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Justin Haugh / Official Google Reader Blog:
One subscriber, two subscribers, three... When building a product, your top priority should always be the needs of your users. Here on the Google Reader team, we pride ourselves in being responsive to the complaints and feature requests of those who read feeds using our service.
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Rick / Burning Questions:
Google Now Reporting Subscribers — Starting with our Saturday February 17th subscriber reporting, FeedBurner publishers will be able to see how many Google Reader and Google Personalized Homepage subscribers they have. (Thanks, Google!) This information will show up in tonight's subscriber reports …
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Google Operating System
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Google Reader Reporting Subscriber Numbers, Offers New Publishers Guide
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Ryan Olson / Red Herring:
Google Agrees to Buy Adscape — Search king to pay $23 million for in-game advertising startup. — Google has made a foray into in-game advertising for video games with an agreement to acquire Adscape Media for $23 million, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday.
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Microsoft Plays Down a Sales Lift From Vista — Wall Street analysts are being too optimistic about sales of Windows Vista, Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, told financial analysts in New York on Thursday. — Vista, the latest version of the Windows operating system …
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple to re-enter the sub-notebook market — A tiny sub-notebook on its way from Apple Inc. is expected to re-establish the Mac maker as a leader in the field of compact computing while drawing parallels to the legendary PowerBook 2400 along the way. — It's been nearly ten years since …
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Infinite Loop, Gizmodo, MacUser, O'Grady's PowerPage, Tom Raftery's I.T. views, GottaBeMobile.com, Apple Gazette, Engadget, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Slashdot and digg
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
OLPC project to ship first 2,500 units for testing — Following the success of initial trials, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project plans to roll out a total of 2,500 units later this month for the next stage of testing. — Recipients of the upcoming test units include Argentina …
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Bruce Meyerson / Associated Press:
Vonage narrows 4Q loss to $65 million, meeting forecasts — NEW YORK (AP) - Vonage Holdings Corp. on Thursday narrowed its fourth-quarter loss to $65 million as revenue nearly doubled, but the Internet phone company's stock fell to a new all-time low amid worries about weak subscriber growth.
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IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
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Kim Zetter / Wired News:
$82 Buys E-Voting Secrets — For a mere $82 a computer scientist and electronic voting critic managed to purchase five $5,000 Sequoia electronic voting machines over the internet last month from a government auction site. And now he's taking them apart. — Princeton computer science …
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Business Week:
Gannett's New Lease On News — "Pro-am" harnesses the power of citizen journalism — One of the never-ending delights of the human condition is the flukiness of inspiration, how creativity sometimes springs from unlikely places. And so it is that the newspaper chain with the most interesting …
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Innovation in College Media
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Will Sullivan / Journerdism:AJC explodes the newsroom, makes MAJOR changes; Study says …
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Teaching Online Journalism
New York Times:
Viewers Fast-Forwarding Past Ads? Not Always — People with digital video recorders like TiVo never watch commercials, right? — Add that to the list of urban — and suburban — myths. — It turns out that a lot of people with digital video recorders are not fast-forwarding and time-shifting as much as advertisers feared.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Appeerances Can Be Deceiving — The new Apple TV media extender is supposed to ship this month, perhaps even by the time you read this column, and if you are like me you are wondering what that 40-gig hard drive is doing inside. I'm guessing we won't know for sure until later this year …
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CrunchGear, Business 2.0 Beta, Micro Persuasion, Blackfriars' Marketing, Slashdot, broadbandreports.com and digg
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
What is social media? — Dare Obasanjo is asking "what is social media?" Frank Shaw (he's a VP with Waggener Edstrom and is one of the key people helping Microsoft out with its PR) admits he isn't comfortable with the "social media" term too. — The best way to understand a new media is to compare it to what's come before?
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Silicon Valley Meets 'American Idol' With Prizes to Inspire Inventors — FACING down stiff competition to win fame and big prize money? Forget singing for Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul. Try sequencing DNA for a panel of technology investors. — Yes, something like an "American Idol" …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Macrovision sends pretty lies to Steve Jobs — The CEO of Macrovision has sent an open letter to Steve Jobs telling him off for speaking out against DRM. Macrovision is a company that makes abusive DRMs (the system that stops you from hooking up your VCR and your DVD player in series …
Successforce Blog:
Salesforce's IdeaExchange, Yahoo! Suggestions, Feedlounge & Wordpress Ideas - What Do They Have in Common? — Yahoo Suggestions launched today with much blogospheric fanfare and an undeserved drubbing from the Digg crowd. I think it's great validation of what we've been doing on the IdeaExchange …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
DRM: the state of disrepair — Last week's "discussion" surrounding the merits of DRM was a rare glimpse into the heavy C-level posturing usually obstructed by the gold-plated doors of the digital music industry. The event was, of course, kicked off by none other than Steve Jobs in his open letter titled …
Matt / mattwaite.com:
Not my job doesn't exist anymore in newspapers — Back in January, Mindy McAdams wrote an empassioned post titled Getting (and keeping) a job in journalism. Worth reading (again) if you haven't. I was thinking about that post today, because I had one of those strange days in journalism …
Mark Evans:
Are You a Crackberry Addict? — I was at a launch party last night for a friend who's opening an indoor golf facility in Toronto, and noticed that many people not only had Blackberrys but were checking them on a regular basis as if some urgent e-mail would need to be noted at 9 p.m.
