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CNN:
DAVOS: Microsoft To Set Up Online Payment System — DAVOS, Switzerland -(Dow Jones)- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is developing on an online payment system that will be cheaper than credit card transactions, making it possible for companies to charge small fees for Web-based content and services they now offer for free.
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Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:
Microsoft To Open 'Points' Micro-Payment Framework? — It's no secret that the existing "merchant" system for processing credit cards is nothing but a way for large banks to rip you off one plastic swipe at a time. It's ridiculously hard to process small transactions when you're paying 2.75% plus $0.35 per transaction in fees.
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Jennifer Slegg / Search Engine Land:
YouTube to Begin Revenue Sharing for Video Providers — The BBC is reporting that they are in talks with Google to begin revenue sharing advertising revenue when their videos are shown on YouTube. Few details are known yet, but rollout of the new revenue providing model could begin as quickly as within the next couple of months.
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Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
YouTube's Vaporware About Vaporshare — This generated a lot of links and stories since Thursday....Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, speaking at Davos, flippantly mentioned the site will start sharing revenue with its millions of users sometime in the coming months, and the world goes stir-crazy.
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
New Windows Vista homepage — The guys over at Neowin noticed the Windows Vista website has been refreshed for the ever-imminent launch in under 24 hours. In fact, the whole "Windows Family" sub-site has adopted a new Vista look-and-feel with light auras, glass and a black toolbar.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Pissing off the blogosphere... OK, I think I made about 50 enemies yesterday. Telling people they don't link, I learned, is one way to get everyone's panties in a bunch. — Ryan Block, who is one of the main guys at Engadget, responds to yesterday's rant with a long piece.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Do A-list bloggers have a responsibility to link to others?
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Paul Durman / Times of London:
Jilted tech boss tries hand at venture capital — DAN WAGNER, the entrepreneur who ran the Maid online information business in the 1990s, once turned down an opportunity to invest $1m (£510,000) for 30% of the fledgling Ebay — a stake that would now be worth many billions.
DailyTech:
Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Hits Store Shelves Way Early — Bleeding edge AMD fans rejoice; your 3.0GHz processor has arrived — It appears as though the February 20th, 2007 embargo date on Athlon 64 X2 6000+ applies to everyone except DailyTech and Newegg. Details of the last high-end Athlon 64 X2 processor …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
How to Find Fake Torrents Uploaded by the MPAA and RIAA — To make these traps more visible, Fenopy just introduced the FakeFinder. The FakeFinder lists the most popular fake torrents and the latest fake trackers. It also allows you to search for fake torrents by keyword or infohash.
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Jason Pontin / New York Times:
Awaiting the Day When Everyone Writes Software — BJARNE STROUSTRUP, the designer of C++, the most influential programming language of the last 25 years, has said that "our technological civilization depends on software." True, but most software isn't much good.
Ryan Stewart / TechCrunch:
Adobe's Apollo Provides New Ground For Entrepreneurs — Undoubtedly you've heard the term "Rich Internet Application" (RIA) with increasing frequency lately. Sometimes you hear about it in context of Ajax, sometimes with Flash, and now even Microsoft gets talked about as having an RIA solution with "WPF/E".
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Grant Robertson / Download Squad:
Open Document Plugin for Word 97-2007 proves Microsoft wrong — Why can't we live in a magical world where the document you email on this end can be opened on the other end, regardless of whether the recipient runs MS Word or OpenOffice or any other standards based word processor? Want to know a secret?
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
MyBlogLog Integrates Flickr — It hasn't always been clear how Yahoo planned to tie together its many small social media properties. But it seems that MyBlogLog, acquired by Yahoo earlier this month (see Yahoo-MyBlogLog), is already seeing some integration with another slightly geeky Yahoo property: Flickr.
Kristopher Kubicki / DailyTech Main News Feed:
Life With "Penryn" — Intel confirms new details on "Penryn" family: SSE4, high-k dielectrics, metal gate transistors — A little more than six months ago we wrote an editorial about Intel's future technology after Core 2 Duo, titled "Life After Conroe."
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Robert Scoble / ScobleShow:Intel says goodbye to Silicon Dioxide in new 45 nanometer fab
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google TV - An Elaborate Hoax — A heavily produced YouTube video from Mark Erickson at "Infinite Solutions" shows users how to get in on the super-secret (and non existent) Google TV beta. It involves sending yourself an email and then logging in and out of Gmail multiple times until a tv icon appears in the Gmail logo.
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
idproxy.net: Use your Yahoo! account as an OpenID — In an ideal world, some or all of the sites with large user databases (Yahoo!, AOL, Google, Amazon and so on) would act as OpenID providers, allowing their users to sign in to OpenID supporting sites around the Web.
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Sean Alexander / Addicted to Digital Media:
Exclusive: Vista Special Edition Launch PC Pics — While visiting a friend yesterday in the OEM Group at Microsoft, I spied an interesting sub-notebook on his desk. It appeared to have a Windows Vista logo jeweled into the case and backlit in color. My trusty camera in tow, I snapped a few pictures for your enjoyment.
