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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 …
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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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, GottaBeMobile.com, Gizmodo, MacUser, O'Grady's PowerPage, Tom Raftery's I.T. views, 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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Dan Nystedt / InfoWorld:
One million OLPC laptop orders confirmed — San Francisco (IDGNS) - Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop PC manufacturer, already has confirmed orders for one million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, a company representative said Thursday.
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.
Zulfikar Ramzan / symantec.com:
Drive-By Pharming: How Clicking on a Link Can Cost You Dearly — I wanted to talk about a recent new attack, called Drive-By Pharming, which I co-developed with Sid Stamm and Markus Jakobsson of the Indiana University School of Informatics. It allows attackers to create a Web page that …
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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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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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Will Sullivan / Journerdism:AJC explodes the newsroom, makes MAJOR changes; Study says …
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Teaching Online Journalism
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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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 …
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 …
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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" …
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 …
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 …
Mike / Techdirt:
Carlos Mencia Claims Copyright Infringement On Comedian Who Accuses Mencia Of Stealing Jokes — from the ah,-the-tangled-web-we-weave dept — Another day, another convoluted DMCA claim. Earlier this week, one of the hot stories getting passed around was how comedian (and Fear Factor host) …
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple plugs four security holes — Apple issued four security updates Thursday to fix flaws in Mac OS X and iChat identified by the Month of Apple Bugs project. — Two of the flaws could allow an attacker to execute code on an unpatched system, Apple said.
BBC:
Digital neighbourhood watch plan — A neighbourhood watch for the digital age, utilising the power of social networking, has been proposed. — Two lecturers in the US have suggested creating a network of Community Response Grids (CRG) in conjunction with the emergency services.
