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Steve Hamm / Business Week:
IBM's Social Networking Push — With collaboration software called Lotus Connections, Big Blue competes with Microsoft as Web 2.0 expands into the business world — In the earlier days of computing, innovations that were created for corporations gradually seeped into consumer products.
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Matt / WordPress Development Blog:
WordPress 2.1 Ella — On behalf of the WordPress.org community of commiters, contributers, and volunteers, I'm very proud to announce the immediate availability of WordPress 2.1 "Ella", named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald. Here's a sampling of what's in the new version:
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Victoria Shannon / New York Times:
Record Labels Contemplate Unrestricted Digital Music — As even digital music revenue growth falters because of rampant file-sharing by consumers, the major record labels are moving closer to releasing music on the Internet with no copying restrictions — a step they once vowed never to take.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Find Out If Your Social Security or Credit Card Numbers are on the Internet — Silicon Valley based Trusted ID, which launched IDFreeze last year to help protect people from identity theft, released their second product this evening - Stolen ID Search. — Type a social security …
Doug Mellgren / Associated Press:
German, French groups want open iTunes — OSLO, Norway - German and French consumer groups have joined a Nordic-led drive to force Apple Inc. to make its iTunes online store compatible with digital music players made by rival companies, a Norwegian official said Monday.
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Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
E-mail from the grave? Microsoft seeks patent on 'immortal computing' — In this culture of instant information, some Microsoft Corp. researchers are pursuing a radical notion — the concept of saving messages for delivery in decades, centuries or more. — The project, dubbed …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Throwaway Identities — Written by Jitendra Gupta of KarmaWeb and edited by Richard MacManus — Social Media researcher danah boyd recently recently wrote in her blog about throwaway identities in MySpace: … danah notes that teens often start new accounts on a whim - in IM, email, website logins.
David Flynn / APC:
Vista Service Pack 1 is coming — Reckon you won't upgrade to Vista until the first service pack is released? That's looking likely to be the second half of this year, according to Microsoft's latest email blast. — The company has put out a call for "customers and partners (to) …
Nate Mook / BetaNews:
22% of Windows Installs Non-Genuine — Microsoft disclosed Monday that over one in five Windows installations were deemed non-genuine through the company's Windows Genuine Advantage program, which requires users to validate their operating system before downloading updates from the company.
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Rob Beschizza / Gadget Lab:
Blu-Ray DRM Cracked — The plaintext exploit used to partially crack HD-DVD a couple of weeks ago was brought to bear on Blu-Ray by the same gents this weekend—and it worked a treat. — "We need to kick DRM in the butt!" declares the sigfile of Doom9 forum poster Janvitos, launching his inspection of the format.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TellMe Launches a Killer Mobile Product — If you have a cell phone that supports the new TellMe mobile application, you will never use 411 again to find a business. It launches today at 5 AM PST. — TellMe mobile is a free Java application that you install on your phone.
Randfish / SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog:
Best Practices for Title Tags — It's been a while since I provided some straightforward, back to basics style advice and there can be little doubt that the title attribute is worthy of attention for beginners and experts alike. And so I present... How to Make the Best Title Tag Possible:
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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Cracking Down on Mixtape CDs — Not long before Christmas, Jeff Baker, the chief of police of Morrow, Ga., a small town just south of Atlanta, and one of his officers were walking through a local shopping mall when they happened to pass a kiosk hawking rap music CDs. One in particular caught their attention.
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
MySpace sues Spam King — You'll never guess what for... MySpace.com has sued self-proclaimed spam king Scott Richter for allegedly using compromised user accounts to send millions unsolicited ads touting ringtones, polo shirts among other things. — We were surprised - nay shocked - when we heard the identity of the defendant.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Report: Google Doesn't Renew Google.de, Site Goes Down — Reports are coming in from Germany that Google.de was down "for many hours" yesterday, and has now gone live again. We're trying to confirm the reason, but it appears to be because Google forgot to renew the Google.de domain name.
Mike / CrunchNotes:
TechCrunch Referral Traffic — In response to a couple of inquiries, here are the top 11 sources of TechCrunch traffic in December 2006 (via Google Analytics): — Digg remains a very important site for overall TechCrunch traffic. I'm surprised by how much traffic BBC and TechMeme sends our way.
Nikhil Pahwa / PaidContent:
Google Invests in India Via New Investment Firm Seedfund — You're reading it here first: Google has made its first investment in India, and it has taken a different route than usual: it is investing in Seedfund, a new India-based seed investment firm founded by Mahesh Murthy, Pravin Gandhi …
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