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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
LinkedIn raises $12.8M to build out professional network — LinkedIn, the networking site for professionals connect, has raised $12.8 million in venture funding. — The venture capitalists, Silicon Valley's Bessemer Venture Partners and the European Founders Fund (EFF), an internet focused firm …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Raises Nearly $13 Million More — Professional social network LinkedIn will announce a previously rumored $12.8 million round of financing on Monday, led by Bessemer and the European Founders Fund. The company, which has been profitable since March 2006, has raised $13.4 million …
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Vista "upgrade" drops compliance checking, requires old OS to install — Microsoft's quest to closely control the way Windows Vista can be used on PCs has taken a turn for the worse as new information indicates that the company is breaking tradition when it comes to Windows Vista upgrades.
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George Ou, Windows-Now.com, Gizmodo, Alec Saunders .LOG, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, digg and Slashdot
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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.
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:Adobe to send PDF to standards group
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The Universal Desktop
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Wellsphere Launches Wellness 2.0 — Wellshpere is launching an alpha version of their wellness community site tomorrow. It joins a host of other health related search, training, and Q&A sites we've covered. Wellsphere is concerned with day-to-day sorts of health choices that make up …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Wellsphere, for those striving to be fit and healthy — Wellsphere is a Web site worth looking at, if you're into eating healthy and sports. It launches Monday morning. — We at VentureBeat are constantly surprised by how difficult it is to find yummy, healthy restaurants in say …
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
YOUTUBE: YOU WANT (GOOGLE'S) ADS WITH THAT? — One of the more news-making moments of last week's Davos event, at least as it relates to our little corner of the world, was Chad Hurley's revelation (BBC) that it would soon be rolling out a system to share revenues with the folks who create its videos (Jarvis has the video).
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CyberNet Technology News, Search Engine Land, Download Squad, IP Democracy and Davos Conversation
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Anne Zelenka / Web Worker Daily:
27 TIPS FOR TELECONFERENCING — Whether you call them conference calls or telecons or excruciatingly dull time-wasters, multi-participant phone conversations are as important to most web workers as email. If you can't meet face to face or arrange video conferencing, the conference call is the next best thing.
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Chris / Are You Paying Attention?:
Announcing the Media 2.0 Workgroup … The term "Web 2.0" has become a little warn out lately, but it has had an important and dramatic effect on our industry. It has spurred innovation, driven investment and ignited the imagination of the entrepreneurial community.
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.
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Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:
Microsoft Office 2007 Review Part 2: What's New? — In this part of the review, I'd like to discuss two major changes to Office 2007 that affect the most commonly-used applications in the suite: the new Ribbon user interface and the new XML-based document formats.
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Office Evolution
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Startups Take on Amazon Reviews — While low prices and huge inventory are the main attraction at Amazon.com, the site's reviews have emerged as an essential online resource. Now, a new generation of start-ups wants to take on the shopping giant by spreading reviews across the web.
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
OpenID, Get it from Yahoo! & Avoid Phishing — OpenID, the lightweight, decentralized identity system (Radar post) had an interesting weekend. There is now a method for using your Yahoo ID with OpenID (unofficial, but sanctioned) and there are new measures designed to reduce the risk of phishing.
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Vecosys
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Toshiba's Portege R400 convertible goes on sale — If you somehow managed to skim through the CES mayhem and notice this gem, chances are it immediately landed on your wish list, and if you're looking for an ultralight, well-spec'd, EV-DO-equipped convertible tablet, here's your chance.
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GottaBeMobile.com
Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette's Dev Connection:
Microsoft copies BlueJ, admits it, then patents it — Michael Kölling is pretty ticked off right now. What would upset a mild mannered professor at the University of Kent? How about someone willfully using his work without attribution, and then filing for a patent on it that could prevent him from using it himself?
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Gizmo, now making browser based phone calls — SIPphone, the company behind Gizmo Project has introduced a new product, Gizmo Call that make is fairly simple to make VoIP calls from any browser that can support Adobe's Flash. — You can visit Gizmocall.com, and you are prompted to download a small plugin …
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Thoughts on VoIP, technology
