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Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
A couple updates... Hey everyone - — It's been awhile since I've posted and I wanted to get the New Year underway by clearing up a couple of perceptions that have arisen around attempts to manipulate (game) the listing of home page stories on Digg. — Since the early days of the site …
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Muhammad Saleem / Pronet Advertising:
Latest Digg Payola Exposed! — Thanks to my friend and top Digg user #6 Karim Yergaliyev (supernova17), we bring to you the latest edition of 'Digg Payola Exposed!' — Note: I replaced the email addresses to reflect the Digg user names of the individuals that received the email.
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Digg Takes Away Power from Top Diggers — Kevin Rose has just announced that Digg is scrapping the Top Diggers list, believing the move will take away the perception that just a few hundred Diggers control the majority of the 5,000 submissions each day.
Amazon.com:
Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 34%; Media Grows 25%; Electronics and Other General Merchandise Grows 55% — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2006. — Operating cash flow was $702 million in 2006, compared with $733 million in 2005.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Amazon: 220,000 developers signed up for Amazon Web Services — Amazon says there are 55 percent more developers using Amazon Web Services as of Dec. 31 compared to a year ago. In total, more than 220,000 developers are registered to use Amazon's Web services.
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
Adventures in Amazon Margins — Since first (!) achieving profitability back in 2002 online retailer Amazon's gross margins have mostly gone one direction: down. It's been a bumpy and unpleasant ride, with just-announced margins the lowest full-year figures since the company's fiscal 2001.
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Bigvip / Gamerscore Blog:
Addicted to Achievements? — I don't think anyone could have predicted the popularity of Gamerscore and Achievements on Xbox 360. For me, it has changed the way I play games. No longer is it about just trying to beat the game from beginning to end; I now find myself wanting to go back and unlock …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
What's "cool" at Demo? — Lots of people have been asking me "what's cool at Demo?" while I walk around the hallways here. I find that question tough to answer. — I guess it's that "cool" has different meanings: — 1) That it'll change how you work. Zoho's Notebook wins here.
Paul F. Roberts / InfoWorld:
Vista hole opens door to 'shout hacking' — Security honeymoon ends with warning on speech recognition — The honeymoon ended early for Microsoft's Vista operating system, after word spread Wednesday about a flaw that could allow remote attackers to take advantage of the new operating system's speech recognition feature.
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Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Google Maps for Windows Mobile available — Wow, when it rains it pours with reader tips. Just got a note from Kayhan indicating that Google rolled out Google Maps for Windows Mobile! The official information is right here on the Official Google Blog and you can pull down the CAB file for your Win Mo device here.
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Blake Robinson / CrunchGear:
Source: Microsoft Zune Phone In the Works — We've just received a sound tip that Microsoft is working on its very own phone to be branded under the Zune moniker. Our tipsters inform us that Microsoft execs are in meetings today hammering out details of the device and developing strategies and timescales for its release.
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GigaOM, Graceful Flavor, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, 21talks, Digital Media Wire, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Listening Post, Read/WriteWeb, Bink.nu, Reuters, Paul Kedrosky's … and digg
kNox / Our Picks:
Bill Gates: Vista is so secure it could run life support systems. — While on a visit in Romania, where Bill Gates participated in the celebration of 10 years since the Microsoft branch has been running there, and the launch of Vista, Microsoft's president declared that …
CNET News.com:
Gawker Media mystery ads appear on YouTube — A YouTube subscriber with an affinity for Web sites owned by Gawker Media has for the past three months been posting copyright videos sandwiched between ads for Gawker-owned properties such as Valleywag and Gizmodo.
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Disney sells 1.3m films on iTunes — Downloads of Walt Disney films on the iTunes platform have risen sharply to more than 1.3m after only three months on sale, putting pressure on other Hollywood studios to join Apple's digital service. — Disney began selling its new movies on iTunes in October.
Jennifer / The Lactivist Breastfeeding Blog:
Overzealous Big Pork Stomps on Breastfeeding Blogger — Some day, when Emmitt is a little older and we look back on his first year of life, we'll fondly remember the lactivist causes that we fought for. The time we staged the Delta Nurse-in here in Columbus, the time we were filmed …
Harry McCracken / PC World: Techlog:
Zoho's Cool Web-Based Note Taker — One of the most impressive things I saw here at the DEMO conference (which wrapped up this evening) is a Web service that's still in a private alpha version. As such, it has every right to be rough around the edges, and it is—but it's also …
Brian / Copyblogger:
The 5 Immutable Laws of Persuasive Blogging — Blogging is a great way to grow a business, promote a cause, or spread new ideas, because when you take an educational approach to marketing, you gain the attention and trust of people who might otherwise simply ignore old-fashioned advertising.
