

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Skype founders name new video start-up Joost  —  Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the duo that brought the world Skype and Kazaa, have chosen a name for their new online-video start-up.  —  The two Danes want people hungry for Internet entertainment to roost at Joost.
RELATED:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Venice Project Launch Name: Joost  —  The Venice Project, the new online television startup led by Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, has always been a working name for the company.  Until today, no one outside the company knew name the company would eventually launch as.
Discussion: GigaOM and digg
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
New Venice Project Name: 'Joost'
Discussion: PaidContent and Gadgetell
AppleInsider:
Apple to impose 802.11n unlocking fee on Intel Mac owners  —  Core 2 Duo-based Mac owners who want to unlock next-generation 802.11n wireless technologies hidden inside their computers will first have to fork a few bucks over to Apple, AppleInsider has confirmed.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Mypunchbowl joins growing list of Evite rivals  —  Evite has long been the 800-pound gorilla in the online invitation area.  —  MyPunchbowl is the latest company trying to make a better version of Evite, by introducing better pre-party planning.  It adds modern Web features for collaboration …
Discussion: Webware.com and Somewhat Frank
RELATED:
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
MyPunchbowl Joins the eVite Gunners
useit.com:
10 Best Intranets of 2007 … The 10 best-designed intranets for 2007 are:  — American Electric Power (AEP), United States  — Comcast, United States  — DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany  — The Dow Chemical Company, United States  — Infosys Technologies Limited, India
Zoli Erdos / Zoli's Blog:
Read/Write Intranet 2007  —  Rod Boothby is running a Read/Write Intranet Idol - it's a poll I invite you to participate in, so I am attaching it at the bottom.  But first, it gives me a chance to share some of my (wiki)-thoughts.  —  The list is a mix of industry behemoths (Microsoft …
screendigest.com:
User generated online video: consumer usage exploded in 2006 but revenues will prove slow to develop.  The honeymoon period for user generated content is over  —  London 15th January 2007: The user generated online video market (UGOV) exploded in 2006 and by the end of the year …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isn't about piracy  —  For almost ten years now I have argued that digital rights management has little to do with piracy, but that is instead a carefully plotted ruse to undercut fair use and then create new revenue streams where there were previously none.
Discussion: digg
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
The Pirate Bay hopes to buy its own country: Sealand  —  Where do you go when you think it's crucial to provide access to ad-free episodes of Heroes but the rest of the world labels you a dirty pirate?  If you're Swedish "intellectual property reform group" The Pirate Bay, you look for your own country.
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs: Keynote text analysis  —  Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates both gave big keynote addresses last week.  So how did their messages compare?  At the suggestion of a reader, we ran the text of both speeches through the tag-cloud generator …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The highs and lows of CES  —  I'm still not 100% after CES.  It's amazing what a week of three-hour-a-night sleep does to your body.  —  Plus, we met up with John Welch and his fiance on Saturday.  Yes, that John Welch.  The one who is always giving me heck in my comments.  —  Turns out he's a real sweetheart.
Discussion: down the avenue and Web Strategy
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft to offer Vista 'Family Pack' discount for Ultimate users  —  Even though the retail launch of Windows Vista just a couple of weeks away, Microsoft is still continuing to fine-tune its licensing and pricing details.  —  Sources said that Microsoft will announce some time over the next few days …
Discussion: Bink.nu and Neowin.net
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Game search engine Wazap raises $7.9M, to launch in U.S.  —  Wazap is a search engine start-up focused exclusive on games, and is growing quickly — as you may expect, given the popularity of games.  —  It's another of those ideas that seems so obvious in hindsight, you're left wondering why it hasn't been done before.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
DMCA complaint with YouTube dropped  —  The husband of Second Life land baroness Anshe Chung said filing a Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaint with YouTube to delete a video of her avatar being attacked by a barrage of digital flying penises was a mistake.  And as a result, he said he has revoked the DMCA claim.
Discussion: Webware.com
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Taking the plunge into open source  —  More software companies are finding that the best way to make money with software is to give it away, cherry-picking open-source software practices for commercial gain.  —  On Monday, a small software company called Aras will release the code of its design application …
Ross McKillop / Download Squad:
WordPress: The Complete Post-Install Checklist  —  One of the great things about WordPress is how easily you can have it up and running, completely customized to your liking, in such a short period of time.  After setting up WordPress for several of my friends, I found that having …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 12:45 AM ET, January 16, 2007.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Meta:
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few  —  Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter  —  Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact.  We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Zoho:
5 common accounting mistakes  —  This is a guest post by Yaali Bizappln Solutions.  A lot of businesses manage their customers and finances on separate platforms.  This disconnect often leads to missed invoices …
Hamming:
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy  —  Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Michael Rose / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Wikipedia battle over iPhone trademark
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Wow, more Google XSS problems
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped and digg
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
WeatherBill Launches, Announces All Star Investors
Brian Benzinger / Solution Watch:
Footnote Millions of Historical Documents Online
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
MySpace's Tom Hacked
Webomatica:
Blog = Dog?  —  Always a fan of the half-baked analogy …
Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
LinkedIn and The Impending Challenge of Facebook
Discussion: The Social Web and Profy.Com
Robert Young / GigaOM:
Will MySpace Erect Tollbooths?
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
What Does a Deleted Blog Post Tell Us About NBC's Social Networking Strategy?
Discussion: digg
Tony Hung / The Blog Herald:
SponsoredReviews.com Jumps Into the Pay-Per-Post Fray, Introduces New Ethics Quandry
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Is News A Fundamentally Shared, Social Experience?
Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Post:
Freedom of Information, the Wiki Way
Discussion: Techdirt and IP Democracy
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Sprint WiMAX Spending Creeps Up
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Will dirty talk boost VoIP start-ups?
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Pentium M-based Intel chip at heart of Apple TV
Elise Ackerman / siliconvalley.com:
Hooked on Google
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
Sister Sites:

Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page